What’s New in the Library?

We are going to continue our new program next year called the Battle of the Books. Students from the 5^th and 6^th grade classes and 7^th and 8th will be participating in this program. Those interested students were given a list of books to read over the next eleven months. Many students will get their reading started over the summer. In order to take part in the competition they must read 10 books from the list. We will then form teams and create trivia questions based on the books and have a friendly competition between the 5th and 6th grade teams and the 7^th and 8^th grade teams. This will take place sometime next spring so there is still plenty of time to read the books and prepare for the Battle of the Books 2009! It will be a lot of fun. Here are the lists if you misplaced them.

Battle of the Books

Battle of the Books 2008/2009

5^th/6^th grade list

Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson

Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret

Gentle Ben by Walt Morey

Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith

Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman

The Black Paw by Heather Vogel Frederick

Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen

The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting

Into the Firestorm by Deborah Hopinson

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Gossamer by Lois Lowry

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman

Crazy Lady by Jane Conly

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Holes by Louis Sachar

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Battle of the Books 2008/2009

7^th/8^th Grade List

Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher

Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz

Atherton: House of Power by Patrick Carman

Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Fire on the Wind by Linda Crew

Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

Half-moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer

Minerva Clark Gets a Clue by Karen Karbo

Peak by Roland Smith

The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynn Jones

Sea Otter Rescue by Roland Smith

Stout-hearted Seven by Neta Lohnes Frazier

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin

A View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Our first Book Club meeting will be on September 16^th at 2:10 after school in the Library. We will be listening to book talks and voting on our selections for this year. I will be facilitating the club once again with Natasha Forrester the Capitol Hill Youth Librarian. Our Book Club is open for any 4^th-8^th graders who are interested. This is a great opportunity for students to read and have an opportunity to discuss the books with one another. We like to introduce the students to as many genres and different writing styles as possible and most importantly encourage students to read for enjoyment. The Book Club meets the third Tuesday of each month except for the month of December.

We are fortunate to receive EBSCO Host through OSLIS. The EBSCO database is a valuable resource and is especially helpful once students are doing research reports in class. This database provides access to over 11,000 periodicals with the full text of articles, along with more reference books, maps, and other information resources in electronic format. These EBSCO databases will only be available through OSLIS. (Oregon School Library Information System). The OSLIS website address is www.oslis.k12.or.us. Grades 4^th -8^th are shown how to use this database during their Library time.

If you ever have any questions or concerns please call me or e-mail me at lmnapoli@hotmail.com.

Thank you,

Lynn Napoli

St Clare School Librarian