~~where Middle School can share reading reflections and information resources.
November 4, 2008 at 1:13 am · Filed under Connections with Books, Information Fluency, Library 2.0, Literacy
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.
October 12, 2008 at 8:48 pm · Filed under News
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.
October 8, 2008 at 1:28 am · Filed under Connections with Books, News
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.
August 2, 2008 at 3:25 am · Filed under Connections with Books, News
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.
June 7, 2008 at 7:13 am · Filed under News
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.
May 30, 2008 at 2:49 am · Filed under Connections with Books
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!
May 30, 2008 at 2:19 am · Filed under Connections with Books, Guthrie and tagged: Book Reviews
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?
May 30, 2008 at 2:15 am · Filed under Connections with Books, Guthrie and tagged: Book Reviews
Sirimas Says:
Caletti ‘s Wild Roses is one of the most enthralling and astonishing realistic fiction books that you will love. (Rating is10!) It is a story of Cassie who lives with her step father Dino who she describes as “both crazy and a genius, joy-impaired (hugely depressed), excessively imaginative (delusional), abundantly security conscious (paranoid as hell) or emotionally challenged (wacko).” Cassie tells her story through her humorous point of view as a teenager, sharing her life of dealing with her step father’s mental illness that she describe as a time bomber that you never know when it is going to blow. But as Ian Waters comes along her life starts to change without her realizing it.
Ian Waters was Dino’s violin student who comes for an audition at a fancy Music College. Dino demands that the two stay away from one another to avoid compromising the young man’s focus, but that is impossible. Cassie who always believes that love only brings pain falls in love with him at first sight. But she falls in love in the worst time when Dino’s mental illness starts to get worse when his concert was coming, and it frightens Cassie to see him blow off in front of Ian. But deep inside her heart, she knows that she could not love him, because there was a time limit for them to be together when Ian has a Music College to attend. Will Cassie be able to deal with Dino’s mental problem and her feelings for Ian? With her astonishing book, Wild Roses, Deb Caletti has given us a look into Cassie’s life and how she deals with her problem–her step father’s mental illness and hiding it from public, her relationship with Ian, and opening her mother’s eye about Dino.
May 30, 2008 at 2:12 am · Filed under Connections with Books, Guthrie and tagged: Book Reviews
Gigi Says:
If you’re a fan of Jessica Alba, you’ll know her explosive start as an action star was with the 2003 TV series, Dark Angel. This book, Dark Angel: Before the Dawn is first in a trilogy of science fiction prequels that lead up to the series. Alba’s character, Max is an “X- 5 unit”, a genetically enhanced soldier running away from a genetics research facility called Manticore along with her siblings. Max was born in a test tube, giving her abilities that would make her a perfect soldier- enhanced strength, reflexes, senses, agility, logic and stamina, and had been through 9 years of training at the Manticore center, before her escape. The story starts off with 9 year-old Max’s escape, set in 2009, shortly after an event called the Pulse. a development set-back which plunged the United States to the status of a third world country. The streets are home to clans of thieves; people scurrying for food and soldiers with weapons of the future. Collins has drawn an elaborate setting that is vivid and very real. Then there is a flash forward to 2019, where Max is a young thief living in Los Angeles. She hasn’t forgotten her Manticore siblings, and she would do whatever it takes to find them again. When she catches a glimpse of one of her brothers on TV, instantly recognizing moves that only another X-5 could do, she sets off to reunite. Max mounts her motorcycle and rides north, into the story that is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge and selfless heroism that will further fuel her quest to uncover her past and seize hope for the future.
Before the Dawn is dense with action, and Collins has done an amazing job of putting it down into words. Unfortunately, the plot and characters can be confusing, and the language very advanced. The other weakness is that if you like the series and want to continue reading its sequel Dark Angel: Skin Walkers, there is a huge jump between what Max has been doing, making the characters not always clear. Furthermore, the part Collins missed was the most interesting part, Max going back to Manticore to free her siblings; instead of including this in the first book, the ending is very eerily calm amidst all the action preceding it. However, the strengths of the story heavily outnumber the weakness. And I would give it a ten out of ten. Max Allan Collins has done a marvelous job in combining romance, thrills, mystery , action and suspense with cliff hangers, flashbacks and amazing descriptions to make Before the Dawn a book not to be missed. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes science fiction and action mixed together around a heroine, and definitely anyone who was a fan of the television series.
May 30, 2008 at 1:50 am · Filed under Connections with Books, Guthrie and tagged: Book Reviews
Sophia Says:
In my entire life, I have never fallen in love with a book like The Long-lost Map. It is the second adventurous book after The Door to Time. From reading this book, I started to develop my imagination and I was able to create my own images even though there aren’t many pictures in this book. There aren’t many books which I feel impress because my personality is very fast going and I like books that start with great hooks which keep me reading. There aren’t many books that give me lots of information about Egypt, plus, make me enjoy the book. But this special book includes those two qualifications. This book gave me a first hook with an ancient house with many strange ancestors’ portraits on a treacherous cliff.
The second book starts with eleven-year-old twins, sister, Julia and brother, Jason and their friend Rick. Their different hobbies and personalities bring out a great hazard to solve. When Julia and Jason stepped into a mature house, Argo Manor, they get entangled with the last owner named Ulysses Moore. The Kids find an odd-looking and huge door with four weird key holes. Once they sort of get to know about the door, they come into a place where none of the kids have been. Specifically, this book is how kids learn about Egypt and get some help from an Egyptian girl, against their enemy Obilia Newton who is trying to invade Argo Manor to become rich. Even though they’ve got lots of troubles, they were able to sort them out with three of them working together. Let’s JUMP into an incredibly thrilling story!
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