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  • Australian Readers' Challenge
    Take up the Australian Reader's Challenge to read 10 books in six months. The national challenge aims to tackle the literacy crisis in remote communities.
    Starts: 1 March 2006
    Closes: 1 September 2006
    Information & Book Lists: Australian Readers' Challenge

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  • Book Clubs
    • Talk it Up!
      Part of the American Multnomah County Library, this site provides information about how to start and run a book group and includes discussion guides to use with specific books. Teachers will find guides for many titles found in Australian school libraries.
    • Book Clubs & Reading Guides
      The teenreads.com website has information directed at young people on how to start and run a book club. The extensive list of reading guides includes many titles familiar to Australian readers.
    • The Teachit Book Group
      This online book discussion group for teachers is part of English Teaching Online UK, teachit.co.uk, established to help teachers of English, Drama and Media Studies to share ideas. It contains classroom materials, lesson plans and teaching tools created by teachers, as well as discussion forums, competitions and news about English teaching. Participation in the book discussion is easy. Simply read one of the 10 listed books and then join the discussion. A recent booklist contained a mix of contemporary novels and classics, familiar to Australian teachers and students, including The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter series, His Dark Materials trilogy, Pride and Prejudice and 1984.

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  • Girls and Reading
    • Girls' Reads 
      Make a list of books with girl appeal using the CMIS Resource Bank. New titles tagged regularly. Do a CMIS TOPIC search using the term Girls' Reads and restrict search by Phase of Development.
    •  Girls' Reads
      Print-friendly version of Feature Article in Fiction Focus Vol. 20 No. 2 2006. p. 6-11

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