Books Make Perfect Holiday Presents

Copy and paste the following URL into your browser for some suggestions of reviewed titles:
http://www.lapeerschools.org/rwms/mediablog/holidayflyer.pdf

Twelve Days of Book Giving

It was exciting to meet the parent who wanted to gift her son of a book for each of the twelve days before Christmas.  She said "he is a reader and I want to encourage that."  The books, ordered from Scholastic Book Club flyers, were delivered to school yesterday and the parent picked them up today.  What a nice surprise for the lucky Rolland-Warner student.

Book Club and the Newbery Award

Zemmer Book Club and Rolland-Warner Book Club wrote letters this week to members of the Newbery Award Committee, and asked questions about the process for choosing the winner.  The seventh and eighth grade students look forward to getting a response to their questions.  Students reviewed the list of past winners and discussed theme, style, character and plot development of When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, 2010 Newbery Award winner.  In January, students will view the live video of the presentation of awards made at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, that will be held in San Diego, California.

Have you read a good real book lately? Check out some new non-fiction titles in the Rolland-Warner Media Center.

Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman,
Mummies : dried, tanned, sealed, drained, frozen, embalmed, stuffed, wrapped, and smoked-- and we're dead serious by Christopher Sloan,
Bulu, African Wonder Dog by Dick Houston,
Touchdown : the power and precision of football's perfect play by Mark Stewart,
The year money grew on trees by Aaron Hawkins,
Sort-of-difficult origami by Chris Alexander
1621 : a new look at Thanksgiving  by Catherine O'Neill Grace
If America were a village : a book about the people of the United States by David J. Smith
10 kings & queens who changed the world by Clive Gifford
Are you afraid yet? : the science behind scary stuff by Stephen James O'Meara
Seven natural wonders of North America by Michael Woods

Election 2010

With election day just one week away, here's a reminder to check out the resources in MeL's Election 2010 found in MeL Featured Resources, http:mel.org/featuredresources or directly at http://www.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=951 

This week in the middle school media centers

Thank you, students, staff, and parents, for supporting your libraries by making purchases at the Scholastic Book Fairs hosted in your middle school media centers this week.  Profits from your purchases will be used to buy books and DVDs, as well as contest prizes for activities planned in the media centers and other library materials.  I enjoyed meeting parents at the Parent Teacher conferences in both media centers and hope you will continue to visit and make recommendations for the collection.   I appreciate the help of parent volunteers who share the passion of reading and act as advocates for literacy.  READ ON!

Scholastic Book Fairs in the Middle Schools Media Centers this week.

Book Fairs are scheduled in both Zemmer Media Center and Rolland-Warner Media Center this week. Parents, Book Fair is open during Parent-Teacher Conferences on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, October 12 and 14. Visit the library and purchase your student's favorite titles. All proceeds are used buy books, DVDs, contest prizes and other related library materials.

New Assistant Librarian

New in the Rolland-Warner Media Center this year is Mrs. Hiltz who will be here to help you every day 8:30 until 3:00.

Media Center Students Are ...

Knowledge Seekers

Quality Producers

Self-directed Learners

Group Contributors

Problem Solvers

Responsible Information Users