Pop In a Book

Join us in the library after school for a movie. Over the next few weeks, we will be watching books turned into movies. Movie time starts right at 3:15 and ends at 4:30. If you want to join us, see Ms. Friesen and sign up today. Space is limited! Our first movie will be "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", starring Brendan Fraser, on Wednesday, March 11th.

This movie is based on the Science Fiction/Fantasy classic book written by Jules Verne in 1864. The book and movie involve volcanic tubes, prehistoric creatures, natural hazards, giant mushrooms and geological time. Both movie and book are action packed and sure to keep the adventure seeker on the edge of their seat. Check out the video clip below for a sneak peak.

We Need Your Suggestions

We need your ideas and suggestions. Ms. Galli and I are going shopping at a bookfair next Thursday and we want to know what you want for the Library. Just fill out the survey at the weblink below. Your ideas and suggestions will then be sent to me. We will take your suggestions with us to the bookfair and consider them when buying new books and resources for the Library. Thanks for all your help! Be sure to check out the 'New Books' display in the library regularly.

Click Here to take survey

HAVE YOU HEARD...?

Valley Park is having a contest! Create a comic to promote your favourite book from the VPMS Library and you could be one of 10 students going with Ms. Friesen to the Beguiling Comic Store on March 2nd! Pick up your contest form from the library. Comics are due to Ms. Friesen by February
23rd. GOOD LUCK!

CONGRATULATIONS 8-GRAY!

A HUGE congratulations goes out to 8-Gray for reading 97,632 pages from November to January. So far, 8-Gray has read 131,251 since the beginning of the year. How many pages have you read so far this month? Let us know!

Congratulations Valley Park!

Congratulations! Valley Park took out 3,239 books in January! That is 869 more books than January 2008! Well done! Keep reading.

Check Out!

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Gemma Doyle is sent from her loving and warm childhood home in India to a finishing school in London after the death of her mother. There she must learn to cope and navigate through friendships with her classmates, who are from high-born London families. While at school, Gemma is followed by a stranger who gives her confusing warnings, discovers that her mother's death may not have been what it seems, and realizes that she may have frightening and exciting powers of her own. Check out the book from our library. You can find it in our paperback section under PB F BRA. Watch the book trailer below and check out the publisher's and author's websites.

http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/greatbeauty/about.html

http://www.libbabray.com/

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

The City of Ember is an underground city that was built 200-years ago and it is the only place where there is light in a dark world. Lina and Doon have reached the age of 12 and begin working. Lina wants the sought after messenger job, but ends up drawing the dreaded pipeworks labourer. However, things may change when her friend Doon draws the messenger card and asks Lina to trade jobs! Doon thinks he fix the generator that keeps the lights on in the City of Ember. However, Lina and Doon's fate may change as Lina thinks she may have actually found a way out of the city! This action packed book can be found in our paperback section under PB F DUA. Continue the story with People of Sparks, Prophet of Yonwood, and the newly released Diamond of Darkhold.

Website Links for the City of Ember series and movie are:
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/booksofember/home.html
http://www.cityofember.com/

Listen to a welcome message from Ms. Friesen.

Library Pod.mp3