LAST POST!

This will be my last post as the Librarian for Oak Grove School.

I want to thank all the parents who encouraged your kids to read, and all the teachers who taught them how.

It has been a wonderful run, and I will miss everybody. Lots!

Books Wanted

Last call to donate books for the summer vacation book give away.

Books for children in grades k-8 are needed, as long as they are in reasonably good shape.  They can be brought to the office or directly to the library. I can even make out an estimate of value for tax purposes on school letterhead if you would like that.

The book give away will be next Tuesday for grades 5, 6,  and on Friday for grades 2 and 3. K, 1, 2, and Jack's class will all happen the final week of school.

Thanks, in advance, for your donations.

DCF Readers

DCF Readers and authors Linda Urban and Tanya Lee Stone

On Tuesday a small group of DCF readers went up to Randolph, Vermont to hear two authors who are on next year's Dorothy Canfield Fisher list speak about their books and their writing and then we went out for very large and very delicious ice cream cones at the Scoop Shop in Walpole. Yum. 

This year, FIRST TIME EVER i n my 29 years at Oak Grove School, there were TWO students who read all 30 books on the list and received a gift basket of assorted candy plus a DCF book from next year's list. Go Nico and Jonah!

New student pieces

Watch for newly published student pieces. Today's featured author is Kyleigh, a 5th grader,  who wrote about some interesting facts she found on wolves. To get to her page click on her name on the right of this page. More to follow tomorrow. Keep checking back!

Last Circulation Day

The last day for checking books out of the library this year will be on Friday May 23, so if you are still considering taking a few more books out to read with your kids at home, there's still time!

If you are a parent or community member and still have outstanding books, please return them soon.

Thanks!

COLLECTING

It's not too early to start thinking about summer reading. Studies show consistently that the more reading one does, the better reader one becomes. In the spirit of keeping kids reading over the summer, I have put together an end-of-year book giveaway program. Students in all grades get to choose and keep a book for their own private library.

If you have any gently used books that your  children have outgrown, I would be happy to put them  in the end-of-year book giveaway. Please make sure, however, that the books are in decent shape.

You can drop them off at the school library, or even the front office. I will also be happy to write up an estimate of the value of your donation on school letterhead for tax purposes if that would be helpful.

Thanks so much, in advance!

2014 DCF Winner

And the winner is...

WONDER

BY

P.J. PALACIO

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.  

This is how the book, Wonder, by P.J. Palacio opens, and these are the words that August Pullman uses to describe his face. Born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school all August wants is to be treated as an ordinary kid, but his new 5th grade classmates at Beecher Prep, can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face.

This book is an extraordinary read. One student at Oak Grove said it was the "...best book he EVER read". Chosen as the Vermont Reads book by the Vermont Humanities Council, I'll bet many other are agreeing with our student.

Try it for yourself!