Fork Shoals Library Ledger
News for the week of May 9, 2016
Only two weeks left in our 4th Quarter Reading Challenge!
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An evening with Sherman Alexie
National Book Award-winning author Sherman Alexie will be discussing his life as a writer, including his debut children’s picture book, Thunder Boy Jr. ($17.99, on sale 5/10/16), at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Smith Recital Hall on Tuesday, May 17th, at 6:30 pm.
*Note: This event is free and open to the public, but a purchase of Thunder Boy Jr. from Fiction Addiction is required in order to join the signing line. Mr. Alexie will personalize any and all of his books if you have a signing line ticket.
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that’s all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn’t mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he’s done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder.
But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name…a name that is sure to light up the sky.
National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie’s lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales’s striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son.
Book of the Week: Ol' Mama Squirrel
Ol' Mama Squirrel by David Ezra Stein was a nominee for the 15-16 South Carolina Picture Book Award.
Ol' Mama Squirrel is a charming book about the protective nature of a mother. Ol' Mama Squirrel is an expert at scolding, and she gives a firm "Chook chook chook!" to anyone or anything that comes near her babies and their home. She shames cats, owls, dogs, kites, airplanes, and even people, but she may have met her match when a grizzly bear enters the picture.
Ol' Mama Squirrel tries and tries to get that grizzly bear to leave her babies alone, but he seems determined to make her whole family his next meal. So what's a mom to do? Well, this particular squirrel does the only thing she can...she calls for reinforcements.
Fork Shoals School Library
Mrs. Allison Meredith, Library Clerk
Email: klknight@greenville.k12.sc.us
Website: http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/forksh/
Location: 916 McKelvey Road, Pelzer, SC
Phone: (864) 355-5005
Dates to Remember:
- May 9 - SIC meeting, 7:30am; PTA Meeting & Spring Concert, 6:30pm
- May 10 - Chick-fil-A Night
- May 11-13 - 5th grade SCPASS testing
- May 16-18 - 4th grade SCPASS testing