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Library News
DCF Winner Announced
"Rules" by Cynithia Lord is the winner of the 2008 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.
2008-2009 DCF Nominations
The nominations for the 2008-2009 DCF Award have been announced!
Go to the DCF website to see the list.
Interested in helping people and improving your vocabulary?
Check out Free Rice.com. This website was featured on NPR and is used by students at Main Street Middle School.
Quickly quiz your vocablualry skills and for every word you get right, Free Rice will donate 20 grains of rice to help end World Hunger.
MSMS “Best Sellers”
DCF Winner Announced
"Rules" by Cynithia Lord is the winner of the 2008 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.
2008-2009 DCF Nominations
The nominations for the 2008-2009 DCF Award have been announced!
Go to the DCF website to see the list.
Interested in helping people and improving your vocabulary?
Check out Free Rice.com. This website was featured on NPR and is used by students at Main Street Middle School.
Quickly quiz your vocablualry skills and for every word you get right, Free Rice will donate 20 grains of rice to help end World Hunger.
MSMS “Best Sellers”
Have you ever wondered what other kids are reading at MSMS?
Since the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year these are
the books most frequently checked-out:
“The Adventures of Tintin” series by Herge
“Bone” series by Jeff Smith
"Groo and Rufferto" by Sergio Aragones
"Naruto" series by Masashi Kishimoto
"Keturah and Lord Death" by Martine Leavitte (DCF 07-08)
"The Case of the Missing Marquess" by Nancy Springer (DCF 07-08)
"The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan“The Golden Compass” by Phillip Pullman
"I'd Tell You I Love you, But Then I'd Have to Kill You" by Ally Carter
“Rules” by Cynthia Lord (DCF 07-08)
New Books are arriving in the Library...
New Non Fiction:
"Before Columbus: Early Voyages to the Americas" by Don Wulffson (970.01 WUL)
"Woe is I Jr." by Patricia T. O'Connor
"Isaac Newton: The Scientist Who Changed Everything" by Philip Steele (B Newton)
"Senegal" by Janet H. Gritzner
"Democratic Republic of the Congo" by Joseph R. Oppong and Tania Woodruff
"Chopin's World" by Ann Malaspina
"Beethoven's World" by Jennifer Viegas
"Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow" by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (741.5 STU)
A new graphic novel that tells the story of Satchel Paige, a baseball player in the 1920's.
New Fiction:
"The Pigrims of Rayne" by D.J. McHAle
The eighth book in the Pendragon series
"Game" by Walter Dean Myers
Drew Lawson, counting on basketball to get him into college and out of Harlem, struggles to keep his cool when the coach brings in two white players and puts them in positions that clearly threaten Drew's game.
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules" by Jeff Kinney
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
"Summer Ball" by Mike Lupica
From the author of "Travel Team" and Heat" comes another great basketball novel. Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
"Remembering Raquel" by Vivian Vande Velde
After Raquel is killed in a car accident, her fellow classmates, friends, and family members, as well as the woman responsible for her death, reflect on Raquel's life and how her passing has changed their own lives.
"The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty" by Ellen Emerson White
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
"The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Seventh-grader Percy Jackson has recently discovered that he is the son of Poseidon, making him half human and half god, and along with his a demigod and a satyr friend, must save his beloved Camp Half-Blood from evil forces determined to destroy it.
"Iqbal: A Novel" by Francesco D'Adamo
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
"The Duplicate" by William Sleator
Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.
"Avielle of Rhia" by Dia Calhoun
Taught to hate and fear the heritage that sets her apart from most people of the kingdom, fifteen-year-old Princess Avielle of Rhia must finally embrace the magic of her Dredonian ancestors to save the very people who scorn her.
"The Lacemaker and the Princess" by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles in 1788, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
"No Talking" by Andrew Clements
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.