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We are having a book trailer contest in the Library. Make a book trailer using Windows Movie Maker or other program and enter the contest by December 6th. See Mrs. Nored, Mrs. Miller, or Mrs. Williams if you have any questions. There will be prizes!
We haven’t posted in quite a while! Things have been busy in the library! We only go to school Monday & Tuesday of next week, and then we will be out for Thanksgiving holidays. We are looking forward to Christmas!
Fallout is a continuation of Ellen Hopkins’ CRANK (2004) and GLASS (2007).
Kristina continues to struggle with her life and the monster while her five children grow up without her in their lives. As teens they struggle with complicated home lives, first loves, and a mother who is rarely around. Readers will be drawn into the story just as they were for Crank and Glass.
Book Club will be meeting next week September 8th during extended homeroom. We will be discussing the books that you have been reading since our last meeting. Please bring book ideas for our group to discuss and vote on!
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins »« Booktalk of Paper Towns by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green (NY: Dutton Books, 2008)
Quentin Jacobson is in love with Margo Roth Spiegelman. The only problem is that Margo barely knows Quentin exists. In fact, they haven’t spoken since they were nine years old even though they’ve been neighbors all through school. So you can imagine Q’s amazement when she crawls up through his window one night a month before they graduate and convinces him to join her on an all-night prank. After they return home, Q is utterly convinced that things will be different the next day at school. Maybe she’ll sit with me at lunch he excitedly remarks to himself. But Margo’s pranks haven’t ended yet. Q learns the next day that Margo has vanished and it is up to him to follow the clues she left behind, clues that Q isn’t sure he wants to follow, clues that may lead him to discover who Margo really is.
Submitted by Emily Tragle
DUB-C Bookclub Meeting »« Booktalk of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (NY: Scholastic Press, 2009)
When Grace was eleven, she was attacked by a pack of wolves, drug from her backyard swing, deep into the woods behind her house. Yet she wasn’t afraid. She wasn’t afraid because one wolf looked into her eyes and she saw softness and kindness there in his big yellow eyes. That yellow-eyed wolf saved her and carried her back to her house. Now she is seventeen and has spent the years in-between watching that wolf and his pack as they roam around her woods every winter.
Sam is a wolf during the winter and a human during the summer cursed since he was a young boy to live the life of a werewolf until he no longer gets summers and will remain a wolf forever. Every winter he watches Grace with his yellow eyes and wishes he could be with her.
Everything changes when Sam is given one last time to be human and Grace and Sam meet. They get one chance to be together in a race against time, one chance to share the love they both have felt for years.
Submitted by Emily Tragle
Booktalk of Paper Towns by John Green »« Booktalk of Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Hate List by Jennifer Brown (NY: Little, Brown and Co., 2009)
Have you ever felt like you just don’t belong? Have you ever been picked on or made fun of for just trying to be yourself? Valerie Leftman knows what that feels like. So she writes down everything she hates into a notebook that she takes with her everywhere. One day she shares it with Nick Levil her boyfriend and together they add more entries of people and things that they hate. One day, Nick becomes withdrawn and doesn’t come to school for several days. The day he does come back becomes a day that will live in everyone’s hearts for a long time. Because that day May 2, 2008 is the day that Nick Levil opens fire on the school cafeteria of Garvin High . Several students are killed and many are wounded. When Valerie realizes that he is shooting those from the list in her notebook she tries to stop him receiving a bullet wound herself. Nick then turns the gun on himself. Now Valerie is left alone to cope with the devestation Nick caused, the loneliness without him, and to face the rumors that she was involved. She never meant for her “hate list” to beome a “hit list.” She never meant for anyone to be hurt. Read Hate List to find out if Valerie finds forgiveness from others and if she is finally able to forgive herself.
Submitted by Emily Tragle
Booktalk of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater »« Bookmark Contest Winners
There were some wonderful bookmarks submitted for our contest. After much consideration here are the winners…
1st place- Christian Williams
2nd place- Jordan Remar
3rd place- David Sloan
4th place- Oscar Caldera
We have three contests going on in the Library during the month of April–
1. Poetry contest – separate divisions for faculty and students
2. Bookmark contest – come by the library for cardstock
3. Book trailer contest – make a book trailer about your favorite book
Entry deadline is April 30 for all three contests.
There will be prizes!
For the month of December read a book of your own choice. The next time we meet try to bring some ideas on what you would like the book club to read.
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