National Library Week

Celebrate National Library Week April 14-18th at your school library!

"Caught Reading" (All Week)
Students who are found reading anywhere in the building at any time during the week by a library staff member will receive a treat and will have their photo taken.

"Book Worm" (All Week)
Guess how many gummy book worms are in the jar. The student whose guess is closet to the actual number wins a $10 Borders gift certificate and the teacher with the closet guess wins a discount card for local area restaurants. Winner will be announced Friday.

"Amnesty Day" (Tuesday only)
Bring in a can of food for the local food pantry along with your overdue book and your fine will be removed.

"Bookmark Day" (Thursday only)
The first 50 students who check out a library book on Thursday will receive a bronze tiger paw bookmark.

2008 Abe Lincoln Book Award Winner

"Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human" (Book description and image from Follett Titlewave).

Book Club Field Trip

In celebration of Read Across America Day Book Club members are taking a field trip on Tuesday, March 4th to read to students at Johnson Pre-School. Anyone can join Book Club at any time. See the Book Club link for meeting information and books we are currently reading and discussing.

2009 Abe Books Are Here!

The 2009 Abe Lincoln Book Award Nominee list was just released--Yippee!
(You can find almost all of these books on display in the library. The few that we don't have were just ordered this morning)

After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away --Joyce Carol Oates.
The Bonemender -- Holly Bennett.
Catch -- Will Leitch.
Crank -- Ellen Hopkins.
Dairy Queen -- Catherine Murdock.
The Girls -- Lori Lansens.
Hawksong -- Amelia Atwater Rhodes.
I Am the Messenger -- Markus Zusak.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story -- Ned Vizzini.
Jennifer Government -- Max Barry.
The Lightning Thief -- Rick Riordan.
Looking for Alaska -- John Green.
A Northern Light -- Jennifer Donnelly.
Peeps -- Scott Westerfeld.
Raiders Night -- Robert Lipsyte.
Sold -- Patricia McCormick.
Such a Pretty Girl -- Laura Wiess.
Taken -- Chris Jordan.
The Tenth Circle -- Jodi Picoult.
Three Cups of Tea -- Greg Mortenson.
The Warrior Heir -- Cinda Williams Chima.
What Happened to Cass McBride -- Gail Giles.