Library Closed All Week for TAKS Testing

The library will be closed for TAKS testing starting Tuesday, April 27th through Friday, April 30th. The library will reopen Monday, May 3rd.

New Arrival!

Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abel-Fattah is about a Lebenese-Australian girl named Jamie who tried to hide her mixed heritage at school. Here's the Destiny summary:

"Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear."

Ten Things I Hate About Me is the perfect book for anyone who feels they sometimes don't fit in at their school.

Rock Band Pizza Party!

We had a great time at the library Rock Band pizza party! We slammed down every piece of pizza and every coke while playing some awesome tunes. Check out these pics!















Euquan shreds it!




















Lakhte hammers the drums!
















Ryan shows everyone how it's done!

BoTW: The Roar

In Emma Clayton's The Roar, a terrible plague has infected most of the world's animal population, turning them into rabid creatures that crave human flesh. To protect themselves from the The Animal Plague, humanity has fled north behind a wall. Living in cramped, squalid conditions, Mika is a twelve-year old boy whose twin sister recently drowned.

But Mika doesn't believe that she is dead and does everything he can to uncover the truth about what really happened to her. Full of pod ships, video games, zombie animals, and frantic action, The Roar is an bleak but entertaining glimpse into a fictional post-apocolyptic world. If you like a good sci-fi story, give The Roar a try!

The Roar is a Lone Star 2010 award winner.

Rock Band Pizza Party Winners!

I drew twenty names today and found sixteen winners for the April 22nd Rock Band pizza party! I had to discard four names because they had overdue library books! Oh no! Next time, get those overdue books in so that if I draw your name, you can come join the fun!

Here's the list of winners:

Madison D.
Euquan J.
Ryan L.
Samantha M.
Edward P.
Victoria P.
Maria R.
Lakhte Z.
Dwight B.
Heather R.
Jeremiah A.
Thomas B.
Austin B.
Robert D.
Taylor G.
Tiffany N.

Congrats to all of this month's winners. We'll see you afterschool Thursday, April 22nd in the library!

Library Tip of Week

The library is having a Rock Band pizza party next Thursday, April 22nd from 2:30 to 3:30! How do you get the chance to jam out and scarf down some pizza? It's easy!

• This Friday I'm going to randomly draw names from all three grades levels.
• When I draw a name, I will look up the person on Destiny. If they don't have an overdue book, they win! They get to attend the pizza party.
• If they do have an overdue book, I will discard their name and draw another.
• I will continue drawing names until I have sixteen total people.
• I will contact the winners and send them a permission slip that must be returned before they attend the pizza party.

So get your overdue books turned in today!

BoTW: The Hunt for the Seventh

The Hunt for the Seventh by Christine Morton-Shaw is a creepy thriller of a book about a teenage boy named Jim who finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of the haunted mansion he's recently moved to with his father and sister. Early in the book, Jim meets an autistic boy named Einstein who talks in riddles. He also finds a black board in an old classroom with the names of children scrawled on it, the word "deceased" next to each name. A message at the very bottom states simply, "Follow the statues." Jim does that and quickly finds himself hunting a set of clues in a mad race against time to prevent more innocent deaths.

Morton-Shaw heightens the eerie creepiness of her book with ghostly whispers, phantom reenactments of the children's freakish deaths, and the malevolent Lord Minerva, wheel-chair bound and obsessed with watching grainy security footage from the cameras spread throughout his sinister mansion.

If you like scary books, you need to read this book right now!

New Arrival!

Alibi Junior High by Greg Logstead. Here's the Destiny summary:

"After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran."

Library Tip of the Week

The library was closed all day yesterday and today, April 6th and 7th, for 8th grade TAKS testing. The library will also be closed all day the week of April 26th through April 29th. All three grade levels are testing that week at one time or another, so be sure to have your library books checked out the week BEFORE testing begins!

BoTW: Girlfriend Material

Girlfriend Material by Melissa Kantor (another 2010 Lonestar book) is all about relationships of the teenage variety. Kate has all kinds of plans for her upcoming summer break, but has to drop them all when her Mom informs her that they are staying with some old friends on Cape Cod. The old friends include Sarah, a pretty teenager who resents Kate and her Mom crashing her summer break. To make matters worse, Kate quickly meets a handsome boy, Adam, and falls for him hard.

Does Kate manage to navigate all these different relationships and salvage her summer break? Read Girlfriend Material to find out! And if you like it, try Melissa Kantor's other book, The Breakup Bible.

New Arrival!

Anthony Horowitz has Alex Rider doing another dangerous mission in Crocodile Tears. This time around, Alex swears off the spy business for good. But like most heroes, criminal villains intent on hurting innocent citizens pull Alex back into reluctantly saving the world . . . one more time.