White-Out James Vance Marshall In January 1942, in the midst of the U-boat war, the Royal Navy sends a small force on a secret mission to Antarctica. Three months later, a U-102 shells their camp; only two men and the gravely wounded captain of the squad are left alive. Their shelter gone, their supplies destroyed, cut off from contact with the outside world, they attempt to endure in the beautiful but hostile environment for the many months that must pass before rescuers can reach them. What was the secret that launched their mission? And why does the ultimate sole survivor claim both to have lost his memory and to long to return to his Antarctic purgatory? This is a paean to the natural beauty of Antarctica and a memorable story of courage, of the triumph of the human spirit, and of a transcendent love.
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2019 Lone Star Reading List The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson “Candice and Brandon think it's going to be a boring summer when they stumble on a mystery that got Candice's grandmother fired from her job--a mystery whose answer could lead them to a hidden treasure worth millions. But in order to solve it, they have to figure out what happened in their little town during the Civil Rights movement sixty years ago...something dark, and hidden.”
After Zero By Christina Collins ”When she makes the move from home to public school, Elise also makes a series of social errors that causes her to shut down-especially when it comes to talking. Now she's keeping a tally of how few words she can say each day...and yet, it's almost like something else…something much worse than a cat…has got her tongue. Elise wonders if she'll ever be able to say anything at all.”
Restart by Gordon Korman “When Chase Ambrose falls off a roof and wakes up with amnesia, everything in his life changes. He used to be a football hero --and a total jerk. Now he's learning what everyone else used to think of him, and he doesn't like it. Is there a way to convince everyone that he's really changed--even the kid whose life he's ruined? Even his former criminally-minded friends? Even...himself?”
The Texas Library Association (TLA) produces several reading lists for children, teens, and adults. The Texas Lone Star list is recommended reading for students in grades 6, 7, and 8. This list was developed by public and school librarians who serve on the Young Adult Round Table for TLA. The purpose is to encourage students to explore a variety of current books. The Lone Star list is intended for recreational reading, not to support a specific curriculum. Get this year’s Lone Star list in the library or online at http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star . The Cleburne Public Library has all of the titles on this list available for checking out. However, due to the diversity of the age range, students and parents are advised to select their reading choices based on their own abilities, interests, and values.
found in a BOOK All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy Love, it is said, is blind; but love is not blind. It is an extra eye which shows us what is most worthy of regard. J.M. Barrie Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov Any time that is not spent on love is wasted. Torquato Tasso Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Love conquers all things, except poverty and toothache. Mae West Love demands all and has a right to it. Ludwig von Beethoven The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal Life is strewn with these miracles for which people who love can always hope. Marcel Proust
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Black History Month Celebrating Literature Let’s celebrate African-American authors and their stories, for reading creates knowledge, empathy and identity. My first experience was the glorious “God’s Trombones” of James Weldon Johnson, dream poems of Langston Hughes, and “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Dunbar. Wanting to learn more to share with students, I plunged into the scary novels of James Baldwin’s Native Son and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Next I discovered poet Nikki Giovanni and Frederick Douglass (autobio is great). After reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, I sought out more by Maya Angelou; her exciting poem “Phenomenal Woman,” with echoes of Sojourner Truth’s speech “Ain’t I a Woman,” spoke to me. Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun followed me into the classroom; it was my pleasure to introduce them to young people. In America all voices should have a chance to be heard. However painful some voices were to hear, how much they have enriched my life and influenced the person I want to be in the world! By Bettye Cook