MVA Library News
February 2019
Who's your Book Crush!
Stories with a (love) twist!
I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
Nelson tells her tale of grief and healing in separate storylines, one that takes place before their art-historian mother’s fatal car accident and one that takes place after, allowing readers and twins to slowly understand all that’s happened. Kirkus Review
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jandy-nelson/ill-give-you-the-sun/
The notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Kirkus Review
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nicholas-sparks/a-walk-to-remember/
Eleanor & Park
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rainbow-rowell/eleanor-park/
Crush by Svetlana Chmakova.
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol.
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park's BE WiSE program engages young women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning experiences in collaboration with the region's research, industry and academic institutions. Check out the website for more information. https://www.rhfleet.org/be-wise
National African-American History Month: February 2019
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2017/cb17-ff01.html
101 African American First
The time and place of a breakthrough reflects not only remarkable individual achievement but is itself an indication of the progress or lack of progress of black people in realizing the centuries-old intertwined goals of freedom, equality, and justice.
Read more at Back Past
BlackPast, B. (2010, October 05) 101 African American Firsts. Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/101-african-american-firsts/
African American
African Americans are citizens of the United States who trace at least part of their ancestry to Africa. Some are recent immigrants. But most are descended from Africans who were brought in slavery to the American colonies and states between the years 1619 and 1808. Today, African Americans number about 42 million, or 13.6 percent of the total U.S. population. The largest communities are in the Deep South, followed by the Northeast, Midwest, and West.
Read more at "African Americans." Scholastic GO!, go.scholastic.com/content/schgo/D/article/a20/003/a2000330-h.html. Accessed 6 Feb. 2019.
Picturing America on Screen
Click on the link to see the video
Thirteen Media Impact PBS
Presidents' Day
Presidents’ Day, officially Washington’s Birthday, in the United States, holiday (third Monday in February) popularly recognized as honouring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The day is sometimes understood as a celebration of the birthdays and lives of all U.S. presidents.
Read more at Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Presidents-Day
Mar Vista Academy Library
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Website: http://mva.sweetwaterschools.org/
Location: 1267 Thermal Avenue, San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: 619-628-5100
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