Librarian

Librarian- Mrs. Pat Dixon







Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Teen Reader's Choice Awards

There is just a couple of weeks left for you to make your nominations for your favourite book or one you would like to see other students reading. Every nomination at this school will be included in a draw for one of the 10 selected books.
All of the nominations will be forwarded at the first of the year to a committe who will tally the results from all the schools across the board. Based on the number of nominations 10 books will be selected. These ten books will magically appear at our school at the beginning of second term and you will have a chance to read them and vote on your favourite.

The front runner at this school is Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins with four nominations. Every other one of the 26 books nominated only has one nomination each and they include Going Bovine, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, Shiver,  A Prairie Wide as the Sea, Stormbreaker,Crank, Lullibies for Little Criminals, and Eragon.

If you have a book you feel pretty strongly about you still have lots of time to nominate it. Your nomination may be the one needed to nudge it into the top ten.

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins sans frontieres

A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City

A free, interactive, awareness-raising event




This fall 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will be bringing The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City exhibit to Eastern Canada on a four-city tour.


Halifax: Garrison Grounds, September 15-18, 2011

Moncton: Riverfront Park, September 22-25, 2011

The goal of the exhibit is to raise awareness about the plight of the world’s 43 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) uprooted by war and conflict.

Check it out at http://refugeecamp.ca


Thursday, August 25, 2011

Welcome Back

The summer has flown by and here we are back at school for another year. Hopefully, you have all read some really great books on your break or maybe revisited an old favourite. I haven't done as much reading as usual because I was off on an adventure, both visiting old friends and exploring the wilds of France, Germany and Iceland.
A book I did read, and really enjoyed, was Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, a very funny account of his farewell tour of Britain. If you are thinking of visiting England or Scotland, this is an entertaining and informative book that will give you a Bryson slant on the island.
Another good read was If I stay by Gayle Forman, told from the perspective of 17 year old Mia as she stands watching herself after a terrible traffic accident. It is touching and sweet and sometimes funny but never maudlin.
I also revisited Tolkien's trilogy Lord of the Rings, both the books and movies. If you are a fantasy fan and have not read these books, you might want to give them a try.