Summer Lovin'

     What's on tap for my summer?

1.  READING

2.  The Outer Banks

3.  The Smoky Mountains

4.  Logan Swim Club with the kiddos 

5.  Making some awesome changes to both middle school and high school libraries!

What are you doing this summer?!?! Hopefully all good things! If you're looking for something to do, the Youngstown Public Libraries have some great events going on...

Kids Summer Discovery

Sign Up/Log In - registration begins June 1

Receive a coupon for a FREE ice cream cone from Dairy Queen and a Mahoning Valley Scrappers game voucher just for signing up!

Complete 5 activities and you can select a paperback book.*

Complete 10 activities and you can select an incentive.* Kids ages 3 and up will also get one FREE admission ticket to OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology.

Complete 15 activities and you will be entered into a drawing for a gift card.

Complete 20 activities by July 25th and you will receive an invitation to have breakfast with David Catrow, author and illustrator of the book series Max Spaniel, when he visits on July 31st.

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Teens Summer Discovery

Sign Up/Log In - registration begins June 1

Sign up at your local branch or online; visit us in person to receive a Scrappers game voucher and other coupons.

Complete ACTIVITIES to earn points! ACTIVITIES cover a wide range, such as reading a book, visiting a museum or volunteering in the community, doing a science activity, and so many more!

Complete 10 ACTIVITIES and receive a paperback of your choice.*

Complete 15 ACTIVITIES and you will be eligible to win a $25 gift card.

Complete 20 ACTIVITIES and you will earn a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card.

Calling all Honors English students....here is your link for Summer Reading! These are the books required by your teacher. Login to read the books on your device!

Enjoy your time to rejuvenate :) I will!

Happy Spring!!!!

Hopefully everyone had a great spring break, and had some fun with family and some downtime...and maybe some reading? If you read a great book lately, let me know so that I can add it our library if we don't already have it! 

It's the last grading period and many of you have research projects and or research papers in process. When researching, be sure to choose websites that are reliable and student friendly.  Here are 2 websites that are the best go to for Spartans:

INFOhio    

This website is provided to schools in Ohio for students to access. When at school, no login is required. When at home... 

Username is: Boardman 

Password is: Spartans

Not sure how to start using INFOhio? Start: HERE

FactCite   

About FactCite

FactCite is a fully searchable online information resource brought to you by The Lincoln Library Press. It includes the following resources:

• Biography for Beginners
• Shapers of Society
• Sports Champions
• World Biography
• Mythology
• American History
• Defining Moments in U.S. History
• Science
• Essential Information

When at school, no login is required. When at home... 

Username is: Boardman 
Password is: spartans

If you need any assistance, don't hesitate to come and see me!

New Blog and Fiction Titles

Welcome fellow Spartans! This blog is here to help you with all of the fun and follies of fiction and research.  Visit often for updates of things to come to the High School IMC and for help with your pesky research needs.  

I LOVE the smell of new books. Sure, I like to read on my iPad, but man...there is nothing like the feel of turning pages in your hands.  So, come visit the library for one of these new fiction titles we just acquired. Or, wait for the mobile library to visit your study hall this Wednesday!


The first title is the 2015 Printz Award winner! Not sure what the Printz Award is? Take a look here



   Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.


Other Titles


All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Bellweather Rhapsody, by Kate Racculia
The Death of Bees, by Lisa O'Donnell
Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste NG
Help for the Haunted, by John Searles
Lives of Tao, by Wesley Chu
Relish My Life in the Kitchen, by Lucy Knisley
This One Summer, by Jillian Tamaki


See you soon!