VRMS Library March Newsletter
S'More!
Scholastic Book Fair: Success.
March Book Madness
VRMS Newspaper
New Books Added in March
Non-Fiction:
B / Up Close: Bill Gates, Marc Aronson
304.2 / Inside Biosphere 2: Earth Science Under Glass, Mary Kay Carson
617.02 / Breakthrough: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever, Jim Murphy
796.83 / Ali: An American Champion, Barry Denenberg
Fiction:
Lunch-Box Dream, Tony Abbott
How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy, Crystal Allen
Curiosity, Gary Blackwood
The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley <--This won a Newbery Honor this year, as well as a Schneider Family Book Award (an award for books about children with disabilities), and it's one of my absolute favorite reads of 2016 so far.
Caminar, Skila Brown
Ravenous, MarcyKate Connolly
Parched, Melanie Crowder
The Madman of Piney Woods, Christopher Paul Curtis
My Name is Not Easy, Debby Dahl Edwardson
Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle
The Saturday Boy, David Fleming
Summer on the Moon, Adrian Fogelin
Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
I Am Not Joey Pigza, Jack Gantos
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza, Jack Gantos
The Castle Behind Thorns, Merrie Haskell
The League, Thatcher Heldring
Silhouetted by the Blue, Traci L. Jones
The Thing About Luck, Cynthia Kadohata
The Only Game, Mike Lupica
Camo Girl, Kekla Magoon
Zero Tolerance, Claudia Mills
The Year We Sailed the Sun, Theresa Nelson
The Hidden Summer, Gin Phillips
The Neddiad, Daniel Pinkwater
The Yggyssey, Daniel Pinkwater
The Humming Room, Ellen Potter
West of the Moon, Margi Preus
Finding Ruby Starling, Karen Rivers
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, Katherine Rundell
The Only Ones, Aaron Starmer
Fallout, Todd Strasser
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, Sheila Turnage
The Center of Everything, Linda Urban
The Real Boy, Anne Ursu
Janitors, Tyler Whitesides
Like a River: A Civil War Novel, Kathy Cannon Wiechman
Gone Crazy in Alabama, Rita Williams-Garcia
Graphic Novels:
Amelia Rules: Her Permanent Record, Jimmy Gownley
Rapunzel’s Revenge, Shannon and Dean Hale; ill. by Nathan Hale <--This book is so awesome--Rapunzel saves herself from her tower and then lassos her long hair to use as a weapon to catch bad guys. Yes please.
Chiggers, Hope Larson
Olympians: Apollo, The Brilliant One, George O’Connor
Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch, Eric Orchard
Bluffton, Matt Phelan
Sweater Weather & Other Short Stories, Sara Varon
Books in Spanish: <--I'm just starting this collection but am hoping to add to it as our student population continues to diversify.
Percy Jackson: El Ladrón del Rayo [The Lightning Thief], Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson: El Mar de Los Monstruos [The Sea of Monsters], Rick Riordan
Thanks for reading!
Jill Guccini
Email: jill.guccini@ridgefieldsd.org
Location: Ridgefield, WA, United States
Twitter: @JillGuccini