LIBRARY GAZETTE
VOLUME 5- AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2014
GOOGLE TIP-Tailor Reading Levels for Student Google Searches
Below are quick and easy steps that allow students to search google by reading level:
1. After performing a Google Search, click on Search Tools
2. Next click on results and then reading level.
3. Choose the reading level. There are three- Basic, intermediate and advanced.
These three clicks can greatly tailor the types of search results students receive, making the experience more useful for everyone.
Tip for the Center Grove Digital Library
NEW ON THE CENTER GROVE DIGITAL LIBRARY
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Turnaround Tools for the Teenage Brain by Eric Jensen & Carole Snider
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Not a drop to drink by Mindy McGinnis
TOP NINE BOOKS IN THE MEDIA CENTER
#1- iF I Stay by Gayle Forman
#2- The fault in our stars by John Green
#3-Insignia by S.J. Kincaid
#4-Life of Pi by Yann Martel
#5-The Maze runner by James Dashner
#6-Quarantine: the loners by Lex Thomas
#7-When Dad killed Mom by Julius Lester
#8-All we know heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard
#9-Avengers: the origin by Joe Casey
New Books in the Media Center
"Grasshopper Jungle" by Andrew Smith
Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong.(Winner for Fiction -the Horn Magazine)
"The Girl who was supposed to die" by April Henry
Waking up in a ransacked cabin with no recollection of her identity and overhearing two men who are preparing to kill her, Cady is accidentally saved by haphazard companion Ty and endures a harrowing cat-and-mouse chase for survival.
"On the Road to Find out" by Rachel Toor
Alice Evelyn Davis, seventeen, has generally gotten all she wants from life but when her college of choice rejects her, problems with her best friend arise, and she faces an unexpected loss, her new-found interest in running helps get her through.
"The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone" by Adele Grifin
When a celebrated New York City teenager, known for her subversive street art, mysteriously dies, her life is examined in a series of interviews with her parents, friends, boyfriends, mentors, and critics
"Bellweather Rhapsody" by Kate Racculia
A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide fifteen years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds
"Learn to Program with Scratch" by Majed Marji
Scratch is a fun, beginner-friendly programming environment popular in schools around the world. Its playful, intuitive interface uses colorful programming blocks and cartoon sprites to make real programming more approachable. Learn to Program with Scratch shows just how much you can do with Scratch and teaches you essential, universal programming concepts along the way. In Learn to Program with Scratch, author Majed Marji takes you on a tour through Scratch's surprisingly powerful features to teach programming concepts like procedures, variables, loops, recursion, decision making, and lists. You will use your new-found skills to create science simulations, math projects, and even some fun arcade games! Each chapter offers a summary and practice exercises at the end to make sure the lessons stick. Scratch is an incredibly fun and easy language to learn, plus you can do some seriously potent programming with it. Learn to Program with Scratch will help you get the most out of Scratch and begin your journey into the world of programming.
"Expiration Day" by William Campbell Powell
Born a rare human child into a world of sophisticated child androids that were created to counter a decline in global fertility, Tania records in her diary her efforts to learn about teknoid technologies when her best friend begins exhibiting bizarre behavior.
"The Young World" by Chris Weitz
Jefferson, with his childhood friend Donna, leads a tribe of teenagers in New York City on a dangerous quest to find an antidote for a mysterious illness that wiped out all adults and children.
"The Last Enchantments" by Charles Finch
After working on a failed presidential campaign, a young Yale graduate leaves New York for Oxford, where he becomes caught up in surprising friendships and an unexpected romantic entanglement.
"Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Syatlov Pass Incident" by Donnie Eichar
The author attempts to unravel the mystery behind a group of nine hikers whose baffling deaths in the Russina Ural Mountains has led to decades of speculation on what happened to them.