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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Book Swap Today!!
The book swap is today! It is so much fun watching students come and choose "new to them" books. There are many wonderful books to choose from. Thank you so much to Mrs. VanCura and the student council for organizing our second annual Taylor Book Swap.

Monday, December 13, 2010
Flashlight Reading All Week!!!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Swindle

Call Number: F KOR
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker.
Deeper

Call Number: F GOR
Boy archaeologist Will Burrows wanders the caverns beneath the Colony with his best friend Chester and brother Cal, falls upon the Styx's plan to get rid of Topsoilers with a deadly plague, and risks his life to foil their plot while wondering if his killer stepsister is still on the loose.
Junebug
Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Call Number: F CUS
Meggy Swann, a girl who walks with the aid of two sticks, arrives in Elizabethan London, along with her goose Louise, to stay with her father who really does not want her, and while he pursues his dream of transforming base metal into gold, Meggy undergoes a transformation herself.
The Seventh Level
Monday, November 29, 2010
Question???
What is your favorite book you have read from the library this year? Please answer by posting a comment below.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Vocabulary Parade
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Bluebonnet Book Club
Monday, November 8, 2010
The Mysterious Howling

Author: Maryrose Wood
Call Number: F WOO
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
Bird Lake Moon

Call Number: F HEN
Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.
Tunnels

Call Number: F GOR
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Flat Stanley
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Catherine Fowler Visits the Library




Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Vocabulary Parade Coming Soon!
Taylor's fifth annual Vocabulary Parade will be taking place on Thursday, November 11. Parents are welcome to join us in the cafeteria to view the parade. Every Taylor student and staff member will be dressed as a word for the parade. Look for information that will begin coming home in this week's Thursday folders. When you decide on the word you want to portray, don't forget to turn in your word form to your teacher.
Storytelling Festival

Fifth Grade Book Club
Our fifth grade book club met for the first time yesterday. It was a lot of fun! We have seven student members, plus Mrs. Howeth and me. The students were excited to find out what our first book to read together would be. The answer: The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman!
Hotel For Dogs

Author: Lois Duncan
Call Number: F DUN
Andi, unable to adopt an adorable stray dog because of her aunt's allergies, enlists her brother Bruce in a plan to care for the dog and its puppies in an abandoned house down the street, but when the siblings give in the urge to take in more canine guests, the secret becomes too large to keep.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Escape
Monday, October 18, 2010
Frisco Reads
Frisco Reads will take place at Heritage High School on October 26 from 4:30 - 6:30. This is a fun event for Frisco ISD staff, students, and their families. Featured authors this year include Anastasia Suen and Gordon Korman. Please visit the Frisco Reads website for more information: http://www.friscoreads.com/