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Thank you, Panthers!
Thank you, Panthers!
Mrs. Roelfs and I thank you for a wonderful beginning of the school year. It has been nice to have you in the library. We hope you will continue to take the opportunity to visit the library and see what we have to offer.
Who or what are you thankful for? Take a moment to give thanks.
Join PT in saying thanks to someone important in your life.
Thankful for autumn leaves and crisp fall weather.
Are you up to the challenge?
Are you up to the challenge?
Join us this year for our fourth year of great reads. The Trail Challenge book list and summaries are shown below. Stop by the library to check out your favorite and sign up to join us for Chat 'n Chew during your lunch hour.
Are you up to the challenge?
Are you up to the challenge?
Join us this year for our fourth year of great reads. The Trail Challenge book list and summaries are shown below. Stop by the library to check out your favorite and sign up to join us for Chat 'n Chew during your lunch hour.
Alex's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?
All light in Chattana is created by one man — the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them.
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming.
The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets and they bloom
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted?
It’s the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing but him. He hasn’t grown or had any exciting summer adventures like his best friends have. So AJ decides to take matters into his own hands. But how could a girl like Nia Winters ever like plain vanilla AJ when she only has eyes for vampires?
It's September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at the World Trade Center in New York City. When two planes hit the towers, Brandon and his father are trapped inside a fiery nightmare as terror and confusion swirl around them. Can they escape -- and what will the world be like when they do?
Ever since his mother was killed in the line of duty in Iraq, Derrick has been absolutely certain that the apocalypse is coming. And he's prepared: he's got plenty of canned goods, he's fully outfitted with HAZMAT suits, and he's building himself a sturdy fallout shelter.
Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when the horror that is square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she's not gonna let that slide.
Tiến enjoys reading his favorite stories with his Vietnamese parents from books he borrows from library. It's hard trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words to tell them what he's going through?
Is there a way to tell them he's gay?
“After seventh graders Benji and Felix "borrow" $20 from a lost wallet, the billionaire owner challenges them to spend over $5 million dollars in thirty days in order to learn life lessons about money"
Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. The sun shines every day, the grass is always a perfect green, and while her progressive school swears there's no such thing as bullying, she still feels bummed out. But one day, when Filomena is walking home on her own, something strange happens.
Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed the warning. The bus driver has just one piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: "Avoid large places. Keep to small."
And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.
Avery lives in New York City. Bett lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads.
When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope that they will find common ground.
Things soon go off the rails for the girl and now can figure out a way to be a family?
Rae’s father vanished without a trace—and Rae knows what happened to him. But no one believes her when she says that her father didn’t run off, that he was actually taken. Now, a year of therapy later, Rae’s mother decides they need a fresh start, and so they move to a new town in the hope that life can return to normal.
The problem is, there is nothing normal about the town of Whispering Pines.
Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Learn about Cassius' family and neighbors in Louisville, Kentucky, and how, after a thief stole his bike, Cassius began training as an amateur boxer at age twelve.
*Images and summaries are courtesy of Amazon and Goodreads.
Author of the Month: November
ALAN GRATZ
ALAN GRATZ
Are you looking for an exciting book about
World War II?
If so , check out some of Alan Gratz's titles. His books Projekt 1065, Allies, Prisoner B-3087, and Grenade are about the war. His newest book Ground Zero brings recent history to our minds as we learn about the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. As a talented writer he makes history come alive and has the ability to make it relative to our students at Pioneer Trail.
Alan Gratz is the bestselling author of seventeen novels for young readers. His 2017 novel Refugee has spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, and is the winner of 14 state awards.
Alan was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, home of the 1982 World’s Fair. After a carefree but humid childhood, Alan attended the University of Tennessee, where he earned a College Scholars degree with a specialization in creative writing, and, later, a Master’s degree in English education. He now lives with his wife Wendi and his daughter Jo in Asheville, North Carolina, where he enjoys playing games, eating pizza, and, perhaps not too surprisingly, reading books.
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