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Happy New School Year, ya'll!! Here in the LMC, we can't wait to get started reading, working, and

HAVING FUN!!

Hey, everyone! Hope you had an AMAZING summer! This summer I spent time with family, reading, and on the beach! I can't believe this is my 5th glorious year here! Looking forward to seeing & working with you all this year!

Meet our new library media specialist, Ms. Kelly!! This is her 4th year as a high school library media specialist, and she can't wait to work with all of you!

Ms. Kelly enjoys reading📚, spending time with her son👦 and her dog🐶, and watching sports.

GO GIANTS!🏈 GO METS!⚾

Hispanic Heritage Month is a month-long celebration (September 15th to October 15th) of Hispanic and Latino history and culture, recognizing the many contributions of Hispanic and Latino people made to the United States, including advocacy work, art, music, science, foods, and so much more.

The West Orange High School Library Media Center is seeking recruits for our Volunteer Program! This program offers students the opportunity to assist their learning community through the LMC; earn hours to satisfy volunteer requirements; serve as leaders among their peers; regularly visit and make use of countless library resources; and foster a love of active citizenship and lifelong learning in themselves and others.

Volunteer opportunities remain open to students enrolled for the 2025-2026 school year. The packet linked below contains everything you need to know about volunteering.

Goodreads Summary....

"Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she’s allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts when her feelings get too big.

Until the day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. Someone has read her writings—and has written back. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center. A boy who sparks a fire in her to write back.

Jon’s story is different than Adriana’s; he’s already been at Compass for years and will be in the system for years to come. Still, when he reads the words Adriana writes to him, it makes him feel like the walls that hold them in have melted away.

This fast-paced, highly compelling tour de force novel exposes what life is like in detention—and reveals the hearts of two teens who are forced to live in desperate circumstances."

From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical YA horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that’s perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King’s IT, and The Haunting of Hill House.

Art student Isadora Chang swore never to return to Slater. Growing up, Isa never felt at ease in the repressive former mining town, even before she realized she was bisexual—but after the deaths of two of her childhood friends, Slater went from feeling claustrophobic to suffocating. Isa took off before the town could swallow her, too, even though it meant leaving behind everything she knew, including her last surviving friend Mason.

When Isa’s abusive father kicks the bucket, she agrees to come back just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason, son of the local medium, turns up at the cemetery with a revelation and a plea: their friends were murdered by a supernatural entity, and he needs Isa to help stop the evil—before it takes anyone else.

When Isa begins to hear strange songs on the wind, and eerie artwork fills her sketchbook that she can’t recall drawing, she’s forced to stop running and confront her past. Because something is waiting in the shadows of Slater’s valleys, something that feeds on the pain and heartbreak of its children. Whatever it is, it knows Isa’s back… and it won’t let her escape twice.