The Library News

December Edition

2020-2021

Holiday Book Poem Excerpts of Quotes the Month Epic I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear year. – Charles Dickens, A Readers! Has grown familiar with your song; Christmas Carol Student leaders reading on the I hear it in the opening year, Epic! App I listen, and it cheers me long. st th I don’t want Christmas season to (Minutes Nov. 1 thru 30 ) Woods in Winter th end, because it’s the only time I Aiden D. – 5G- 5 – 310 minutes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow can legitimately indulge in one Owen Z. – 5V- 5th -388 minutes particular addiction: glitter.

Angelia D. – 4P- 4th –724 minutes* – Eloisa James, Paris in Love

th Julien H. – 4S- 4 - 330 minutes Christmas is like candy; it slowly

th melts in your mouth sweetening Jayci P. – 4T- 4 - 94 minutes A cheer for the snow—the drifting snow! every taste bud, making you wish Smoother and purer than beauty’s brow! rd Tyler G. – 3M - 3 -344 minutes it could last forever. – Richelle The creature of thought scarce likes to tread E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway On the delicate carpet so richly spread. rd Karson B. – 3V- 3 - 211 minutes With feathery wreaths the forest is bound, And the hills are with glittering diadems rd Eva G. – 3D- 3 - 425 minutes crown’d; ’Tis the fairest scene we can have below. Madelyn S. – 3S- 3rd - 501 minutes Sing, welcome, then, to the drifting snow! Snow *School Leader By Eliza Cook

Mrs. Strom’s Have a Library Question?

Picks: A Suggestion?

We welcome both! One of my “new” favorite Christmas stories is The Polar Contact Us Express by Chris Van Allsburg. School Phone: 412 -896-2327 This Caldecott Award-winning E-Mail: [email protected] story touches my heart EVERY Website : time I read it, or watch the https://www.efsd.net/Domain/556 animated movie adaptation. I love how the animators captured Chris Van Allsburg’s words and turned them into thrilling scenes:

“Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all that truly believe.”

NEWBERY AWARD SPOTLIGHT

Our library at Mount Vernon has an impressive collection of Newbery Award winning books. These outstanding books range in date from 1923’s winner, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, to the current 2020 winner, New Kid written and illustrated by Jerry Craft. Each month Mrs. Strom will highlight a winner. Get into the award winners! You won’t be disappointed…I promise! ************************************************************************ 2012 Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos 5 STARS Mrs. Strom ordered this book to complete our Newbery Winners collection. “it intrigued me because I have been to Norvelt, PA. This book was fantastic!!!” she says.

Synopsis: Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is “grounded for life” by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack’s way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder.

“It’s like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it’s your mind that allows the words to come to life.” (page 182) ― Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt