AISB MS/HS Library
News from "The Pit", February 25, 2014
What's Happening?
- Tech Tools
- New Nonfiction
- IB Stuff (and some pics)
- Featured Book Trailers
- Lost in the Stacks
Tech Tools:
Voki
Make avatars that talk! Make one for a class project, or send one to a friend with a message. If you make a Voki booktalk, let me know and we'll post in on the library website!
Thing Link
Make a picture interactive. Post an image and add text, sound, video, and links to add meaning to the picture.
Catalog App
Get the library catalog on your phone. Search our collection from home, hold books, see your checkouts.
Enter: aisbudapest.follettdestiny.com
Don't have an account? Get one in the library!
New Nonfiction:
Eat & Run, by Steve Jurack
This was written by a friend of Mr. Spencer! It tells the story of a man's journey to become an "ultra" marathon runner.
Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey
Love the show Downton Abbey? Read the true stories behind the characters.
See more here.
Black Gold: The story of oil in our lives
A page-turner about the history of oil and its impact on our world, this reads like a novel but is packed with information.
Scenes from our infamous "H Block"
IB Stuff
10 X 10
See what's trending in the news by looking at a grid of 100 thumbnails. Click into each for the full story.
The Conversation
Analysis of current events and issues, and you can follow only the topics you're interested in. This is perfect for students in TOK. See the latest stories here. Choose "follow topics" to get regular updates of your choice.
Daily Lit
Got 15 minutes? Choose a classic novel you've always wanted to read and get small bits of it delivered to your email every day. Sherlock Holmes, anyone? See all titles here.
Featured Teen Lit Trailer: The Tragedy Paper (F LAB)
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan
Featured Middle Grade Trailer: Doll Bones (MF BLA)
Book Trailer for Doll Bones by Holly Black
Identical Strangers: A memoir of twins separated and reunited, by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
Elyse had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties that she searched for her biological mother.
She was not prepared for the life-changing news: she had an identical twin sister. Not only that: she and her sister, for a time, had been part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother.
When she answered the phone one spring afternoon, her life suddenly changed. As they take their tentative first steps from strangers to sisters, Paula and Elyse are also left with haunting questions. As they investigate their birth mother's past, they begin to solve the puzzle of their lives. Interweaving eye-opening studies and statistics on twin science into their narrative, they offer an intelligent and heartfelt glimpse into human nature.
She was not prepared for the life-changing news: she had an identical twin sister. Not only that: she and her sister, for a time, had been part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother.
When she answered the phone one spring afternoon, her life suddenly changed. As they take their tentative first steps from strangers to sisters, Paula and Elyse are also left with haunting questions. As they investigate their birth mother's past, they begin to solve the puzzle of their lives. Interweaving eye-opening studies and statistics on twin science into their narrative, they offer an intelligent and heartfelt glimpse into human nature.
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