Students will return to school on Tuesday and I look forward to finding out what everyone has been reading over the holiday. I have been reading some of our new books, just to get acquainted with the new titles/authors.
One new book I have been reading is written by the visiting author Heather Vogel Frederick, who will be visiting our school on February 12. Ms. Frederick will be presenting her "book club" books to the girls in grades 4 and 5. Hopefully, we have many "book clubs" reading her books together. (If you need information about the "Book Clubs", please let me know.) Click
here for a link to her website that includes a list of her titles. Mothers, grandmothers, neighbors, or whoever has been reading a book in a "Mother-Daughter Book Club" are invited to come to the presentation. I will have times and details in the next few days.
We will have another visiting author on February 20 - Jungle Jim. Jungle Jim's website is under construction at this time, but
here is an article about his presentation. He is very enthusiastic about insects, arthropods, centipedes, etc. We will have details regarding his visit soon.
I am also reading the Newbery Award book from last year,
Dead End in Novelt, historical fiction about Jack who lives in a small town during the post-World War II era. Boys in grades 4 and 5, would really enjoy the book. The Newbery Award for 2013, will be announced soon, and I look forward to reading the next award winning book. I will post the award winners (Newbery and Caldecott) when I find out!
I am excited about all the new books for 2013, aren't you?
The Tanglewood students checked out 4,954 books in the month of December (even though we had two weeks off for Winter Break!) Thank you, volunteers, for helping us shelve the books, check out the books, check in the books, and shelve the books again! In addition to all the check out, over 100 classes came to the library for a lesson, a read-aloud, and/or an activity. 
