Suspense thriller that will keep you on edge!

"Tell No One" is a suspense thriller that does exactly what it says!  Dr. David Beck has had a very hard time getting back to life after the death of his wife - eight years to be exact... then he receives an e-mail from her
with a phrase that only the two of them know.  Mystery and intrigue follow, but who can he trust? 

I could not put this book down....  excellent reading for grades 9 - 12.

 

 

Freda is Found, by Murphy Stuart J.

 Health and safety skills: Getting help when lost

 Happier, healthier, more confident children!!

Freda is excited to be on a class field trip. But after she stops to look in a store window gets separated from her class, and she can't find her group, but she remembers just what to do.

Burton Elementary - "Farmer Duck" by Martin Waddell

This week in library at Burton Elementary, we read the story "Farmer Duck", written by Martin Waddell and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. This is a great story about a farm where the farmer sits in bed all day eating candy while the duck does all the hard work around the farm. Everywhere the duck goes the lazy farmer asks him how the work is going, to which the duck replies, "quack". This is a great story to get kids thinking about the ideas of fairness and justice. You can ask questions like, "is it fair that the farmer gets to stay in bed all day eating candy while the duck does all the hard work?", or "do you think that the other farm animals did the right thing to help their friend the duck?", in order to get your young readers thinking about what the message of the story is.

Young students will enjoy the understated humor of how the farm animals communicate complex ideas to each other through simple sounds like "moo", "baa", "quack", and "cluck".

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Esta semana en la biblioteca de Burton, leímos el cuento "Farmer Duck", del autor Martin Waddell y la ilustradora Helen Oxenbury. Este es un muy buen cuento sobre una granja donde el granjero se queda todo el día en la cama y el pato hace todo el trabajo duro de la granja. Una y otra vez, el granjero perezoso pregunta el pato, "¿cómo te va en el trabajo?", y el pato dice solo "cuac". Este cuento es muy bueno para los niños les hacer pensar en "¿qué es justo?", y demás.

- Dennis De Boer

Classic Tales of Horror, a pull-the-tab Pop-Up Book, by Terry Oakes

      

Of course for Halloween we had to look at some Tales of Horror.  This book was great for all ages. Most kids love a pop-up book and there is informational text that is more meaningful for the older ones.  Students viewed awesome scary images of some classics and listened to spooky and creepy descriptive key passages from original texts.  They also heard a little historical information about the writing and the author.  For example, there are some really great pop-up movable graphics of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Brom Stoker's Dracula, Washington Irving's  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera.  -

-Georgine, Congress Elemenatary

The Stubborn Pumpkin written by Laura Geringer and illustrated by Holly Berry. In this story, a farmer grows such a large pumpkin that he asks for help harvesting it. One by one his companions fail, including his wife, his daughter, his cow, his dog, and his cat couldn't pull the huge pumpkin off its vine until they were helped by a tiny mouse., then the vine cracks! A fun story story enjoyed our by our E1-3 students.

Paul Dear, GR Montessori

Great Book