Thursday, December 16, 2010

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

Friday, December 10, 2010

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.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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.