Yell-Oh Girls - this is for my Book Club people!

Hi - your assignment, should you choose to accept it, (of course you do!) is to skim the table of contents and tell me which section you'd like to focus on. We won't all be reading all the same sections, but there will be some overlap. Let me know within a few days - I hope we'll have a full group by then.
Happy skimming!

A Few New Books...

A few new books are in the library today - quite a spectrum, actually. Are you into animals or photography, or fascinated by the strangeness of the natural world? Take a look at Animals Up Close. My personal favorite - the ageless axolotl! (Although the hermit crabs come in a cute close second...)
For history buffs, we've got Laurie H. Anderson's novel Chains. This is a powerful story of slavery in the Revolutionary War period. In non-fiction, there is the true story of John Wilkes Booth - Chasing Lincoln's Killer.
In the suspense category, take a look at Murder at Midnight, (a new Avi) and Chris Wooding's Malice, which is part traditional novel, part graphic novel.

We're Back

Well, summer is really over.

As you probably know, we are renovating the library, and hope that it will be completed sometime in November. In the meantime, we're making do with a mini-library (I do mean mini...) in room 245.

I've been checking out some of the good books published over the summer. Read Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins? If you haven't, it is a must read - suspenseful and captivating. The sequel, Catching Fire, is already in the Sage library. If you like E. Lockhart (The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book) her latest, The Treasure Map of Boys, is available as well. Lockhart is chick lit at its very best. Soon to come but not yet published: the prequel to Graceling. Ask me about it in a month!

In a few weeks we'll be starting our non-fiction book clubs again - Yell-Oh Girls and Born on a Blue Day. The books were provided by a grant called New Yorkers Read - soon you'll be seeing promotional materials around the school. Look for it!