Readers are Leaders!
March 2015
The Liberty Middle School Media Center Newsletter
http://liberty.mysdhc.org/teacher/2471hays/
Media Specialist:
Mrs. Hays
Media Center
Hours of Operation:
Monday through Friday:
8:40 am—4:35 pm
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
Book Tasters needed:
Immediate employment available
The media center is currently hiring middle
school students in grades 6 through 8 to
become Book Tasters. If you want to become a Book Taster, apply in the media
center with Ms. Hays
Job Benefits:
Announcements
& Events 2015
Feb. through March
Feb. 11 & 26—Book Tasters first
meetings
Feb. 16—20—Book Fair
Feb 24—myOn READER”S
Celebration
March 2-6—Battle Team
Qualifying Quiz
2014/2015
Graphic Novels
a bag of marbles—Joffo
Pirates of the Silver
Coast—Chantler
Explorer: the hidden doors:
seven graphic stories—
Kibuishi
The Graveyard book—Russell
Battling Boy—Pope
Book Tasters will be paid in the form of a
Donner Dinner Party—Hale
monthly luncheon in the media center.
The Silver Six—Lieberman
Lunch will include a Book Tasters event.
Skills needed:
Book Tasters need only to have a love of
reading and be willing to read at least one
Bluffton: my summers with
Buster—Phelan
Poseidon: earth shaker—
O’Connor
book per month. After reading your book,
Return of the Padawan—Brown
you will complete a short survey that you will
A Wrinkle in time—the graphic novel—Larson
return to Ms. Hays before the monthly
New Books in the Media Center:
Red Thread Sisters, by Carol Antoinette Peacock
“Shu Ling,” Wen said, “I have to go.” Very slowly, Wen took
Shu Ling’s hands, knuckles white with gripping. One by
one, Wen pried each finger from her shoulder and released
herself.
“Zai jian,” Wen said. “I’ll get you a family as soon as I
can…. Then she turned and ran toward the orphanage to
meet her new family.
Far, Far, Away, by Tom McNeal
“Jeremy Johnson hears voices—’strange whisperings’ - so
the citizens of the small town of Never Better treat him like
an oddity and an outcast…. the Finder of Occasions whose identity and evil intentions nobody knows—is watching and waiting, waiting and watching…”
The Boy at the End of the World, by Greg van Eekhout
Fisher and his defective robot embark on a journey to find
other life. ...“But what awaits Fisher at the end of the world
is something truly unbelievable, something the
human race left behind. He’ll have to rely on all of his
instincts in order to survive, but if he can, he might just end
up saving the world.”
Links available on the
Media Center Web
Page:
http://liberty.mysdhc.org/
teacher/2471hays/
Sunshine Young Readers
Awards Books (Battle
Books)
axis 360 online books
myOn READER online
books
Middle School Virtual
Library
luncheon. Optional: Book Tasters may
video tape a short book talk or create a Book
Trailer to go on the morning show.
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Emerson
Hays 2014/2015
Tampa Bay Times online
Cybercat