Check out these great reads!  I highly recommend them and they all have AR quizzes available.  Click on the image to read a review on Amazon.

Be the star of your own READ poster!

We are currently making READ posters in the library.  Please stop by and pose for yours.  Share your love of reading with the rest of our learning community. 

Mrs. Fleming and Mrs. Hiligoss have shared their love of reading.  Will you be next?  Mrs. Fleming posed with the wonderful novel The Kite Runner, a gripping tale about growing up in Afganistan before during and after the Sviet invasion of the 1980s. Sad, powerful, and gritty, this story stays with the reader long after the final page is read. 

Mrs. Hiligoss posed with a Picoult novel called the Tenth Circle. When freshman Trixie Stone accuses her ex-boyfriend Jason Underhill of raping her, everyone is quick to take his side when he claims their intercourse was consensual. Trixie's parents, Daniel, a mild mannered comic book artist from a harsh background, and Laura, a college professor sleeping with one of her students, become involved.  Jason, whose life is supposedly ruined, leaps from a bridge. Although first presumed to be suicide, Trixie is suspected of pushing him, and so she flees to the Yup'ik region of Alaska where her father grew up, and Daniel and Laura follow.  The resolution of this mystery turns out to be both shocking and satisfying. 

Dresscode: Vital Tool of Discipline or Destroyer of Individuality? You Decide.

Feel free to use the comments section on this post to discuss what you think about the proposed dress code at Milford High School. Consider these questions:

1. What are the positive effects? Negative effects?

2. What schools around us do this?

3. What would this look like in our school?

4. How can we convince the school board that this a good or bad idea?

Just click on the word "comments" to post your opinion.

I Love Sports!

As you know, I coach basketball. As we are on our way to the playoffs this year, I thought that I would highlight some great sports authors and books. If you love sports, try these out.

Mike Lupica: He is a sports reporter who has written nearly a dozen books now. The center on basketball and baseball and the library owns nearly all of them. He is consistently one of most popular authors, so put one on hold if you can't find his books while you are here.

Tim Green: A new author in the past few years, Green has written several books about Football and Baseball.

John Dygard: Although his writings are little old, they are well done and still cover issues that affect students today. All center around sports with issues like competition, first love, friendship, and growing up as central themes.