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a contest I would like to have across the divison

I sent an e-mail with this link to the English teachers in our school, along with a link to the book trailers. Sheila did a really successful trailer project for MacBeth last year.

Would she and the students be willing to share some of the trailers? Are they on YouTube? It would be nice to have good examples to show people.

School Library Kindle project

library site for Good Spirit School Division - something to emulate.

We want to help book lovers choose which books to read. We want to help students understand which works were the most influential for specific figures as well as for generations as a whole. We want to help parents buy their children the same books that touched the lives of important people in the past. We want to provide young people with one more role-modeling tool, so that they can imitate, through reading, the famous people they most love.

But Hope got involved in a dangerous, all-too-typical teen game. In June, at the end of her seventh-grade year at Beth Shields Middle School, she sent a picture of her exposed breasts to a boy she liked. This post deals with the tragic consequences of the actions taken by peers, parents and the school

Wow, what a powerful post. Thanks for sharing this.

Greater Victoria Regional Library provocative and engaging Freedom to Read Week display.

I've talked to some elementary librarians who are a reluctant to order many graphic novels because they're afraid there aren't any good ones for our younger students. Another issue is whether or not graphic novels are important or useful for our students' literacy development. I'm going to tackle both of these issues here.

We recently purchased a graphic novel series called BabyMouse. We can't keep it on the shelf. Boys and girls in grade 2 read it as well as girls in grade 5. They haven't been read by anyone else because the students just rotate them through their class. All the art is done in pink white and black. I think its a good example of a graphic novel good for younger students.

Are some of your students finished with the Twilight series and suffering from withdrawal?  Try some of these great supernatural reads with a romantic twist.

We have the City of Gold series in our library but sent on the Tithe series to Jen at NBCHS. I read both of those series and felt the second one was better at a high school. Has anyone seen the graphic novel based on Twilight?

Teachers are busy, so I get right to the point. Monday through Friday I post a new picture book on this blog with a 1 or 2 line plot summary (no spoilers!), a short quote from the text (in italics), and a writing activity for one of the six traits.

""One reason we like Kindles better than using a book because we can change the font size. We like the largest font because it makes us read faster. Another nice thing is to use the dictionary when we don't know what a word means right away. Also, another feature is we like the fact we don't have to carry around alot of books because the Kindle has a variety of titles downloaded onto it.""

"I believe there is room for us to (1) continue debating the pros/cons, strengths/weaknesses, etc. surrounding the different iterations-containers-of books, (2) continue having our favorites, and yet (3) agree that there is a unifying concept of "the book" that encompasses all-print books, ebooks, and whatever other formats may follow."

The Unquiet Library Celebrated the National Day of Writing and Teen Read Week with our first ever virtual author visit via Skype!  Our special guest was the amazing Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist and author of Story of a Girl, Sweethearts, and her latest book, Once Was Lost.

a name that book contest using photos