Nathaniel P. Hill Library St. George's School

Sylvester Monroe Class of 1969

2008-05-16T08:44:00.000-07:00

In the May 2008 issue of Ebony magazine, Class of 1969 St. George's alum, Sylvester Monroe has written an article entitled, "Afraid to Hope," which details why African Americans are heistant to get too emotionally invested in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Stop by the library to read the article or use ProQuest Direct to see the article full text.

Alumni Authors Exhibt at the Library

2008-05-15T07:47:00.000-07:00

It's Alumni Weekend at St. George's School and the library has created a little exhibit from our Alumni Authors Collection. Stop by the library and check it out!

New Library Databaes Available

2008-05-14T05:42:00.000-07:00

The Databases section of the library web site has recently been updated. We have added several New databases that can be accessed at: http://dragon/library/Menu_Pages/Databases.htm

Business Source Premier

Biography Resource Center

Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia

Health Source Consumer Edition

Health Source Nursing Academic Edition

MasterFile Premier - General Reference Database

Naxos Music Library

Regional Business News

Topic Search - Current Events Database

World Book Online Reference Center

New Non-Fiction of the Week

2008-05-10T05:51:00.000-07:00

Faithful to Fenway. Michael Ian Borer. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Boston's Fenway Park has become as valued as any star player in those cities and as much an attraction as the teams themselves. Borer, a sociologist and lifelong New Englander, explores the history of Fenway and its place in Bostons culture through research and interviews with players, stadium personnel, fans, and team owners... He explains Fenway's place in the culture as an example of identity continuity. Fenway is an emotional anchor for fans in the sense that it encompasses a part of an individuals past and present. Source: Booklist

New Fiction of the Week

2008-05-06T17:52:00.000-07:00

Lemonade Mouth
by Mark Peter Hughes. New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

From the book jacket:

The members of the legendary band Lemonade Mouth have been called all of these things. But until now, nobody's known the inside story of how this powerhouse band came to be. How five outcasts in Opoquonsett High School's freshman class found each other, found the music, and went on to change both rock and roll and high school as we know it. Wen, Stella, Charlie, Olivia, and Mo take us back to that fateful detention where a dentist's jingle, a teacher's coughing fit, and a beat-up ukelele gave birth to Rhode Island's most influential band. Told in each of their five voices and compiled by Opoquonsett's "scene queen," freshman Naomi Fishmeier, this anthology is their definitive history.

Faetured Website: Children's Hospital Boston Research

2008-05-05T11:07:00.000-07:00

Complex medical and biological concepts are featured on the Research section of the Boston Children's Hospital Boston website. Visitors to the website can watch interviews of researchers discuss topics such as dyslexia, stem cell research, and angiogenesis. In addition, the website includes interactive videos that allows users to create neurons and heart cells from embryonic stem cells and learn how cancer grows. All of these features can be found at: http://www.childrenshospital.org/research/

Featured Website: Japan Society

2008-05-03T07:41:00.000-07:00

Japan Society

http://www.japasociety.com/

The Japan Society is an internationally recognized nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that provides access to information on Japan, offers opportunities to experience Japanese culture, and fosters sustained and open dialogue on issues important to the U.S., Japan, and East Asia.

The website features a Topics section that includes information on Theater, Social Issues, Business, Dance, Art, Cinmea and Popular Culture. In addition the website contains information about Programs for Teachers and Students and has image galleries that may be useful for classroom use. The most relevant feature for classroom teaching and learning is the section titled, About Japan: A Teacher's Resource (http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/). The site provides "...educators and specialists in Japan Studies a space for sharing, discussing and developing teaching ideas and resources about Japan." Resouces include essays, lesson plans, and historical documents organized around a theme.

The link to the Japan Society is also available from the Library homepage in the History section under the Asia tab.

New Fiction and Non-Fiction in the Library

2008-04-29T18:48:00.001-07:00

The library has received New books that are on display near the entrance of the library - comy by and have a look at them!

New Fiction

New Non-Fiction

Database Updates

2008-04-23T17:50:00.000-07:00

The JSTOR database interface has recently been updated. You can now create a "My JSTOR Account" and save citations, email citations, and export citations to bibliographic software. Once you create a "My JSTOR Account," you can keep your username and password and use it beyond St. George's. If you have any questions email a librarian for help.

Use the "Snapshot Tool " feature in ProQuest Historical Newspapers to print a section of a lengthy newspaper article. You can use the tool to highlight a section of the article, select it and then print it.

Global Issues Week - Events In the Library

2008-04-17T06:10:00.000-07:00

This week is Global Issues Week at St. George's and the library is hosting a series of events. On Tuesday evening, April 15th following the IncaSon performance, the library will host a Kids Read Event. St. George's students who are native speakers of Chinese, Spanish, French, and Latin will read a children's story to the kids and then a St. George's student who is learning the language will translate for the audience. We will be having pizza and drinks so stop by and listen. The event should last a half hour or so.

"Seen from Abroad: How America can win friends and influence people in the 21st Century." On Thursday, April 17 at 6:30PM, the Library will host a panel discussion. Five international officers from the Naval War College representing the countries of Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Senegal and Spain will share reflections on America and offer their thoughts about how America can keep or regain a position of influence during the coming century. Questions from the audience will be welcomed and refreshments will be served.

See you at the library!!

April is National Poetry Month

2008-04-04T11:40:00.000-07:00

Stop by the library and find yourself some POETRY to read. We have lots of choices!

Library of Congress and Flickr

2008-04-03T20:31:00.001-07:00

The Library of Congress has posted over 3000 photos up on Flickr in an effort to "..afford better access ot the vast trove of historical photographs and invite user feedback." Photos include images from the Depression era and World War II. None of the photographs have any known copyright restrictions. The staff at the Library of Congress are hoping people will add caption information to photos and add information to the documentary record.

Go to: http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Pictures of Books Included in Card Catalog

2008-04-01T18:41:00.000-07:00

New Feature! The Ocean State Libraries catalog now has pictures of the materials indexed. When you do a search the result list will show an image of the materials. Go to: http://catalog.oslri.net/

New Non-Fiction of the Week

2008-03-31T18:46:00.001-07:00

New Non-Fiction of the Week:

Ezra Pound: The Young Genius, 1885-1920 by A. David Moody. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

In this first volume of a definitive new biography of the poet, Moody charts the huge strides Pound took during his first 35 years toward the realization of his ambitious goal. Readers follow the astonishingly confident-even brash-young Idaho native as he wins his place in a London rich in tradition yet pregnant with revolutionary new literary movements.And no writer has ever ransacked the past-from Dante to Li Po-with fiercer energy in his quest to forge a modern prosody that will make everything astonishingly new. Pound's restless imagination also draws inspiration from contemporaries such as Yeats and Ford and resonates with the ideas propounded by Imagists and Vorticists. Determined to cut his own way, Pound champions the early work of Eliot, Frost, and Joyce, but he never relents in his own pursuit of poetic fame. Moody indeed concludes this volume with Pound's publication of Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, a luminous poem assuring an astonishing world that a gifted artist has found his way onto the world stage.With The Pisan Cantos still ahead, readers will wait impatiently for Moody's second volume. Source: Booklist (December 2007)

NBC News and the Presidential Campaign

2008-03-28T08:27:00.000-07:00

Source: Classroom News, March 2008
NBC News is making its top political reporters and experts
available to answer questions about the 2008 presidential
election from the nation’s students and teachers. “Ask
NBC News” is an exclusive feature of NBC News Archives
on Demand, a compilation of thousands of primarysource
video resources created specifically for classroom
instruction. The Archives on Demand are available on
HotChalk, a free web-based learning management system
for K-12 teachers and their students. Students and
teachers can submit questions about the presidential campaign
via eMail to asknbcnews@nbcuni.com.

In addition to Ask NBC News, the NBC
News Archives on Demand features a “Decision ’08” curricular
resource offering up-to-the-minute presidential
election news. Features include full profiles on the candidates,
information about their positions on major issues,
video clips of speeches and debates, campaign trail news,
historical footage from past presidential campaigns, and
political analysis from the award-winning NBC News
team. The video-on-demand user interface allows teachers
to customize their lesson plans with relevant content
to bring the election process and political issues to life in
their classrooms, NBC News said.

Go to: http://www.hotchalk.com

One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure

2008-03-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

Swing by the library to check out our newly stocked Discards Shelf (over by the computers at the Circulation Desk). We have a range of book titles from Theft and Mortgage: What "They" Don't Want You to Know to dated Cambridge Encyclopedias of China, India and Russia. There are also back issues of magazines such as W, CosmoGirl, Marie Claire (in French), and The New Republic.

All items on the discard shelf are up for grabs. We will leave them on the shelf for 2 weeks before sending them on to be recycled. Come by to see what we have!

Upcoming Spring Exhibits

2008-03-26T20:17:00.001-07:00

Spring semester has begun! We have many exciting exhibits coming up in the library. The GSA is sponsoring an exhibit in the early part of April and in the later part of the month, the library will have a number of items on display to celebrate St. George's Day on April 23rd.

New Fiction of the Week

2008-03-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

Like Trees, Walking A Novel
By: Ravi Howard

The town of Mobile, Alabama, in the summer of 1981, when headlines were dominated by the Atlanta child killings, awakens to find a black youth hanging from a neighborhood tree. Sixteen-year-old Roy Deacon, son of the local black funeral director, offers the first-person narrative of his brother Paul's discovery of the body of a friend and classmate, and the town's struggle to reconcile the lynching with any notions that its black residents have of racial progress. Paul has managed to escape the expectations that he will go into the family business, seven generations long. The burden falls all the heavier on Roy, whose distaste doesn't outweigh his strong sense of duty. Looking back 22 years after the event, Roy wrestles with the memory of the lynching at a turning point in the life of the town and his family. Based on the true story of one of the last recorded lynchings in the U.S., Howard's debut novel offers a subtle and stirring look at the complexities of racial hatred and family obligations. Sounce: Booklist

Interlibrary Loan Requests for Spring Research Projects

2008-03-05T12:56:00.001-08:00

If you need books for your research project from the Ocean State Library System, please don't order them before you leave for break. If you order them NOW, then the books will have to be returned when we get back. Please email me the book you would like to request and we will place a HOLD on the book for you the last week of break so when you return, the books will be here for you to use. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me Jen_Tuleja@stgeorges.edu

Read Read Read

2008-03-04T07:14:00.001-08:00

Read Books Over Break!!!

Come by the library and check out books to read over break!!!

New Non-Ficiton of the Week

2008-03-01T08:19:00.000-08:00

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg

From Publisher's Weekly:
According to Ashenburg (The Mourner's Dance), the Western notion of cleanliness is a complex cultural creation that is constantly evolving, from Homer's well-washed Odysseus, who bathes before and after each of his colorful journeys, to Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, who screams in terror during her first hot bath. The ancient Romans considered cleanliness a social virtue, and Jews practiced ritual purity laws involving immersion in water. Abandoning Jewish practice, early Christians viewed bathing as a form of hedonism; they embraced saints like Godric, who, to mortify the flesh, walked from England to Jerusalem without washing or changing his clothes. Yet the Crusaders imported communal Turkish baths to medieval Europe. From the 14th to 18th centuries, kings and peasants shunned water because they thought it spread bubonic plague, and Louis XIV cleaned up by donning a fresh linen shirt. Americans, writes Ashenburg, were as filthy as their European cousins before the Civil War, but the Union's success in controlling disease through hygiene convinced its citizens that cleanliness was progressive and patriotic. Brimming with lively anecdotes, this well-researched, smartly paced and endearing history of Western cleanliness holds a welcome mirror up to our intimate selves, revealing deep-seated desires and fears spanning 2000-plus years.

New Fiction of the Week

2008-02-27T20:06:00.001-08:00

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Excerpted from the Book Jacket:

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation. In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

New DVDs in the Library

2008-02-26T17:11:00.000-08:00

New Entertainment DVDs Are Available in the Library!

We would like to hear from you about what movies you would like to see added to our DVD Colletion. Please email us at: library@stgoerges.edu

Our newest titles include:

Roman Holiday

Ground Hog Day

Shrek

Rush Hour

Indiana Jones Trilogy

The Incredibles

A Fish Called Wanda

Reference E-Books at Nathaniel P. Hill Library

2008-02-25T19:19:00.000-08:00

Did you know the library has reference books full text and searchable online? E-book reference materials are on the rise in libraries and are slowly replacing the traditional print reference sources. E-Books are available 24/7, have keyword search capability, browsing options, and contain links at multiple levels within the source. Vendors like Gale Publishing offer several E-Book titles that can be search simultaneously or indepedently.

At the Nathaniel P. Hill Library, we have several E-Book reference titles from Gale Virtual Reference Library. All of the titles below are available at http://dragon/library/

Alternative Energy

Chemistry: Foundations and Applications

Dictionary of American History

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

Encyclopedia of Religion

Macmillian Encyclopeida of Energy

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations

New Non-Fiction of the Week

2008-02-22T08:47:00.000-08:00

I To Myself

Edited by: Jeffrey S. Cramer, Yale University Press, 2007.

From the book jacket:

Making selections from the entirety of the journal Henry David Thoreau, Cramer presents all aspects of Thoreau: writer, thinker, naturalist, social reformer, neighbor, friend. No other single-volume edition offers such a full picture of Thoreau’s life and work. Cramer’s annotations add to the reader’s enjoyment and understanding. He provides notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of Thoreau’s life. The relation between Journal passages and the texts of works published in the author’s lifetime receive special emphasis. Cramer is also the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, published by Yale University Press.

Jennifer Lawless Speaking at SG Friday 2/22

2008-02-21T11:27:00.000-08:00

Jennifer Lawless, author of It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office, will be addressing the SG community Friday, February 22, 2008. Lawless is a professor of political science and public policy at Brown University.

Her book It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office "constitutes a systematic, nationwide empirical account of the effects of gender on political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey of 3,800 "potential candidates" conducted by the authors, it relates these findings: --Women, even at the highest levels of professional accomplishment, are significantly less likely than men to demonstrate ambition to run for elective office. --Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office. --Women are less likely than men to consider themselves "qualified" to run for office. --Women are less likely than men to express a willingness to run for a future office. According to the authors, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations, despite contemporary society's changing attitudes towards female candidates. While other treatments of gender in the electoral process focus on candidates and office holders, It Takes a Candidate makes a unique contribution to political studies by focusing on the earlier stages of the candidate emergence process and on how gender affects the decision to seek elective office." (synopsis from Amazon.com).

Come to the library and check out our copy of It Takes A Candidate today!

How To Hand-Outs

2008-02-20T09:16:00.000-08:00

It's Research Paper Time!!!!

If you are attempting to select a research topic, struggling to narrow your topic or create a thesis statement and are in need of help formating citations, then you should check out our NEW How To Hand-Outs.

How To Hand-Outs:

Selecting a Research Topic and Developing a Thesis Statement/Question

Evaluating Web Sites

Citations: Bibliography and Footnotes (Chicago)

RISD Grad Wins Caldecott Medal

2008-02-19T08:26:00.000-08:00

From the Providence Journal- Sunday, February 17, 2008

Brian Selznic wins Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Synopsis: ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message all come together...in The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

This 526-page book is told in both words and pictures. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is not exactly a novel, and it’s not quite a picture book, and it’s not really a graphic novel, or a flip book, or a movie, but a combination of all these things. Each picture (there are nearly three hundred pages of pictures!) takes up an entire double page spread, and the story moves forward because you turn the pages to see the next moment unfold in front of you. From theinventionofhugocabret.com

Come by the library and check it out!

New Fiction Book of the Week

2008-02-13T12:40:00.000-08:00

The New Fiction Book of the Week is:

The Clique #9: Bratfest At Tiffany's
by Lisi Harrison

From the Publisher:
The Clique tells the story of an elite group of thirteen-year-old girls from the wealthy suburbs north of New York City, the likes of whom the world has never before seen. Through the coolly observant eyes of their leader, Massie Block, we enter a sophisticated suburban world of ferocious put- downs, fabulous gossip, and fantastic Frederic Fekkai haircuts. The Clique. . . . The only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

New Research Tools Available

2008-02-12T05:57:00.000-08:00

The NEW Evaluating Web Sites Resource Guide is now available in the library and is also posted on the library web site http://dragon/library/ (located under the General Reference button). The guide provides information about deciphering web addresses and lists criteria for examining authorship, content and quality of a site. HAPPY SEARCHING!

Chicago Style Bibliography and Footnote Ciation Sheets have been updated! For the latest version of the citation sheet, you can pick up a copy in the library or you can find it posted on the library web site http://dragon/library/ under the General Reference button.

New Non-Fiction Book of the Week

2008-01-31T14:07:00.000-08:00

The best new non-fiction book of the week is...

Hotel: An American History

by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz

From Publishers Weekly

In this lucid and creative work, Sandoval-Strausz, an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, situates the rise of hotels within the history of the triumph of capitalism and of an increasingly mobile society. Hotels, he says, facilitated mobility and the integration of frontier lands into larger networks of capital and commerce. Hotels were also part of the gradual process that dissociated people from particular places. If hotels solved some social problems, Sandoval-Strausz shows, they created others: guardians of domesticity, for example, worried about urban dwellers who chose to live full-time in hotels. In exploring the social and political meaning of hotels, the author pursues countless avenues, from menus to morals (Hotels were magnets for prostitution and other forms of illicit sex). There's a bit of labor history thrown in, too, since, in order to make good on the promise to be patrons' home away from home, hotels employed a huge number of workers, from cooks and launderers to janitors, Sandoval-Strausz also traces hotels' exclusion of Jews and blacks—the book ends with the 1964 Supreme Court case that desegregated public accommodations. From start to finish, this is a fascinating study.

New Fiction of the Week

2008-01-29T10:45:00.000-08:00

And the award goes to...

The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett

From Publishers Weekly:

Briskly original and subversively funny, this novella from popular British writer Bennett (Untold Stories; Tony-winning play The History Boys) sends Queen Elizabeth II into a mobile library van in pursuit of her runaway corgis and into the reflective, observant life of an avid reader. Guided by Norman, a former kitchen boy and enthusiast of gay authors, the queen gradually loses interest in her endless succession of official duties and learns the pleasure of such a common activity. With the dawn of her sensibility... mistaken for the onset of senility, plots are hatched by the prime minister and the queen's staff to dispatch Norman and discourage the queen's preoccupation with books. Ultimately, it is her own growing self-awareness that leads her away from reading and toward writing, with astonishing results. Bennett has fun with the proper behavior and protocol at the palace, and the few instances of mild coarseness seem almost scandalous. There are lessons packed in here, but Bennett doesn't wallop readers with them. It's a fun little book.

There are plenty more new fiction and new non-fiction ready to be checked out in the library too. Come on over and pick up a new read!

Exam Week Wrap-Up

2008-01-24T14:01:00.000-08:00

Well, it's the the first day back after exam week and the library (and the students) have survived. The library was the hot spot last week for studying, snacking, and the occasional down time for the students inbetween studying for exams.

Overall, the library was a productive, quiet space for students last week with the students self-monitoring the space and creating an academic atmosphere. Please be on the lookout for a student survey on Blackboard regarding how the library was used during this past week so you can give us your feedback.

We in the library would like to thank everyone for their help exam week in keeping the space cleanproductive and intellectual. It's great to see students working hard and cleaning up after themselves in order to keep the library functioning. Now that exams ended, please keep up the excellent work ethic and behavior of which you are definitely capable.

It was a busy week, hope you enjoyed your time off this past weekend!

Library Use During Exams

2008-01-15T11:26:00.000-08:00

As mid year exams approach, the Library will definitely be a busy place so we are going to tighten up the ship for exam week (January 20-25th).

The library will be a silent study space with individual study only during study hall.
During the day, there may be some students taking exams here so be respectful of them.
The library will be open its normal hours (7:30am-10:00pm) from Monday, January 21 - Thursday, January 24th and will be open during the day on Friday, January 25th.

Good Luck and Happy Studying!

EbscoHost Journal Alerts

2008-01-14T19:01:00.000-08:00

Did you know you can set up an email alert in EbscoHost when a new issue of your favorite journal title becomes available on EbscoHost Academic Search Premier? You can also receive email alerts when new articles are added that meet the search criteria for a particular topic search. Stop by the library and one of the librarians can show you how to set up the email alert.

Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University

2008-01-11T12:43:00.000-08:00

Digital library collections enable institutions like universities, museums and historical socieities to provide access to numerous documents and works for of literature in an electronic format with the ability to search the content.

The Perseus Project at Tufts is a digital library collection for the study of the humanities. In the 1980s, the project began as a place to gather text and visual materials on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Now the Perseus project is developing partnerships with other institutions to expand the holding of the digital collection."...The classical foundation has paved the way for literary and historical collections ranging from the English Renaissance to the American Civil War, and Greek tools became a foundation for the development of resources in Latin, Italian, and Arabic..."Resources include: Greek and Latin Texts, Shakespeare folios, Early Modern English Literature, Text of the History of London including Atlases and works of Charles Dickens.

Taken from: Crane, Gregory R. (ed.) The Perseus Project, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/, September, 2008.

New Non-Fiction of the Week

2008-01-10T11:42:00.000-08:00

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

Synopsis from Barnes & Noble.com:

A true story—as powerful as Schindler's List—in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.

With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.

From The New York Times:

D. T. Max
Nature is patient, people and animals fundamentally decent, and the writer, as she always does, outlives the killer—that is the message of The Zookeeper's Wife. This is an absorbing book, diminished sometimes by the choppy way Ackerman balances Antonina's account with the larger story of the Warsaw Holocaust. For me, the more interesting story is Antonina's. She was not, as her husband once called her, "a housewife," but the alpha female in a unique menagerie. I would gladly read another book, perhaps a novel, based again on Antonina's writings. She was special, and as the remaining members of her generation die off, a voice like hers should not be allowed to fade into the silence.

New Fiction of the Week

2008-01-09T13:35:00.000-08:00

One Mississippi by Mark Childress

Synopsis:

You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events.

From Publisher's Weekly:

When his father is relocated from Indiana to Minor, Miss., in 1973, 16-year-old Daniel Musgrove finds himself a classic fish out of water. At Minor High, the Midwestern teenager finds a kindred spirit in wiseacre Tim Cousins, whose motto is "Everything is funny all the time." The two indulge their love of Sonny and Cher, get recruited by a local Baptist church to perform in an amateur musical called Christ! and endure the bullying of football star Red Martin. When, on prom night, the boys accidentally run over Arnita Beecham, a beautiful, popular black girl, the boys flee, letting Red take the fall. Arnita wakes from her coma believing she's white and promptly falls for Daniel-which makes Tim extremely jealous and puts their coverup at risk. Childress's comic tone and well-written adolescent confusion make his late shift into darker territory jarring, and readers might not follow him all the way to his violent destination.

MIT OpenCourseWare Web Site for High Schools

2008-01-09T06:27:00.000-08:00

MIT has published a web site that provides educational materials with an open license for use. In an article published in E-School News, the web site is described as "containing more than 2600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes, and assignments taken from actual MIT courses. It organizs these sources to match the Advanced Placement physics, biology and calculus curricula."

MIT hopes the inclusion of free resouces available on the web site aim to "improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction at the high school level."

Take a look at the site: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/

2008 Presidential Campaign

2008-01-08T20:50:00.000-08:00

Calling All Debaters!!!

Check out the 2008 Presidential Campaign Research Guide on the Library Web Site. It is loated under the Current Events section of the web site. Copy the link below!

http://dragon/library/current events.html/

It contains a links to the official websites of the candidates as well as links to newspaper, television and radio coverage of the campaign. The guide also contains suggestions for books in the library that cover the issues of the campaign. Happy Searching!

Accessing Government Information

2008-01-07T09:19:00.000-08:00

With Spring fast approaching, the season of research papers will soon be upon us and the thought of accessing information will be at the forefront of most students' minds. panther.indstate.edu/tutorials/govdocs/index.jpg

Government information, usually a worthy source for most research papers, is often the most difficult to access and decipher. However, there are two new alternative sites to the U.S. Government Printing Office (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/). Government Attic (http://governmentattic.org/) and Government Docs (http://governmentdocs.org/).

Government Attic makes materials that are unavailable available to the public. There is no real theme to the content of the site; it is supposed to similar to rummaging around in your grandparents' attic.

Government Docs is a more organized, user-friendly site. Government Docs is a joint project between Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Project Oversight, Public Citizen, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Sunlight Foundation. The documents are fully searchable and users are allowed to comment and tag the documents. All documents are downloadable in PDF format.

Hopefully, these sites will help you in your research quest this Spring. Stop in the Library any time and we will be happy to help you find any information you need. Happy Reasearching!

New Fiction Book of the Week

2007-12-12T13:47:00.000-08:00

and the winner is...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Click here for an sound clip from the audiobook

"Screenwriter, novelist and poet, Alexie bounds into YA with what might be a Native American equivalent of Angela's Ashes, a coming-of-age story so well observed that its very rootedness in one specific culture is also what lends it universality, and so emotionally honest that the humor almost always proves painful. Presented as the diary of hydrocephalic 14-year-old cartoonist and Spokane Indian Arnold Spirit Jr., the novel revolves around Junior's desperate hope of escaping the reservation. As he says of his drawings, 'I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.' He transfers to a public school 22 miles away in a rich farm town where the only other Indian is the team mascot. Although his parents support his decision, everyone else on the rez sees him as a traitor, an apple ('red on the outside and white on the inside'), while at school most teachers and students project stereotypes onto him: 'I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other.' Readers begin to understand Junior's determination as, over the course of the school year, alcoholism and self-destructive behaviors lead to the deaths of close relatives. Unlike protagonists in many YA novels who reclaim or retain ethnic ties in order to find their true selves, Junior must separate from his tribe in order to preserve his identity. Jazzy syntax and Forney's witty cartoons examining Indian versus White attire and behavior transmute despair into dark humor; Alexie's no-holds-barred jokes have the effect of throwing the seriousness of his themes into high relief." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Study Hall Sign In Sheet

2007-12-11T12:42:00.000-08:00

Ms. Tuleja and Ms. Kelly would like to commend the students who came to the library last night for study hall. The study hall sign in sheet was almost filled in almost perfectly with all directions on the sheet being followed by most thanks to a Ms. Alison Ann Fornell starting the group off right with her AMAZING sign in.

Let's see if we can get a perfect sign in sheet tonight!

In all seriousness though, the students have been great this semester in the library during study hall. The library has been an overall productive place to work and is left in great shape at the end of the evening. We would like to thank both our student and faculty proctors for their help. Please keep up the great work!

Photos from December Kids Read

2007-12-10T10:39:00.000-08:00

A fun time was had by all at the December Kid's Read Event in the library. Stockton Bullitt read from the new Lemony Snickett book, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming. The Snapdragons, the girls acappella group made an appearance and sang Welcome Christmas (Fah who for-aze!) to the kids and then we all watched the cartoon version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Enjoy the Photos!

Tina Brown's Favorite Books

2007-12-06T11:14:00.000-08:00

At our all school assembly today sponsored by the fabulous Women in Leadership Club, speaker Tina Brown, highlighted some of her favorite books. They are all available at the Nathaniel P. Hil Library. Come by and check them out!

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in "Middlemarch" a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story's center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke--a character who in many ways resembles Eliot herself. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate. In a parallel story, young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who is equallyidealistic, falls in love with the pretty but vain and superficial Rosamund Vincy, whom he marries to his ruin. Eliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s. But Dorothea's and Lydgate's struggles to retain their moral integrity in the midst of temptation and tragedy remind us that their world is very much like our own. Strikingly modern in its painful ironies and psychological insight, "Middlemarch" was pivotal in the shaping of twentieth-century literary realism. DESCRIPTION EXCERPTED FROM: http://http://www.amazon.com/

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. DESCRIPTION EXCERPTED FROM: http://www.amazon.com/

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. DECRIPTION TAKEN FROM: http://www.amazon.com/

"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." —The New Yorker

Emma by Jane Austen
Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing.Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. DESCRIPTION TAKE FROM: http://www.amazon.com/

Censorship At It's Best

2007-12-05T14:28:00.000-08:00

View The Golden Compass Movie Trailer here

As posted on the ALA website: Decemnber 4, 2007
ALA President Loriene Roy responds to attempts to remove "The Golden Compass" from library shelves

CHICAGO - The following is a statement issued by American Library Association President Loriene Roy regarding efforts to remove "The Golden Compass" from libraries and schools.

"This week, the movie, ‘The Golden Compass,’ based on the first book in Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy entitled ‘His Dark Materials,’ will debut in theatres across the United States. The movie has triggered a boycott campaign sponsored by conservative religious organizations that believe the movie and the books are an attack on Christianity and the Catholic Church. The groups are urging parents not to see the movie or purchase the books.

"The call to boycott the filmed version of ‘The Golden Compass’ has inspired a parallel effort to remove the novel and its companion volumes from libraries and schools. Much like efforts to ban the Harry Potter books, fear and misinformation are driving the effort to deprive students and library users access to Pullman's critically praised books, which are recommended by both religious and secular critics.

"It is one thing to disagree with the content of a book or the viewpoint of an author; it is quite another thing to block access to that material because of that disagreement. Removing a book from a school or library because the author is an atheist, or because a religious group disagrees with the book's viewpoint, is censorship that runs counter to our most cherished freedoms and our history as a nation that celebrates and protects religious diversity.

"We encourage librarians, teachers and parents to resist the call to censorship. Censorship results in the opposite of true education and learning. Young people will only develop the skills they need to analyze information and make choices among a wide variety of competing sources if they are permitted to read books and explore ideas under the guidance of caring adults.

"We realize, of course, that not every book is for everyone. Parents know their children best and should guide their children’s reading. If parents think a particular book is not suitable for their child, they should guide their child to other books. But they should not impose their beliefs on other people’s children.

"By resisting the call to censor and boycott ‘The Golden Compass,’ we send the message to young people that in this country they have the right to choose what they will read and that they will be expected to develop the ability to think critically about what they read, rather than allowing others to do their thinking for them." -from www.ala.org

Lemony Snicket and The Grinch

2007-12-04T11:34:00.001-08:00

The Kid's Read event is scheduled for this Thursday from 6:30-7:30PM in the library. Stockton Bullitt will be reading Lemony Snicket's new book, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming. We will also show the cartoon verison of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas and have milk and cookies. Join us for the festivities. Click here for a description of the Snicket book.

World Digital Library

2007-12-03T11:41:00.000-08:00

From the Library of Congress Website:

October 17, 2007

Library of Congress and UNESCO Sign World Digital Library Agreement

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and UNESCO Assistant Director for Communication and Information Abdul Waheed Khan today signed an agreement at UNESCO headquarters in Paris pledging cooperative efforts to build a World Digital Library Web site.

The World Digital Library will digitize unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them available for free on the Internet. These materials will include manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs. The objectives of the World Digital Library include promoting international and intercultural understanding, increasing the quantity and diversity of cultural materials on the Internet, and contributing to education and scholarship.

Under the terms of the agreement, the Library of Congress and UNESCO will cooperate in convening working groups of experts and other stakeholders to develop guidelines and technical specifications for the project, enlist new partners and secure the necessary support for the project from private and public sources. A key aspect of the project is to build digital library capabilities in the developing world, so that all countries and regions of the world can participate and be represented in the World Digital Library.

To test the feasibility of the project, the Library of Congress, UNESCO and five other partner institutions -- the Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria, Egypt; the National Library of Brazil; the National Library of Egypt; the National Library of Russia; and the Russian State Library -- have developed a prototype of the World Digital Library. The prototype is being demonstrated to national delegations at the UNESCO General Conference currently underway. The World Digital Library will become available to the public as a full-fledged Web site in late 2008 or early 2009.

The prototype functions in the six U.N. languages -- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish, plus Portuguese -- and features search and browse functionality by place, time, topic and contributing institution. Input into the design of the prototype was solicited through a consultative process that involved UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, and individuals and institutions in more than 40 countries.

"UNESCO has been an exceptional partner of the Library of Congress during the development of this important global resource," said Billington. "We look forward to strengthening our collaboration with UNESCO as we work with current and future partners in this exciting enterprise to bring the cultural treasures of the world to the world."

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and the largest library in the world, with more than 134 million items in more than 450 languages. Its collections are universal in scope and available in all formats in which information is recorded. The Library seeks to further understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge and by celebrating human achievement.

Additional information about the World Digital Library can be found at http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/.

AP Photo Archive

2007-11-30T06:24:00.000-08:00

AP Photo Archive is a searchable database that contains current and archived news photos and graphics. The database provides a variety of access points for searching. Categories include Domestic News, International News, Financial News, Sports, Entertainment News and a Featured Events section that highlights the most recent AP images.

The database can be accessed by going to the library intranet via Dragon. Follow these steps:

Enter: http://dragon/library

Click on DATABASES located on the left-hand column

Click on ACCUNET/AP PHOTO ARCHIVE

New Non-Fiction Book of the Week

2007-11-29T14:22:00.000-08:00

The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

From Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: In this groundbreaking work, historian and scholar Rediker considers the relationships between the slave ship captain and his crew, between the sailors and the slaves, and among the captives themselves as they endured the violent, terror-filled and often deadly journey between the coasts of Africa and America. While he makes fresh use of those who left their mark in written records (Olaudah Equiano, James Field Stanfield, John Newton), Rediker is remarkably attentive to the experiences of the enslaved women, from whom we have no written accounts, and of the common seaman, who he says was a victim of the slave trade... and a victimizer. Regarding these vessels as a strange and potent combination of war machine, mobile prison, and factory, Rediker expands the scholarship on how the ships not only delivered millions of people to slavery, [but] prepared them for it. He engages readers in maritime detail (how ships were made, how crews were fed) and renders the archival (letters, logs and legal hearings) accessible. Painful as this powerful book often is, Rediker does not lose sight of the humanity of even the most egregious participants, from African traders to English merchants. (Oct. 8) .

New Fiction of the Week

2007-11-29T12:42:00.001-08:00

Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico by Malin Alegria

From Booklist: What's the harm in a little white lie?" wonders Mexican-born, Orange County resident Sofi Mendoza, who attends a classmate's house party near Tijuana against her parents' wishes. On the 17-year-old's return, she's stopped at the border and learns the impossible: her green card is false. Barred from reentering the U.S., she takes refuge with a Mexican aunt she's never met, and while her parents fight legal battles, she gradually shifts from terror and sneering disapproval of her relatives to openhearted love and gratitude. As in Estrella's Quinceañera (2006), Alegria combines chick-lit elements with a girl's struggle to define her Mexican American identity.

The Future of Books

2007-11-28T13:58:00.000-08:00

In case any of you are pondering the future of print books like us here in the library, I would like to share with you all the cover article from the November 26, 2007 issue of Newsweek.

The cover claims "Books Aren't Dead. (They're Just Going Digital.)" The article discussed how CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos is releasing his newest component of Amazon.com, the Amazon Kindle. The Amazon Kindle is an electronic device for reading e-books. The Kindle is light and about the size of a paperback book. Bezos believes that it will be the next "it" tech gadget.

Surely we are all moving towards a digital environment but our question is does the introduction of this new and improved e-book reader from a technically savvy company like Amazon.com hold the fate of the printed word in it's hands? Take a look around campus, as everyone walks by with i-Pod earbuds in, imagine everyone reading books on a little handheld screen. Can't picture it? We're having a hard time too, but check out the full article in Newsweek. Like Bezos says "it's so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as a the book and improve on it. And change the way people read." It's defintely Kindled our interest.

NEA Report Finds Teens Are Reading Less for Fun

2007-11-27T16:47:00.000-08:00

A report published by the National Endowment for the Arts in November 2007 entitled, To Read or Not To Read, analyzes reading trends for youth and adults, and readers of various education levels. Among the key findings:

Americans are reading less:

Teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.

On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading

Source: National Endowment for the Arts website http://www.nea.gov/news

Let's get reading....proove them wrong and read for fun over the holiday break! Stop by the library and check out the Books for Fun display.....all of the books can be checked out and many more are avilable in the Fiction section....come by the library and have a look!

Nathaniel P. Hill Library Closed for Thanksgiving Break

2007-11-16T11:45:00.000-08:00

The Nathaniel P. Hill Library will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday break.

Open: Saturday, November 17th: 7:30AM to 11:00AM

Closed: Sunday, November 18th to Monday, November 26th

We will resume our regular hours beginning Tuesday, November 27th as follows:

Monday - Sunday: 7:30AM to 10:00PM

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

New Non-Fiction of the Week

2007-11-16T11:39:00.001-08:00

From Publishers Weekly: In this groundbreaking biography of a central figure in the fight to end South African apartheid, O'Malley draws on every aspect of Maharaj's life and the society in which he lived in order to understand South Africa's changing racial and political context over the past 100 years. Based on extensive interviews with Maharaj, this is an often harrowing read, recounting his torture as a political prisoner and the many difficulties and setbacks suffered by underground activists within and outside of South Africa. Maharaj—a first-person narrator in most of the book—comes across as an imperfect and deeply human hero, animated by his stubborn streak to devote his entire life to the cause. (Apr.)

Fiction Book of the Week

2007-11-16T11:37:00.000-08:00

From Publishers Weekly: A delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy. (Sept.)

2007 Top Ten List of Teen Books

2007-11-16T10:47:00.000-08:00

2007 Top Ten List of Books Voted on by Teen Book Groups
source: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).
2. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (Viking Children’s Books, 2006)
3. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles (Flux, 2006).
4. Maximum Ride: School’s Out – Forever by James Patterson (Hachette Book Group USA/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).
5. Firegirl by Tony Abbott (Hachette Book Group USA/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).
6. ll Hallows Eve (13 Stories)by Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt, 2006).
7. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, 2006).
8. River Secrets by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury, 2006).
9. Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe (HarperCollins, 2006).
10. Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks (Chicken House, 2006).

December Kid's Read Event

2007-11-16T10:21:00.000-08:00

The Nathaniel P. Hill Library is hosting its second Kid's Read Event, Thursday, December 6th at 6:30PM. A guest narrator will read The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket and we will have snacks and watch The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Photo: October 2007 Kid's Read Event