April is the Busiest Month

Author Neal Shusterman talking about Unbound and Unwholly

It has been such a busy week! We are planning a poetry reading for Friday, April 19. Eleventh grade CTR Reports were due on Monday. We had a pizza party for the 22 Middle Learning students who read at least 5 of the Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees. Unbound Book Club had some great discussions about The View from Saturday, The Westing Game, and Tangerine. Ms. Lander's eighth graders took on the characters of Civil Rights leaders and had dinner parties to discuss their lives. Ms. Salter's students are giving their presidential briefings about African countries. The sixth graders had a beautiful day for their Field of Streams field trip. And the UL book club is meeting to talk about Starters by Lissa Price on Thursday. We also had a fantastic Google+ call with author Neal Shusterman and all of our eighth graders. The kids asked such excellent questions that the conversation went on for an hour and twenty minutes and Neal wrote this to me via e-mail: "Glad it all worked out!  I really enjoyed speaking with your students today.  I was actually feeling a little under the weather this morning, but chatting with your students really energized me -- now I feel great,and ready to get out there and write!"

Pizza Party Today

Congratulations to the middle learning students who read five or more of the books nominated for the Georgia Peach Children's Book Award. Today we'll have pizza and dessert in the library and vote for our favorite books online. When you're ready to vote, click here.

Spring Break Reading

Every year we have a spring break photo contest for Middle Learning students. We get a lot of great photos of people reading wherever they are on spring break. All the photos are on display in the Middle Learning Commons, but you can also see all the digital submissions in our 2013 photo gallery here.

Science Experiments

This week the library is full of science experiments and ninth graders are giving presentations about their findings. Come take a look at all the fascinating work they have done.

Unbound T-shirts

We have a great middle learning book club this year. Thirty-six 5th, 6th, and 7th graders come to Unbound Book Club meetings every week. Today we are unveiling our new t-shirts designed by UL 10th grader Heather T.

Listen to a Book

The Galloway Library has a collection of digital audiobooks that can be played on computers or any device that takes apps. The app to download is called Catalist Digital or use your computer and go to http://catalistdigital.com. Your login for this site is the same as the Galloway database login. If you don't know what it is, ask the library staff. Once you log in you can see all the books in our audiobook collection. It's a great way to read books in the car, while you are exercising, or even on the beach on spring break.

Book Bling

On February 28, Middle Learning celebrated its third annual Book Bling Day. Students and teachers wore the names of the books they are reading and lots of beads were distributed all day long.