WHS Media Center
February 2022
Celebrate Black History Month with a book from Sora!
Want more suggestions? Many titles from the lists below are available through Sora and in the WHS Media Center.
Winter Reading Challenge!
Our Winter Reading Challenge has started! Anyone who completes the challenge will be invited to have hot chocolate and cookies in the media center. Just turn in your completed BINGO board to Ms. Smith by February 17th.
Click below to view the Bingo Board. You can print it, pick up a physical copy in the media center, or email an online copy back to Ms. Smith at jennifersmith@henry.k12.ga.us.
Peach Award Voting
New Books!
Freedom Swimmer
powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.
Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.
When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labor and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams.
But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.
from goodreads
White Smoke
Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper.
The renovated picture-perfect home on Maple Street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its . . . secrets. That’s only half the problem: household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents only Mari seems to notice. Worse: Piper keeps talking about a friend who wants Mari gone.
But “running from ghosts” is just a metaphor, right?
As the house closes in, Mari learns that the danger isn’t limited to Maple Street. Cedarville has its secrets, too. And secrets always find their way through the cracks.
from goodreads
Blue Skinned Gods
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity.
Over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on—father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin—starts falling apart. Traveling from India to the underground rock scene of New York City, Blue-Skinned Gods explores ethnic, gender, and sexual identities, and spans continents and faiths, in an expansive and heartfelt look at the need for belief in our globally interconnected world.
from goodreads
Sora
JLG Digital
Gale eBooks (nonfiction only)
GALILEO
January Monthly Statistics
Student numbers:
Classes in the media center: 25, classes covered: 20Students on pass/morning/lunch: 1202
Total students served: 2552
Checkouts:
Books checked out: 316
eBooks viewed (Sora): 50
Total books checked out: 366
New books added:24