Willy Wonka Book Fair !

Our annual Scholastic Book Fair is approaching quickly!  Junior and Senior Book Fair Crew members have been working hard on preparations for decorations, book talks, contests, gathering prizes and more to help celebrate our theme - Willy Wonka and the Book Factory - voted for by SCA students!
Get ready  for great books, fun contests and prizes from November 7th to November 15th.
Help the library reach our goal of $1800 and one of our lucky staff members will participate in our annual Book Fair Challenge! Stay tuned for details on who will be in the challenge and what the challenge will be!

October is library month!

How will you celebrate? This year's theme is Libraries Connect!  Stop by the SCA library and check out a good book today and see what events might be coming up. Visit your local public library to see what activities and services are available for teens!  CEHPL Website

Welcome Back!  I hope that every one had a great summer of relaxing and reading!  Our hours have changed slightly this year and the library is no longer open after school, but it is still open before school and during lunch hour!  Be sure to stop in and check out some great reads!  Read any good books over the summer - stop by and make some suggestions for purchase as well. Stay tuned for upcoming contests and library events - Happy New Year! 

The votes are in for this year's CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award. With just over 200 votes.....
The winner is: Divergent by Veronica Roth!

Over 900 votes were cast of which Divergent had 206!
 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green was a close second with 137 votes while Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol came in third with 123 votes.  Thank you to all students who participated in this year's CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award.

Voting is now underway for the CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award.  Which book is your favorite out of the top ten?  Voting takes place starting today until May 3rd.   You can vote in your library or online.  Be sure to check out book trailers and interviews with the top 10 authors as well!  The winning book will be announced May 14th!

CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award

Have you been reading the top 10? Are you ready to vote?  The time is fast approaching where votes can be cast - April 22nd - May 3rd, 2013.  The winning book will be announced May 14th.  Stop by the library and check out one of your CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice top 10 today.  Follow the progress of the award online at www.ccrsbteenchoice.wordpress.com where you can view interviews with the top 10 authors and catch a book trailer or two! You can also share your opinion about any of the top 10 books you have read.

How many of the top 10 do you think Ms. Cochrane has read?  Which one is her favorite so far?  Happy Reading!

New Books in the library!

There are a large number of new books in the SCA library!  Be sure to stop by and check them out.  Murder, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, anime, humor, romance and much more! Some examples are below - but there truly is something for everyone!

Blind Date with a Book

During the month of February the SCA library "set up" a few students with dates - with a book that is! 

A collection of fiction and popular non fiction titles and subjects were chosen as potential dates.  These books or "dates" were wrapped in plain brown paper and a brief description was attached to the book to give a hint as to what the book was about.   The books were on display in the library for the month and several students participated. Students who checked out a "date" were given a "rate your date" slip on which they could state if they liked the book and would they read another book by the same author. When the students returned their book the "rate a date" slip was entered in a draw for a $15 gift card to Chapters.

Katelyn Halkeyard in grade 11 was the winner. Congratulations and thanks to the students who participated   - hope you discovered a new author, or genre or just had a "good read"!

CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award

The second annual CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award has begun!  This year the list of Top 10 books have been already selected based on literary awards, reviews and best books lists from 2011-2012.  The top 10 list for 2012-2013 is as follows:

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel

 

On February 4th CCRSB students in grades 7-12 are encouraged to begin reading these books and to discuss the titles online @ www.ccrsbteenchoice.wordpress.com with other CCRSB students.  

The top 10 books will be available in the SCA library so be sure to check them out, read and discuss the titles so you can cast your vote starting April 22nd for your favorite! Students must read at least one book to be eligible to cast a vote.  Voting will take place between April 22nd and May 3rd and can be done online or by paper ballot in the library.  The winner will be announced on May 14th.   Be sure to check out the SCA library blog for more details regarding the CCRSB Teen Reader's Choice Award as the school year continues!

Did you know Family Literacy Day is January 27th? The SCA library is celebrating literacy week from January 21st to January 25th. Throughout the week students "caught reading" at different times will be given a small prize.  SCA students are also involved in creating "Book Spine Poetry."  Over the past two days students have stopped in to the library during lunch hour and created a wide variety of unique and interesting poems using library books!  Pictures of our poems will posted soon!  Participating students receive a small prize and their name will go into a draw for a larger prize at the end of the week. On Thursday January 24th the library will be hosting a board games event.  Students are invited to drop in and play various board games - Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Cranium and many others! Stop by and join the fun!  Our big literacy event will be a book swap to be held on Friday February 8th.  Literacy week is the kick off for our book swap.  Students have been asked to bring in gently used unwanted books that they may have at home to the library and in return students will receive a voucher to take a gently used book at the swap for free on February 8th.   All books for the swap must be in by February 5th.  The library will also be selling previously used copies of books for 25 cents to $1.00 in price during the swap!  Be sure to check out other literacy week activities at local organizations near you!

http://lovemylibrary.ca/event/family-literacy-day/ or check out ABC Life Literacy Canada for literacy tips and activities that you can do with your family. http://abclifeliteracy.ca/.

During the month of December the library received several new fiction and non fiction books!
Be sure to stop in and check out the latest, greatest reads! A few new titles are shown below:

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Things have been busy at the SCA library!  During the month of November the library hosted our annual Scholastic Book Fair.  Enough money was raised to receive $750 worth of books into the SCA library collection.  These profits will be chosen from Scholastic during the month of February when a new commission order form is released.    

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The week long festivities during our Hollywood fair "Lights Camera Read" included a teacher preview complete with coffee and treats,  numerous contests such as guessing games, teacher sneak peek reads    and popcorn sales!  Our fair concluded with a great "Stump the Teacher" trivia game show - live on stage in our cafetorium during both junior and senior lunches!  A big thank you to the teachers who participated in this event and to the school community for your participation and support of our Scholastic Book fair!