Wednesday 2 December 2015

PAGE TURNERS- 3RD BOOK OF THE YEAR- THE MOVEMENT OF STARS BY AMY BRILL

A love story set in 1845 Nantucket, between a female astronomer and the unusual man who understands her dreams.
It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all, and a woman’s path is expected to lead to marriage and motherhood. But up on the rooftop each night, Hannah pursues a very different—and elusive—goal: discovering a comet and thereby winning a gold medal awarded by the King of Denmark, something unheard of for a woman.

And then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. but when their shared interest in the stars develops into something deeper, Hannah’s standing in the community begins to unravel, challenging her most fundamental beliefs about work and love, and ultimately changing the course of her life forever.

Inspired by the work of Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in America, The Movement of Stars is a richly drawn portrait of desire and ambition in the face of adversity.
 (goodreads.com)

BOOK OF THE MONTH - DECEMBER - ALONG COMES A WOLFE BY COUNIOS & GANE

The first exciting adventure of Shepherd and Wolfe. 

High school student, Sheri Beckman, has disappeared. After a massive search turns up nothing, her boyfriend, Tony Shepherd, joins forces with the wise-ass troublemaker, Charlie Wolfe, to find out what happened. 

However, Charlie’s way isn’t always lawful, so when another missing girl shows up dead, Tony must decide whether doing right sometimes means doing wrong. Against a ruthless killer, they must work together and stop him before someone else dies. 

These aren’t your parent’s boy detectives. (Amazon.com)

Monday 9 November 2015

BOOK OF THE MONTH- NOVEMBER- NIGHT by ELIE WIESEL

Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–45, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.

Thursday 22 October 2015

Book Spine Poetry Contest- Winners!!

Brianna Avery- First Place Winner


Hope Jeffries- 2nd Place Winner
Jane Milligan- 3rd Place Winner
Honourable Mentions:
Christian Luansing
Jeremy Hamelin
Ella Bray

Tuesday 20 October 2015

PAGE TURNERS-2ND BOOK OF THE YEAR- AN EMBER IN THE ASHES BY SABAA TAHIR!

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself. (Goodreads)

PAGE TURNERS- 1ST BOOK OF THE YEAR- FINDING AUDREY BY SOPHIE KINSELLA!!

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An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just Audrey but also her entire family. (Goodreads).

BOOK OF THE MONTH- OCTOBER- ZOM-B SERIES BY DARREN SHAN




Zom-B is a radical new series about a zombie apocalypse, told in the first person by one of its victims. The series combines classic Shan action with a fiendishly twisting plot and hard-hitting and thought-provoking moral questions dealing with racism, abuse of power and more. This is challenging material, which will captivate existing Shan fans and bring in many new ones. As Darren says, "It's a big, sprawling, vicious tale...a grisly piece of escapism, and a barbed look at the world in which we live. Each book in the series is short, fast-paced and bloody. A high body-count is guaranteed!" (Goodreads).

Wednesday 16 September 2015

BOOK SPINE POETRY CONTEST!!



From Monday, Sept 21st- Monday, Oct. 26th I am running a BOOK SPINE POETRY CONTEST to celebrate SASKATCHEWAN LIBRARY WEEK (Oct 18-24). The theme is “DARE TO KNOW”.

WHAT IS BOOK SPINE POETRY?
Book Spine Poetry is a free verse poem composed by:
  • using the titles written on the spines of physical books
  • and stacking the books on top on one another

There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, ($20, $30, $50 gift cards for Chapters). The Page Turners and I will decide the winners. In addition, the top poems will be entered into the SAME BIG contest being put on by the Sask Library Association. The Grand Prize for the SLA contest is a $100 Chapters Gift Card.book_spine_poetry.jpg

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
BUTTERFLIES IN MY STOMACH                        SEE MRS. LANE FOR DETAILS
HEAT
CHOCOLATE FEVER
OFF TO FIRST GRADE
THE PERILOUS ROAD
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS       PLEASE USE A MINIMUM OF 5-8 BOOKS  

DARE TO KNOW CAN BE INTERPRETED AS, DARE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT A HOT TOPIC ISSUE SUCH AS REFUGEES OR ELECTIONS, OR YOU COULD COMPOSE A POEM WHERE YOU DARE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE LIBRARY.


SUBMISSIONS CAN PHOTOGRAPHED AND SENT TO MY LIBRARY FACEBOOK PAGE OR MY INSTAGRAM PAGE WITH THE WORDS OF THE POEM WRITTEN BENEATH IT.  http://sheldon.rbe.sk.ca/library  OR @sheldonwilliamslibrary (Details also on SWC Library Page).  

Friday 4 September 2015

BOOK OF THE MONTH- SEPTEMBER- WE SHOULD HANG OUT SOMETIME by JOSH SUNDQUIST

Hello Spartans, and welcome back! I hope you will all come to the library a lot this year, and READ books! Our book of the month for September is We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist!

A bright, poignant, and deeply funny autobiographical account of coming of age as an amputee cancer survivor, from Josh Sundquist: Paralympic ski racer, YouTube star, and motivational speaker.


Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend.
For twenty-three hours.
In eighth grade.

Why was Josh still single? To find out read this great book!!



Tuesday 5 May 2015

BOOK OF THE MONTH: MAY! CYBERBULLYING: BULLYING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Hi Spartans!

This month I'm highlighting Digital Citizenship. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.  Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.

I thought it would be appropriate to choose a book on cyberbullying as it partners well with digital citizenship."This indispensable book shows us the reality of young people's digital lives and presents a wide range of specific, practical, and research-based interventions to build online safety, reduce harm, and help youth develop positive digital citizenship..." (Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs and Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention).

Digital Citizenship Information   (Created by Amy Clancy)
This is a student created timeline outlining information on your digital footprint and includes quizzes, tips on creating a positive digital footprint and cool graphics!





All the Light We Cannot See

Hi Spartans,

I've finished the above novel. It was intriguing and a little sad. Overall, I was a bit disappointed, but I still recommend it if you like novels set during WWII, and you are interested in how young people experience war. I would also like to add, that the writing is beautiful. There are some lines I would happily frame and display in my home.

Friday 24 April 2015

What's Lane Reading?

Hi Spartans. I thought you might be curious about what I'm reading right now. Well, it's called All the Light We Cannot See, and it's by Anthony Doerr. So far, I'm really enjoying it. It's set during World War II in Paris, and later other parts of France, and Germany. It follows the two separate stories of blind French girl, Marie-Laure, and Werner, a German boy. Both are alone in the world, and forced to make their way during such a tumultuous time in human history. The final intrigue is a cursed diamond. I'm not sure how this journey is going to end, but I'm thinking the boy, the girl, and the diamond will somehow come together, and I'm excited to find out! I also have to mention that many of the descriptions in this novel will appeal to your other senses- not your sense of sight. Therefore, you "see" the world through Marie-Laure's eyes, and let me tell you, it's illuminating.


BOOK OF THE MONTH: APRIL! OCTOBER MOURNING: A SONG FOR ANDREW SHEPARD BY LESLEA NEWMAN

Hello Spartans! I choose this month's book of the month based on the fact that April is National Poetry Month. October Mourning: A Song for Andrew Shepard is full of heart-rending poems depicting the events and circumstances of the hate crime that caused the tragic death of Andrew Shepard. Please read on for more information about this unforgettable novel in verse.


On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesléa Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two Mommies. Shaken, the author addressed the large audience that gathered, but she remained haunted by Matthew’s murder. October Mourning, a novel in verse, is her deeply felt response to the events of that tragic day. Using her poetic imagination, the author creates fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence Matthew was tied to, the stars that watched over him, the deer that kept him company, and Matthew himself. More than a decade later, this stunning cycle of sixty-eight poems serves as an illumination for readers too young to remember, and as a powerful, enduring tribute to Matthew Shepard’s life. (goodreads.com)

BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR MARCH! WE WERE LIARS BY E. LOCKHART

Hello Spartans! I've been a little remiss in getting my stuff up on the blog lately! The March book of the month is We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, a suspense novel filled with beautiful, descriptive writing. I honestly felt like jotting down some of the lines and framing them because they were so lovely and poignant. Another reason I chose this book is it was the goodreads choice 2014 winner! Read on for more info.


A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
                                     The truth. (goodreads.com)


Thursday 26 February 2015

PAGE TURNERS- BOOK CHOICE #3 is DOROTHY MUST DIE BY DANIELLE PAIGE

After a very quick discussion, we all agreed that Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige sounded so good, we had to read it! Please read the description below and consider joining our club! We are always welcoming new members!

I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado - taking you with it - you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still a yellow brick road - but even that's crumbling.
What happened? Dorothy.
They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.
My name is Amy Gumm - and I'm the other girl from Kansas.
I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.
I've been trained to fight.
And I have a mission. (goodreads).

Tuesday 3 February 2015

FEBRUARY- 2 BOOKS OF THE MONTH! THE GARGOYLE & THE BOOK OF NEGROES!

Hello Spartans! For February I wanted to celebrate the love with Valentine's Day, but also honour and acknowledge Black History Month. I decided to make The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson the Valentine's book of the month, and Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill the book honouring Black History Month. To learn more about each book read on!

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As the story opens, the narrator of The Gargoyle is burned almost beyond recognition in a car accident. Filled with self-hatred and depression he is ready to take his own life, when a beautiful women enters his room. Her name is Marianne Engel and she tells him she's know him for several hundred years. Marianne weaves the story of their lives together, and intertwines it with other mesmerizing and beautiful love stories from Japan, Iceland, Italy and England. She carves gargoyles out of stone for a living, and slowly nurses her own "gargoyle" back to health, but god has told her she only has 27 sculptures left to create, and what will happen then.....? (Andrew Davidson is a Canadian author, and this is his first novel- what an accomplishment!!!)

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Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves— Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic “Book of Negroes.” This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia. (amazon.ca)

Both our authors for the month of February are Canadian! How cool is that?!

Tuesday 13 January 2015

BOOK OF THE MONTH-JANUARY 2015- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE

Hello Spartans! This month we are featuring books that have been challenged or banned at one time or another. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a classic novel that has been challenged many times.





TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD- ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGED CLASSICS OF ALL TIME!

Racial slurs, profanity, and blunt dialogue about rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms so often that, today, the American Library Association reports that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most challenged classics of all time and still ranks at number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009. Even as recently as 2011 and amid 326 other book challenges for that year, it ranks in the top ten more than 50 years after seeing print.

This is literature using fiction at its best and mixing it with autobiographical elements to reflect a complex time in American history. Here we are almost 100 years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird and we are once again facing a bleak and uncertain financial future; rapes still occur on a daily basis; and racial strife continues to permeate many aspects of social interaction. I think what upsets people the most about the themes in this book aren’t that they are in the book but that they did, and still do exist, outside of the pages of fiction in our supposedly modern and very real society. The truth is that these elements hit too close to home for many people and the easiest way to deal with that discomfort is to shove it back into the shadows of fear and ignorance rather than open a book, learn from history, and use that knowledge to create meaningful dialogues in order to examine and better our united futures.

                                                                   -American Library Association


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