We had a great Read Across America Week! Check out our evidence (pictures). A huge thank you to the PTSA and all the teachers who brought their classes for checkout (or sent their students on passes). Oh, and we can’t forget the students! Thank you for participating! We love you guys! : )

• McClure Middle School The Student Book Swap begins at 6:30 in the Cafeteria for students who have vouchers. See my post from Feb 18th for more information!

• Mrs. Harpin, our Media Specialist, will present a brief program on using the Destiny online catalog to help students select books and using the Cobb Virtual Library to locate safe, reliable, free information for projects at 7:00.

• A Coffee House witha an open mic will be set up in the cafeteria for students to share poetry and dramatic readings.

• We will also have a discussion group focusing on Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.

We will be collecting your gently used, middle school appropriate books for our first Book Swap February 22-March 4. Bring them to the Media Center to receive your voucher. You’ll be able to trade in your vouchers on March 4 at Literacy Night (6:30 in the Cafeteria) and March 5th during homeroom (in the Media Center Classroom).

For every 2 books you bring in, we’ll give you a voucher for one book that’s new to you (not necessarily brand new, but it’ll be a book you didn’t have before!) So, if you bring in 4 books, you’ll get 2 vouchers. The 1-for-2 is because we’re going to donate whatever books are left over to a charity. Cool huh? You get a book that you haven’t read before and someone who didn’t have books at all is going to get one. That rocks!

Check out our video:

View from the Media Center, Feb 12th, 2:50pm

Doesn’t this weather just make you want to curl up somewhere warm and read a good book? (After you wear yourself out playing in the snow, of course!)

What I’m taking home: Snow by Tracy Lynn

“Jessica grows up in a remote estate in Wales, ignored by a father who still mourns the wife who died in childbirth. When the girl’s treacherous stepmother’s jealousy reaches a fever pitch, she escapes to a London full of Dickensian scenes and a den of “lonely ones.” The parallels to the tale of “Snow White,” psychologically complex characters, and a fast-moving plot make this a thoroughly compelling read.”-School Library Journal review

  Check out our brand new SchoolTube Channel!

I’ll be linking videos of book trailers, Dewey & Genre of the month and so on and so forth.

Dewey Range of the Month: The 800s-Literature

Genre of the Month: Romance (It is February after all!)

Video Highlighting the Dewey/Genre Range of the Month

Thank you to everyone who visited our book fair! You helped us raise money for our Media Center and for our upcoming Read Across America Celebration Week.

GoAnimate.com: Book Fair 1 by Charpin

McClure’s Book Fair

January 25-28th

In the Media Center Classroom

8:30 am-5:00 pm

Visit our Book Fair WebPage for more details!

See the Book Club page for information about our next book!

Are there books that you wish we had in the Media Center? If so, follow the link below to request new book titles for our media center!

Request a Book 

Please double check that we don’t already own the title that you want us to order.