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Library
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When does my child visit the
library?
Kindergarten
students in Mrs. Crandall's class and Mrs. Howards's class will visit to
the library on Tuesday mornings. Mrs. Morris's class will visit on
Thursday mornings.
1st grade
classes visit the library on Friday afternoons .
2nd grade
students Mrs. Berrie's class will
visit the library on Monday, Ms. Nuggent's class will visit on Tuesday
and Mrs. Water's class on Wednesday
3rd grader
classes are scheduled to visit the library on Thursday afternoons .
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?
B
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.
To bond together, either one on one, as parent and child, or together as
part of a larger group.
To figure out how to handle new, difficult or challenging life
situations.
To open up a global window and see how people do things in other parts
of the world.
To visualize text and stories and exercise the mind’s eye or
imagination.
To develop empathy, tolerance, and understanding.
To grow language skills, exploring narrative dialogue, the use of
language, vocabulary, and the relationship between the written and
spoken word.
To better recall and comprehend the narrative structures, plot elements,
and sequence in a story.
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.
To share emotions, from laughter to tears.
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.
To experience sheer enjoyment and love of stories, both old favorites
and brand-new ones, for their own sake.
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.”
To grow from an avid listener into an avid reader, learner, and thinker!
Be a reading model for the children in your life!
2009 –2010 Iowa Children’s Choice Books
Auch, M.J. -- One-Handed Catch
Birney, Betty G. -- Surprises According to Humphrey
Byars, Betsy -- The Black Tower
Clements, Andrew -- No Talking
Davies, Jacqueline -- The Lemonade War
Ferber, Brenda A. -- Julia’s Kitchen
Giff, Patricia Reilly – Eleven
Going, K.L. -- The Liberation of Gabriel King
Gutman, Dan -- The Homework Machine
Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Double Identity
Jacobson, Jennifer Richard -- Winnie at Her Best
Lin, Grace -- The Year of the Dog: A Novel
Martin, Ann M. -- A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
McGhee, Alison -- Snap: A Novel
McKissack, Patricia C. -- A Friendship for Today
Mills, Claudia -- Being Teddy Roosevelt
Selznick, Brian -- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Straight, Susan – The Friskative Dog
Urban, Linda -- A Crooked Kind of Perfect
White, Ruth -- Way Down Deep
Wolf, Joan M. -- Someone Named Eva
Wolfson, Jill -- What I Call Life
Young, Steve -- 15 Minutes
Iowa Public Libraries
ACC. READER. ON-LINE DATABASE
Click on the Link below to search the SFA Library Accelerated Reader
List
By Book Level
 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.
-
To figure out
how to handle new, difficult or challenging life situations.
-
To open up a
global window and see how people do things in other parts of the
world.
-
To visualize
text and stories and exercise the mind’s eye or imagination.
-
To develop
empathy, tolerance, and understanding.
-
To grow
language skills, exploring narrative dialogue, the use of language,
vocabulary, and the relationship between the written and spoken word.
-
To better
recall and comprehend the narrative structures, plot elements, and
sequence in a story.
-
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.
-
To share
emotions, from laughter to tears.
-
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.
-
To experience sheer
enjoyment and love of stories, both old favorites and brand-new ones,
for their own sake.
-
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
2008 –2009 Iowa Children’s Choice Books
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Birney, Betty
G. Friendship according to Humphrey
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Bryant,
Jennifer. Pieces of Georgia : a novel
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Buckey, Sarah
Masters, 1955- The stolen sapphire : a Samantha mystery
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Butler, Dori
Hillestad. Do you know the monkey man?
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Cooper, Susan,
1935- Victory
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Corbett,
Sue. Free baseball
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Cummings,
Priscilla, 1951- Saving Grace
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Dart, Iris
Rainer. Larry, the king of rock and roll : a novel
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Gutman,
Dan. The million dollar putt
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Holm, Jennifer
L. Penny from heaven
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Hoobler,
Dorothy. The sword that cut the burning grass : a samurai
mystery
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Kadohata,
Cynthia. Weedflower
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Kehret,
Peg. Abduction!
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Lombard,
Jenny. Drita, my homegirl
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Lord,
Cynthia. Rules
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Naylor, Phyllis
Reynolds. Roxie and the hooligans
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O'Connor,
Barbara. Taking care of Moses
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O'Dell,
Kathleen, 1957- Ophie out of Oz
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Park, Linda
Sue. Archer's quest
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Ray, Delia.
Singing hands
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Schlitz, Laura
Amy. A drowned maiden's hair : a melodrama
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Shalant, Phyllis. Bartleby of the
Big, Bad Bayou
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Stone, Jeff. Tiger
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Wallace, Bill, 1947- No dogs allowed!
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White, Ruth, 1942- Tadpole
Iowa Public Libraries
ACC. READER.
ON-LINE DATABASE
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Click on the Link below to search the SFA
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