Rocky Library

The library staff would like to extend a warm welcome to our returning and new students!  Please take advantage of all the opportunities the library offers: fabulous fiction for your reading pleasure, LOTS of non-fiction covering everything from outbreaks of smallpox to death by wild animal, extended library hours to get you off to a good start, Abe Lincoln High School Book award nominees, and don’t forget our budding graphic novel and manga collections! 

Please feel free to ask your friendly library staff if you need any help or further information.

There’s a new display on the grand piano in the library…you can POST your own SECRET!  Funny, scary, weird, and anonymous, your (school appropriate) secret can be posted on the Rocky Crimson Crier website!

We recently put up our new  2011 Abraham Lincoln Award: Illinois’ High School Readers’ Choice Award display in the library.  Try some of these titles that were chosen by high school students around Illinois.   Post a comment, ANY comment, even if you HATED the book, tell us why!  We would love to hear your opinions!

Um, just keep it “clean” and I think you know who I’m talking to…

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian – Sherman Alexie
Artichoke’s Heart – Suzanne Supplee
Boot Camp — Todd Strasser
Deadline – Chris Crutcher
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart
Elsewhere — Gabrielle Zevin
Evermore: the Immortals – Alyson Noel
Graceling – Kristin Cashore
Hold Tight – Harlan Coben
House Rules: a Memoir – Rachel Sontag
Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins                      
Jerk, California – Jonathan Friesen
Just Listen — Sarah Dessen
Paper Towns – John Greene
Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles
Right Behind You — Gale Giles
Rucker Park Setup – Paul Volponi
Spanking Shakespeare — Jake Wizner
Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
Twisted — Laurie Halse Anderson
Unwind – Neal Shusterman
Wake — Lisa McMann

Click on the title to check availability and learn more about the book!

COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT ON THE BOOKS YOU READ!!

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!

Final Vote Tally — 2010 Abe Award
107–An Abundance of Katherines — John Green

71–Aftershock — Kelly Easton

89–Avalon High — Meg Cabot

232–The Book Thief — Markus Zusak

59–Christopher Killer — Alane Ferguson

291–City of Bones — Cassandra Clare

37–Does My Head Look Big in This? — Randa Abdel-Fattah

50–The Good Guy — Dean Koontz

159–Gym Candy — Carl Deuker

41–The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray — Chris Wooding

144–I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You — Ally Carter

51–Inexcusable — Chris Lynch

219–Leaving Paradise — Simone Elkeles

119–Life As We Knew It — Susan Beth Pfeffer

63–A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier — Ishmael Beah

55–Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s Syndrome — John Elder Robison

128–The Luxe — Anna Godbersen

276–Nineteen Minutes — Jodi Picoult

50–Pride of Baghdad — Brian Vaughan

38–Rooftop — Paul Volponi

93–Rules of Survival — Nancy Werlin

214–Wicked Lovely — Melissa Marr
Total libraries voting — 156

Total votes submitted — 2,586

The voting is over, but the books are still here in your library!

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.

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.

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 2011, 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

• Go to the ISLMA WEBSITE

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.

  You may have noticed that the 2010 Abe Lincoln award books include Pride of Baghdad, an awsome graphic allegory for the war in Iraq by Brian  K. Vaughn.  We did add some more of Mr. Vaughn’s books to the collection as well: Unmanned and Cycles are the first two books in his Y: THE LAST MAN series whose main character, Yorick, is the only male to survive a worldwide plague.  

Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, wrote a series about the Astonishing X-Men, Gifted, Dangerous, Torn, and Unstoppable.  Also check out his addition to the Runaway series, Dead End Kids and a stand alone title, the futuristic sci-fi story of Fray

Please keep checking the graphic novel section for new additions!