Get Into a New Series!

We have LOTS of them in the library, including our newest purchase which we discussed at book club - the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. I told you a bit about the series while you were busy with your bookmarks, but you may be interested to hear the author himself tell you about it:

 As I told you on Tuesday, my son LOVES these books - he is on #11 right now and will be very sad when he is finished with the series. He assures me that they would appeal to both girls and boys, so consider putting your name down for them - it sounds like they are best read in order (I am numbering the spines.)

 I received an email from Random House which featured this infographic (all adult books), but it got me thinking that perhaps we could work on something similar at one of our book club meetings by tapping into all of your pooled reading experience - what do you think? I really like the look of this and it might be fun to do. Have a look at it here "What Do You Feel Like Reading Infographic"

A final reminder to book club members to hand in your bookmarks to me by the end of the day today if you would like them laminated - I will be taking them tomorrow and returning them to you next week.

Great Books Coming Your Way...Gradually!

Hello again!
We are going to try a book club meeting for Seniors today (Thursday) since we had such an AMAZING turnout of grade 7-9 students on Tuesday!  I think it would be more productive to split into two groups this year if we have some interest from older students as well.

Juniors, let me know what you think about incorporating the occasional small craft (such as bookmarks, etc.) into our meetings this year.  Fun?  or not so much - I don't have my Quinn at home this year to tell me what is cool and what's boring!

As a follow-up to our talk about the book Colin Fischer, which now has quite a long reserve list by the way, I read a few reviews (all positive) and found this little video trailer.  I hope all of you who put your name down for it enjoy it and I am now eager to read it myself!

Back to the Books!

Welcome to all students returning to Rivier Academy and especially to those exploring our halls for the first time this year!  What an exciting year we have ahead of us - certain to "go beyond" our expectations in so many ways.

As many of you are aware, the cataloguing of textbooks has monopolized my time for the last while so you have not had many new books out on display yet - but I promise they will be coming!  Mrs. Mengell has the Scholastic book orders out so make sure you have a look at those if you enjoy the experience of owning your own book collection.

Our first book club meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday, at 12:05 in the library.  I think we will call for juniors and seniors together at this first meeting and see who is interested this year and then we can decide how we want to proceed.    I am looking forward to hearing about what all of you read over the holidays!

Quinn (my daughter) and Kenzie in the library for graduation formals in June.  Both are off experiencing THEIR challenging first weeks at university!