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Reading with 6th graders at SSMS

Hi, it was a busy day today after my lunch at ESMS (see below), I had the honor of heading over to SSMS to talk and read to a few 6th grade classes. They were celebrating National Read to Children week and it was great to see them and read part of the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan to them. It's a great book and the first in a series that you won't be able to put down!

Lunch at ESMS

Hi, I was back at ESMS for Library at Lunch and had a blast watching and playing games with the 6th, 7th and 8th graders that attended. I hope to come back soon, so keep an eye and ear out for more details!

Election Season

I am sure you can't help but have noticed that in 2 weeks we have elections coming up and while you won't be able to vote (sorry it bummed me out too when I was your age), you can still learn about the candidates and our electoral system. Check out this link from the Library of Congrees which is all about Elections: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/election/home.html

Booktalks @ ESMS

Hi, sorry this is a day late but yesterday I had the pleasure of booktalking for Ms. Hird's classes at ESMS. It was a lot of fun and you all did a great job asking and answering questions! Just a reminder that all of these books are on the AR list for ESMS, so they count towards your reading for that!! Here are the titles:
· The Gospel According to Larry By Janet Tashijan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Coraline By Neil Gaiman
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Witness By Karen Hesse
· Fever, 1793 By Laurie Halse Anderson
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· Gossamer By Lois Lowry

Fall is finally in the air!

Did you have good weekend? I used Saturday and Sunday to do nice Fall-y kind of things, like going to an orchard and picking out a pumpkin. I also went through a corn maze which was fun. What's your favorite thing to do in the fall?

I had my first visit to APA today and had a blast! You all asked some great questions, which I always love:) Here's a list of the titles that I brought with me and most will be available on your next bookmobile visit:

· The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Hope to see you all soon in the library and can't wait to visit APA again!

Booktalks with Mrs. Sipes's classes

I enjoyed my time at SSMS talking to 8th graders, some of you more than once! Here's teh list of titles that I brought with me:

· The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Booktalks @ Eastside!

Hey, I had fun at ESMS in Mrs. Kennedy's class. Here are the books that I brought with me plus The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Happy Reading!

· The Lightning Thief By Jack Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Ahoy Me Mateys

and shiver me timbers! Did you know today is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Check out this website for more info: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.htmlAvast and take a look, ye lubbers! Hint: check out the website for a translation!

Meanwhile, if you are looking for a good teen read about pirates check out the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer.

Book talks at SSMS with Mrs. Moulder's classes

Oops, this post is a couple of days late-so sorry to Mrs. Moulder's students since I told you I would have this posted when I got back to APL but it has been a busy couple of days! Anyway, I loved coming to visit Mrs. Moulder and her Reading students and had a great time. Hope you enjoyed the booktalks and here's the list of what I brought just in case you need it as promised!

· The Lightning Thief By Jack Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Thursday Theater: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This Thursday, September 11th come to APL and watch a movie. The fun starts at 6:00 in the Miami Room and their will be snacks:) plus a great movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to watch as well! See you there!

More booktalks ahead...

In the upcoming weeks, I will be at ESMS, SSMS and NSMS to do booktalks, booktalks and more booktalks! So keep on the lookout for me, I could be coming to a class near you very soon!

Booktalks with Mrs. Wildman's classes

Today, I had the opportunity (or should pleasure:) to go visit with all of Mrs. Wildman's classes at NSMS. You all were awesome and I had a blast, some of you asked some very interseting questions and I hope I answered them all;) As I promised, earlier today in class-here is the list of books that we talked discussed! Hope to see you at the library:)

· The Lightning Thief By Jack Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Booktalks @ ESMS

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of stopping by ESMS to talk to Mrs. Riggins' reading class about library programs and book talk a few books. I had fun and the stopped by the Media Center to drop off some fliers, so if you go to ESMS there are fliers about the teen programs @ APL for this month, grab one while supplies last!

Here are the titles that I brought and we talked about in class:

· The Lightning Thief by Jack Riordan
· Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
· Sixth Grade glommers, norks, & me by Lisa Papademetriou
· The Compound by S.A. Bodeen

School of Rock

What better way to "celebrate" the return of school than by showing the movie School of Rock tomorrow night? It's at 6:00 pm in the Miami Room. This is one of my favorite movies, so I hope you can make it!!

Rock Band!!

Come join us for a game program the afternoon of August 19th at 3:30 up in the Delaware Room. I will have Rock Band out so we can play with it. I can't wait-Rock Band rocks!

School days, school days

So school is right around the corner or if you are going to the new Anderson Preparatory Academy then it's already here! So how's your summer been? Have you done anything fun or exciting? Are you excited to start school again?

Thanks!

To all of you who participated in the Teen SRP, thanks and you rock! APL had 380 teens sign up at the Main branch this summer and broke a few records on the way!! Last night @ the After-hours party we had 106 teens from both Main and Lapel attend to play games and win prizes. Fun was had by all, even if I didn't get to play Rock Band:) Oh well, that just means I will have to bring the Rock Band out soon for a program! keep your eyes peeled!!

Chhhhanges....

Have you taken a look at our new home page here @ APL? If not, then here's the link: http://www.andersonlibrary.net , so go take a look. At first, you may think it looks the same but look again, scroll down a little and then take a look at the left hand column. There are now links to our blogs, the APL Teen Scene MySpace page, Twitter and our Ning. Check it out!!