Middle and Upper School Reading Club members will be treated with lunch and an end of the year trip to Barnes and Noble. Students will look for books by their favorite authors and suggest titles to their friends. We hope to return to the library with a few new titles to add to the collection and in time for summer reading. Upper school students will make the trip on Monday, April 11. Middle School students will make the trip on Wednesday, April 13.

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Upper School and Middle School Reading Clubs

Love 'n the Library

Upper School Meeting for February is Tuesday, February 22.

Middle School Meeting for February is Tuesday, February 15.

February's library club meeting theme will be "love." Come see what the library has to offer in romance. Bring your own lunch. Valentine cookies will be served.

The November meeting of the Library Club will feature books that have been made into movies. On display in the library are several books and/or movies for you to see. We will discuss several of the new videos that are coming out this season that were originally published in print.

The doorprize this month will be a dvd of a movie that originally was published in print.

Upper School Meeting for November is Monday, November 22.

Middle School Meeting for November is Monday, November 29.

The theme for the third club meeting will be discussed at a meeting of the club officers and will be announced here soon. Check back for more information. The upper school and middle school clubs will meet separately.

The Middle School Library Club meeting was held on Monday, October 24. The theme was "Rock 'n Roll" in the Library. Congratulations to Addison Runge and Simone Holmes, the new President and Vice-President of the Middle School Library Club. Twenty-five students from the middle school attended the meeting. Shelby Cohen won the door prize.

The second Upper School Library Club meeting was held on Monday, October 17. Congratulations to James Smith and to Ripley Bowker, the new President and Vice-President. Twelve students from the upper school browsed through the new books on Rock 'n' Roll history while watching a video of Roy Orbison and a few of his close friends performing. Rick Prentz won the door prize.

The first Library Club meeting was held Monday, September 20. Upper and middle high school students in 7th through 12th grade meet together for lunch in the library. Twenty-eight students munched on subs, chips, cookies, and spider man cupcakes.

Door prizes were awarded to 5 lucky winners. Each student received a bookmarker of his/her choice. After viewing the new library selections of graphic novels and comic books, students watched a short film on the making of the anime movie, "Miyazaki's Spirited Away."

The first meeting's theme was graphic novels/manga/and comic books, "Super Heroes." (A graphic novel is a novel or novella done in the medium of comics. Manga is the Japanese equivalent of a graphic novel). Students checked-out several of the new books.