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2009 National Book Award Finalists:

This year's National Book Awards, an award given to writers by writers, will be announced on November 18th.

Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
          (Henry Holt)
Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
           (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
David Small, Stitches
            (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
            (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped
         (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

Mrs. Harris' students dressed as protagonists of novels that they had selected to read. What creativity!

photo: Dawn Benko

Donate to Pennies for Peace

Our library received a free collection of classic books for the fifth annual We the People Bookshelf. 3,000 public and school libraries across the nation will each receive 17 hardcover books for young readers (K-12) related to this year’s “Created Equal” theme, inspired by the 2009 bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The Bookshelf includes Spanish translations to accompany four of the selected titles.

Call it the green Facebook. Here’s a new social networking site where environmentally minded teens looking for a place to chat, share ideas, and learn about careers and university programs can now visit.

Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday!!

Go green and take the Sieman's Challenge!

Jon Scieszka - Funniest author ever!

Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

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Proud recipient of the 2008 Bookshelf on Created Equal

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FCC/Kids' Zone

Find out what's happening with The Beacon Street Girls!

Take a safe, fun trip to Whyville

Very proud recipient of the

2004
We the People Bookshelf on Courage,
the 2005
We the People Bookshelf on Freedom
the 2006
We the People Bookshelf on Becoming American
the 2007
We the People Bookshelf on Created Equal

National Institute on Media and the Family

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Clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything

New Moon is for every girl who wants her voice heard and her dreams taken seriously

Straightforward health advice for teens

Health Information for Girls

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

Grouch Marx, 1895-1977

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Robert R. Lazar Middle School
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"What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it."

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
American scientist and educator (1961- 2002)

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“The library has always been a window to a larger world—a place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward.”

                                     Barack Obama (1961-
                             President of the United States of America
Author of: Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance, 1995.
               The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream, 2006.