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Book Fair Results!

Thanks to everyone for supporting our Little Shop of Stories book fair earlier this month. With our earnings, we were able to purchase all of these beauties - and more! Students were involved in helping me choose most of the titles. I feel fortunate we are able to provide such great and "new" books for our students!

Harry Potter Still Going Strong

Since the debut novel's release over 17 years ago, the Harry Potter series still draws die-hard fans. Our media center has several copies of all the volumes, which remain in constant rotation. Yesterday, an interesting moment: a couple of random students found themselves reading HP volumes in our reading area during recess. The conversations began, others joined in, and then "Accio!", an impromptu Harry Potter discussion group was formed. The group plans to meet during recess twice a week to discuss the books and films. 

  

LSOS Book Fair: Oct 15 - 21

ANCS Middle Campus will host a book fair this month with Little Shop of Stories (click link to check out the impressive upcoming author events).

We had our first book fair with LSOS last spring, and it was a great success. We are proud to partner with this fantastic community bookstore to encourage reading among our students, while earning materials for our shelves. LSOS will provide a diverse selection of books geared to middle-grade readers. Please come out and join us!

Wed/Oct 15 - 8:00 - 2:30

Thu/Oct 16 - 8:00 - 4:30

Fri/Oct 17 - 8:00 - 4:30 *Grandparents & Special Friends Day

Mon/Oct 20 - 8:00 - 6:00

Tue/Oct 21 - 8:00 - 6:00

Little Green Booktruck

The Little Green Booktruck is a fabulous new acquisition to the media center. Handy, rugged and a great multi-tasker, we love it!

Let's Get Ready to READ!

It is Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl time! Last year, ANCS Middle Campus competed for the second time in this state-wide Jeopardy-like quiz competition for super readers. Preparation is intense, but fun, and the competition is VERY EXCITING!! I would like to extend the invitation to our students to participate in this state-wide event. Here are the details:

• Sign up in the media center with Ms. Linahan
• Must read 10 out of the 20 books by Nov 3, 2014
• Must submit a 10 trivia questions for each of the 10 books you read by Ms. Linahan by Nov 3. (Written or shared via Google Drive)
• Attend meetings 1x per week with Ms. Linahan and other team members for practice. This will begin in November. Practice days TBD.
• Commit to becoming an expert on several assigned books and helping create the trivia questions.
• Commit to attending competition dates. Note to parents: set aside 2 - 5 hours depending on the level of competition we attend:
• Local: TBD (probably late January 2015)
• Regional: TBD
• Divisional: TBD
• The team consists of 5 players and up to 5 alternates.
• Final order of the team is determined by attendance, trivia knowledge and sportsmanship.
• You may purchase your own books, borrow from the local library, or use the copies in the media center.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

tlinahan@atlncs.org

Great Author Event Nearby

The author of Wonder will be visiting Atlanta soon....and nearby! Join Little Shop of Stories at Renfroe Middle School for this great opportunity to listen to the creator of “Auggie”.

Per LSOS Website:

R.J. Palacio Author Event!!!

Thursday, September 25th | 6:30 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30)
We love Wonder by R.J. Palacio so much that we gave it The Little Award (Little Shop’s annual award for the book we feel gets kids most excited about reading) in 2013. SinceWonder was published, we have sold hundreds of copies, and we know -- based on your stories -- that hundreds of lives have been changed by this beautiful and inspiring book about a boy who looks different and the classmates he interacts with. We are THRILLED that R.J. Palacio is coming to visit us, and we hope the whole community will come out for this special event, so we’re having it at Renfroe Middle School to be able to fit all of you! You don’t want to miss this memorable evening! Renfroe Middle School is located at 220 West College Avenue in Decatur."