Archive for October, 2008

Teen Read Week Festivities Come to a Close

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Escobedo MS had a great time celebrating Teen Read Week and its theme Books With Bite. Some activities included:
-Exploring websites dedicated to teen reading.
-Participating in the Reading Rocks Program- 178 book reviews so far. WOW!
-Candy Jar Guessing for each student that checked out a book- Allie won with an exact guess of 272. Way to go, Allie! [...]

Nevada Young Reader Question

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Which books are nominated for the 2009 Nevada Young Reader award? First person to reply to this question with ALL the correct answers will get a prize. Good luck…

Hint: there are 8 picture books, 6 young reader books, 6 intermediate books, and 6 young adult books.

Student Book Recommendation of the Week

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Name: Ragen J.
Date: October 22, 2008
Title: Airhead
Author: Meg Cabot
Genre: Comedy
Brief Summary: Em is kinda a no-body at school and she figures out that it’s what’s on the inside that matters and not what is on the out side. Em has 2 prove her self that just be you self and you’ll make great friends!!!!!!! (p.s [...]

Teen Read Week October 12-18, 2008

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Area teens will be reading for the fun of it as Escobedo MS celebrates the eleventh annual Teen Read Week(TM), October 12 – 18, 2008. They join thousands of other libraries, schools and bookstores across the country who are encouraging teens to celebrate this year’s theme, “Books with Bite @ your library®.” Teen Read Week(TM) is the [...]

Student Book Recommendation of the Week

Friday, October 10th, 2008

I read a great fiction book!
Name: Sam C.
Date: September 24, 2008
Title: Nightrise
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Genre: Mystery
Brief Summary: Two twins can talk to each other telepathically. Everybody they tell thinks its cool, but they know it isn’t because of some of the things they can do because of that ability. When one of the brothers gets kidnapped, [...]

Help Me Do the Math…

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

So I bought a new home computer the other day. I had a friend over and was telling him about it. When I told him it had a 640GB hard drive, he was shocked! We were trying to figure out how many movies (an average) that I could archive on that huge hard drive. So [...]