Library

Mrs. Schif

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NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY

WOW! – St. Mary School readers are awesome! Eighty-five St. Mary's students completed the Summer Reading Program at the Derby Public Library. This number exceeds any Derby Public School, regardless of size. This report does not appear to include our Middle School readers, nor does it include those that completed the reading program at McConnell Air Force Base. Keep up the good work!

BOOK FAIR – Thank you all very much for your support of the Book Fair. Through donations and book fair profit, the teachers received over 75 books for their classrooms. In addition the library received more than 40 books. One hundred and twenty-three dollars in cash profit was used to purchase Accelerated Reader tests for some of the books. Thanks again to everyone that helped make this a success. The Book Fair will return to St. Mary in March.

MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOK CLUB – The Middle School Book Club is an entirely optional activity open to students in the sixth through eighth grades. We meet four to five times a year and discuss a book selected by the students. The students are given book choices during library time, they vote, a book is selected, several copies are provided, students pass the book around for four to six weeks, and then we meet over lunch to discuss the book. This year in addition to a signed permission slip, the student must take an Accelerated Reader test over the book.

 

 

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Preschool- Age 8
Ahoyty-Toyty by Helen Stephens
The Magic Bed by John Burningham
Gaspard and Lisa Friends Forever by Anne Gutman & Georg Hallensleben
Halibut Jackson by David Lucas
Leo Lionni's Little Mice Tales by Leo Lionni
No More Kissing by Emma Chichester Clark
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky
The Quigleys at Large by Simon Mason

Beginning Reader
The Daring Nellie Bly: America 's Star Reporter by Bonnie Christensen
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs by Donald Sobol
All about Sam by Lois Lowry
Honey Sandwich by Elizabeth Honey
Nate the Great on the Owl Express by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Mitchell Sharmat

Ages 9-12
All the Way Home by Patricia Reilly Giff
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Donuthead by Sue Stauffacher
Downriver by Will Hobbs
Fish by L. S. Matthews
Holes by Louis Sachar
Swear to Howdy by Wendelin Van Draanen
True Blue by Jeffrey Lee

Ages 12 & up
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt