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The following are two terrific informational graphics that are helpful for students applying to colleges as well as for employment to read and understand. Reading Students Like An Open Facebook and Protecting Your Online Reputation.
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The new PEN American Center Post Highlights Information about Banned Books Week:
“It’s time again for Banned Books Week, that annual celebration of one’s freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted book bannings and challenges across the United States. Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for this week-long celebration. So if you love reading and you believe in the first amendment, join the hundreds of libraries, book stores, and literary and human rights organization for this year’s celebration.”
The library is open for business and ready to check out books! Please visit and grab something to read. We are open bright and early at 7:30 am so come in before classes, during 20 minute break or after school. Please get a pre-signed pass from a classroom teacher to use the library during study hall. Happy Reading!
The 2011 Statistical Abstract is now available online!
What is the Statistical Abstract?
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.
Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.
The library website has several New York State Regents Review sites. Please take advantage of these free online sources to help you prepare for January Regents exams.
We have a new “Starred Book” section on display in the library. The books that are shelved in this location have been rated as excellent reads by other Maple Hill High School students. When a student really likes a book and thinks that other kids should read it they put a small star on the inside cover of the book. That book will then be placed on the “Starred Books” shelf.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to ReadBanned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.
Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
For more information on getting involved with Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, please see Calendar of Events and Ideas and Resources. You can also contact the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4220, or bbw@ala.org.
The library is open and ready for you. The library is open everyday at 7:30am, 20 minute break, after school from 2pm-2:40pm and during study halls with a pre-signed pass from a classroom teacher. This is a new policy so please see me with any questions. Also we have newly donated books from the Questar III School Library System. Please check out our new materials on the following list.
| 305.235 | Weinstein, Bruce D. Is it still cheating if I don’t get caught? 1st ed. New York : Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, 2009. Uses real-life examples and five basic moral principles to encourage teens to make the right choices in various situations related to friends, family, school, and relationships. |
| 305.48 DAB | Dabel, Jane E. A respectable woman : the public roles of African American women in 19th-century New York. New York : New York University Press, c2008. I resided in said city ever since : women and the neighborhoods — We were not as particular in old days about getting married as they are now : women, the family, and household composition — I washed for my living : black women’s occupations — Idle pleasures and frivolous amusements : African-American women and leisure time — They turned me out of my house : African-American women and racialized violence — We should cultivate those powers : activism of African-American women. |
| 307.76 HOP | Hopkinson, Deborah. Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924. 1st ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2003. Coming to the golden land — Tenements: shutting out the sky — Settling in: greenhorns and boarders — Everyone worked on — On the streets: pushcarts, pickles and play — A new language, a new life — Looking to the future: will it ever be different?. Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century. |
| 328.73 WHI | Nine and counting. 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2001. |
| 363.2 JAC | Kallner, Donna Jackson, 1958-. The bone detectives : how forensic anthropologists solve crimes and uncover mysteries of the dead. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1996. Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes. |
| 419 RIE | Riekehof, Lottie L. The joy of signing : the illustrated guide for mastering sign language and the manual alphabet. 2nd ed. Springfield, MO : Gospel Publishing House, c1987. History of sign language and fingerspelling — Terminology — The language pattern of signs : signing on the continuum — Fingerspelling — Manual alphabet chart. Guide to communicating in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern. |
| 646.7 RIM | Rimm, Sylvia B., 1935-. How Jane won : 55 successful women share how they grew from ordinary girls to extraordinary women. 1st ed. New York : Crown Business, c2001. Fifty-five women share their secrets for success and discuss how different people define success. |
| 741.5 GAI | Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman. New York : DC Comics, c1993. A graphic novel of horror and fantasy revolving around the strange dreams of several roommates. |
| 741.5 GAI | Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman. New York : DC Comics, c1992. Presents a graphic novel, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by a variety of top comic artists, in which Lord Morpheus is commanded by his family, the immortal beings known as the Endless, to rescue a lover who he had condemned to hell, even though Lucifer has sworn to kill him. |
| 741.5 GAI | Gaiman, Neil. The sandman. New York : DC Comics, [1995]. A collection of eight comics that introduce the series’ lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams. |
| 741.5 GAI | Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman. New York : DC Comics, c1993. Contains nine stories in which the Lord of Dreams observes and interacts with kings, spies, emperors, actors, werewolves, and other people and creatures from the past and present. Presented in graphic novel form. |
| 741.5 GAI | Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman. New York : DC Comics, c1995. Collects four comics from Neil Gaiman’s series “The Sandman”: “Calliope,” “Dream of a Thousand Cats,” “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Facade,” and includes the original script of “Calliope” with notes by Gaiman and artist Kelley Jones. |
| 741.5 GAI | Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman. New York : DC Comics, [1995], c1990. The entire world is placed at risk when three dreams escaped from the Dreaming into the waking world meet up with Rose Walker, a young woman searching for her brother. Presented in graphic novel form. |
| 741.5 IWA | Iwahara, Yuji. King of thorn. Hamburg [Germany] ; : Tokyopop, c2007. Kasumi and her twin sister, Shizuku, are infected by a virus that turns them to stone; but Kasumi, who was cryogenically frozen, wakes up to find herself in an unfamiliar world, and resolves to unlock the mysteries of the disease and the fate of her sister. |
| 741.5 IWA | Iwahara, Yuji. King of thorn. Hamburg [Germany] ; : Tokyopop, c2007. Kasumi, one of a small band of survivors who awoke too soon from a frozen state which was supposed to keep them safe until a cure could be found for a virus that turns its victims into stone, continues her quest to find a way off the island on which she has been imprisoned, and sets off with her companions into a half-submerged tunnel, not knowing what awaits them at the end. |
| 741.5 IWA | Iwahara, Yuji. King of thorn. Hamburg [Germany] ; : Tokyopop, c2008. The Medusa Virus survivors hope to learn about the epidemic from Peter’s hard drive and Marco faces off against a slimy monster. |
| 741.5 IWA | Iwahara, Yuji. King of thorn. Hamburg [Germany] ; : Tokyopop, c2008. Kasumi and the other survivors learn the truth behind the Medusa virus, but the knowledge does not make it any easier for them to survive and slowly they begin to turn on one another. |
| 741.5 MIL | Miller, Frank, 1957-. Batman : the Dark Knight strikes again. New York : DC Comics, c2002. Presents the complete three-part story in which Batman, believed to be dead, returns with his small army of Bat-soldiers to save a world on the brink of ruin. Includes numerous sketches and other never-before-seen material. |
| 741.5 MOO | Moore, Alan, 1953-. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. La Jolla, CA : America’s Best Comics, c2000. The adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a group composed of characters taken from late 19th Century literature, as they defend Britain against various villains. Includes the text story “Allan and the Sundered Veil” by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O’Neill. |
| 741.5 MOO | Moore, Alan, 1953-. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. La Jolla, CA : America’s Best Comics, c2003. Alien invaders from Mars attack London, and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is called upon to protect the empire, but when the Invisible Man joins the Martians’ cause, all may be lost. Includes “The New Traveller’s Almanac,” a 19th century travelogue. |
| 741.5 MOO | Moore, Alan, 1953-. V for vendetta. New York : Vertigo/DC Comics, c2005. A collection of comics from the “V for Vendetta” series, which recounts one man’s attempts to rise up against the oppressive government. |
| 741.5 YAN | Yang, Gene Luen. The eternal smile : three stories. 1st ed. New York : First Second, 2009. Duncan’s kingdom — Gran’pa Greenbax and the eternal smile — Urgent request. A collection of three graphic stories featuring Duncan, a charming prince hoping to win the princess’s hand; Gran’pa Greenbax, a greedy old frog who longs to find true happiness; and Janet, a busy working woman who thinks she has found true love with a Nigerian prince who contacts her through an email asking for her help in liberating his family. |
| 782.1 LAR | Larson, Jonathan. Rent. New York : R. Weisbach Books, c1997. Contains color photographs, the full libretto, and a behind-the-scenes oral history of the creation and development of the musical “Rent.”. |
| 792.02 BEN | Benedetti, Robert L. The actor in you : sixteen simple steps to understanding the art of acting. 4th ed. Boston, MA : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2009. |
| 792.09 BRO | Brockett, Oscar Gross, 1923-. History of the theatre. Foundation ed. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2007. Chronicles the evolution of the theater from its beginnings to the early twenty-first century, covering styles, creative and technical elements, and the theater’s impact on society and culture. Focuses largely on Europe and the U.S. but also discusses Africa, Asia, Latin America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. |
| 808.82 WAI | Plays onstage : an anthology. Boston : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, c2006. |
| 811 HUG | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Vintage Hughes. New York : Vintage Books, 2004. Presents selected works from “The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes,” and “The Ways of White Folks.”. |
| 956.704 SMI | Smithson, Ryan. Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI. 1st ed. New York : Collins, c2009. Ryan Smithson recounts the experiences he had serving his first tour of duty as an Army engineer in Iraq when he was only nineteen. |
| 973.917 SAN | Sandler, Martin W. The Dust Bowl through the lens : how photography revealed and helped remedy a national disaster. New York : Walker, 2009. A collection of historic photographs that capture the devastation that plagued the Dust Bowl and the courage and enduring spirit of the people who tried to save their homes and livelihood during the era. |
| FIC BRE | Brewer, Heather. The chronicles of Vladimir Tod : ninth grade slays. New York : Speak, 2009, c2008. High school freshman Vlad Todd, having a hard time with bullies and his grades, takes the opportunity to study abroad in Siberia, where he meets other vampires and learns how to use his mind-control abilities. |
| FIC DOW | Dower, Laura. Rewind. New York : Scholastic, c2006. Cady Sanchez, having just witnessed her big crush Lucas slap her friend Hope at prom, tries to reconstruct the events that led to the shocking incident. |
| FIC DUB | Duble, Kathleen Benner. Quest. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008. Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson’s final voyage in 1602 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son left in London, a crewmember, and a young English woman acting as a spy in Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family’s name. |
| FIC GOD | Godbersen, Anna. The luxe. 1st pbk ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2008, c2007. In 1899 Manhattan, the drowning of beautiful Elizabeth Holland, daughter of New York society’s ruling family, brings to the surface the scandalous behavior of several teenagers of varying social class. |
| FIC GRI | Grisham, John. Bleachers. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2003. When his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his former teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings about the man. |
| FIC HUR | Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008. Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, and when Charlotte finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead. |
| FIC KAT | Katcher, Brian. Almost perfect. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student–who is hiding a big secret–arrives at his small-town Missouri high school. |
| FIC KAY | Kaye, Marilyn. Better late than never. 1st American ed. New York : Kingfisher, 2009. Jenna Kelley has always dreamed of living a conventional life with normal parents, despite her supernatural gifts, but when her mother winds up in rehab and her estranged father unexpectedly shows up, she knows there is no chance of her dream coming true, especially when she uncovers her father’s dark secret. |
| FIC KAY | Kaye, Marilyn. Here today, gone tomorrow. New York : Kingfisher, c2009. Emily Sanders, who has the gift of premonition and has become frustrated because her visions are not entirely accurate and her classmates have begun to doubt her ability, starts to master her powers, but it may be too late. |
| FIC KOO | Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Brother Odd. New York : Bantam Books, 2006. Searching for peace after the death of his girlfriend, medium Odd Thomas leaves his home in Pico Mundo, California, and travels to St. Bartholemew’s Abbey, where he encounters and must stop evil spirits who have intentions of harming the handicapped children who reside in the monastery. |
| FIC KOO | Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Forever Odd. New York : Bantam Books, 2005. |
| FIC KOO | Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Odd hours. New York : Bantam Books, 2008. Odd Thomas, a young fry cook who has the ability to communicate with the dead, is led by his dreams to a small California coastal town where he is faced with a darkness that seems to be stalking the entire world. |
| FIC LEC | Leck, James. The adventures of Jack Lime. Toronto, ON ; : KCP Fiction, c2010. Collects three adventures in which teenager Jack Lime, a self-made private investigator, looks into problems for his classmates while dealing with cases involving hostage hamsters, stolen bikes and difficult clients. |
| FIC LEV | Levithan, David. Love is the higher law. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009. Three New York City teens express their reactions to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and its impact on their lives and the world. |
| FIC LO | Lo, Malinda. Ash. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009. A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King’s Huntress, whom she loves. |
| FIC MAR | Marchetta, Melina, 1965-. Finnikin of the rock. 1st Candlewick Press ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010, c2008. Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere. |
| FIC MAR | Marshall, Paule, 1929-. Brown girl, brownstones. 2nd Feminist Press ed. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, [2006], c1959. Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II. Selina, whose parents emigrated from Barbados, tries to overcome poverty and racism and make her new country home. |
| FIC NOE | Noël, Alyson. Blue moon. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009. Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way, but just as her powers are increasing, his are in decline, and as she searches for a way to save him, she finds herself with a wrenching choice to make. |
| FIC NOE | Noël, Alyson. Evermore. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009. Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people’s thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. |
| FIC NOE | Noël, Alyson. Shadowland. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009. Ever and Damen’s destiny draws closer just as a curse descends on Damen that prevents the two from touching, and when Ever turns to Jude Knight for help, her love for and devotion to her soul mate is tested. |
| FIC PRA | Pratchett, Terry. Jingo : a Discworld novel. New York, NY : HarperPrism, [1999], 1998. Discworld’s ancient rival cities Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali go to war over an island that rises out of the sea and is claimed by both cities. |
| FIC QUI | Quiñonez, Ernesto. Bodega dreams. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2000. Chino, a young Puerto Rican man with a bright future, looks to Willie Bodega, the New York City drug pusher who rules Spanish Harlem, for a favor and becomes ensconced in a world of betrayal and violence. |
| FIC ROT | Roth, Matthue. Losers. New York : PUSH/Scholastic, c2008. Russian-born teenager Jupiter Glazer tries to fit in with his American classmates and ends up becoming the target of a bully and developing a crush on a popular girl who is friendly to him. |
| FIC ROT | Roth, Matthue. Never mind the Goldbergs. New York : PUSH/Scholastic, c2005. A seventeen-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl leaves her home in New York for the summer to film a television show in California. |
| FIC SCO | Scott, Michael, 1959-. The necromancer. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2010. After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home, and after everything they have seen and learned in the past week, they are both more confused than ever. |
| FIC SHE | Sheldon, Dyan. Sophie Pitt-Turnbull discovers America. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007, c2003. While spending the summer in Brooklyn with her mother’s former schoolmate, Sophie, a sheltered English teenager, makes some unlikely friends and finds a new side to her formerly “dull and passive” personality. |
| FIC SMI | Smith, L. J. (Lisa J.). Dark visions. Simon Pulse pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2009. The strange power — The possessed — The passion. Collects three novels in the Dark Visions series, including “The Strange Power” in which psychic Kaitlyn Fairchild accepts an invitation to attend a school where she is surrounded by teens like her, “The Possessed” in which the students face the unknown on a trip to the strange white house on the cliff, and “The Passion” in which Kaitlyn puts herself in danger in order to save Gabriel from being destroyed by Rob. |
| FIC SMI | Smith, L. J. (Lisa J.). Night world. Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008. Secret vampire — Daughter of darkness — Spellbinder. Contains three novels by L.J. Smith, and includes “Secret Vampire,” in which Poppy asks her secret lover James to make her immortal after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, “Daughters of Darkeness,” that describes the lives of three vampire sisters, and “Spellbinder” in which two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. |
| FIC SMI | Smith, L. J. (Lisa J.). Night world. Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2009. Huntress — Black dawn — Witchlight. Collects three “Night World” novels from L.J. Smith, and features “Huntress,” in which Jez Redfern learns that she is half-human; “Black Dawn,” which depicts Maggie Neely on her dangerous search to find her missing brother, Miles; and in “Witchlight,” Raksha Keller is hired to protect a Wild Power, but her growing affections for the Wild Power’s soul mate could ruin everything. |
| FIC ZAD | Zadoff, Allen. Food, girls, and other things I can’t have : a novel. New York : Egmont USA, 2009. Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush. |
| Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican. 1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006, 1993. Memoirs of the author’s childhood and youth in Puerto Rico and New York City. |
Please take a look at this extremely helpful New York State Regents Review website created by the Oswego City School District: http://www.regentsprep.org/
The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant and the Learning Technology Grant.
This site is already linked on the library webpage under “Regents Review“.
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
Please visit the library to see the wide array of poetry books that the library has for you to borrow and enjoy.
April 29th 2010 is “Poem In Your Pocket Day” and the library will celebrate by handing out poems to all who visit. Come join the celebration of this art.
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