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Holiday Gift Ideas from ‘School Library Journal’ and the Main Library
As always, books make great gifts. Have a look at this wonderful list: www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6620274.html
Main Library Book Sale:
Buy yourself and your loved ones some great books at the Main Library Book Sale. All books will be on sale for 10% off sticker prices from Asia Books and Scholastic Books on Wednesday, December 17th, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, December 18th, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and Friday, December 19th, 7 a.m. to noon. Happy Holidays!
DESTINY
Goodbye, Athena. Welcome to Follett DESTINY Library Manager, our new, easy-to-use, cutting edge library OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog). You can access Destiny 24/7 through a web browser from home and from anywhere else. Try out Destiny and discover some great features such as Title Peek, where you see the book cover as well as book reviews and other information. If you need online sources for a topic you’re researching, WebPath Express connects you to pre-selected, educator-reviewed, and grade-leveled Web sources. Learn more about Destiny by using it.
Teen Read Week October 12-18, 2008
Celebrate Teen Read Week by reading “for the fun of it”! Take a look at our display of “Books with Bite @ Your Library”, and check out a book or two for the sheer pleasure of reading. Access www.ala.org/teenread/ and http://www.ilovelibraries.org/news/trw/index.cfm for more information about Teen Read Week.
MEG CABOT LIVE IN BANGKOK
Yes, the bestselling author of the popular chick-lit series Princess Diaries, the Allie Finkle series, and many more will be in Bangkok October 8th-10th! Her schedule in Bangkok can be accessed at http://megcabot.com/tourinformation.php
Join the excitement of meeting Meg Cabot and having her autograph your books! Some bookstores need for you to pre-register so hurry and decide which event you want to attend.
Back to ISB Middle School!
Welcome to School Year 2008-2009! It’s back to books, blogs, libraries, and learning. Be sure to check out our NEW BOOKS and take a peek at our new library catalog, Destiny.
Main Library Summer Hours
The Main Library is open Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. for pleasure reading, computer use, Summer School support, and check-out. As there may be service interruptions due to system maintenance and Buddhist Holidays, please phone us at 02-963-5800, ext. 132, to confirm that the library is open before making a special trip to use the area.
We hope your summer reading brings many hours of enjoyment and a lifelong love of reading.
Student Book Reviews
We are pleased to share with you some book reviews from Mr. Guthrie’s Reading/Writing Workshop class this last quarter of the school year. Read on!
Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Poojah Says:
This book is about the most thrilling historical fiction book you’ll ever read! Laurie Halse Anderson did a fantastic job of retelling the story of the Yellow Fever. I confidently say that this book is rated as a 10. This book is about the most fearful time of the life of the young teenage girl named Matilda. The Cook family lives by a coffeehouse that has been there as long as Mattie (aka. Matilda) can remember. Her friend, a coffeehouse servant girl, Polly Logan, dies from a disease that the doctors fear to be the Yellow Fever that had attacked Philadelphia many years ago. Desperately heart breaking, Matilda’s mother suffers from the hideous disease; as her wish, Matilda’s mother sends Matilda away with her grandfather to a farm that she was sure the disease would not reach. But then a disaster breaks in and suddenly the two of them are trapped in the woods with no food, even worse, her brave grandfather catches the fever and Matilda strives to rescue him. Just as if things weren’t bad enough, Matilda also catches the fever because of such a weak body. Now what can save her, how will she survive, will she even survive?
Such questions struck me as I read up to that part. Pages were flicking really fast as if I was using a fan. As all hope seemed to be lost, Matilda finally woke up at Bush Hill, a place where people with yellow fever get taken care of. Will she ever survive? How is her mother? Most importantly, is it a happy ending? I think the purpose of the author is to show that even a girl doesn’t give up even though she knows that not many people survive from this terrible disease; why should we give up in life?
