BSHS Library Media Center

Join us at 3:30 in the Media Center on January 20 for the next Bulldog Booklovers Club meeting.  Please read one of the two January selections so that you can participate in a discussion:

Full Tilt  by Neal Shusterman

  Brothers Blake and Quinn couldn’t be more different:  Blake is serious and careful while Quinn is carefree and adventurous.  Quinn secretly accepts an invitation to a private,one-of-a-kind carnival and gets much more than he bargained for.  Can Blake save his brother?

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Mia and her family load into the car for a winter’s jaunt which quickly turns deadly; Mia, in a coma, is the only member of her family to survive.  She loves her family and cannot imagine life without them, but she also loves her boyfriend and is hoping to receive a scholarship to Julliard so that she can pursue her love of music. What should Mia do?

The next meeting of the Bulldog Booklovers Club will be Thursday, Nov. 18th at 3:30 in the media center.  We will be discussing two books:  Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater and Something Wicked by Alan Gratz.  Join us!

Our first shipment of new books has arrived! Stop by the media center to check them out.

Titles include:

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

The Compound by S.A. Bodeen

Ghost Medicine by Andrew Smith

Goddess Boot Camp by Tera Lynn Childs

Hunger by Michael Grant

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith

There are many more for you to explore.

The titles checked out most often this school year are listed below.  How many of them have you read?

1.  Unwind by Neal Shusterman

2.  Wake by Lisa McMann

3.  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

4.  City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

5.  What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles

6.  Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

7.  City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

8.  Evernight by Claudia Gray

9.  Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

10.  Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

11.  The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

12.  Dead Connection by Charlie Price

13.  City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

14.  The Maze Runner by James Dashner

15.  Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

16.  North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

17. The Summoning by Kelly Armstrong

18.  Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

19.  Evermore by Alyson Noel

20.  Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

BSHS LMC is once again participating in the South Carolina State Department of Education’s No Book Left Unread Summer Reading Challenge.

This year we are counting minutes read rather than pages and we challenge you to read and record 1000 minutes this summer. The program runs from June 1st through August 31st and you have until Sept. 7th to get your Reading Logs to Mrs. Bullington in the media center..

What reading materials count for the challenge? Books (obviously), newspapers, magazines, online articles and blog posts. Keep in mind that the reading material must be composed of at least 50% text in order to qualify. Read emails? Those would count. Read fan fiction? That would count.

You can pick up Reading Logs in the school’s main office or download it from here and print it out.

The student and staff member who read and record the most minutes at BSHS will each win a $25.00 Barnes and Noble gift card.  So start reading and recording those minutes!

South Carolina students voted, and Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why won the 2010 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award.

If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, stop by the media center to check out a copy.

April is School Library Month and this week (April 11-18) is National Library Week. What better time to celebrate your reading rights?

Want to chat with your some of your favorite authors online? On the nights of April 14th and 15th, you’ll get the opportunity to chat with the following authors on Twitter:

April 14th: Melissa Marr, A.S. King, Becca Fitzpatrick, Lisa McMann, Ellen Hopkins, Margaret Stohl, Carrie Ryan, Alyson Noel

April 15th: Holly Black, Michelle Zink, Scott Westefeld, Kami Garcia, Cassandra Clare, Bree Despain, James Dashner, Sarah Rees Brennan

For more information, visit YALITCHAT.

Have you raced through the maze with Thomas in The Maze Runner?  If you have, you’re familiar with the Grievers, the unbelievable monsters who live there. (And if you have yet to read it, visit the new library to check out a copy.)

While waiting for The Scorch Trials (the sequel) to be released on Oct. 12th, why not play The Maze Runner game?