Library

Loans

Students may borrow up to 4 books at a time in Years 7-9, up to 6 books in Years 10-11 and up to 8 books in the Sixth Form. Loans are for two weeks but may be renewed.

If you do not return a book by the return date or renew the loan, you will not be allowed to use the Library computers or borrow any more books until you do.

Take books to the desk if you want to borrow them. Remember that Reference books may not be taken out of the Library.

Accelerated Reader

Quintin Kynaston School library uses Accelerated Reader© to help students with their reading. Accelerated Reader helps guide students towards suitable reading books for their ability. Students can then do quizzes on the books they have read, and the school can give certificates and prizes to the students for their efforts.

To keep track of their progress, students and parents can log in to Accelerated Reader.

QK's Keycode is FB823669

Popular Books

Last term's most popular books (Terms 1 and 2 2010-11)

Well done to Lemony Snicket for being our most popular author for Key stage 3:

Rank	Title	Author
1	The Reptile Room	Snicket, Lemony
2	Two of A Kind Diaries Part 2, Winner Take All	Mary-Kate and Ashley
3	Naruto Vol 19	Kishimoto, Masashi
4	The Lottie Project	Wilson, Jacqueline
5	Naruto: v. 12	Kishimoto, Masashi
6	Naruto: v. 8	Kishimoto, Masashi
7	Naruto: v. 13	Kishimoto, Masashi
8	Naruto: v. 1: Tests of the Ninja	Kishimoto, Masashi
9	Naruto: v. 17	Kishimoto, Masashi
10	Two of A Kind Diaries Part 3, Ps Wish You Were Here	Mary-Kate and Ashley
11	The Diamond Girls	Wilson, Jacqueline
12	Buried Alive!	Wilson, Jacqueline
13	Hallowe'en Night	Stine, R.L.
14	Horrid Henry's Haunted House	Simon, Francesca
15	Garfield Goooooal	Davis, Jim

Well done to Robert Muchamore and his Cherub Series for dominating our Key Stage 4 and 5 most popular loans:

Rank	Title	Author
1	Maximum Security	Muchamore, Robert
2	Vampire War Trilogy	Shan, Darren
3	Man Vs Beast	Muchamore, Robert
4	The Recruit	Muchamore, Robert
5	Sleepwalker, The	Muchamore, Robert
6	Escape, The	Muchamore, Robert
7	The Bad Beginning	Snicket, Lemony
8	Cirque du Freak	Shan, Darren
9	Hacker	Blackman, Malorie
10	Snakehead	Horowitz, Anthony
11	The Lord of the Rings / Fellowship of the Ring	Tolkien, J.R.R.
12	Boys Beware	Ure, Jean
13	Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: Pt.2: Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers	Pilkey, Dav
14	The Penultimate Peril	Snicket, Lemony
15	The Magic Finger	Dahl, Roald

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