Millionaire Readers

Do not forget to submit your summer reading logs to the librarian or to your English or reading teacher. Logs are due, September 28. If you have read at least five books over the summer, simply list the book, author, your name and ELAR teacher on a sheet of paper and turn it in. The librarian will contact you about verifying what you have read.

Welcome Back!

I look forward to seeing you this year! I am excited about teaching classes another year here at JYHS. If you would like to visit the library on your own, meet me in the cafeteria during lunch or after school. The library is open in the mornings 7:30 - 7:45, Monday and Thursday. After school hours are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday until 4:00 p.m. and Friday 3:30 p.m. Do not forget to follow us on Twitter @YatesLibrary.

Dark Shadows: Re-vamped for the Big Screen

Dark Shadows: Re-vamped for the Big Screen

Traveling & Black Friday #5

Amazon review of Feed by M.T. Anderson

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days.

Winner of Thanksgiving Feed Your Brain

Congratulations to Cedric Spriggs! Go to the PTO snack bar to pick up your free Chick fil A.

Traveling & Black Friday #4

From Crank by Ellen Hopkins

“you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next, as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.”

Traveling & Black Friday #3

Excerpt from Wikipedia about Squirrel Seeks Chimpmonk: "Sedaris said in an October 2010 interview with The Washington Post, "If I wrote, 'Phillip and Amanda had been dating for two weeks when they ran out of things to talk about', I would have to give you a whole description. But, everyone knows what a squirrel and a chipmunk look like. So, I wrote it as, 'The squirrel and the chipmunk had been dating for two weeks when the

y ran out of things to talk about.'""

The Occupy Wall Street Library Regrows in Manhattan | American Libraries Magazine

The Occupy Wall Street Library Regrows in Manhattan | American Libraries Magazine

Traveling & Black Friday #2

Skippy Dies

by Paul Murray

Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin’s venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?

Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?

Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love?

Or could “the Automator”—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school—have something to hide?

Traveling & Black Friday #1

Over the next few days, I shall post books that you may want to take along to read while traveling to family for Thanksgiving or camping out at Black Friday. Come to the library and check them out.

The first one is The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein. Here is a review.