LibGuides at Radnor High School

Home - Nectar in a Sieve - LibGuides at Radnor High School

New to Radnor High School- LibGuides! Check this one out, and be sure to come back often as we continue to add to these research portals!

PA Young Reader's Choice Nominees 2013-2014

 

Curious to see next year's Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Nominees? Here they are...Start reading!

The Other Wes Moore

Other Wes Moore (Moore): Our Reading Guide for The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore includes a Book Club Discussion Guide, Book Review, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio.

VIDEO: Becoming Wes Moore-
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Rhodes-Scholar-Wes-Moore-Looks-Back-on-His-Childhood-Video

Young Adult Author Panel

On Monday, February 11, Radnor High School hosted five highly acclaimed young adult authors in a very special event! Many classes attended an engaging discussion and Q & A session. Authors also signed books and brought autographed bookmarks to share. We are so grateful for their insight and conversation. See pictures of their books and the panel below. Check out their books at the Radnor HS Library today! Do you want to order one of their books for yourself? Click here for a form. Return it to Mrs. Wetzel by Wednesday, 2/19.

 

 

5 Young Adult Authors @RHS Monday, February 11th

Young Adult Author Panel

 Monday, February 11^th five highly acclaimed young adult authors will be visiting Radnor High School for a very special event! You are invited to bring your class to the Black Box during 7^th period for a discussion and Q & A. Book signing will continue into 8^th period.

 

Below is a list of the visiting authors as well as their websites.  Please take a moment to read about them and their books.

 

April Lindner- http://www.aprillindner.com/

Jonathan Maberry- http://www.jonathanmaberry.com/

Tiffany Schmidt- http://www.tiffanyschmidt.com/

Victoria Schwab- http://www.victoriaschwab.com/

K. M. Walton - http://www.kmwalton.com/

 

If you are interested in having a book signed by any of the authors these books will be available at a 20% discount the day of the visit. 

See Mrs. Wetzel for more details. Hope to see you there!

Planned in conjunction with: Children’s Book World

17 Haverford Station Road Haverford, PA 19041 www.childrensbookworld.net

American Library Association announces 2013 youth media award winners | American Libraries Magazine

American Library Association announces 2013 youth media award winners | American Libraries Magazine

Radnor HS February Book Discussion

February 27th. Black Box. All lunches. All are welcome!

The Other Wes Moore
Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.

In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.

Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.

Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world. (Summary from Goodreads)