The Iowa Association of School Librarians (IASL) creates an annual list of student-nominated titles for four different age groups. Students are encouraged to read these peer-nominated titles and then vote on their favorite selection. The title with the most votes is named the Iowa Award Book in that age group for the current school year. The four awards by grade level are the Goldfinch Award (Preschool-3rd grade), the Iowa Children's Choice Award (grades 3-6), the Iowa Teen Award (grades 6-9), and the Iowa High School Book Award (grade 9-12). Belmond-Klemme students are fortunate to have access to many of these titles. The Award Books all have a designated spine sticker, so look for the sticker while browsing the shelves. Also, use the following lists to plan your reading:
Set in modern day Massachusetts near Harvard University, a small, private all-girls school faces a mystery illness. If the storyline sounds familiar, you are right. Salem, Massachusetts, home of the Salem Witch Trials of the 1700’s played out in a similar fashion. Author Katherine Howe parallels the story of Colleen Rowley and her high school friends to some of the same challenges faced by Ann Putnam and some of her childhood friends growing up in Salem, Massachusetts. If you enjoy realistic fiction mixed with historical fiction, Howe illustrates the teen girls in 1700 Salem as bored, attention-seeking brats who get into a situation from which they cannot turn back and compares that to ways stressed out teens today respond in somewhat similar situations. Check out Conversion at the B-K Jr./Sr. High Library today!
In the giving, holiday spirit? Have a special way that you share with others? Proudly "post" how you like to "pay it forward." In the Jr.-Sr. High Library Mrs. Carlson has "post-it" notes for you to briefly describe how you like to be generous (during the holidays AND/OR throughout the year) and then stick it on our pay it forward library display. While you are in the library, remember to pick out a great book to read during Winter Break!
You are in luck! The Jr./Sr. High School Library and computer lab are now open at 7:45 on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Please remember to get a pass from your teacher BEFORE you come to work in the lab before school!
The B-K libraries have some new faces this school year. Mrs. McLaughlin is now assisting students at the Jacobson Elementary Library and we welcome Krista Carlson to the Jr./Sr. High School Library. Mrs. Striegel is the district's new, shared PreK-12 Teacher Librarian. Please stop in to say hello and let us assist you with your library questions.
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