Library News
January 2019
Library Databases
Sometimes it can feel overwhelming trying to decide which database to use for a research project. To assist with these decisions we have created a document that organizes and describes BBA's research databases. Are you looking for a current event debate topic? Are you working on a social studies or wellness project? This document will help you decide where to begin your search. Remember that you will need passwords for the databases when you are at home. They can be found in OnCampus resources under "library." Also remember that Mrs. Putney is always happy to assist with research projects. Stop by the library or email with any questions or to schedule an appointment.
Green Mountain Book Award: Vote for your favorite
The voting format for GMBA, Vermont's student choice award for high school students, has changed this year. Every time you finish a GMBA nominee you get to rate it. That's 15 opportunities to share your opinion! You don't need to wait until spring to try to remember what you read, vote as you go. Find the list of this year's nominees here. Rate the books as you read them. Vote here!
GMBA Highlight of the Month - Invictus
This month we are highlighting sci-fi novel Invictus by Ryan Graudin - A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling. Learn more about the book from this video with Graudin the author.
New Books to the Collection
(Don’t) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen
An anthology of essays and illustrations that illuminate mental health topics in a straightforward way. Thirty-three writers, athletes, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore their personal experiences with mental illness, how we do and do not talk about mental health, help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently, and what, exactly, might make someone crazy.
All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire
Both Elliott and Catherine feel like outcasts, yet they find an easy friendship with each other... Just when Catherine is ready to fully trust Elliott, he becomes the prime suspect in a local tragedy. Despite the town's growing suspicions, Catherine clings to her love for Elliott. But a devastating secret that Catherine has buried could destroy whatever chance of happiness they have left.
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.
All of This is True by Lygia Day Penaflor
When Long Island teens Miri, Soleil, Penny, and Jonah befriend a bestselling YA novelist, they find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next novel, with devastating consequences. Told from different perspectives as interviews, journal entries, and book excerpts.
No Summit Out of Sight by Jordan Romero
The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains.
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings : 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends edited by Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman.
Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.