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SPECIAL EVENTS!
RAFFLES AND PRIZES!
March 12: Teacher Preview Day!
March 14: Family Day! (2:00-3:30)
ALL proceeds benefit the students of Wilson and the library!
Visit the official Book Fair Homepage for more info!
Are you looking for something NEW to read?
Stop by the library and check out some of the fantastic books now available!
-Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog days
-Pendragon series
-Bluford High series
-Maximum Ride series
Highlighted Titles
Breathe: a ghost story (Cliff McNish) -- "Jack's used to danger. His asthma has nearly killed him more than once. But his new home has a danger he's never known before- the spirits of the dead. They can't breathe, but in Jack's house they can chase, hide, scream. Only Jack can see them. Only Jack can hear them. And only he can learn their secrets in time to save himself- and his mother..."*
The Magician's elephant (Kate DiCamillo) -- "What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the question that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (An elephant! An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that Peter can hardly dare to believe it. But it is- all of it- true."**
Heck superhero (Martine Leavitt) -- "Heck is in his flat stage, his no-curves-no-life-dead-on-the-page-stage. All super-heroes start out that way. Before the costume and the muscles, before the piping and the overlines, there is a stick man, so flat he wonders how he manages not to slip through the slats of the mall bench he's sitting on. He can't go back to school without his homework, he can't get his homework because the landlord changed the locks, and he's in big bad trouble that his drawings of superheroes aren't going to get him out of. There's only one way out of it: the Good Deed. But the Good Deed is hard to do when you're living on the street..."***
*Copyright 2006 Carolrhoda Books
**Copyright 2009 Candlewick Press
***Copyright 2004 Front Street
Need information for a research or school project? Don't want to spend lots of time surfing all over the internet?
POWER Library has what you need!
POWER Library is a collection of online resources that you can access at your school or public library. The resources include full text articles, an encyclopedia, charts, maps, biographies, and so much more! Stop by the library for more info.
POWER Library Spotlight: NoveList K-8
NoveList is a resource that provides suggestions for new books to read. You can also find books similar to favorite authors or titles. Have you read every book written by Darren Shan and want to read other vampire stories? NoveList can help!
NoveList also has many book lists and information about authors.
Wilson's Top Ten: the most read books of the month!
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