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Students the library is excited to tell you we have received a grant through the state and will be offering students the opportunity to check out "PlayAway" books. These are books you can listen to and follow along with the book for those who find reading sometimes difficult. We will be getting them soon and will update you when they can be checked out! We hope you had a great holiday break and have many new titles ready for your reading pleasure. Come and see what exciting things we have in store for 2010!

November Contest Winners!

Congrats to those who won movies tickets this last month! Please fill out a form every time you read a book! The more you read, the better your chances are of winning...

Ashley Sommerfeld
Josh Asay
Kessa Cottam
Kris Hansen
Lauren Bushnell
Michael Gibbons
Rebecca Hustead
Skyler Swaney
Staci Leavitt
Tavish Durrant

New Books

The Magic Thief
by Sarah Prineas

Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply.

The Lost Years of Merlin
by T.A. Barron

A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.

Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra
by Obert Skye

As Leven, Geth, and Winter continue their quest to save Foo from the invading armies of rants, a new threat arrives, the Dearth.

Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

More New Titles...

The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman

The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.

The Girl Who Could Fly
by Victoria Forester

Piper McCloud's ability to fly sets her apart from the other kids, so her mother sends her to an exclusive school for children with exceptional abilities, but even there she does not fit in with the other students.

Football Genius
by Tim Green

Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.

The Fires of Merlin
by T.A. Barron

Having voyaged to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself, the young wizard Merlin must face fire in many different forms and deal with the possibility of losing his own magical power.

Ender in Exile
by Orson Scott Card

"A Tom Doherty Associates book." Ender is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but chooses tojourney out to the colonies with his sister, Valentine.

October Reading Contest Winners

These students and teachers have won the reading contest for the month of October. Congratulations to all those who entered. Keep up the reading! Enjoy your movie passes and be sure to check out the new movies coming out this holiday season.

Jacob Buenning
Rebecca Hustead
Rachel Bartholomew
Mrs. Livingston
Jordan Evans
Lydia Wood
Kessa Cottam
Tyler Cottam
Skyler Swaney

New Titles...

Dreamquake

by Elizabeth Knox

"Frances Foster books." While investigating the government's involvement in the disappearance of her father, Tziga Hame, and the decline of the art of projecting dreams, dreamhunter Laura learns more about "The Place."

Dreamhunter

by Elizabeth Knox

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.

Downsiders: a novel

by Neal Shusterman

When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.

Do Hard Things: a teenage rebellion against low expectations

by Alex Harris

Do hard things, the gospel, and you. Nineteen-year-old twins Alex and Brett Harris challenge teenagers to reject the "low expectations" of contemporary culture and "do hard things" for God, discussing the Bible and five ways to transform oneself and work for social change.

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

by Linda Urban

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.

They're Here!

We have received our latest order of books! Come in and check them out. We'll keep highlighting books here on the blog of the newest titles. If you have requested a title and we don't have a copy then it's on a list to be ordered next when funds are available.

Be sure you check in the area "Find a Book" on the right hand sidebar. This link is what we have in our library currently. Many students think if a book is not on the shelf, then we don't have the book. That's untrue. Most popular books get checked out. If you were looking for the title I bet someone else has done the same thing as well. You can be put on a waiting list for a book. Just let Mrs. Moore know or any of the library staff and we will be willing to help you with putting in a request for a book already checked out to another student.

Update on our author, J. Scott Savage... He will be here on November 19, 2009 and will be in the Little Theater during first hour English. Keep up your grades and your English teacher will give you a pass to excuse you from your class to attend this special event.