San Altos Media Center News
May 2016
Media Center will close on May
The last day for students to check out library books is Friday, May 20th. All library books are due the following week, May 24 - 27. If you have an overdue book you may not be permitted to participate in the final week's activities.
BRING THEM BACK
Bring Them Back Overdue Library Book Parody
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by reading one of the following books in the Media Center. Ask Mrs. G for more recommendations...
Goodbye Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
When Mai and her family learn that the government plans to arrest her grandmother, they're forced to flee for their lives. Leaving behind a beloved village and all that is familiar, they board a tiny boat overcrowded with desperate refugees. The heat, hunger and thirst are unbearable, but Mai knows she must be strong and hold on to her hopes. Freedom seems to be an impossible dream.
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Moon Shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father in San Francisco. Father and son have never met, but Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream despite the poverty, separation from his mother and even the great earthquake.
The Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Denenberg
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Triathlon
To help students stay in reading shape all summer, Barnes and Noble offers their Summer Reading Triathlon with activities and challenges for kids in grades K-6. Kids who complete and turn in their triathlon journal at a participating store, will receive a free book. For details see click below.
MEMORIAL DAY is May 30th
Memorial is about honoring our military heroes. In 1868, the 30th day in May was designated for the purpose of decorating the graves of those who died in defense of our country and thus was called Decoration Day. Today, now called Memorial Day, we are called to honor and remember the over 1 million heroes who gave up their tomorrows so that we might be safe and free.