Selinsgrove Area

Intermediate Library

New Books

September 2008

It's a new year with new books in the library.  The following books were recently purchased and cataloged by the Intermediate School Library.

           

    Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo is a new series requested by one of our students.  Third grader, Katie Carew, nicked named Katie Kazoo, wishes she is someone else.  With the help of a blowing wind, she becomes someone or something else with the ability to solve a host of problems at school.

    Jeff Kinney's immensely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid has been on the New York Times' best seller list for over 70 weeks.  The first book, Greg Heffley's Journal, records the experiences of a not-so-popular middle school student during his sixth grade year.  The sequel, Roderick Rules, Greg tries to keep his older brother, Roderick, from telling all of the middle school about his humiliating summer.

   You Wouldn't Want to Be... has been a huge crowd pleaser with the Intermediate School students. With

15 new titles, our students will have opportunities to learn about many different subjects from history including Mary,

Queen of Scots, Pompeii, Ancient China, the Incan  Civilization, and life in nineteenth-century England.

      A late addition from the end of last school year, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell, is a fantasy how Emmy and her family are drugged with rat potions by a wicked nanny. It is up to Emmy and her friends to try to return everything to normal.  Will she be able to do it?

       One of my favorite books from this summer was Barbara O'Connor's How to Steal a Dog.  Georgina and her mother and brother are homeless living in a car after her father leaves the family.  As hard as her mother tries, she cannot scrape enough money together to get the family an apartment.  Georgina, embarrassed and desperate, develops a scheme to steal a rich woman's dog and plans to use the reward money to help the family secure an apartment.  At first Georgina is convinced what she plans to do is OK, but soon learns that the ends do not justify the means.

  John Grogan's popular Marley & Me, has been specially adapted for children in Marley : a Dog Like No Other.  John shares with readers his special golden retriever, Marley, and the special bond his family shared with the dog.

  Lesley M.M. Blume's new novel, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, is set in the a small Minnesota farming town in the early 1950's during the McCarthey years.  As is with the rest of the United States, Rusty Nail residents are fearful of a Soviet invasion and attack, so when a Russian-born world-renown pianist comes to live in Rusty Nail the entire town takes a stand on whether to accept her or not.  The book's main character, ten-year-old Franny, is an up and coming piano protégé who is in need of a new piano teacher and Olga Malenkov seems to be the right person at the right time in Franny's life.  If Olga accepts the job as Franny's teacher, Franny risks losing her friends and family's friends in Rusty Nail.  If she won't become Franny's teacher, Franny is forever stuck in Rusty Nail, never being able to achieve her ultimate goal as a pianist.

updated September 23, 2008