I case you haven't heard, the Tiger's Curse series is one of my favorites. I have been following this series for several years. I was given the opportunity to meet the author, Colleen Houck last Friday night. This was such a cool visit. She read to us a bonus chapter from Tiger's Destiny and gave away prizes for answering book trivia. I won a tiger puzzle which I plan to put together, glue, and hang in my bonus room with all my other puzzles. I will think of Ren everytime I see it. You can watch the video of Colleen reading from her book below. I was also able to get all my copies of the books signed and the library's copy of Destiny signed. I painted my nails in honor of the books for the occasion. Colleen liked them so much she took a picture of my nails with the title page of the book and said she was putting it either on her Facebook page or the webpage. I have posted pictures from the event below as well. You can check out my review of Tiger's Voyage and Tiger's Destiny on the Book Reviews page. All in all it was a great trip and now I can't wait to meet more of my favorite authors.
The school year has gotten off to a great start. I think everyone is just about settled in and comfortable with their schedules so now it is time to get down to business. Library classes start next. I am so excited to get to see all of you. I have some fun and useful lessons planned for this year. As most of you know, we have a high school book fair last week. With the amount of merchandise that we sold we were able to get all these new books. They should be on the shelves and ready for check out soon. I am super excited about The Kill Order which is the prequel to The Maze Runner series by James Dashner. Also we now have the final two books in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. Looking through those books I see several that I can't wait to read. I think that you will all be able to find something great to read. The book Cinder is one that I have heard about for a while now. It is a Cinderella story with cyborgs. Should be interesting. And Between the Lines is a young adult novel written by Jodi Picoult and her daughter. Jodi Picoult is the author of My Sister's Keeper and this is her first book collaborating with her daughter. There are so many books in the library that I want to read and I like to be able to suggest fantastic books for you to enjoy. But I don't have all the time I would like to be able to read:( So I have devised a plan to help. This year I want to add another layer to our library website. I would like for students to write book reviews for me in addition to the reviews that I write. I will be placing a page on the library webpage for students to submit their books reviews. I will read them and then place them on the website. I hope to have tons of reviews so that others can find out which books are the best. I hope that you will all help this be a great program. Can't wait to see ya'll in the library. Happy Reading! |
Mrs. ThomasI am the high school librarian at Ider High School. I love books, music, all things pig, the theatre, the color purple, my guinea pigs and my chickens, 3 Musketeers bars, and my family. Above all I love the Lord , Jesus Christ! Archives
August 2014
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