LIBBA BRAY and SHANNON HALE
discuss and sign
The Sweet Far Thing and
A Book of a Thousand Days
Wednesday, January 30 at 7:00 p.m.

The Sweet Far Thing –the stunning conclusion to the Gemma Doyle trilogy. It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.

Libba Bray is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, and a cat of questionable intelligence.

A Book of a Thousand Days – Set in a medieval Asian land, a classic Brothers Grimm tale is reimagined by a Newbery Honor author. In this completely unique retelling, filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise, a young maid sacrifices her freedom to accompany her mistress into exile.

Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and has not stopped, earning an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana sixteen years later, and publishing The Goose Girl, her first book, not long after that. A sometime actress, instructional designer, and missionary, she now makes her home in Salt Lake City, with her super-human husband and her newborn baby.


Celebrate Teen Read Week October 14-20, 2007.

Every student who checks out a book receives a prize.

Sept. 3, 2007

• JETSET

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current projects

• MIX - the jetset community
• show off your wallet
• are you happy?

• Stop Cyberbulling Day, Friday, March 30.

Link to this site to find out more about Friday's purpose Stop Cyberbulling Day

Another site of interest on the topic is Cyberbulling.org--provides info for students, parents, and educators

• Harry Potter--goes out with a BIG book (784 pages)--Read More

• Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content

Welcome to a worldwide learning network

OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use. Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content.

Want to find new courses or lesson plans? Lab activities or syllabi that are open to adapt for your own use? Browse Categories or Collections to find what interests you.
With a free membership, you can add tags, ratings, reviews, comments, and favorites to your own portfolio. You can post to discussion, blog, and wiki areas, and see how others are using OER

• ALA's 2006 list of most challenged books

Which ones have you read and loved? Want to create an audio review of one or more?

• C-SPAN Offers 'Classroom-Ready' Coverage of 2008 Presidential Campaign

• New SUA SKI CLUB WIKI

See some photos of our club members having a great time at our club outings

• Digital Video Collection

  The Ohio Area Instructional Media Centers (OAIMC) Digital Video Collection (DVC) is available to all Ohio K-12 schools at no cost to districts, educators or students.

Download or stream from the WEB.

Here's the list of titles: Titles

• Readergirlz new online book community called readergirlz for girls hooked on reading and opportunities to share that love with others

• Lulu.com Self Publishing that makes sense

Lulu is fast, easy and free
Publish and sell easily within minutes.
No set-up fees. No minimum order.
Keep control of the rights.
Set your own price.
Each product is printed as it is ordered.
No excess inventory.

• Faculty/Staff Book Discussion

Barack Obama's book, Audacity of Hope , will be disucssed on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007 at Robbi Russo's home. Directions will be coming.

• Grammar Girl Web Site--have a question about grammar or syntax?

Here's a great site that's "not for English class only." It a blog (or podcast) that displays grammar questions and answers. For example, today someone asked about when to use the words, lie or lay. Grammar girl also provides easy tips on remembering which to use. http://grammar.qdnow.com/.

• The latest Harry Potter book is being released July 21, 2007!

• We Want Podcasters!

We want to add audio podcasts (created by students) for reviews of popular Young adult books I'd love to have students doing the actual recordings and book reviewing. We have the equipment in the library and we can do it as a team.

Who would we like to do this?

1. someone who loves to read and wants to share books with others
2. someone who is or has read a book that they love for a class or project

I plan on posting the podcasts on a blog--linked from our library webpage. You and other students can subscribe to the service and have the newest podcasts come right to their RSS or blog aggregator (like bloglines.com or iTunes)

Please let Mrs. Behen know if you are interested and we will create the time and opportunity

• Need usernames and passwords for our databases?

You will now find them in Blackboard. Look at the bottom of your page and you will see the library listed as an organization. Click on library documents for the newest usernames and passwords.