@ the Hampton School Library

“Linking Ideas Between Readers And Resources—Informing,

Enriching, Sharing” (A.Yucht)

Meeting the information and recreational reading needs of

Hampton School’s students and staff

With:

Award-winning Picture Books Chapter Books and YA Fiction

The Classics Online Resources

Folklore, Fairytales, and Poetry Periodicals

and

Books about Animals Birds Cars Dinosaurs Eggs Famous People Ghosts Holidays Igloos

Jupiter Knitting Lemons Meteors Newts Opera Pueblo Indians Queens and Kings Rocks

Spaceships Trees Ugly Bugs Volcanoes Westward

Expansion X-citing

things Yo-yos Zebras

Literate and Informed Consumers of Information

Creating

This year’s topics of interest include: Plants, the Solar System, Dinosaurs, Community Helpers, Famous

People, and U.S. Geography (Grades K, 1, 2) Birds, Animals, Plants, Insects, Biography, and Native Americans,

(Grade 3) New Jersey, Magnets, Heroes of the Revolutionary War, Dinosaurs,

Space, Biography, and Transportation (Grade 4) Folklore and Fairytales, Famous Women, Ocean Creatures,

Explorers, and Individual States (Grade 5) Cells, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and

Mythology (Grade 6) The Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, the Gold Rush,

Science Fiction, and Poetry (Grade 7) The Civil War, The Holocaust, WWII, Russia, and Biological

Adaptation (Grade 8)

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2002-2003 Events Training in Online

Searching Used Book Sale Reach for the Stars Usborne Book Fair Story Sharing Author Visit

Special Productions by the Hampton Story Stars.

Read Across America Dr. Seuss’ Birthday Hampton Reads Guest Readers “Code Read”

Online periodicals

Online Encyclopedias

Biographical Resources

Online Databases provided free by the State and the Highlands Regional Library

Consortium.

Online Databases

EBSCO Host and Facts-on-File

•Together Students and Staff work towards a school-wide reading goal

•Last year Hampton School students and staff read over 30,000 minutes!

•With the money from their pledges we were able to purchase over $800.00 worth of books for the classrooms and the library.

What is your family’s reading goal for 2002-2003?

Our Periodicals include: National Geographic Kids Discover National Geographic for

Kids NASCAR Illustrated American Girl New Moon Muse

Motocross Zoobooks Highlights Sports Illustrated for Kids Nintendo Power Girls Life Nickelodeon Disney

Welcome Harry Potter

The newest Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has arrived!

Also Eldest the sequel to the great dragon story Eragon is here!

Until then

Check out these new titles:

Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan

Darren Shan is just an ordinary schoolboy who enjoys hanging out with his three best friends. Then one day they stumble across as invitation to visit the Cirque du Freak, a mysterious freak show. This is Darren's story.

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Sabriel, daughter of the mage Abhorsen, "has been sent for her safety to boarding school outside the Old Kingdom, where she is in her last year whenshe receives her father's sword and necromancy tools, which means that Abhorsen is either dead or trapped in the realm of Death. Determined to find her father, Sabriel enters the Old Kingdom, which is under attack from the minions of Kerrigor

What Would Joey Do? By Jack Gantos

Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett

The executor of the Baudelaire estate -- a phlegm-plagued banker named Mr. Poe -- sends the children to live with a distant relative: a conniving and dastardly villain named Count Olaf, who has designs on the Baudelaire fortune.

The Bad Beginning is actually a great beginning.

It's the first book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, a

wonderfully different and disastrous children's story

starring three highly unlucky siblings.

In this first book, readers are introduced to the unfortunate Baudelaire children -- 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus, and their infant sister, Sunny -- when they learn they've just been orphaned by a terrible house fire.

The Rain Catchers by Jean Thesman

Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end-or at least they do where Grayling lives with her extended family, who tell stories each day over tea. But Grayling's own story seems only to have a middle-until she is summoned to her mother's house and learns why she was left behind at birth.

"A powerfully drawn setting and the beautiful portraits of the household's circle of women make this coming-of-age novel one of the best of the recent YA novels."-Kliatt.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Follows 11-year-old protagonist Lyra Belacqua from her home at Oxford University to the frozen wastes of the North on a quest to save dozens of kidnapped children from the evil 'Gobblers,' who are using them as part of a sinister experiment involving dust.

Lyra also must rescue her father from the panserbjorne, a race of talking, armored, mercenary polar bears holding him captive.Joining Lyra are a vagabond troop of gyptians (gypsies), witches, an outcast bear, and a Texan in a hot air ballon." (Libr J)

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

And if you did buy the dragon's egg, what would you do when you found out you were supposed to hatch it?

If Howard Morton and Freddie the Frog Killer were trying to hold you down so that Mary Lou Hutton could kiss you, you might run as fast as Jeremy Thatcher did the day he stumbled into Mr. Elives' Magic Shop.

And if you stumbled into that strange shop, you, too, might be asked to make a choice. What would you buy?

The Chinese rings? The Skull of Truth? Or …..the Dragon’s Egg?

When the Bees Fly Home

Hard times have fallen on Jonathan's family. There is a drought and the bees that provide his family's living are not producing honey.

It doesn't help that Jonathan is not as suited for the heavy work of beekeeping as his younger brother, whom his father seems to favor.

But when Jonathan decorates his mother's handmade beeswax candles, he discovers a talent can help the family.

Helen RosenbergCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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The BirdwatchersJess's grandfather is fond of telling fantastic stories

about his adventures while birdwatching. The girl takes his declaration that "Birds are amazing" with a grain of salt and decides to find out for herself if this is true.

When she accompanies him into the field one day, she is clearly underwhelmed, at first unable to see anything on her own.

They then make their way to a bird blind overlooking a pond, and Jess is bedazzled by the array of warblers, ducks, and waders that greet them. They make "lots of notes and loads of drawings.“

Luann Toth, School Library Journal Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

AlbertYou never know what a day will bring.The morning begins like any other. Albert reaches out the window to check

the weather. But from the moment a twig lands smack

in the palm of his hand, life is never the same.

By Donna Jo Napoli