The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.
Sandra Childs (me!) is going to Costa Rica from Nov 19-Dec 3 and would love to take you all with her! Visit the Costa Rica Diga! blog (click here or on right side of Toolbox). Read the pre, during and post travel posts, look at the groovy pictures (once she takes some), check out the resource links, post a question or comment and participate in her travels. Sponsored by Toyota, Childs is one of 26 teachers traveling to Earth University, a cocoa or coffee plantation, several schools, a volcano, and a cloud forest.
NaNoWriMo is here! It’s not too late to start! Just give yourself 30 days.
To celebrate Teen Reads Week students at FHS will sign up in advance to spend the morning of Wed. Oct. 26th reading in the library for the fun of it. All PPS high schools will be participating in a Read In on the same date. We will have our Read In from 8:15 – 10:25 a.m. Comfy furniture + juice and muffins + a good book = Read In. Any questions, feel free to contact Jan Donald, Librarian.
MCPL Teen Author –Matt de La Pena is speaking for FREE On October 17, 2011, at 7 p.m. at the Slavic Church Emmanuel, 2025 S.E. 82nd Ave., near S.E. Division. Matt de la Peña, is the author of the novels Ball Don’t Lie, Mexican Whiteboy, We Were Here, I Will Save You, and the picture book A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, with art by Kadir Nelson. Check out the very cool movie site for Ball Don’t Lie. FHS Library has copies of his books too! Space is limited, and seats will be available on a first-come first-served basis, so plan to arrive early. Congratulations to Pam Garrett and Kate Moore who were awarded grants that will allow selected students to attend a special morning event with Matt on October 17.
Wordstock October 6-9 Oregon Convention Center. Approximately 200 authors participating in a panel or conversation, a reading, or both. Lots of young adult authors and old adult authors. Catch a panel or a reading. Barry Lopez. Scott Westerfeld. Lauren Oliver. Craig Thompson. Steve Almond and many many more. Too busy to get to Wordstock? Check out our Book Lists on our Word Stuff Tab Let’s Get Readin!
September 24-October 1 Harry Potter, The Catcher in the Rye, Monster, Of Mice and Men, Push!, Bridge to Terabithia, Athletic Shorts– All challenged or banned. Celebrate the 1st Amendment by reading a banned book today! Come to the library and check one out.
