Plato R-V School Library

The nominated books for the Missouri Readers Award Programs for the 2010-2011 school year have been announced.  Click on the tab at the top of the page that corresponds to your correct school and you can find the list of nominated books for your grade level!

The winner of the Show Me Award (grades 1-3) is Some Dog by Mary Cassanova.

The winner of the Mark Twain Award (grades 4-5) is Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn.

The winner of the Truman Award (grades 6-8) is Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer.

The winner of the Gateway Award (grades 9-12) is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.

Thanks to everyone that read and voted on the books for this year’s Missouri Readers Awards program.  I will be letting you know, soon, the nominees for next year so that you can get a head start over the summer!

Mrs. Shelton

Be sure to stop by the Plato library and check out some of our new books!

The library now has the following titles for middle and high school students:

Fang by James Patterson (the newest in the Maximum Ride Series)
Syren by Angie Sage (the newest in the Septimus Heap Series)
The Night World Series by L.J. Smith
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

For just high school students we also have:

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
The House of Night Series by P.C. Cast
The Wicked Lovely Series by Melissa Marr

For our elementary and middle school students we now have:

The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley

This book was sweet, romantic, and absolutely hilarious.

If your mother has ever annoyed you to the brink of insanity and you just want to be treated like a normal teenager – you will know exactly how Antonia, the main character feels.

She has two events she is waiting for – her first real kiss and to be nominated for sainthood. I’m sure you can figure out which one is more likely to happen.

Will the first real kiss happen with the one she has been praying to get attention from? Or will the first real kiss happen with someone entirely unexpected – at least in her eyes?

Will mother and daughter ever be able to talk with each other instead of at each other? Will they ever see eye to eye?

I highly recommend this book for girls, who like an out and out girl book.

-Mrs. Robertson

The book fair is coming!  April 26-30 is when it will be here, in the library.   Visit our book fair website at http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/publish/platobookfair.

Here is the schedule for the readers awards voting parties.  Students that are eligible to attend the parties and vote will receive an invitation!

Show Me Award (grades 1-3) and Mark Twain Award  (grades 4-5) – Wednesday, March 3, 6th hour

Truman Award (middle school) – Thursday, March 4, 7th hour

Gateway Award (high school) – Friday, March 5, 7th hour

A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper is an exciting historical fiction story that follows sixteen year old Sophie, the sister of the future king of Montmaray in 1936.  Montmaray is a tiny island kingdom in the Bay of Biscay with a population of about ten.  The current king is crazy, the housekeeper doesn’t actually do much around the castle, the future king is off in England going to school, Sophie’s little sister prefers to go by the name Harry and refuses to admit she is a girl, Sophie has a crush on the housekeeper’s son Simon, and the king’s daughter is writing a brief history of Montmaray and runs the kingdom.  Amid all of this chaos, two German soldiers land on the island and one of the soldiers disappears suspiciously.  When the German ship, flying the Nazi flag, returns to pick up the soldiers, the officer in charge becomes angry and vows to get his vengeance on the kingdom.

This story has it all.  It is a mix of history, romance, the supernatural, war, and murder.  Pick up this book and step into Sophie’s world for a look at the life of a princess from an impoverished kingdom that is slowly disappearing.

-Mrs. Shelton

High school students – did you really enjoy one of the Gateway Award nominee books?  Did you really dislike one of the Gateway books?  Would you like a chance to discuss the book with other students?  Here’s your chance!  Starting in December, we will be discussing some of the Gateway books.  Join us for some good discussions on good books!  Below is a schedule of when we will be discussing some of the Gateway books during AA, in the library.  Make sure to let Mrs. Shelton know if you have read one of these Gateway books.  If not, you won’t be invited to the discussion.  Your AA teacher will have a list of the students that can attend.

Friday, December 11 – Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Friday, January 15  – Beastly by Alex Flinn

Friday, January 29 – Unwind by Neal Schusterman

Friday, February 12 – Boot Camp by Todd Strasser

Friday, February 26  – Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

If you like a good ghost story, then this might surprise you – in a good way. It is definitely not like any ghost story I have ever read before. The story follows a boy from a toddler until he is a teenager with all sorts of adventures in between. How can a graveyard sustain a human anyhow and what kind of life would it be to live in a graveyard?

The mystery about the parents death keeps you guessing all throughout the book, since the murderer is still out there – waiting and looking for the boy. What is so important about this family to have to been wiped from the face of the earth?

I truly enjoyed reading this book with it’s interesting, odd, and otherworldly characters. So if you like books like “The Devouring” or any Mary Downing Hahn ghost book – this could be the book for you.

-Mrs. Robertson

This book was the winner of the Newbery Award in 2009.

High School students, check out the Gateway Readers Award Blog that has been put together by students at Lee Summit High School.  All high school students in Missouri are invited to join in the discussions on the blog!

http://www.lmclive.org/