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RHS January Book Discussion

All are welcome. Bring your lunch to the Black Box on January 23rd to discuss The Scorpio Races by Magge Stiefvater! Winner of many awards:

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2012),

Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production Honor (2012),

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Young Adult Literature (2011),

Printz Honor (2012),

ALA Teens' Top Ten Nominee (2012), ...more

Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of the Year (2011)

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen. (Goodreads)

Audiobook available through Radnor Memorial Library's website: http://digitallibrary.delcolibraries.org/60CE42CF-ED1D-4A3B-BD37-286815E2F9FE/10/451/en/SearchResults.htm?SearchID=6660237s

RHS December Book Discussion: Tuesdays With Morrie

December 19th. Black Box. Bring your lunch!

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. (GoodReads)

 

Check it out from our library or use your public library card to check out the ebook or audiobook from Radnor Memorial: http://digitallibrary.delcolibraries.org/227150A6-5150-4FBF-9974-7B0A42055C7F/10/451/en/SearchResults.htm?SearchID=6479077s

Reading eBooks on a computer

Access our eBook collection by using the FollettShelf link on the RHS Library website under READ link: https://wbb00897.follettshelf.com/

Students:

Username = 6 digit student #

Password = last name

Staff:

Username = your last name

Password = your 4 digit #

 

Reading eBooks on Your iPad with Follett Digital Reader App

1.    Download the Follett Digital Reader app from iTunes – it’s free!

2.    When prompted enter wbb00897

3.    Then login using your student number as the username and your last name as the password

4.    Click on “Check out more books”

5.    Click on a book that you are interested in

6.    Click the check out “online” button

7.    You will have the book for 10 days before it is automatically returned.

Reading eBooks from Radnor Memorial Library

RML offers many free eBooks for a variety of ereaders (Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc.). You must have a DCLS library card to borrow eBooks.

1.    To get started go to the Radnor Memorial Library website and click on “Catalog”

2.    Then click on “Download eBooks and audiobooks” in the lower right corner of the page

3.    Click on “New to Digital Media”

Then click on My Help and follow the step-by-step instructions for downloading the appropriate software and getting started with eBooks.

Teen Top Ten

2012 Teens’ Top Ten Winners

1). Roth, Veronica

Divergent.

Abnegation (selfless), Erudite (intelligence), Candor (honesty), Amity (peace), or Dauntless (brave): where would you fit? Beatrice lives in a society where she must choose either to remain with her family’s faction or set off towards independence and her beliefs. And what happens when the unity between these
factions begins to fall apart?

2). Green, John

The Fault in Our Stars.

Hazel and Augustus meet and forge a relationship at a support group for kids battling cancer. As Hazel and Augustus struggle with the “side-effects of dying,” they come to learn the strength of wishes, the complexities of long human lives, and the wondrous ways of the universe.

3). Lu, Marie

Legend.
June, a fifteen-year-old military prodigy, is hunting Day, the outlaw she believes is responsible for her brother’s death. What will happen when the two meet and discover
the government is corrupt?

4). Riggs, Ransom

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

When Jacob was little, his grandfather would tell him stories of the fantastical children’s home where he grew up and the seemingly magical kids who lived there with him. When his grandfather is killed, Jacob sets out to find the home where these children lived, unearthing a magical secret and uncovering his true heritage.

5). Dessen, Sarah

What Happened to Goodbye.

Ever since Mclean’s parents divorced, she has lived in four towns in two years – each time taking on a new persona. Mclean expects to leave Lakeview in six months, but soon finds that she doesn’t want to – she just wants to be herself.

6). Revis, Beth

Across the Universe.

Cryogenically frozen centuries ago, Amy and her parents are on their way to a new planet aboard the spaceship, Godspeed. Unplugged from her cryochamber, Amy discovers she has been awoken 50 years early, in a failed murder attempt. With Elder, the future leader of the ship, by her side they are on an adventure filled with murder, lies, dreams, and stars.

7). Meyer, Marissa

Cinder.

A futuristic retelling of the classic Cinderella, Cinder, a cyborg and talented mechanic,

lives with her cruel stepmother and two stepsisters in the plague-ridden New Beijing.
Soon after meeting Prince Kai, Cinder must find the truths of her past, which may help
to save the future.

8). Stiefvater, Maggie

The Scorpio Races.

Every November, the beaches of Thisby come alive with the Scorpio Races. The water horses are vicious, the terrain is treacherous, and death is likely, but the reward can be beyond anything you could imagine. Puck Connolly is racing for her family, Sean Kendrick for his passion—but only one can win The Scorpio Races.

9). Forman, Gayle

Where She Went.

This sequel to Gayle Forman’s If I Stay is narrated by Adam, Mia’s ex-boyfriend. Shortly after the devastating accident that killed Mia’s family, the talented cellist moves to New York, where an accidental meeting brings them back together.

10). Cabot, Meg

Abandon.

Pierce has experienced death before and barely escaped. When she moves from her old town to a town called Isla Huesos - Island of Bones - for a new start, she realizes that death wants her back. Can she escape death once again?

RHS Book Club

November 14th. Black Box. Divergent by Veronica Roth. Lunch!

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
(GoodReads)

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Check it out today!

Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumors in her lungs... for now.

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumors tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind. (GoodReads)

Join us on October 18th for a Brown Bag Book Discussion in the Black Box to discuss:

 

Sign up in the library to reserve your spot for

lunch A, B, or C. All are welcome!

See Mrs. Wetzel or Dr. Swinehart for more details.

Banned Books Week

Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 30 - Oct. 6, 2012

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. Check out the frequently challenged books section to explore the issues and controversies around book challenges and book banning.

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month

Stop by your local library to sign up for the most important school supply of all – a library card. Show Mrs. Wetzel your Public Library Card September 11^th – 21^st, and your name will be entered into a raffle. Prizes include candy bars and iTunes gift cards!

Fifteen lucky winners have been selected and announced. Stop by the library to claim your prize!



Teen Read Week

It Came from the Library! This Teen Read Week™ (Oct. 14-20), YALSA dares you to read for the fun of it! Teen Read Week is a time to celebrate reading for fun and encourage teens to take advantage of reading in all its forms —books and magazines, e-books, audiobooks and more — and become regular library users.



A 2012-2013 Reading Olympics Book



Paper Covers Rock by Jennifer Hubbard

At the beginning of his junior year at a boys' boarding school, 16-year-old Alex is devastated when he fails to save a drowning friend. When questioned, Alex and his friend Glenn, who was also at the river, begin weaving their web of lies. Plagued by guilt, Alex takes refuge in the library, telling his tale in a journal he hides behind Moby-Dick. Caught in the web with Alex and Glenn is their English teacher, Miss Dovecott, fresh out of Princeton, who suspects there's more to what happened at the river when she perceives guilt in Alex's writing for class. She also sees poetic talent in Alex, which she encourages. As Alex responds to her attention, he discovers his true voice, one that goes against the boarding school bravado that Glenn embraces. When Glenn becomes convinced that Miss Dovecott is out to get them, Alex must choose between them.

literary awards

William C. Morris YA Debut Award Nominee (2012) 

     From GoodReads.com