December 2, 2013

12/1/2013

The library will be closed several days this week to allow me to deal with a family matter. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Please visit the book fair this week, and don't miss family night, which is Thursday, December 5, from 5:30 to 7:30.

Due to the minimum-day schedule, classes do not visit the library this week. Classes do, however, visit book fair.

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Ban This Book, by Alan Gratz

Worth repeating:

Jinny had read about ballerinas, girls who could spin on their toes. She’d read about pyramids, triangles of stone, with dead people buried inside them. That pyramid book had made everything sound true, but it was hard to imagine pyramids being real. Why would anyone go to the trouble of building with stone, only to place a dead body inside it? That seemed crazy.

Jinny had also read about wars, unicorns, and something called chocolate, but she couldn’t even begin to picture any of those things. Was there really a world out there of stone triangles filled with dead bodies and girls spinning on their toes? In books, there were giant metal boxes with wings that soared through the sky, carrying people. Surely that couldn’t be true. Just thinking about it brought the tightness back to Jinny’s belly. And a funny tingle to her scalp. She shivered it away.

--from Orphan Island, by Laurel Snyder

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