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
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Welcome to the 2006-2007 academic year!
We're excited to have everyone back on campus - it really gets quiet in the summer. There have been a number of significant changes in the CMC over the past few months. First, in response to comments on the library's annual survey, we have changed the loan period for all teaching aids. They can now be borrowed for three weeks instead of 7 days, and of course may be renewed. Also, we have added a new collection of audiobooks. The collection is small right now, but we'll be adding to it during the coming year. In order to better accomodate student teachers who do not leave campus during spring break, we will be staying open until 6:00 rather than closing at 5:00. We hope this will allow you the time you need in the library and the CMC. Lastly, we have added new shelving to the CMC, which allows us more room for a rapidly expanding collection. Have a great year, and let us know how we can help you.
Monday, March 20, 2006
February Newsletter
The February Newsletter is available at http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/library/about/
cmc/newsletters/february2006.htm Included in the enwsletter are lists of new books and teaching materials and an update on the book awards announced at ALA's January conference.
cmc/newsletters/february2006.htm Included in the enwsletter are lists of new books and teaching materials and an update on the book awards announced at ALA's January conference.
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
January Newsletter
The January newsletter is now available at http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/library/about/
cmc/newsletters/january2006.htm. It primarily lists all the materials added to the CMC collection during the month of December 2005.
cmc/newsletters/january2006.htm. It primarily lists all the materials added to the CMC collection during the month of December 2005.
Thursday, December 1, 2005
December Newsletter
The December newsletter is now posted at http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/library/about/
cmc/newsletters/december2005.htm Check there for complete lists of all new materials added during November.
cmc/newsletters/december2005.htm Check there for complete lists of all new materials added during November.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
New Materials
The following new materials have been added so far in November:
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS:
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS:
Homespun Sarah – Verla Kay (813.69 K22H)
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (Book and cassette tape) – Dr. Seuss (813.5 S496O6)
Snowmen at Night – Caralyn Buehner (813.69 B929S2)
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS:
Chanda’s Secrets – Allan Stratton (813.7 S911C)
This is the story of Chanda, an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of
Day of Tears – Julius Lester (813.69 L642D)
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
Encyclopedia of Animals, The: A Complete Visual Guide – 590.3 E56
Tom McGowen (940.54143 M478G)
Discusses the development and actions of German tank units in World War II, covering specific battles and the changes that tanks brought to warfare in general
Once Upon a Cuento – Lyn Miller-Lachman, ed. (813.7 O56)
Collection of short stories by contemporary
Arañas Café – Eric Ethan (595.44 E84A)
Blue as a Blueberry/Azul
En Carro – Susan Ashley (629.222 A862C)
Cheerleading/Porristas - Rae Emmer (791.64 E54C)
The Cheetah/El Guepardo – Joy Paige (599.759 P142C)
Elephants/ Los Elefantes – JoAnn Early Macken (599.67 M155E)
The Jumping Book/Saltar – Maya Glass (612.76 G549J)
Let’s Draw a Fish with Traingles/Vamos a dibujar un pez usando triángulos – Kathy Kuhtz
Lizzy Lightning Bug/Lizzy la Luciérnaga – Dave Sargent (813.69 S245L)
Vultures/Buitres – JoAnn Early Macken (598.92 M155V)
What I Look Like When I Am Happy/Cómo me veo cuando estoy contento –
Heidi Johansen (152.42 J65W)
ACTIVITY BOOKS/CURRICULA:
Cooperative Learning and Wee Science – Laura Chandler (372.35 C218C)
Growth and Change: Interdisciplinary Thematic Unit – (153.2 M478G)
Ohio Graduation Test Study Guide: Mathematics (373.1262 O37M)
Ohio Graduation Test Study Guide: Reading and Writing (373.1262 O37R)
Ohio Graduation Test Study Guide: Social Studies (373.1262 O37S2)
Teaching Writing to Older Readers Using Picture Books: Every Picture Tells a Story –
Jane Heitman (808.042 H473T)
Toddler Math: Introducing Beginning Math Concepts Through Music, Rhyme, and Hands-On
Exploration – Jean Warren (372.7 W289T)
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS:
Discovering the Bible (Video) – Christian History Institute (220 D611)
Moonboat (CD) – Tom Chapin (782.7 C463M)
Math TV (Video) – 510.71 M424
Math TV (Video) – 516 M426
Music Images (Video) – 784.19 M985
We’re on Our Way (CD) – Hap Palmer – children’s songs (782.7 P174W)
COMPUTER SOFTWARE:
Monday, October 24, 2005
New Trade Books
Recently added:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Ballpark: The Story of America’s Baseball Fields – Lynn Curlee (796.357 C975B)
Bears – Ruth Krauss (813.69 K915B)
Beyond the Great Mountains – Ed Young (813.69 Y97B)
Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery – Kevin O’Malley (813.69 O54C)
The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali – Tonya Bolden (796.83 A398B)
Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems – Heidi B. Roemer (811.7 R715C)
Diary of a Spider – Doreen Cronin (813.69 C947D3)
Dinosaurs: Encyclopedia Prehistorica – Robert Sabuda (567.91 S118D) – popup book
Earl the Squirrel – Don Freeman (813.69 F855E)
Good King Wenceslas – John M. Neale (782.28 N346G)
The Great Blue House – Kate Banks (813.69 B217G)
Happy Feet – Richard Michelson (813.69 M623H)
If You Give a Pig a Party – Laura Numeroff (813.69 N971I65
The Jesse Tree – Geraldine McCaughrean (823.91 M123J)
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence – Judith St. George (973.313 S139J)
Leaf Man – Lois Ehlert (813.69 E33L)
The Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper (813.5 P665L3)
Lucky Leaf – Kevin O’Malley (813.69 O54L)
Mary Engelbreit’s Mother Goose – Mary Engelbreit (398.8 M918E)
The Milkman – Carol Foskett Cordsen (813.7 C796M)
Mommies Say Shhh! - Patricia Polacco (813.69 P762M)
Mortimer’s Christmas Manger – Karma Wilson (813.7 W749M)
Music for the End of Time – Jen Bryant (780.92 M58B8)
Music from Our Lord’s Holy Heaven – Gloria Jean Pinkney (782.27 P655M)
Mystery Fish – Sally M. Walker (597.39 W184M)
A Play’s the Thing – Aliki (813.69 A411P)
Ride Like the Wind: A Tale of the Pony Express – Bernie Fuchs (813.69 F951R)
Santa Claus, the World’s Number One Toy Expert – Marla Frazee (813.7 F848S)
Sleeping Bobby – Will Osborne (398.21 O81S)
Snowmen at Christmas – Caralyn Buehner (813.69 B929S)
The Song of Francis and the Animals – Pat Mora (813.69 M827S)
SuperCroc Found – Sally M. Walker (567.98 W184S)
Volcanoes Inside and Out – D.M. Souza (551.21 S729V)
Wiggling Worms at Work – Wendy Pfeffer (592.64 P524W)
Winter’s Tale: An Original Pop-Up Journey – Robert Sabuda (813.69 S111W)
A Wreath for Emmett Till – Marilyn Nelson (811.608 N428W)
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
A sixth-grader at St. Luke's Episcopal School sets out to have a mystical experience and learns valuable lessons about himself and the world along the way.
An overview of the history and culture of Pakistan and its people including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and government, with illustrations from primary source documents.
Using data from the Gallup Youth Survey and other sources, examines the issue of teenage suicide.
Friday, October 7, 2005
New books
The following new trade books have been added:
Children's Books
American Moments – Robert Burleigh (973 B961A)
And Then It Rained…and Then the Sun Came Out – Crescent Dragonwagon (813.69 D759A
Madlenka’s Dog – Peter Sis (813.69 S622M)
TheMission
Nicaragua
Pakistan
Sing-Along Song – JoAnn Early Macken (813.7 M155S)
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems – Joyce Sidman (811.7 S568S)
Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Christopher Wormell (513.211 W928T)
Thanksgiving Is… - Gail Gibbons (394.2649 G441T)
Wiggle – Doreen Cronin (813.69 C947W)
Children's Books
American Moments – Robert Burleigh (973 B961A)
And Then It Rained…and Then the Sun Came Out – Crescent Dragonwagon (813.69 D759A
Madlenka’s Dog – Peter Sis (813.69 S622M)
The
Nicaragua
Pakistan
Sing-Along Song – JoAnn Early Macken (813.7 M155S)
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems – Joyce Sidman (811.7 S568S)
Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Christopher Wormell (513.211 W928T)
Thanksgiving Is… - Gail Gibbons (394.2649 G441T)
Wiggle – Doreen Cronin (813.69 C947W)
Young Adult Books
Catalogue of the Universe – Margaret Mahy (823.92 M216C)
Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tych.
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire. Sequel to Eragon.
Most people know the name John Wilkes Booth, but few likely have heard of his elder brother Edwin. Find out about the brothers through first-hand accounts. Learn how alike and how different they were, and how each made a lasting impression on American history.
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world."-Adolf Hitler,
Usually, microbes are equated with disease, but in fact most microbes are actually our allies. Learn how the microbes that are everywhere around us help us to survive every day.
Nonfiction book about the American Civil War.
While vacationing with their widowed father in the
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
A Thief in the House of Memory – Tim Wynne-Jones (813.69 W989T)
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother who suddenly left when he was ten
Monday, October 3, 2005
New trade books
These new trade books have recently been added to the CMC collection:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
My Teacher for President – Kay Winters (813.69 W788M)
The Night Eater – Ana Juan (813.7 J91N)
No Dogs Allowed – Sonia Manzano (813.7 M296N)
Oh, David! – David Shannon (813.69 S527O)
Oops! – David Shannon (813.69 S527O2)
Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar Bears Will Never Be Neighbors – Elaine Scott (998 S425P)
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World – Phil Bildner (813.7 B595S)
Tadpole’s Promise – Jeanne Willis (823.92 W734T)
That’s What Friends Are For – Valeri Gorbachev (813.69 G661T)
Walking the Bible – Bruce S. Feiler (915.60454 F297W2)
Zoo-ology – Joëlle Jolivet (Big book – 590 J75Z)
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Permanent Rose – Hilary McKay (823.91 M153P)
While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy’s father. This is a sequel to Saffy’s Angel and Indigo’s Star.
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver – retold by Martin Jenkins (827.52 G92J)
My Guardian Angel – Sylvie Weil (843.93 W424M)
In 11th century Troyes, France, Elvina, the unusual granddaughter of renowned Jewish rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, who prefers studying and writing to activities considered respectable for girls, takes a great risk by helping a young boy who has run away from a group of Christian Crusaders. Feisty and smart, Elvina is not your average 12-year-old. She adores reading, writing, and studying like the boys. And she detests silly girls' chores, like keeping chicken eggs warm until they hatch. But she is also skilled in the art of healing, a skill that ultimately gets her into trouble. It's the 11th Century in France, and the Crusades are on a campaign to rid France of the Jews. The Jews live in terror and are on high alert that danger is drawing near to their town. One night, while Elvina is alone in her house, she hears a rap on the door. Can her guardian angel keep her safe?
My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark by George Shannon – Kate McMullan (813.69 M168M)
A fictional journal recounting the travels--from
The Schwa Was Here – Neal Shusterman (813.69 S564S)
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone
The Widow and the King – John Dickinson (823.93 D553W)
When the hooded prince of the evil "undercraft" is released from a magical prison, young Ambrose, the last descendant of a great king, flees for his life, not knowing who his friends or enemies are. Sequel to The Cup of the World.
A Wreath for Emmett Till – Marilyn Nelson (811.608 N428W)
In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of the murder, the open- casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men charged with the crime drew wide media attention. Nelson’s sonnets are a reminder of that event and its underlying causes.
Friday, September 2, 2005
Newsletter
Please take a look at the September Newsletter that was distributed to the education faculty.
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