January Display: "Make Your Dreams Happen"
In keeping with the tradition of making resolutions for the new year, the January display in the Commons highlights ways you can "Make Your Dreams Happen": titles include how-to books on decluttering, drawing, and yoga; ways to focus on tasks and ask better questions; and unplugging and venturing outside for physical and mental health. The display is located opposite Common Grounds and all titles are available for checkout: just see Mr. Epstein or Mrs. Miceli.
January Volunteer Activity: Meals on Wheels Notecards
Each month, the Commons sponsors a volunteer activity that is available to staff and students. This month's activity will benefit Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon County. Use one (or more!) of the notecards available to write an uplifting message, draw some artwork, or illustrate your favorite positive quote. These cards will be added to the meals delivered to residents to help brighten their day. All supplies are available by the Commons welcome desk. Help us make someone else's day!
January 2023 Virtual Stickerboard
Back by popular demand! Celebrate 2023 with our virtual stickerboard: click here to get started and see what the first of the 2023 stickerboards has in store for you.
January Book Bingo
Also back for 2023 is our monthly book bingo board. Click here to access the bingo board virtually, or see Mrs. Miceli in the Commons for a print copy. Students who show a complete bingo (either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) can win a $5 Amazon gift card!
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Making a Scene by Constance Wu From actor Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. Making a Scene is an intimate portrait of pressures and pleasures of existing in today's world. Ebook and audiobook available in Sora | True Biz: a novel by Sara Novic This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both at the same time.This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Print book available in the Commons Ebook available in Sora | I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Print book available in the Commons Ebook available in Sora |
Making a Scene by Constance Wu
From actor Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. Making a Scene is an intimate portrait of pressures and pleasures of existing in today's world.
Ebook and audiobook available in Sora
True Biz: a novel by Sara Novic
This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both at the same time.This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy.
Print book available in the Commons
Ebook available in Sora
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
Print book available in the Commons
Ebook available in Sora
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Himawari House by Harmony Becker When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. Print book available in the Commons | Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom by Larry Miller One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business. Ebook and audiobook available in Sora | The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl The legendary American musician, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker offers a collection of stories, written by his own hand, that focus on the memories of his life, from his childhood to today. Print book available in the Commons Audiobook available in Sora |
Himawari House by Harmony Becker
When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends.
Print book available in the Commons
Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom by Larry Miller
One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business.
Ebook and audiobook available in Sora
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
The legendary American musician, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker offers a collection of stories, written by his own hand, that focus on the memories of his life, from his childhood to today.
Print book available in the Commons
Audiobook available in Sora
