Mark Twain Nominees

Read 4 Mark Twain Nominees by March 1st, 2010, take the AR quiz and get a free hot cocoa from our hot cooca bar! Here are the nominees:

The Story of Jonas
Dahlberg, Maurine F.

Bravo Zulu, Samantha
Duble, Kathleen Benner

Garden of Eve
Going, K.L.

Deep & Dark & Dangerous
Hahn, Mary Downing

Blown Away
Harlow, Joan Hiatt

Gabriel's Horses
Hart, Alison

Friendship for Today
McKissack, Patricia

The Big One-Oh
Pitchford, Dean

Paint the Wind
Ryan, Pam Munoz

Night of the Howling Dogs
Salisbury, Graham

Invention of Hugo Cabret
Selznick, Brian

Way Down Deep
White, Ruth

Renaissance Home Connect

Click here to go to Renaissance Home Connect. This is the best way to look up the level and point value for a quiz. It's also a great way to see which quizzes you've taken!

Here they are-the Lightning Thief movie preview and cast video. Enjoy!

AR Procedures

The students at PHIS watched a short presentation on the AR procedures that students follow in the Intermediate School. This presentation includes information on how many points they have to earn each quarter for their Rooster Reading grade, how many points they have to earn, the Code of Conduct information and general guidelines and tips. I am very excited that students now have many more quizzes to choose from this year since we switched to the web based version of AR in Renaissance Place. Please watch the video to learn about our procedures.

Well, I did it! I got to meet Rick Riordan! For the first time ever an author won the Mark Twain Award two years in a row, so amazingly he got to accept last year's award and this year's at the same time! He was a very funny and gracious presenter. With all the excitement of the upcoming movie and release of The Last Olympian on May 5th there was a real "rock star" feel in the air. For total Percy Jackson immersion, check out his blog, his website, and information on the forthcoming movie.

More Video Book Talks

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Need a good book to read?

Some more book talks for you to enjoy...

Playaways

It’s exciting to announce a new opportunity in the Library Media Center for our students! We now have Playaways! Playaways are books on MP3 players. These are available for students to listen to in the LMC before our morning assembly. Additionally, the LMC will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 7:25 so that students may come to the library and take advantage of this opportunity. All books have available AR quizzes so that students can use these to earn their points.

This one goes out to all the fans of fantasy. If you loved Eldest and Eragon then you probably already know about Brisingr. Here's what Dillon has to say about it...

I just got an email from our state library media specialists' organization. The author of Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan is going to be at our conference in April! Not only that, they cleared up the mystery about how to pronounce his name. Rick's last name is pronounced Ryer'-dan. (First syllable rhymes with fire) To read about him, visit his website. Everybody is going to want to catch up on him when the movie Lightning Thief is released next year. In the meantime, I'm going to take a copy of one of our library books to be signed. I'm also going to cross my fingers that I can get my picture taken with him too!

Enjoy these book talks and then come to the library and enjoy the books! The kids on 6B have done a great job. Visit again soon for more...

Video Book Talks Rock!

Today we're getting started on the Video Book Talk project. Everybody is working hard to make sure their video is just right. It has been alot of fun and everyone has learned something--including me! I think Ms. Smith and Mrs. Maxey would agree. Here are some pictures of kids hard at work.

Music to a library media specialist's ears!

This is one of those perfect afternoons in the Library Media Center...