Off the Shelf
February 3, 2022, Volume 1, Issue 1
Welcome!
- Student Check Out Highlights
- What Teachers are Reading
- Book Recommendations
- Tech Tips
- Podcasts
- Interesting Articles
- Lobo Library Info
- and more!
Off the Shelf will be published about every two weeks.
What are Lobo Faculty & Staff Reading?
Mrs. Loiacono
Mr. Pham
Ms. Flores
Book Recommendations
Book Recommendation: Fiction
Think: The Bachelor meets Hunger Games.
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.
Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined (from Goodreads.com).
Extra Tidbits:
- Selection is Book #1 in The Selection Series.
- Mrs. Fenner is currently reading this book
- It is available as an audiobook from the Orange County Public Library
- Rumor has it...the series was picked up by Netflix. Read it BEFORE you watch it.
Book Recommendation: Non-Fiction
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #metoo and #timesup, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts. SHOUT speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice—and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore (from Goodreads.com).
Lobo Student Check Outs
Kate in Waiting
Wonder
The Only Thing to Fear
Tech Tips
Logging onto the Library Computers
Students - When you use the library computers you will LOG ON with your own username & password.
Your username is you email address without the @ggusd.net. Your password is your 8 digit birth date (see examples below).
Username: 25jgarcia7
Password: MMDDYYYY
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to log in.
Click Other User in the bottom left corner.
Be sure to LOG OFF when you are done.
Ctrl+Alt+DELETE
Click OTHER USER
Enter Username & Password
Username: 25jgarcia7
Password: MMDDYYYY
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A cannon. A strap.
A piece. A biscuit.
A burner. A heater.
A chopper. A gat.
A hammer
A tool
for RULE
Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he?
As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator?
Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES.
And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator.
Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.