Monday, April 19, 2010

Muktar and the Camels

Author: Janet Graber
Call Number: E GRA

Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.

Moving Day

Author: Meg Cabot
Call Number F CAB

Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stepping on the Cracks

Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Call Number: F HAH

In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Storyteller Auditions

Every year the Lone Star Storytelling Festival takes place in October, and all of the fourth graders in Frisco are able to attend. The Frisco Public Library is accepting audition tapes for those students who might like to be a student teller. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, come by the library and I have more information for you. We would be very proud to have a Taylor student be featured as one of the storytellers!

each little bird that sings

Author: Deborah Wiles
Call Number: F WIL

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

Tots

We have a tater tot collection in the library. We currently have 39 tots and welcome tot donations. What does this have to do with libraries or books? Nothing! It's just fun. Thank you to my sweet and generous students who have brought me tots this year.

Gardening Display

Check out our new gardening display! We have many books about spring and gardening in our library. Come on down and check one out today!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever


Author: Barbara Robinson
Call Number: F ROB
The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Potato Chip Puzzles

Author: Eric Berlin
Call Number: F BER

Winston and his friends enter an all-day puzzle contest to win fifty-thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.

Frindle


Author: Andrew Clements
Call Number: F CLE
When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.