Library News

Library News!
Destiny is the school library catalog, accessible through Infinite Campus with Single Sign On. This year, teachers also have Single Sign On. Look for the flowering tree!

Reading Programs:
Donors Choose fully funded the books for the Mountain Laurel Book Award and it is ready to go on the red cart in the library. Nominated by kids and teachers across the Commonwealth, the Mountain Laurel Book Award books are available for all students. Participants need only read three books from one of the lists (or listen to it or have read it before) to be able to vote in March for their favorite.

This year, theChildren’s Book Council (CBC), a nationally recognized forum for quality book selection, accepted the library’s proposal for Kids’ Favorites Teen Books. We are getting boxes of newly-published books in return for our grade 7 and up students’ opinions of those titles. In the spring, the CBC will publish their annual Kids’ Favorites lists and our students have a chance to share their likes and dislikes.

Grants
Haunted Hilltown is the name of Ms. Kearney’s latest grant featuring scary books for middle grades and materials to construct settings featuring haunted houses for 6th graders.

To that end, Ms. Kearney is putting out a call for lightweight cardboard (the kind you get in new packages of sheets or shirts–not corrugated cardboard), paper towel rolls also. Any donations can be delivered to the library between now and the end of October. Thank you in advance!

Scholastic Book Fair
October 27-30 is our annual book fair in the school library. Volunteers are needed, but the Sign Up Genius is not up, yet. This is the library’s main fund raiser. Your generosity and support is appreciated!

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