we also considered reading: The Boy from the Sea - Garrett Carr Flashlight - Susan Choi Maurice and Maralyn - Sophie Elmhirst The Sirens - Emilia Hart The Homemade God - Rachel Joyce Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O’Farrell There are Rivers in the Sky - Elif Shafak Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler

we also talked about: The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy Frankie - Graham Norton

You are free to read one or all from the selection of three books as you wish!

Here are the other books we considered reading, as well as some other books members of the group have read between meetings.

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This beauty arrived today - listen to that clunk! And no excuse for not being able to read when your books are due back now…

From Paperstone (UK) - very speedy delivery and excellent pricing & service. (Not an ad, just a very happy librarian!)

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Two empty jars in front of a vase of flowers and a box of buttons. The jars are labelled ‘be able to control the weather’ and ‘have the ability to talk to animals’.

This week, we're asking:

Would you rather...
Control the weather?
Be able to talk to animals?

Cast your vote all week in the library!

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a person holds a glazed donut in front of a mug that says m.u.g. ALT: a person holds a glazed donut in front of a mug that says m.u.g.

It is amazing how quickly an unwrapped tortilla gets brittle (he learned the hard way while trying to eat lunch between teaching classes across 3 hours…)

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‘Smashing’ work from Year 8, who have completed our community jigsaw! No time to wait, they’ve decided to move on to the next - keep tuned to see which design they’ve decided to tackle this time. 🧩

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133 library sign ins for the first three days of school! That doesn't include all of the students who have come to check out books or the class visits for library orientation! #schoollibrarylife #schoollibraries

Three photographs on a bright yellow background. The montage is titles, ‘Battle of the books: Class winners!’ The photographs show three groups of pupils standing on a staircase, holding muffins and books.

Congratulations to 8B1, 9W1 and 10B2, who are our Battle of the Books class winners!

Between them, they read and reviewed 106 books over the last three months, and received muffins at break-time today as a reward.

Well done - and keep reading! 📖

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A little round of up library statistics from the month of May.

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A photograph of a stack of notices for pupils alerting them to overdue books on their accounts. Some have already been folded ready for distribution.

The life of a school librarian… half our time spent convincing you to borrow our books, and the other half desperately pleading with you to bring them back!

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Group of high school students and photo of same students with their right hands raised

Valdez High School inducted 12 new members into the northernmost chapter of National Beta Club! I love working with these student leaders. #schoollibrarylife #AkLearns #studentleaders

This week in the library we asked, #WouldYouRather be twice as strong, but twice as slow OR be twice as fast, but twice as weak… here are our results - it was a close call, with only 12 buttons in it!!

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A2 Absolutely! One year I made an “what can your librarian do for you” die. I think only my principal saw it but it did help me think thru what I wanted teachers to know! Seeing it now, I think it also makes a great playlist! 🤣 #TLSkyChat and A5 #SchoolLibraryLife #ComputerScience #MediaLiteracy

the amount of connections the kids made blew both of our minds & we started looking for more crossover projects! (I think we were equally surprised) He also didn’t think I was totally nuts when I asked if we could use scooters in the library #BuildTrust #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibraryLife

Overthinking is often my worst enemy (see all my art projects age 5-15 lol). Sometimes starting small is better than nothing at all. I’m working REALLY hard on PROGRESS not perfection #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibraryLife #InquiryCycle #ProcessOverProduct #AskCurateShare #ComputerScience #MediaLiteracy

A8 one my faves was simply putting a barcode on kid’s writing, typically after tucking it into a folder,& letting their friends “check out” their book! Made kids FEEL like authors & made it more accessible to be a writer! #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibraryLife #AskCurateShare #ComputerScience #MediaLiteracy

A2 Probably my favorite is making Raas sticks in art and tying it into learning about Diwali holiday, making rangoli in technology to build our own coloring book, & using our Raas sticks to actually do the dance in the library! Plus I got to wear my wedding skirt! #tlskychat #SchoolLibraryLife

Are you a CPS librarian, STEAM, or Computer Science teacher? Are you going to the Holistic Summit on Tuesday? Hope to see you there! #SparkAdvocateAchieve #JustDoIT #TechTheLead #SchoolLibraryLife #AskCurateShare #ComputerScience #ComputerLiteracy #Nas #readmorelearnmorechangetheglobe #MediaLiteracy

Hardback book. The title is His name was Walter. Author is Emily Rodda. There is a yellow post it note on the book with the words I liked the book Sav K

This is a wonderful note to find whilst shelving!
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#GrowingBookworms

A very close result! With just 30 more buttons in the jar, having reindeer antlers narrowly won the popular vote this week.

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A photo of two empty jars and a box of buttons on a wooden table. The jars are labelled: Have a woolly mammoth’s tusks Have a reindeer’s antlers

This week in the library we’re asking:

#WouldYouRather…
Have a woolly mammoth’s tusks?
Have a reindeer’s antlers?

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The results of this week’s #WouldYouRather are in…

Hard to tell just by looking at the jars, but a count of the buttons revealed voters here would rather be tickled for an hour than listen to an annoying laugh for a day!
🤗 😆

New question on Monday!

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A bird’s-eye photograph of three groups of pupils playing board games in a library. A close up in the bottom left shows a group playing Carcassonne, and a close up in the top right shows a group playing Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises.

Board game club grows every week!

Today we’ve had groups playing chess, Carcassonne (one of my favourites!), the perennially popular UNO, Guess Who?and Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises.

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A photo of two empty jars and a box of buttons on a wooden table. The jars are labelled: Listen to an annoying laugh for a whole day Get tickled for one hour

One of the most popular activities in the library is a weekly #WouldYouRather poll.

This week our question is, would you rather…
Listen to an annoying laugh for a whole day?
OR
Get tickled for one hour?

Results on Friday!

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Gave what I thought was an easy job (put barcode stickers on front of book) to what I thought was a capable adult. Somehow ended up with 10 books unbarcoded, 10 crumpled up barcodes in trash. #SchoolLibraryLife 😂

Required textbook for Superhero 101
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