January Book Club picks!

Thinking about a book for over break? Here are the two books for book club for January. We will meet the second Thursday, January 9th, rather than try to get a meeting in the first day back to school. The first book is Dodger by Terry Pratchett. Some of you read Good Omens by Pratchett and have raved about it, and some of you saw Oliver with the Artful Dodger here at school, this book blends the two. Here is a book trailer!

The second book is Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Cinderella and a cyborg mechanic, how do you meld those two ideas together? Check out Cinder and find out!

It's not too early to start thinking about scholarships!

I want to suggest you take a look at this video of a student who was able to win enough scholarship money to pay for her college degree and even to go on to getting her doctorate. How I earned $500K in scholarships. I have ordered the books that she mentions and they will be in the IMC soon. Look to the IMC page for links to other resources.

November Book Club

Due to WCKE testing, November Book Club will be pushed back to Thursday November 14 during CAP in the IMC. In the extra week, you may want to consider these books!

This was posted on Pinterest by yabooksandmore!

A friend sent me this link, and I had to go through and count! 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf I've read 14 of them. So how many have you read and what books are missing that you think should be on this list?

Rot and Ruin

This is one of our Februay Book Club picks. I just finished it and I have to admit that this is my very first zombie book! I really enjoyed it to my suprise. The action isn't about surviving the zombie apocolypse, that happened 14 years ago. People have settled into enclaves and learned how to survive with the zombie outbreak. This book is about Benney who is turning fifteen and needs to find a job or have his food rations cut. He investigates a number of jobs that are not a remote possiblity, before trying to follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a zombie bounty hunter. What he learns when he ventures out in to the Rot & Ruin, as the zombie infested areas are know, will change everything that he thinks he knows about his world and the people in it. There is an extra copy available in the IMC.

Vote for Irving Elementary!

Central has a number of ties with Irving Elemetary including Bulldog Buddies and Irving Swim. They could really use our help winning a visit from a garden tour. The voting is on Facebook and will run until February 15th. To vote, go to Burpee . Click in to stop P, and vote for Irving. You can vote as many times as you want - and more is better!! Thanks from Irving!

January Book Club

Book club will meet tomorrow, Thursday January 3rd in the IMC during CAP to discuss Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie AND Matched by Ally Condie. See you there!