From Mrs. Baccomo
The library has been super busy this past month.
Lots of students were able to come in for a book tasting, and many walked away with some great new reads. If you haven't stopped by the library recently, you should come to check out the art sculptures from Mrs. Nunley's art classes!
We are still trying to complete the giant elephant coloring sheet. If you come to the library during recess to help finish this project, you will receive a stamp, or more, on your SPOT card.
Reminders:
💀 If you have submitted a book review and didn't receive a SPOT card, you may have completed it too soon. Make sure you are submitting book reviews once you have COMPLETED reading the book. Book reviews are not on specific chapters that you are reading. Book reviews should also be more than "Great book."
🎃 Our fall book fair will open Monday, October 31! Make sure you visit for some hauntingly good reads!
💀 Be on the lookout for our annual October "Guess how many" contest. We will soon place a jar full of candy on the circulation desk. Whoever guesses the correct number, or the closest to it, will win the ENTIRE JAR!
🎃 If you haven't joined the Library's Canvas page, go ahead and join now. Mrs. Branham and Mrs. Baccomo share lots of information and fun activities that you can complete whenever you want. No grades are required!
💀 Speaking of fun activities, have you seen the daily Breakout posted on the library Canvas page? Try your luck to see if you can crack the code. You never know when you may get a prize!
This Appearing House
When Jac first sees the House, she’s counting down to the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, when she hopefully will be declared NED, or “no evidence of disease.” But with a house appearing, and her hands shaking, and a fall off her bike, Jac is starting to wonder if these are symptoms—or if something stranger is happening.
Two classmates dare Jac and her friend Hazel to enter the House. Walking through the front door is the way in. It’s definitely not the way out. There’s something off about the House; Jac can feel it. The same way she knows it’s no coincidence that the House appeared for her five-year marker. It wants something from her. And she won’t be able to get out until she figures out what.
Tumble
Addie’s sleuthing takes her to a New Mexico ranch, and her world expands to include the legendary Bravos: Rosie and Pancho, her paternal grandparents and former professional wrestlers; Eva and Maggie, her older identical twin cousins who love to spar in and out of the ring; Uncle Mateo, whose lucha couture and advice are unmatched; and Manny, her biological father, who’s in the midst of a career comeback. As luchadores, the Bravos’s legacy is strong. But being part of a family is so much harder—it’s about showing up, taking off your mask, and working through challenges together.
Ride On
Victoria thought all she wanted in life was to ride, train, and study horses. But after all the pressure from competitions, and a falling out with her best friend Taylor, Victoria takes a step back from everything. She starts attending Edgewood Stables, a smaller riding facility, with the goal to renew her love for horses.
But of course things could never be simple. At Edgewood Stables she is faced with the challenge of schooling a new horse named Quinn while dealing with the rocky personality of Norrie, the queen bee who is making everyone ignore Victoria. Things come to a head at the Waverly Stable’s annual schooling show, where Victoria has to compete with Quinn and also face her ex-best friend!
The Deadliest Fires Then and Now
As the sun sank over the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, one warm October night in 1871, a smoky haze hung in the dry air. There had been little rain, and small fires had been rolling through town continuously since the summer. For weeks the people had tried to protect their homes and businesses from fire. But they could not protect themselves from what would culminate in the deadliest fire in American history.
As industrialization surged across the country, and Westward colonization leveled forests to build cities, fires became a mainstay in American life. And as populations grew, so too did the human toll that fire could exact. Through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Americans searched for new and innovative ways to combat the threat of fire. And with climate change threatening to set the whole world aflame, we are once again in a fight for our planet’s future.
Through the eyes of scientists, witnesses, and survivors of terrible fires alike, Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings the horrific history of deadly fires to life, tracing a line from the Peshtigo and Great Chicago fires of 1871 to the wildfires raging in the western United States today. Filled with more than 50 period photographs and illustrations, facts, and pull-out boxes for eager nonfiction readers.
Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids
-The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
-The cold case of D. B. Cooper
-The disappearance of Masterpiece the poodle
-Two brothers' cunning escape from Alcatraz
-Sherlock Holmes and the Fairy Photographs
-Real-life Ghostbusters
The Clackity
Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight Harbor—the seventh-most haunted town in America—with her Aunt Desdemona, the local paranormal expert. Des doesn’t have many rules except one: Stay out of the abandoned slaughterhouse at the edge of town. But when her aunt disappears into the building, Evie goes searching for her.
There she meets The Clackity, a creature who lives in the shadows and seams of the slaughterhouse. The Clackity makes a deal with Evie to help get Des back in exchange for the ghost of John Jeffrey Pope, a serial killer who stalked Blight Harbor a hundred years earlier. Evie must embark on a journey into a strange otherworld filled with hungry witches, penny-eyed ghosts, and a memory-thief, all while being pursued by a dead man whose only goal is to add Evie to his collection of lost souls.
