Creative Writing Club

Come join us for our creative writing club! We meet every Wednesday 10th period in the library. Everyone is welcome to share thier work or just to listen to new material.

Our President

I just wanted to direct you to this article that talks about President Obama and the books that have shaped him. Also, he is taking questions and will answer the most requested. You can leave your question or vote on your favorite questions here.

A reminder that the Teen Book Festival is coming up on April 4th! Enjoy your day off tomorrow and come check out a book for your three day weekend.

Creating an Animoto book project

Here is an idea for your book project:



Use Animoto to create the book project. You can pull photos from Flickr Creative Commons and music from Royalty Free Music and Free Play Music. Save images and pictures that are associated with your book, add text and a works cited page saved as a jpeg (in Power Point). Voila! A great way to promote your free reading book. Please see me if you have any questions or problems.

Thanks to www.BIB20.blogspot.com for the inspiration.

"Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson out today

A new book by one of my favorite authors!

It looks like it is similar to Speak, in that it deals with a serious issue. Also, watch the author speak about writing this book that deals with anorexia.

If you haven't read her books, you are in for a treat. Come check it out.

Conratulations Seniors and other exciting things to come in the library!

Congratulations on a job well done with your presentations!

There will be some exciting new happenings in the library this coming month.
1) Look for our wiki that will link to all the classes in the library and resources that you can use (and add your own).

2) Look for our book club discussion in Moodle. This will allow us to discuss our books, all of the time.

3) Check out our playaways!

Dulce de Leche and the best of 2008

A few of you in the Spanish classes asked for the recipe for dulce de leche, so here it is. WARNING: you have to always keep the can of sweetened condensed milk covered with water. I like to cook mine in the slowcooker. I put the can (unopened) in boiling water for 4 hours and voila! You can eat it right out the can, put it on toast, etc. Look for a recipe for alfajores, because they are delicious. For some more Argentine recipes, read this blog.

On a literary note, Booklist has a list of best books for Youth in 2008.