T H I S W E E K
This week, we have been looking at the various novel series in the Library. There are over 60 series in a variety of reading and interest levels. Genres include science fiction, fantasy, humourous, historical and realistic fiction. 
Graphic novels continue to be the students' favourite and our priority is to add to this collection. As a child, I read all of the Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gable books. Another series I devoured was Betsy and Starr by Caroline Heywood. Do any of you remember those?
N E W B O O K S !
Students continue to check out the large selection of new fiction and non-fiction books. The new Dragon Ball Z graphic novels by Akira Yoriyama and Gerard Jones are the most popular picks.
Dragon Ball introduces a young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets a girl named Bulma who is on a quest to collect seven "Dragon Balls." Interest level: K- 3 Reading level: Gr. 2 - 4
L M I T
This Spring, some of our grade four students have shown an interest in becoming Library monitors. The Library Monitors In Training (LMITS) are working with the grade five monitors and the Librarian to learn to shelve books and keep the Library tidy and organized.
We appreciate the service of these dedicated grade fours!
L I N D S A Y L I B R A R Y
What's on my night table? I have just started Any Human Heart by Scottish author, William Boyd. Far more my cup of tea than Wicked...Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the twentieth century - is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration from Virgina Woolf in London and Hemmingway in Paris, as a spy recruited by Ian Flemming and betrayed in the war, and as an art dealer in the sixties in New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shaped his times. - Back cover
I also recently purchased two other books which I have yet to read:
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (recommended by a English woman I met on vacation)
In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt. - AmazonI Captured the Castle by Dodie Smith (one of my book club picks)
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on. Bravely making the best of things, Cassandra gets hold of a journal and begins her literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts. - AmazonC O N T E S T ! !
What did your parents like to read when they were your age? Write down one of your parent's favourite books, along with your name and division . Put your entry in the glass jar on the Library desk.
Good Luck!
COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
Email me at ldelair@sd40.bc.ca Happy Reading!
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