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.

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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!

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