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Library News
June 2019
Summer 2019 Reading Recommendations
Download our Summer Reading Recommendations on this page! This list is completely updated with titles in English, French, Russian, German, and Spanish. Have a great summer, and happy reading!
Library Books Due Friday!
Please return all library books by Friday, 21 June! Families will be invoiced for the cost of replacing library materials that are not returned by Friday, 21 June.
Summer Reads
This week’s recommendations- “Summer Reads”
Senior: Scythe; Dracula; Daily Life During the French Revolution; Making Music for Games; All the News Unfit to Print; The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Middle: Grounded; Ticket to India; As Brave as You; Show Me the Money; The Red Baron; Rebound
Junior: Secret Coders; Short; Guts & Glory: The Vikings; Investigating a Car Crash; Negatives Attract; Pippa Morgan’s Diary
May 2019
Technology
This week’s recommendations- “Technology”
Senior: Ready Player One; Reinventing Comics: How imagination and technology are reinventing an art form; Username: Regenerated; My (Secret) YouTube Life; A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E.; Girl Online
Middle: Smash! Exploring the mysteries of the universe with the large hadron collider; Mortal Engines; The Story of Inventions; Kids Inventing; 1000 Inventions & Discoveries; Hero.com
Junior: Jack & the Geniuses, Simple Machines; Ancient RomanTechnology; The Time Traveling Sandwich Bites Back; Robots; How Things Work
Survivors!
This week’s recommendations- “Survivors”
Senior: Suffragettes; An Inconvenient Truth; A Long Way Gone; I Am Malala; Night; Gandhi: My life is my message
Middle: Surviving Middle School; I Survived: Five epic disasters; Sky: A true story of courage during WWII; Anne Frank; Nelson Mandela; Triumph on Everest
Junior: The Story of Slavery; Planet in Peril; The Atlas of Endangered Animals; Virginia Hall: WWII spy; Anne Frank; Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with words
All the World’s a Stage
This week’s recommendations- “All the World’s a Stage”
Senior: Hamilton (vocal selections); Eyes of the World; Hair and Makeup in Theater; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Othello; His Dark Materials (the plays)
Middle: Photos Framed; You’ve Got Talent; Romeo & Juliet; Hamlet; Antony & Cleopatra; Starring Tracy Beaker
Junior: The Book of Dance; Children’s Book of Music; Tudor Theatre; Macbeth; Phoebe Finds Her Voice; Singing Sensation
Current events
Smithsonian Tween Tribune: Check out articles on animals, fashion, entertainment, school, science, technology, and national and world news. Written by kids and professional journalists. 4 age groups: Years 1 to 13.
1 Jour 1 Actu: Site quotidien d’infos pour les enfants à partir de 8 ans.
Featured online resource
Here is one of the many resources accessible from the St. George’s library website.
Project Gutenberg: 56,000 free ebooks to download or read online. (Mostly older works for which copyright has expired.)
Book wish list
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Recommended reading
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