The Rambling Reader

Quarter 2 2024-2025

See what is new at the Dr. Stephen J. Storkel Learning Center for 2025, including:

Summary: Class Visits, Study Hall Visits, Circulation Statistics
Ramtastic Reads
Resources in Focus

Library Class Statistics and Updates

Our library continues its mission of sparking curiosity, creating connections, and empowering learners.

The library had 154 class visits in the second quarter and 4,855 study hall visitors. There were 1,292 circulations.

Some of the classes this quarter included informative conceptual speech research, scholarly journal article review, poetry appreciation, autobiography, and nonfiction book selection, Spanish-speaking country research, and history classes on the Renaissance, World War II, New Deal Agencies and the 1940s.

Ramtastic Reads from the Library

*Top 10 Independent Reads Checked out in Quarter 2:

Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
My Shot by Elena Donne
Lovely War by Julie Berry
Lightlark by Alex Aster
Shakespeare's Sisters by Ramie Targoff
Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond

Resources in Focus

Looking for the next good book? With 2024 behind us, numerous awards and review sources have released their best of 2024. How many have you read? How many are on your list to read this year?

This year's ALA Youth Media Awards was just announced on January 27th. Check out the full list of winners and honorees here!