Our most recent acquisitions include some sports biographies and other books of interest as we enter the Winter Olympic season.
Have you seen or heard about the movie “The Blind Side?” It’s based on the book by the same name, a wonderful true story of a talented young athlete rescued by football and a generous and loving family. The Blind Side: Evolution of a game by Michael Lewis is not only an inspiring story of a young football player, it is also an riveting lesson on the changing nature of football in America.
Click on these links to find out more about our new sports titles:
The complete book of the Winter Olympics
The boys of winter: The untold story of a coach, a dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Shooting Stars
No Substitute for Sundays
Doc: the rise and rise of Julius Erving
The best American sports writing, 2009
Another recent movie was based on this book by John Carlin about a South African rugby team: Invictus
and finally, Pistol: the life of Pete Maravich
Enjoy some winter sports reading as you wait eagerly for spring weather!
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The Rocky Library is now open from 7:00 AM to 4:25 PM on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7 to 2:15 Wednesdays, and 7 to 3:25 Friday. Spend some quality time working on that research paper! Your English teacher will thank you!
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Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominees—2010
An Abundance of Katherines — John Green
Aftershock — Kelly Easton
Avalon High — Meg Cabot
The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
Christopher Killer — Alane Ferguson
City of Bones — Cassandra Clare
Does My Head Look Big in This? — Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Good Guy — Dean Koontz
Gym Candy — Carl Deuker
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray — Chris Wooding
I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You — Ally Carter
Inexcusable — Chris Lynch
Leaving Paradise — Simone Elkeles
Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Ishmael Beah
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s Syndrome — John Elder Robison
The Luxe — Anna Godbersen
Nineteen Minutes — Jodi Picoult
Pride of Baghdad — Brian Vaughan
Rooftop — Paul Volponi
Rules of Survival — Nancy Werlin
Wicked Lovely — Melissa Marr
The deadline for voting for the Abe Lincoln High School Book Award is fast approaching! If you have read four or more books on the list, you are eligible to vote. Ballots are available in the library, just mark which books you’ve read, which is your favorite and why and hand the ballot to a library staff person to tally. The statewide winner will be announced in February.
Posted on on January 11th, 2010 in
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You may want to check out some of our new books written specifically for you! From Bionics for the evil genius : 25 build-it-yourself projects
to 51 high-tech practical jokes for the evil genius
the Rocky library has all of your evil needs covered! The EVIL GENIUS
books are on display with ALL of our new books here in the library.
Posted on on October 30th, 2009 in
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Please come check out the new titles we’ve added this week! Some are sequels to other popular titles, like Rumor by Anna Godbersen, the second “Luxe” novel, sequel to, you know, The Luxe…
Have you read Crank and everything else by Ellen Hopkins? Then you might like her newest title, Tricks.
After consulting with one of the library’s manga fans, we discovered that Naruto starts a new story line in volume 28, so we now have Naruto 28 through 31 for you to enjoy.
Posted on on August 31st, 2009 in
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FIND A BOOK TO READ
- There are 22 titles to choose from! Look for the Abe display in the library or ask one of your wonderful library staff to help.
READ AND REVIEW
- When you finish the book, find the title on this site and post your comments and your name. Leave enough to let us know that you’ve read the book and we’ll enter you into the…
ABE$ FOR ABES DRAWING
- You will be entered into a drawing to win $5 every time you finish a book and post your review and your name.
VOTE!
- After you read five of the books on the list, you will be “registered to vote.” In February of 2010, high school students throughout Illinois will vote to decide which of the nominated books will be the Abraham Lincoln book award winner. We will give you a ballot and tally and send your votes to the Illinois School Library Media Association to be counted.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE AWARD
The Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award
The Abraham Lincoln Award is awarded annually to the author of the book voted as most outstanding by participating students in grades nine through twelve in Illinois. The award is named for Abraham Lincoln, one of Illinois’ most famous residents and himself an avid reader and noted author. The award is sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA).The Abraham Lincoln Award is designed to encourage high school students to read for personal satisfaction and become familiar with authors of young adult and adult books.
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Leave your comment about this Abe award nominee.
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