HHS Library Newsletter
Wildcat News
It's National Women's History Month
Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.
Music In Our Schools Month
March is music in our schools month, it is a month dedicated to the importance of music in the learning experience.
National Read Across America
Celebrated On March 2
Celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday by participating in the National Education Association (NEA'S) Read Across America. Read Across America is an annual motivation and awareness program, that celebrates the importance or reading to young children.
Teen Tech Week
Teen Tech Week is celebrated this year March 3, 2019- March 9, 2019. Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by Young Adult Library Services Association(YALSA), and is aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of Teen Tech Week is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of digital media, especially the non-print resources offered through libraries, such as e-books, e-readers, databases, audio books, and social media.
Let's Celebrate Foreign Languages
Adoption of the U.S. National Anthem
National School Breakfast Week March 4-8,2019
National School Breakfast Week theme this year is “Start Your Engines with a School Breakfast” which is designed to show students, parents, and educator the benefits of fueling up each day with a healthy breakfast.
Agriculture Day
Agriculture Day is celebrated on March 14, 2019. AG Day fall during National Agriculture Week, which is March 10-16, 2019, this is a week designed to highlight one of the largest industry in America.
Daylight Saving Time
Freedom Of Information Day
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day is celebrated this year on March 21, 2019. Founded by Camp Fire in 1997, this is a national call asking adults to write letters of support. This is a time to acknowledge teens and tell them what makes them so incredible. Your words are powerful; encourage and uplift the teens and your classrooms this March!
Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancé and her kids. Just great. Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out.
When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans.
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don’t know about. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech, where she can pursue her dream of becoming an engineer.
Wildcat Librarian
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Location: 1700 Wilson Road, Humble, TX, USA
Phone: 281641-6562
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