The Kranz Book Buzz
A Newsletter of the Kranz Library (Issued Once a 9 Weeks)
Volume 2022-2023, Issue 1
The 1st Nine Weeks of the 2022-2023 School Year Has Arrived!
We hope you had a great SUMMER!
Please welcome our new KJHS Library Assistant, Logan Mason!
KJHS to Attend Tweens Read!
TWEENS Read is an annual event held in the South Houston/Pasadena area to promote reading by connecting tweens with a variety of authors. Students are able to meet and speak with a variety of young adult authors and illustrators. This event is for students in grades 5 - 8. The goals of the event are to: connect tween readers to local and national authors and illustrators. It is also to encourage interaction between aspiring tween writers and established authors. Such an event helps educate, enrich, inform, and entertain local tweens and other participants while celebrating the educational and recreational benefits of tween reading and writing. This type of event helps ignite a passion for reading and writing in the tween community.
See www.tweensread.com for more information.
Fall Book Fair
KJHS' Annual Pumpkin Contest Will Continue
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines
Copyright is the lawful right of an author, artist, composer or other creator to control the use of his or her work by others. Generally speaking, a copyrighted work may not be duplicated, disseminated, or appropriated by others without the creator's permission. The public display or performance of copyrighted works is similarly restricted.
There are exceptions to this rule—notably the fair use doctrine discussed in the following Section—but generally the unauthorized use of a copyrighted work is copyright infringement, and may subject the infringer to civil and criminal penalties under federal law.
Fair use is the right to use a copyrighted work under certain conditions without permission of the copyright owner. The doctrine helps prevent a rigid application of copyright law that would stifle the very creativity the law is designed to foster. It allows one to use and build upon prior works in a manner that does not unfairly deprive prior copyright owners of the right to control and benefit from their works. Together with other features of copyright law like the idea/expression dichotomy discussed above, fair use reconciles the copyright statute with the First Amendment.
Source: https://ogc.harvard.edu/pages/copyright-and-fair-use
Highlighted Lone Star Book:
Claire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. She’s a scientist, which is why she can’t think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. She thinks she’s made it through when she sees a boy with a sad face and dark eyes at the back of the bus. There’s something off about his presence, especially because when she checks at the end of the tour…he’s gone.
Claire tries to brush it off, she must be imagining things, letting her dad’s ghost stories get the best of her. But then the scratching starts. Voices whisper to her in the dark. The number 396 appears everywhere she turns. And the boy with the dark eyes starts following her.
Claire is being haunted. The boy from the bus wants something...and Claire needs to find out what before it’s too late.
From: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45171440-scritch-scratch
Dickinson Public Library
https://dickinsonpubliclibrary.org/
281-534-3812
Eugene Kranz Junior High School Library
Email: dmarcantel@dickinsonisd.org
Website: destiny.dickinsonisd.org
Location: 12850 Farm to Market Road 3436, Dickinson, TX, USA
Phone: 281-309-3600