Winners!

Congratulations to the following winners of the Guess the Novel Contest:
Catherine Rothman
Andrew Helsley
Karyshma Khan
Ally Womack
Ben Hsu

The novel that was most read over summer was...Downsiders!

Thanks to everyone for guessing.  Our next contest is now underway.
Come by the library and suggest a name for our gator!

Trailer Competition

The Library Aides have made several book trailers for books off the Lone Star 2012 Nomination List.  They would like to know which is the best, so leave a comment and let them know which you like and why.  Also look at this post to see if you like any of those better.

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New Trailers

The library aides have been working on new trailers for you!  They found books that look interesting (and are possible Lone Star 2012 Books), learned how to make trailers on PhotoStory, and here is the end result.  Watch the trailers below and let us know what you think of the books and the trailers.

Here is one more for you:

And one more:

Which was your favorite?  Are you inspired to check out the book?  If so, stop by the GMS Library and we will help you find it! We will be posting new trailers as they come in, so give us some feedback! 

Another busy week...in pictures

The top ten things going on at the library last week were....

10. Treats from the Treasure Box
9.  Chess
8.  Homework
7.  After School ReadNSnack
6.  Checking out books
5.  Coach Dobbs (et. al.) Texas History Project
4.  Research
3.  Coach North's Health Project
2.  Teen Read Week
1.  READING

And now...the winner of the Teen Read Week reading contest is......
Mr. Vawter's 5th and 6th period 7th grade class!  Congratulations! 
Your ice cream party will be soon.
For all of you who participated but did not win, I appreciate you trying.  As a school, we read 73, 451 pages last week.  Isn't that phenomenal?  Pat yourself on the back!

     Happy Reading!

NEW BOOKS!

Have you checked out our new books?  We were so fortunate to get to purchase books after the book fair.  Come on in to be the first to check out a brand new book!  Here is a sneak peak of the display.

Didn't the 7th period aides do a good job with the display?  Leave a comment here or stop by the library to let them know what you think!

Chess Club

Did you know that there was a Frisco Chess Club?  I was looking at the Frisco Public Library Website  and found that Frisco has a Chess Club, and that the chess club has website.  Since we have such an active chess community here at Griffin, I thought you should know.  Wednesday, October 26 @ 6:00 p.m. If you attend the meeting, let me know!

Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week

October 17^th – 21^st, 2011

Here are the activities planned next week in the library to make reading fun and motivating :

·      Book Reviews – Students create book reviews from the latest book they have read.  By submitting a review, student’s name will go in a raffle for poster prizes.

·       Teen Read Week Bookmarks will be given away all week when students check out a book.

·       Read-Off – All week, the ILA classes will compete to see which class can read the most pages.  Book pages will be recorded by the students in their ILA classes from Monday through Friday.  The class with the most pages logged by the end of the day Friday will receive an ice cream party from the library.

·       After school on Monday through Thursday of next week, we will have READnSNACK, where kids can come in and enjoy some snacks as they log pages for their ILA class’ contest.

Thanks for supporting these activities and helping GMS to have a great Teen Read Week!

Trailer Tuesday

Enter the mind of The Dreamer.  Enter the mind of Pablo Neruda.
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan.  Pick it up at your library!

Last Week in the LIbrary

ILA Classes came in to renew books

These girls were happy to get new books!

Our morning chess battles were going strong.

Kids working on homework before and after school.

We have all mastered self check out!

Eighth graders learned how to evaluate web resources.

Book Fair was a HUGE success!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and purchased books at Book Fair this year. We had a lot of fun, as you can see from the collage. The success from the fair will allow GMS Library to purchase more books for the Library. Thanks again!