Question of the Week

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

The Question of the Week is: How do you feel about snow?

I am not a big fan of snow. I love the way it looks and I love seeing my dog have fun playing in the snow, but I do not like cold weather. :)

Please cast your vote in the poll located in the right hand column of the blog. :)

new books - thanks to the Book Fair :)

Thanks to the generosity of the Book Fair ... we have quite a few new books to add to the library collection. Stop by later this week - we hope to have them ready to check out by then.

A few of the new books that I am excited about are:

Schooled by Gordon Korman
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Land of Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by by Rick Yancey
Rules by Cynthia Lord

The Princess and the Peabodys by Betty Birney

What a fun story! One of the students in my advisory loaned me this book and it was a fun read!

Casey Peabody is just your average 14 year old girl who attends Pine Glen Junior High. Casey is a soccer player who struggles to deal with the cheerleaders at school who tend to act like princesses.
When a young teenage wizard's spell goes wrong, Casey finds a real medieval princess living at her house! Princess Eglantine brings all kind of excitement to the Peabody household. :)

Happy reading! If you read The Princess and the Peabodys, comment on this post and let me know how you liked it. :)

Lunch Bunch Book Club

When the Lunch Bunch Book Club meets in December, we will have a roundtable discussion about our favorite books! Please consider participating! All you need to do is bring 1 or 2 of your favorite books to share with the group. Stop by the LMC and see Mrs. Kirsch if you would like to participate.

The meeting will take place during lunch/recess on Thursday, December 6th.

Question of the Week

I can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week...time is just flying by!

The Question of the Week is: What is your favorite thing about Thanksgiving?

Please cast your vote in the poll located in the right hand column of the blog. :)

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko

This is another one by the author of Al Capone Does My Shirts. I loved the way this book was written - the chapters alternate from being told from Kirsten's point of view and then from Walker's point of view.

from Barnes and Noble:
Kirsten's parents are barely speaking to each other, and her best friend has fallen under the spell of the school's queen bee, Brianna. It seems like only Kirsten's younger science-geek sister is on her side.
Walker's goal is to survive at the new white private school his mom has sent him to because she thinks he's going to screw up like his cousin. But he's a good kid. So is his friend Matteo, though no one knows why he’ll do absolutely anything that hot blond Brianna asks of him.

But all of this feels almost trivial when Kirsten and Walker discover a secret that shakes them both to the core.


Happy reading! If you read If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period, comment on this post and let me know how you liked it. :)

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

I finished Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports yesterday...I was anxious to see what was going to happen to Max and her flock in this 3rd book in the series.

from Barnes and Noble:
"The time has arrived for Max and her winged "flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution"--a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the rest. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to defeat the forces working against them--but can they save the world when they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the globe from one another?"

Happy reading! If you read Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, comment on this post and let me know how you liked it. :)