Dav Pilkey Reading Gives You Superpowers Event

"Reading gives you superpowers & that makes all of you in this room the real superheroes."--Dav Pilkey at SCS October 8, 2015. Thanks Flying Pig Bookstore! and Scholastic for the event and the capes!

The World's Best Literature Guide

litcharts.com

How does the Chart Board work?

• Each wedge of the red ring represents a chapter.
• Each row of colored boxes extending from a wedge represents a part of the chapter. The closer to the red ring, the closer to the beginning of the chapter.
• The colors in each row indicate which themes are “active” in that part of the chapter.

The Chart Board is interactive.

• Themes: Hover over or tap any of the themes in the Theme Key to show only that theme. Click a theme in the Themes Key to lock it.
• Summary: Hover over or tap any row of colored boxes to read the summary associated with that row. Click the row to lock the summary.

March Madness Books-KETBall Tournament 2015

SCS Middle School Students

March Madness is here, but why should basketball fans have all the fun? At your library, you can help us name a SCS Library Middle School Book Champion for 2015. Through a series of votes, we are narrowing our list of the 32 at SCS to one grand champion.

It's time for MARCH MADNESS BOOKS-KETBALL TOURNAMENT - WIN PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES!

Read the directions below - fill out a bracket- before 3/25 when voting starts!! Watch your email to vote online!! or use the iPad voting center in the library.
Questions? Confused? ASK us at the library.

32 well-read titles (including some classic longshots) have trained up to earn their spot in this year's tournament. Some of last year's competitors have returned, some have lost their spot to shiny young upstarts and/or older and steadier favorite reads. Can Katniss hold onto her championship title, or will she fall to Max’s Wild Things? So many "series" books and so little time...

Starting as soon as the brackets go on display on today, the books will face off in 16 matches with East and West divisions of some kid’s favorites and popular Literature. Come by the library to fill out a bracket today. Vote for your favorite books online starting Wednesday after you all turn in your brackets. Prizes will be awarded to students with a winning bracket AND all voters have a chance to win.

Round 1 votes for the Thunderous 32 will be counted next Wednesday afternoon. Vote now on lots of books you have known and loved, known and despised, or need to know!
Let the passionate wuthering of your tell-tale literary hearts begin!

CLICK THIS LINK TO VOTE HERE

Presenting YA RETELLINGS – an epic chart brought to you by Epic Reads. Read your way through this list of 162 young adult books that are retellings or re-imaginings of popular classic literature, myths, fariy tales and Shakespearean plays.

http://www.epicreads.com/blog/an-epic-chart-of-162-young-adult-retellings/

Want free YA audiobooks this summer? Sync Week is here!

The SYNC free audiobook project is back, with a pairing of free YA and classic audiobooks. Download each pair during the week they're offered but listen anytime (no annoying DRM or files that expire). 

Details about SYNC are here.

This week's downloads:

June 5 – June 11
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS by Cristin Terrill, Narrated by Meredith Mitchell (Tantor Audio)
JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare, Performed by Richard Dreyfuss, JoBeth Williams, Stacy Keach, Kelsey Grammer, and a full cast (L.A. Theatre Works)

Look for these great titles in the coming weeks:

June 12 – June 18
CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein, Narrated by Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell (Bolinda Audio)
THE HIDING PLACE by Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Narrated by Bernadette Dunne (christianaudio)

June 19 – June 25
I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU by Ally Carter, Narrated by Renée Raudman (Brilliance Audio)
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery, Narrated by Colleen Winton (Post Hypnotic Press)

June 26 – July 2
FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK by Matthew Quick, Narrated by Noah Galvin (Hachette Audio)
OCTOBER MOURNING: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman, Narrated by Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tom Parks, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Christina Traister (Brilliance Audio)

July 3 – July 9
TORN FROM TROY by Patrick Bowman, Narrated by Gerard Doyle (Post Hypnotic Press)

PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Narrated by Jim Dale (Brilliance Audio) 

You'll also need the free Overdrive Media Console app (details here; Overdrive Media Console interfaces with iTunes if you want to integrate your downloads into your existing iTunes Library).

SYNC is open to anyone over age 13.

SYNC offers 2 FREE audiobooks each week through Aug 20, 2014. Sign up for email or text alerts that invite you to download the new titles as they become available.

Find out more...

PebbleGo & Multimodal Literacy

Check out PebbleGo - Find the link to the trial on the SCS Library homepage

100 Great Children's Books 100 Years

How Many Do you Know?

"These 100 fantastic tales have withstood the test of time at 

The New York Public Library or are on their way to becoming new classics. 

How many do you know? Check them out—and check them off!"

eBooks at the SCS Library

CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR NEW EBOOKS AND INTERACTIVE EBOOKS

FIND THEM ALL FROM DESTINY QUEST AND FOLLET SHELF

Your Brain on Fiction

Your Brain on Fiction

" Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life." http://nyti.ms/xUl3a8