Banned Books Week

BANNED BOOKS WEEK: September 27 - October 4, 2008

Check out BannedBooksWeek.org to find out why our library has displays of banned and challenged books (behind the black curtain, on the table in the Gator Lounge, and on the end display under the Fiction sign). Celebrate YOUR freedom to read by checking out a banned or challenged book! Be sure to help yourself to a Banned Books Week bookmark, too! Check out the PowerPoint on the P Drive: Banned books 08 ppt. Put together by the fabulous librarian at EMS, it has a link to a censorship quiz you can take!

(image from bannedbooksweek.org)

What's new today in library land!

Hey Gators!
Announcing a new way to "read" a book:

Playaways! Playaways are books loaded onto an MP3 player. Each playaway is a bit smaller than a deck of cards, comes with batteries, earbuds, and a lanyard. We have 13 titles, 6 external speakers sets and extra earbuds. Due to the small size of the playaway and the large replacement cost, these will be checked out to teachers only. Students may use them in their teacher's classroom, but we are not allowing the playaways to leave the building with students.

Here are the titles we currently have:

Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman (with multiple narrators!)
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Ask the librarians about how you can check one of these out! Cool!

(Image from Follett Library Services)

Tips for selecting a great book!

Do you ever come to the library to get a good book, but don't know how to find one? Check out this link from Wiki-How to get some tips and ideas to help you: Help me find a book!

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