Wentworth Elementary Library

Great Stone Face Books!

2010-09-23T15:37:00.000-04:00

We currently have 16 of the 25 GSF books for this year, and the rest are on the way!
What? Students in grades 4-6 are invited to read from this list and to vote in the spring on their favorite. The author whose book receives the most votes receives a hand-cut crystal trophy designed by master craftsman, Pepi Hermann of Gilford, NH.

Who can vote? Students from grades 4-6 who have read a minimum of five books on the list are eligible for voting.

You will find information brochures in the library! These brochures provide a short advertisement for each book, as well as a rating spot for each book (1= likes a little, 5=likes a lot).

Voting Ballots will be placed out in the library in the spring.

Of Book Orders, Borrowed Books, and Ice Cream Scoops

2010-04-30T12:50:00.000-04:00

I am busily preparing to order lots of excellent books for everyone! Thank you for input on what to order to make our library the best ever!

Please continue to look at home for all library books needing to be returned to the school. Before you know it, the end of the year will be here!

I am also trying hard to catch up on the amazing number of ice cream scoops I need to cut out and post up on the WALL for all the books everyone is reading! It is a dazzling sight to see the visual representation of how much reading we are doing! In the beginning I wondered if students and staff would think I was crazy to propose the challenge of reading 100 Books; but now, well it's obvious -- we read, and we read a lot! How exciting! I'm starting to think about that ice cream party in June!

Exciting Milestone in cataloging the collection!

2010-02-11T11:42:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Cindy Campbell, volunteering her time exclusively to cataloging our collection, we now have all the fiction and all the picture books barcoded and in the Destiny system! Yeah!!

Fall in Love @ the Library!

2010-02-04T09:43:00.000-05:00

This Valentine's Day, don't forget to stop in at the library for stories of love, friendship, and romance! Fall in Love with books and read to a sibling, a grandparent, a friend. Read passages aloud over the phone, at the dinner table, in the car!

New to the library: a stack of 34 Goosebumps books!

WOW!!! New Books! New Books! New Books!

2009-10-22T10:55:00.000-04:00

Oh me! Oh my! What a lot of books have arrived! Here's a sampling! Should be ready to check out in a few days -- I'm processing as fast as I can!

The Entire Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events FIC SNI
The Captain Underpants Series by Dav Pilkey PICTURE BOOKS UNDER "P"
The Bone Series by Jeff Smith FIC SMI
Uglies the Collector's Set by Scott Westerfeld FIC WES
The Judy Moody Totally Awesome Collection by Megan McDonald ER MCM
The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer FIC MEY
Tracking Trash by Loree Griffin Burns (non fiction about why we need to protect our marine environment)
Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer (young adult vampire book) FIC BRE
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker (on the Lady Bug List) PICTURE BOOKS "B"
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg PICTURE BOOKS "A"
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (winner of the Scott O'Dell Award and a National Book Award Finalist) FIC AND
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Winner of the Newbery 2009) FIC GAI
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits 811 GRA
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer Holm FIC HOL
The Dog Who Belonged to No One by Amy Hest PICTURE BOOKS "H"

Coming Soon To a Shelf Near You!!

2009-10-19T11:48:00.000-04:00

Here is a sampling of new books here for you to check out!

1. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition 2010   031.02 RIP Self explanitory!
2. Cookie Dough Fun     641 COO Great recipes! Gorgeous photos!
3. Three new Magic Tree House Books! Easy Reader Section   Exciting adventures of Jack and Annie        that you can't put down.
4. Two new Puppy Place Books     Easy Reader Section Pugsley the Pug and Princess the Yorkie find homes.
5.   Fairest by Gail Carson Levine   FIC LEV   (Newbery author of Ella Enchanted) Some readers argue that this novel surpasses Ella Enchanted and challenges conventional ideas of beauty.
6.   The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti FIC BAR   (based on a true story of Hitler Youth) Explores the life of a heroic German youth who dared to stand up agianst the Nazi regime.
7.   Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones by Judy Schrachner   picture books under S More adventures for the beloved Siamese Cat who likes to think he's a Chihuahua.
8.   Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter    picture books under M Okay, I almost cried reading this one!
9.   First Dog by J. Patrick Lewis    picture books under L Based on the First Dog for the Presidential Famiily.
10. Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli FIC SPI About a ninth grade stargazing science geek/control freak.

THE READ A HUNDRED BOOKS CHALLENGE!

2009-10-14T21:50:00.000-04:00

It's never too late to take the challenge! All you need to do is log your reading and turn in your reading logs for credit to a teacher or to the librarian.

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2009-10-14T21:29:00.000-04:00

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