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Summer Break Hours

The ISKL Ampang Library hours during the summer break are from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm (Mon - Fri).

Students, parents and teachers are invited to check-out library resources. There are many good books to available to read. You can see the library catalogue online at http://library.iskl.edu.my/.

Middle School KL Knovel Knockout List 2009-2010

The Great KL Knovel Knockout is a reading competition for middle school students from six international schools. The competition will be held on April 27, 9:30 AM at Garden International School. Each team has four students. All MS students are invited to participate. Team members need to read the ten novels listed below and be ready for quiz questions. There are copies of these novels available in the Ampang Library. If you have questions please see Mrs. Woodward in the library.

 


http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_33c6ksj2f8_bAirborn by Kenneth Oppel

Fantasy


Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

 

 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_35gdttj752_bThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: a fable by John Boyne

Historical Fiction

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is told from the perspective of Bruno, a nine-year-old boy forced to leave his home in Berlin to live with his family in a strange and unwelcome environment. The only friend he finds in his drab new home is a little boy, Shmuel, separated from him by the big fence that separates Bruno's world from the very peculiar place on the other side.

 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_37t92s9dgc_bThe Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Multicultural


Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

 

 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_38d732zpcw_bCrispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi

Historical Fiction

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_48f37nbchk_bFound by Margaret Peterson Haddix


When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.


 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_49f4gzcnc8_bSing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho


When she wins a scholarship competition, a young Thai village girl faces the hostility of her brother who places second and her father who feels the city school is no place for a girl.

 

 

 

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

 

 

 

 

 

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

The Cunningham brothers literally have money drop in their laps when a bag of cash falls from the sky; however, the crooks who initially stole the loot are hot on the trail to retrieve it.

 

 

 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_42cfn9g863_bInkheart by Cornelia Funke

Fantasy

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

 

 

 

http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcbj4f86_41dn8sdqcb_bJacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Realistic Fiction

Filled with resentment over the attention showered upon her twin sister, and awaiting the day she can leave her town behind, young Louise meets a wise old sea captain and begins learning how to let go of her anger.

 

 
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