Have a great summer!

We're winding things down here at the library, but you should be revving up your reading for the summer! To help you, check out the Smith library home page here. You'll find links to CyFair's 2010 summer reading list, broken down by genre. Immediately underneath the summer reading list you'll find a link to the Lone Star website, plum full of dozens of great book recommendations.

See something you like? Visit your nearest public library or swing by Half Price Books or Barnes & Noble.

See you next August!

Rock Band Pizza Party Winners!

Congrats to the following Smith Sabercats for winning the library Rock Band Pizza Party!

Kenny Phipps - Cheyenne Georgi

Jonathan Tran - Alejandra Noriega

Alyssa Thomas - Jospeh Mosley

Yared Salazar - Chiamaka Mgboj

Samuel Rodriguez - Emma Ham

Here's a pic of the winners rocking out!

Rock Band Pizza Party, May 19th!

We're having another Rock Band pizza party, Wednesday, May 19th! Stop by the library before Friday, May 14th and fill out a registration slip. Only one entry per student! If I draw your name, you get to come to the party!

Here's the best party: you get to invite a friend!

The only catch is that neither of you can have any overdue library books. So get those overdue books turned in today!

BotW: Slob

In the book Slob by Ellen Potter, the main character Owen is a twelve-year who is as intelligent as he is overweight. When his parents are murdered in a robbery attempt, Owen makes it his life's work to invent a device that allows him to replay the past. Not only does Owen grieve for the loss of his parents, he also has to contend with bullies at school who take great delight in tormenting him for being fat.

Owen can take the bullying if only he can get his invention to actually work, peer into the near-past and identify the person who killed his parents. Slob is a touching account of middle school life and of adolescent loss and grieving.

Slob is a Lone Star 2010 award winner.