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August 29, 2012

8/29/2012

Welcome back, Pennekamp Dragons! I am delighted to begin a new year here.

School begins today, and so do regular library hours. The library is open every school day: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8:15 to 3:00; Wednesday from 8:15 to 1:30.

The library is ready to check books in and out, to students and parents.

Class visits begin the week of September 10, 2012.

The schedule of class visits is pretty much finalized. You can view it here.

It was great meeting so many Pennekamp families at the Expo this morning. I am working on the library volunteer schedule. Thanks to everyone for being so supportive of the library!

The 5th-grade book club will begin next Thurdsay, September 6. The 4th-grade book club will begin Thursday, September 20. This year I will choose the book club selections, which will be announced at the club meetings. Thanks to Melissa Messner, children's librarian at the Manhattan Beach branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library, for working to obtain copies of the book club book for Pennekamp students. Please note, it is rare that the public library can supply enough copies for all participants, so please consider purchasing your own copy if you can afford to do so.

I wish you a wonderful school year!

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August 15, 2012

8/15/2012

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Do not miss the new lists from School Library Journal of the Top 100 Picture Books and the Top 100 Children's Novels, now available as beautiful full-color PDFs!

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Barbara Siegemund-Broka, library resource specialist, maintains this blog to inform Pennekamp students and families about library news and related content. Any opinions expressed here are solely her own.

What's Ms. Barbara reading?

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell

Worth repeating:

His eyes are soft. “Do you know why I became a librarian?”
I wait for him to tell me, because of course I don’t.
“Dewey,” he says. “As in the decimal system.”
I’m not sure if he’s joking or not, but he continues, “I like order. I like organization. The idea of all the information in the world, all organized, everything in its place—I like that idea.”
He clears his throat. “But I’ve been doing this job for a long time. And the thing I’ve learned is that stories aren’t about order and organization. They’re about feelings. And the feelings don’t always make sense. See, stories are like …” He pauses, brow furrowing, then nods, satisfied in finding the right comparison: “Water. Like rain. We can hold them tight, but they always slip through our fingers.”
I try to hide my shock. Joe doesn’t seem like the poetic type.
His caterpillar eyebrows knit together. “That can be scary. But remember that water gives us life. It connects continents. It connects people. And in quiet moments, when the water’s still, sometimes we can see our own reflection.”

--From When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Heller, winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal

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