Teen Tech Week

March 2-8 is the American Library Association's Teen Tech Week. The Lindero Library invites you to celebrate by visiting the Lindero Library Webpage, listening to an oral booktalk voicethread (click on the booktalks link), respond to the fun book characters survey, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to play "How Well Do You Know Your World" and practice your geography skills. The library will award a prize to the top points earner. To enter your score, take a screenshot of the screen with your final score (click Alt+PrintScrn) and paste it in an email to Mrs. Lofton. Have fun playing!

Some things to remember:

• There is just one month left (until March 31) to complete reading, quizzing, and voting for the California Young Reader Medal nominated books.


• Be sure to read a book by Lisa Yee in preparation for her visit on May 14. All students who read one of her books and complete the AR quiz on it will be invited to the assembly. We also encourage you to consider buying one or more of her books in order to attend the book signing on the day of her visit. See the flyer for more information.

Master Storyteller Irv Isaacman Visit

Master Storyteller Irv Isaacman will be visiting the Lindero Library Book Club again on Friday, February 29. In addition to book club members, any interested sixth and seventh graders are welcome to attend during lunch on Friday. See Mrs. Lofton for more information

Author Lisa Yee Visits Lindero

We are very excited to announce that - thanks to generous funding from the Lindero PFC - Lindero will be hosting author Lisa Yee on May 14. Ms. Yee has written four popular award-winning books for young people. Hearing and meeting an author is a terrific experience and we hope that all our students will want to take advantage of this opportunity. In order to attend the assembly with Ms. Yee, students need to read and successfully complete an Accelerated Reader quiz on one or more of her books. Click here for a flyer with more information about the event. Please see Mrs. Lofton or your language arts teacher if you have any questions.

Library News

Congratulations to Lindero's top five schoolwide Accelerated Reader stars for the month of November. These students, along with the September and October winners, are featured in individual READ posters in the library and their Language Arts classrooms, and in a group READ poster on the library slideshow at the top of the Library webpage.

We also congratulate Lindero's Classroom Accelerated Reader Stars for Sept.-Nov. Three times this school year, we will recognize the top AR readers in each Language Arts Class. One student in each class will be recognized for earning the most points during a three-month period, and another will be recognized for passing the most quizzes during that period. The list of student achievers is posted in the library and each Language Arts classroom.

Thanks to all the students who contributed posters to the book poster contest. We will announce the winners this week and get all the entries on display in the library very soon.

Change of focus for blog

When I created this blog in Spring 2007, it was my first experience trying a blog, and I thought I would use it for all sorts of information related to the library - news, book talks, library opening hours information, and so on. Well, I've just decided to try a different approach to disseminating this information. I'm going to separate news, hours, and book talks into three separate sources. This blog will focus just on news about the library and books. For library hours (that is, when the library is open before school, lunch, and after school), see the new Google-based Library Hours Calender. There is also a link to it on the Lindero Library web page. For book talks, check out the brand new Lindero Loves Books blog.

While I realize this means going to multiple links for library-related information, it will also allow you to select the link that works best for you.

As always, I welcome your comments or suggestions. Contact me at the library, by phone at 818/889-2134x230, or by email at jlofton@lvusd.org.

Library News Nov. 26-30

Welcome back from the Thanksgiving break! I hope you had a great one!

Library hours this week include:

• The library will be open at 8:15 A.M. before school Monday - Friday.
• The library will be open for 6/7th grade lunch Monday - Thursday.
• The library will be open for 8th grade lunch Monday, Thursday, and Friday.
• The library will be open after school until 3:45 Monday - Friday.

The library book club will meet in the library during lunch on Friday. We will have Master Storyteller Irv Isaacman as our guest. Please bring your lunch that day so that you can arrive as promptly as possible.

Book club members and 8th grade advisory club members, please check the book club wiki at www.lcmsbookclub.pbwiki.com for important information about recording CYRM book talks, and get in touch with Mrs. Lofton to schedule a recording time for a book talk as soon as possible.

Millicent Min, Girl Genius Book Talk

Enjoy this book talk, and check back for more coming soon. You can add your own comment to the book talk if you register for a voicethread.com account. Comments are moderated and will appear as soon as they are approved.