This week in the Library...

...we will be reading several books written by Orem High School students, some of which are former Cascade students! I love this week, and look forward to it each year. We are able to read each story, then take a quiz (found at the back of each book) and then make comments to the author. The authors LOVE IT!! They so enjoy hearing back from their readers, just as real authors do.

Our lower grades will be finishing off the series Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems this week, with his final installment Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion - it's got a surprise ending!

Beehive Book Award Nominees 2012

We will be introducing all of the nominees throughout the remainder of the year, and into next school year. After they have all be introduced, we will have the opportunity to vote for a favorite (we don't all have to pick the same one =) I will submit our votes, and we will see next year which book wins! It might even be YOUR favorite one that wins!
Our book of the week... All the World, by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee. This book is one of the Utah Beehive Book Award Picture book nominees for 2012. I LOVE THIS BOOK!! The illustrations are absolutely beautiful! I wish I could draw and paint like Marla...they are spectacular. The story itself is told a little differently than most. Join us in the Library this week as we explore this amazing book. This is the first one we will introduce...stay tuned next week for the next one!

See the entire list of Beehive Award nominees for 2012 HERE.

It's SPRING BREAK!!

I hope you have a good book to read!! Maybe more than one =) I bought myself a new book to read over the break...pretty sure it won't take me that long. Good thing I have more... =)

I'm SO darn excited!!!!

Enjoy the break, be safe, and READ, READ, READ!! See ya in a week!

Hold on to your hoodies...!

Last week we learned a little about poetry, where it is in the Library, (811) and read a few out loud. This week, we will review some fairy tales, and what better way to do that than to read Betsy Red Hoodie by Gail Carson Levine! Gail takes several fairy-tales/nursery rhymes and weaves them together for a very cute story. See if you can identify all the fairy-tales/nursery rhymes that the author uses to create the story... it's been great fun so far!

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This book resides in the PIC section of our Library, but we can find the other fairy-tale books in the Non-fiction section - 398