Summer Reading

Are you looking for some Summer Reading ideas? If so, check out the Alex Award winners for 2012:

http://www.teenreads.com/features/awards/alex-awards-2012.

May Books

Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is his story from prison to freedom in South Korea.

The Sometimes Daughter by Sherri Wood Emmons
Judy is raised by a flower-child mother Cassie. As Judy grows up, she and Cassie must decide how to be a part of each others' lives.

Gook People in an Evil Time by Svetlana Broz
A personal recounting of the lives of the patients of war torn Bosnia told by the granddaughter of former Yugoslav head of state in the 1990s. 

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
A young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. 

Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary.

The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples
An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel to Pakistan where they must sacrifice their dreams. 

AISL Conference

I just returned from the annual AISL Conference in Colorado. This was my first time attending the independent school librarian association. There were 125 librarians from across the states and Canada who attended this three day conference where we visited schools in both Boulder and Denver. Keynote speakers included: Ingrid Law, T.A. Barron, and Debbie Ablilock. Some of the workshop presenters were: Holli Buchter, Hutch Tibbets, and Judith Snyder. Topics included ebooks in independent schools, low-tech library solutions, library design of the 21st century, partnering with your public library and digital storytelling.

Three new Titles

Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris

World War 2 historical novel covering the lives of young Maddie and her husband Lane who is the son of Japanese immigrants. After eloping the day before Pearl Harbor is bombed, the young couple face a scary future together.

Shine by Lauren Myracle

Looking for Alaska by John Green

March Books!

Dust Lands by Moira Young
Leaving the sandstorms of her home Saba embarks on a quest to find her twin brother, and learns she has fighting and survival skills. Great read for Hunger Games fans.

Trafficked by Kim Purcell
Hannah, a young girl from Russia, believes she is sent to live in Los Angeles to work as a nanny. However, the lifestyle she faces is 16 daily hours of slave labor.

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
The sequel to Hush, Hush, Nora continues to be haunted by her fathers death and struggles with her relationship with Patch.

Little Girl Gone by Drusilla Campbell
At Seventeen, Madora is rescued by an older man and they live together for five years before Willis kidnaps a pregnant teenager, forcing her to make a decision about right from wrong.

Religion 12

Immigration Debate Project

Objective
- generate keywords for searches
- distinguish among search results to find the most suitable source
- refine searches using engine tools
- cite sources
- use noodle tools to complete a bibliography

Online Research Tools:
Sweet Search (Exactly like Google, but approved by teachers and designed for student research)
Gale Power Search
username & password: holynames

• Set up an account so you can save your searches
• Do an advanced search
• Keep search assist on (green) if you would like gale to assist with search
• Limit the results to:
• 1) enter dates (suggest looking at articles published only in the last two years
• 2) documents with full text (or images if that is what you seek
• 3) consider changing from keyword to subject during search; try various options
• After you retrieve your results, consider limiting to magazines, news, etc.

Articles:
Catholic sister advocating for immigrant rights
           - US Catholic Bishops information on immigration
           - Quaker information on immigration
           - Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Congressional representative
Border Patrol
Prison guard
Immigrant from Mexico
Undocumented college student
Lots more references for immigration
Travel across the border
Deported
Armed Vigilante


NoodleTools:
Noodle tools is the program we use to help us create citations for our research. If you don’t have a noodle tools account, please follow the directions on how to create an account. If you have an account and forgot your password, talk to Ms. Waller.

Soil Erosion

Students in Earth Science work on a Soil Erosion project in the library. Some of the sites used to do research include:

The Soil Erosion Site:  www.soilerosion.net
United States Geological Survey:  www.usgs.gov
International Erosion Control Association: http://www.soilerosion.net
USDA National Soil Erosion Research Lab: http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=36-02-15-00
International Soil Conservation Organization: http://tucson.ars.ag.gov/isco/index.php
Association of Bay Area Governments: http://quake.abag.ca.gov/erosion/