Check out the history of Valentine’s Day.

Here are some books to help with those New Year’s Resoulutions!

‘Tis the Season

Curl up with a great Christmas novel…

New This Season:

Movie Tie In:

Disney’s A Christmas Carol official web site

 Previous favorites: 

Create some beautiful decorations or tasty treats…

Or maybe you’d rather track Santa Claus on his midnight run?

Norad Tracks Santa

 Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Gates of The Artcic National Park

Arctic Biome

Get scared @ your library!

Congratulations Maplewood!  For the second year in a row Maplewood Jr./Sr. High School was named the Most Valuable Player in the national Step Up to the Plate Baseball Trivia Challenge  sponsored by the American Library Association and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  We had more entries than any other library!  A prize package will be coming!

In addition, three of our own were awarded 1st place prize packages (5 were awarded for each age group).  Winners include Justin, Eric and Mrs. Karol McGowan.They will each receive a prize package worth $60.  Each package includes: A commemorative hardbound copy of the  Hall of Fame Yearbook, A Hall of Fame baseball, a commemorative set of 20 Hall of Fame baseball cards, a copy of a book from the “Sluggers Series” and a pair of youth batting gloves.

Thank you to all students, staff and administrators who took the time to enter the contest last May in support of information literacy and our library!

Jeanne Rose

Librarian – Maplewood Jr./Sr. High School

Step Up to the Plate @ your library!

Check out our scary book display…

Catcher in the Rye . . . Harry Potter . . . Captain Underpants . . .
Every year, there are hundreds of attempts to remove books from schools and libraries. Celebrate YOUR freedom to read and right to choose your book during Banned Books Week, September 26th  to October 3rd.  Visit your library today.  For more information, visit http://www.ala.org/bbooks.

Check out these books and others on display in your library:

Explore these web sites:

Science News For Kids

Science.gov

Read…Remember…