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THE VICTORIAN PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE 

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and McKinnon Secondary College is excited to be taking part! 

Students were invited to register via the Google form on the library website and last week log in details were distributed to students.

It is not a competition; it is a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 5 September 2025.

Since it began in 2005, more than 4.5 million young readers have taken part and together read more than 63 million books!

For more information: 

https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge

Challenge coordinator: 

library-team@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au 

2026 VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS 

The winners of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were recently announced. The winner of the John Marsden prize for Writing for Young Adults was This Stays between Us by Margot McGovern. This Stays between us is a love letter to 90s horror films. Four girls share a cabin in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack haunts isolated campers.

For more information about all the winners. 

ONLINE RESOURCES

I would like to take this opportunity to remind families about the online tools that are available to students and accessible through the library's catalogue:

Online encyclopedias

World Book Online

Britannica School

Online newspapers

The Age (available on and off campus)

The Herald Sun & The Australian (available on campus only)

Ebooks and audiobooks

Wheelers ePlatform 

Other Tools

Online Referencing Generator

Janene Watson

Resource Centre Manager