New books in the CMC today:
Healing Stories: Picture Books for the Big and Small Changes in a Child's Life
Bread and Roses, Too - Katherine Paterson
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
I'm Dirty! - Kate and Jim McMullan
A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so. From the creators of I Stink!
Building with Dad - Carol Nevius
A father and his young child watch the construction of the new school, from the bulldozing of earth and mixing of the concrete for the foundation to the hanging of the new sign.
500 Great Books for Teens - Anita Silvey
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
New resources
New resources added to the CMC collection today include:
Houghton Mifflin Mathematics - student editions and teacher editions for grades K-6
A True and Faithful Narrative - Katherine Sturtevant (I just finished reading this book, and it is an excellent historical fiction novel, set in late 17th century England, about a young girl who aspires to be a writer.)
Pioneer Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes - David C. King (from the series "American Kids in History)
Pop-up Aesop - John Harris and Calef Brown
The Orff-Schulwerk Music for Children series (five volumes)
Thursday, October 26, 2006
New music resources
A number of new resources for music education were added to the CMC collection today. They are:
Rhythmically Moving - set of 9 CDs with music for traditional folk dances. These correlate with the next item.
Teaching Folk Dance: Successful Steps - Book and two videos (although video 2 has not arrived yet!). The book and the videos will be shelved with the books, not with the AV material.
Chimes of Dunkirk - dances for children. Book and CD, both shelved in AV.
Teaching Movement & Dance - book by Phyllis Weikart
The Kodaly Method I: Comprehensive Music Education, 3rd ed. - Lois Chosky (book)
The Kodaly Method II: Folksong to Masterwork - Lois Chosky (book)
Dalcroze: Eurhythmics in Today's Music Classroom - Virgina Hoge Mead (book)
Discovering Orff: A Curriculum for Music Teachers - Jane Frazee (book)
Exploring Orff: A Teacher's Guide - Arvida Steen (book)
Rhythmically Moving - set of 9 CDs with music for traditional folk dances. These correlate with the next item.
Teaching Folk Dance: Successful Steps - Book and two videos (although video 2 has not arrived yet!). The book and the videos will be shelved with the books, not with the AV material.
Chimes of Dunkirk - dances for children. Book and CD, both shelved in AV.
Teaching Movement & Dance - book by Phyllis Weikart
The Kodaly Method I: Comprehensive Music Education, 3rd ed. - Lois Chosky (book)
The Kodaly Method II: Folksong to Masterwork - Lois Chosky (book)
Dalcroze: Eurhythmics in Today's Music Classroom - Virgina Hoge Mead (book)
Discovering Orff: A Curriculum for Music Teachers - Jane Frazee (book)
Exploring Orff: A Teacher's Guide - Arvida Steen (book)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
New books
New books added today:
The Snowmen Pop-Up Book - Caralyn Buehner - Snowmen play games at night when no one is watching.
Balls! - Michael J. Rosen - Learn about the balls used in basketball, soccer, football, tennis, handball, golf, volleyball, and ping pong: how they're made, why they look the way they do, some amazing facts about their history...and a bit about the games that use them, too.
One Surprising Night/Una noche sorprendente - Peg Augustine and Emmanuel Vargas - The Christmas story told in English and Spanish.
Cinnamon Girl - Juan Felipe Herrera - Yolanda, a Puerto Rican girl, tries to come to terms with her painful past as she waits to see if her uncle recovers from injuries he suffered when the towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.
The Snowmen Pop-Up Book - Caralyn Buehner - Snowmen play games at night when no one is watching.
Balls! - Michael J. Rosen - Learn about the balls used in basketball, soccer, football, tennis, handball, golf, volleyball, and ping pong: how they're made, why they look the way they do, some amazing facts about their history...and a bit about the games that use them, too.
One Surprising Night/Una noche sorprendente - Peg Augustine and Emmanuel Vargas - The Christmas story told in English and Spanish.
Cinnamon Girl - Juan Felipe Herrera - Yolanda, a Puerto Rican girl, tries to come to terms with her painful past as she waits to see if her uncle recovers from injuries he suffered when the towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.
New YA titles
A number of new middle school and YA novels were added to the collection yesterday. They include:
Punished! - David Lubar - Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
Part of Me - Kimberly Willis Holt - Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an seventy-nine-year-old woman embarks on a book tour.
River Secrets - Shannon Hale - Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
The Unvisibles - Ian Whybrow - After twelve-year-old Oliver recites an ancient Indian magical spell and becomes invisible, he enlists the aid of his classmate, Nicky, and the two of them join forces to undo the damage as well as to help their families and themselves.
Counting on Grace - Elizabeth Winthrop - It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton - Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.
Weedflower - Cynthia Kadohata - After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Something Invisible - Siobhan Parkinson - With a new baby sister and a stepfather, the life of eleven-year-old Jake is full of change, but nothing prepares him for his relationship with an enigmatic girl, her large family, and the tragedy that strikes them all.
Ask Me No Questions - Marina Budhos - Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
Room One - Andrew Clements - Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
Larklight - Philip Reeve - In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
Skybreaker - Kenneth Oppel - Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow - Kate Umansky - Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
Punished! - David Lubar - Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
Part of Me - Kimberly Willis Holt - Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an seventy-nine-year-old woman embarks on a book tour.
River Secrets - Shannon Hale - Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
The Unvisibles - Ian Whybrow - After twelve-year-old Oliver recites an ancient Indian magical spell and becomes invisible, he enlists the aid of his classmate, Nicky, and the two of them join forces to undo the damage as well as to help their families and themselves.
Counting on Grace - Elizabeth Winthrop - It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton - Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.
Weedflower - Cynthia Kadohata - After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Something Invisible - Siobhan Parkinson - With a new baby sister and a stepfather, the life of eleven-year-old Jake is full of change, but nothing prepares him for his relationship with an enigmatic girl, her large family, and the tragedy that strikes them all.
Ask Me No Questions - Marina Budhos - Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
Room One - Andrew Clements - Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
Larklight - Philip Reeve - In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
Skybreaker - Kenneth Oppel - Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow - Kate Umansky - Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Database and using the catalog's book bag
If you want to save items in the catalog's book bag, you can easily move back and forth between the database and the catalog. The book bag will keep the list of books you've selected, and then can print or display your list, as well as email it to you.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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