Fun things...creative things coming from the library

Made by FMMS students who finished their points...and who wanted to hang out in the library!



It's Friday!

Who knew that Friday would be my update day?  I love when I get some time to update.  My big news for the week is that I ordered books for my bookclubs!  The first book I ordered for January is called The Roar by Emma Clayton.  I haven't read it yet, but I had ordered it for the library based on recommendations.  So I'm very excited about that!

The first book club will be held sometime in January--that will give all the students the chance to read the book (especially with Christmas break thrown in there). 

Other than that, it's pretty quiet in the library. hahaha oh funny me!  I hope everyone has a great weekend!

What's new?

Not much here.  Book club sign ups are still open.  Please if you're interested, let me know!  I have a big bunch this year and a good mixture of boys and girls and grade levels.  I'm very excited!

Sitting next to me is Beautiful Darkness that I told another teacher she can read.  I bought it last weekend and haven't even started it.  I won't lie...it calls to me with a sweet voice.  But no, I will buckle down and read another battle book.  My albatross.  Is that the saying?  Or is it a different bird?  I donno!

I'm a little sad I don't have any followers yet.  So parents and students follow me!  :)  I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.  And I'm going to leave you with a link to the book trailer for Beautiful Darkness because I can't figure out how to post the video. 
On a side note:  how fun would it be to make our own book trailers? 

Where has the time gone?

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  I enjoyed my time off and am now in the mad rush for Christmas.  I feel like this craziness has followed me into the library and I've been a crazy harried librarian!  I finished The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg today and now am getting ready to start another Battle book.  I have three more left to read and am excited to be able to pick a random book to read. 

In other news: FMMS book clubs are starting up again (after a bit of a hiatus this fall).  Sign ups are this week and then I'll get down to picking dates and figuring out books.  I am REALLY excited to see how this year goes.  Last year was all students who had done it the year before.  So this is a whole new crop of students--and I'm so excited to get some new blood.  And to have new books to read!

A quick peak at what I bought

This is a quick peak of the books I got from book fair.  I've also included the AR info.  There were a few other books I got, but I've lent them out to teachers, I will post them when I get them.  Also, aren't you so impressed with my photo collage.  I can't wait to start using these more!  :) 

Beautiful Creatures
Garcia, Kami
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21.0AR Quiz No. 134708
 

Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse
Nation, Kaleb
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18.0
AR Quiz No. 133808 EN Fiction

Montmorency: Thief Liar Genleman?

Updale, Eleanor
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8.0
AR Quiz No. 77128

Smile
Telgemeier, Raina
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1.0
AR Quiz No. 135787

Zorgamazoo
Weston, Robert Paul
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
AR Quiz No. 125939

Zen and the Art of Faking It
Sonnenblick, Jordan
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7.0
AR Quiz No. 118707

Dark Life
Falls, Kat
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9.0
AR Quiz No. 136705

The ClockWork Three

Kirby, Matthew J.
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15.0
AR Quiz No. 140350

A Dog's Purpose
Not Accelerated--but if you read it and write a one page summary, it will be worth 7 points.

Big NatePeirce, Lincoln
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2.0
AR Quiz No. 137291
 

Big Nate Strikes Again
Not Accelerated--but if you read it and write a one page summary, it will be worth 2 points.  I suspect this will be accelerated soon!

Airman
Colfer, Eoin
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16.0
AR Quiz No. 119440  

Book fair roundup

Well I wrapped up the book fair on Friday. Thank you everyone who came and purchased anything from the fair. I use the money to buy books for book clubs. Let me rewind. I have book clubs for middle school students. We meet once a month in the library during lunch and discuss a book. I buy the books for the students and they get to keep them after we have discussed them. It's a lot of fun and I always love to see kids discussing books. So the money from the book fair is used to buy books for these clubs. Occasionally I do ask students to buy books if we pick a book I can't get from scholastic. And kids are pretty happy to do so. It is a really fun activity and I can't wait to get this year going. Last year I picked a collection of books that came from scholastic and we would pick one of those each month and read it. I am leaning towards doing the same thing this year because then I don't have to worry about ordering every month and it buys me some more time to find new books. So again, thank you for helping make the book fair a success!

Tomorrow: a look at new books in the library from the book fair

A confession

I hate to write. I feel I am really really bad at it. And so I'm sort of wondering why I'm doing a blog--maybe I'll do some video ones. I'm much funnier in real life. I guess I will just practice writing. And it will make me better. Maybe I'll talk to Mrs. Everett about how to be a better writer. Tomorrow: a book review. For a book that I don't have in the library. It's mean but I just finished reading it so I have to talk about it. And I'm going to book review every book I've been reading because I've been reading a lot and I want to share it all with you!!!

The Hate List

Oh my gosh, I stayed up way to late a few nights ago finishing this book up. I was half way through before last night, then I just couldn't put it down. SOOOO good!




The Hate List is about a girl who has been bullied all through high school--called Sister Death because she wore black and "was obsessed with death." For years this went on, but she had friends that made her life bareable--she even had a boyfriend who she loved. The boyfriend also had been riduculed all through high school. You know the type: from the wrong side of the tracks, didn't wear the nicest clothes, and wasn't always clean. And he understood how hard it was to be picked on. And one day while they were comiserating about how mean some people were, they started a hate list. A list of all the people who had done them wrong and how much they hated them. The bf ends up going on a shooting rampage and leaving his gf to grieve over the loss of him and really, her old life.



The story is told from different time periods: before the shooting, during the shooting, and after..but in different orders. Sometimes she goes back in time and sometimes forward. I won't lie--you have to be paying attention because the author puts flashbacks in without much of a warning. But they help give background with the relationship.



I am debating about if this will go in our library or not--there is the f word in there, and it's a pretty heavy subject. So that is to be determined.

Let's get this party started!

I've been poking around for a few years now thinking about blogging or getting a website going--so this is how we're going to get it going!

So welcome! I guess I'll be posting about what I'm reading. Or what you want to be reading. Or what's going on in the library. Or something that someone does that makes me laugh.