BMJH Library News You Can Use
February 2017
Online Resources through Symbaloo
Do you or your students need ebooks or audiobooks and want to access them for free through Destiny Discover? Do you want to have access to dozens of online magazines, newspapers, and databases? Do you need suggestions for great books that our students are reading? Check out the new symbaloo that has been added to the library's homepage (located under the tab "Our School" on BMJH's homepage). Please ask the librarian for more information!
We love new books!
Great Fiction and Non-fiction!
We get new books throughout the year both for educational and recreational purposes. Come visit the library soon to check out a book or place a new book on hold.
Look below to see some samples!
Look below to see some samples!
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Follow Harry Potter into adulthood and see how his youngest son continues in his father's footsteps in this much-anticipated novel written as a play!
STEM in Current Events series
This is a great series that includes STEM in Agriculture, Energy, the Entertainment Industry, Medicine and Health Care, Space Science, Transportation, War and the Military and Environment & Sustainability
Book 3 in the popular "Reckoners" series
This fantasy takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which the appearance of an orbiting object has given random people superhuman powers in apparent defiance of known physical laws, turning them into "Epics".
Featured author -- Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is an author whose motto is to write books that are not boring.
He must be doing something right as his book Boy in the Black Suit won the 2016 Lone Star award and his book Ghost just won the Lone Star award for 2017!
See more at www.jasonwritesbooks.com.
He must be doing something right as his book Boy in the Black Suit won the 2016 Lone Star award and his book Ghost just won the Lone Star award for 2017!
See more at www.jasonwritesbooks.com.
The Boy in the Black Suit
Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can’t handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who has dealt with a lot more—and who just might be able to clue him in on how to rise up when life keeps knocking him down. In our library!
As Brave as You
Kirkus Award Finalist
Schneider Family Book Award Winner
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally—in this piercing middle grade novel by award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
Coming soon to our library!
Schneider Family Book Award Winner
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally—in this piercing middle grade novel by award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
Coming soon to our library!
Ghost
Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Coming soon to our library!
TeenBookCon is coming April 1st (and I'm not fooling)!
We are fortunate to live in the Houston area as we have a huge event annually called TeenBookCon that is held at Alief Taylor High School where teens and adults can enjoy hearing from great YA authors, buy their books and get them signed!
Event Information
Teen Book Con
TeenBookCon is a fun, free event where you can hear from popular YA authors and have books signed! Although it's free, be sure to preregister. www.teenbookcon.org
When?
Saturday, Apr 1, 2017, 09:00 AM
Where?