The Grades 5 - 8 Library is a teaching library designed to help students with both academic research and pleasure reading. The fiction and non-fiction books, magazines, and subscription electronic databases, are chosen to support the curriculum and to stimulate a wider interest in literacy in all its forms. Our information literacy curriculum focuses on accessing current, authoritative, and appropriate print and electronic resources through the electronic library catalog, using author, title, and keyword access as well as online searches.

To support student reading, English teachers require independent reading and reporting outside of class. The library offers resources such as book talks, visiting authors, reading lists, and individual consultations with students. A required summer reading list is also provided, which includes excellent literature for students to read for both pleasure and the completion of the required summer reading. Families receive full details on required summer reading in May. Additionally, the librarian maintains a suggested Summer Reading List each year, compiled from “Best Of” Children’s Literature lists and student circulation data in the library.

Students are invited to use the library before school, during Tutorial, at recess, and after school. Students using the library after school on a non-activity day must have parental permission and must sign in at the Middle School Office.