Bookmark Contest Winners Announced

We had 130 bookmarks entered in this year's bookmark contest. Mrs. Lester said the entries were better than ever! Congratulations to our winners! All students are welcome to stop by the library and view the winning bookmarks. You may also choose a copy of one of their bookmarks after you check out.

Flush

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Call Number: F HIA

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

Spaceheadz

Author: Jon Scieszka
Call Number: F SCI

Michael moves to a new school and learns that some of his friends are really aliens who have come to Earth in order to convince millions of kids to be Space Heads.

Storyteller

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Call Number: F GIF

Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feel a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.

Rules

Author: Cynthia Lord
Call Number: F LOR

Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.

Here Lies the Librarian

Author: Richard Peck
Call Number: F PEC

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.

The Teacher's Funeral

Author: Richard Peck
Call Number: F PEC

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."

Bookmark Contest

The library is sponsoring our third annual Bookmark Contest! Forms went home in last week's Thursday folders. We also have extra forms in the library. Design a bookmark and return your form to the library by Thursday, April 28. We will announce the winners at GMT on Friday morning. All winners will receive a free book. In addition, their bookmarks will be passed out in the library during Children's Book Week in May. Good luck!!!

A Long Way From Chicago

Author: Richard Peck
Call Number: F PEC

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

A Year Down Yonder

Author: Richard Peck

Call Number: F PEC

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.