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Library
Information
When does my child visit the
library?
AM
Kindergarten students
in Ms. Crandell’s room are scheduled into the media center on Tuesday.
The AM kindergarteners in Ms. Townsend’s room will come to the library
on Wednesday. PM kindergarten students will visit on Monday.
1st grade students visit the
library on Thursday.
2nd grade classes
in Ms.
Berrie’s room are scheduled into the media center on Monday, the
students in Ms. Neugent and Ms. Water’s classrooms will come on Friday
afternoon.
3rd graders have library visits on Thursday.
Students in grades 4 to 8
do not have scheduled library times. St.
Francis School has an open library policy; meaning students are
encouraged to use the library any time of the day for browsing, research
and checkout.
 What is the
library’s checkout policy?
Books are checked out for
two weeks; however, students are encouraged to return their books as
soon as they have finished reading them. Books may be returned any day
of the week. There are no overdue fines, but if your child has two or
more overdue books, he/she will be asked to wait until those books are
returned before checking out another. Overdue notices (if needed) will
be sent home on a weekly basis. Please send a note with your child if
you have any questions or concerns about overdue materials.
 Encourage your child to read
Every adult
needs to be a book advocate for children! Don’t be afraid to affirm a
child when you see them reading a book – be it in a waiting room, the
car line, the swimming pool, or cuddled up in bed. Your comments and
conversation could change a reader’s life in many ways.
Our world is
populated by literal readers (children and adults) who read to find
answers, pass tests, fulfill assignments, or to practice the reading
process. We need readers who are thinkers! Why read aloud or alone?
Reading advocate, librarian, and author Judy Freeman (Books Kids Will
Sit Still For 3) suggests 13 great reasons.
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To bond together,
either one on one, as parent and child, or together as part of a
larger group.
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To figure out
how to handle new, difficult or challenging life situations.
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To open up a
global window and see how people do things in other parts of the
world.
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To visualize
text and stories and exercise the mind’s eye or imagination.
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To develop
empathy, tolerance, and understanding.
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To grow
language skills, exploring narrative dialogue, the use of language,
vocabulary, and the relationship between the written and spoken word.
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To better
recall and comprehend the narrative structures, plot elements, and
sequence in a story.
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To be exposed
to eloquent, elegant, interesting, or unusual examples of language,
writing styles, and words, and to hear the author’s “voice” out loud,
spoken with expression and fluency.
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To share
emotions, from laughter to tears.
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To develop critical thinking skills:
making inferences, drawing conclusions, identifying key words and ideas,
comparing and contrasting, recognizing cause and effect, sequencing and
defining problems versus solutions.
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To experience sheer
enjoyment and love of stories, both old favorites and brand-new ones,
for their own sake.
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To hone writing skills. As
children’s author Richard Peck writes in Past, Perfect, Present
Tense: New and Collected Stories, “Nobody but a reader can ever
become a writer …you have to read a thousand stories before you can
write one…we write by the light of every story we ever read. Reading
other people’s stories shows you the way to your own.”
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To grow from an
avid listener into an avid reader, learner, and thinker!
Be a reading model for the children
in your life!
Picture Books:
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That New Animal
by Emily Jenkins
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10 Little Rubber Ducks
by Eric Carle
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Diary of a Spider
by Doreen Cronin
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Traction Man
by Mini Grey
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Zen Shorts
by John Muth
Middle Grade Chapter Books:
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The Absolutely True Story – How I Visited Yellowstone
with the Terrible Rupes by Willo Davis
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Chasing the Falconers
by Gordon Korman
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The Penderwicks: a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two
Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
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Trading Places with Tank Talbot
by Dori Hillestad Butler
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Liberation of Gabriel King
by K.L. Going
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Gifts From the Sea
by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Middle School Chapter Books:
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Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
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Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator
by Jennifer Allison
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Iqbal
by Francesco D’Adamo
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The Vacation
by Peggy Horvath
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Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
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Chain Letter by Julie Schumacher
2007 –2008 Iowa Children’s Choice Books
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The Blue Ghost
by Marion Bauer
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The President’s
Daughter by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Trading Places with Tank Talbot
by Dori Hillestad Butler
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Lunch Money
by Andrew
Clements
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White Star: A
Dog on the Titanic
by Marty Crisp
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The Missing
Manatee by Cynthia DeFelice
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The Miraculous
Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
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Race for the
Sky by Dan Gutman
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The Old Willis
Place by Mary
Downing Hahn
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Out of Order
by Betty Hicks
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Jackie’s Wild
Seattle by Will Hobbs
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Survival in the
Storm by Katelan Janke
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The Ghost’s
Grave by Peg Kehret
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Lumber Camp
Library by
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
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Confessions of
a Closet Catholic
by Sarah Darer Littman
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The Doll with
the Yellow Star by Yona Zeldis McDonough
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Hachiko Waits
by Leslea Newman
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Measle and the
Wrathmonk by Ian Ogilvy
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Project
Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
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Becoming Naomi
Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
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Surfer Dog
by
Elizabeth Spurr
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Enemy Spy
by Wendelin Van Draanen
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Each Little
Bird That Sings
by Deborah Wiles
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