Buy from Amazon and help the Harvest Park Library
If you order from Amazon through the direct link below, I will get a small portion to be able to buy more books for the Harvest Park Library. This is extremely helpful since there is a very small budget for books for the entire student population. Thank you! Buy from Amazon, help the Harvest Park LibraryGoodreads
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Author Archives: Jamie Renton
Catch Rider by Jennifer H. Lyne
Lyne, Jennifer H. Catch Rider. 288 p. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin. 2013. $16.99, ISBN 978-0-547-86871-4. Tags: horses, family, animals, book review Series: This book is not part of a series. Interest level: Grades 5-8 Rating: 4/5 stars Link to Harvest Park Library … Continue reading
Just a Dog
Bauer, Michael Gerard. Just A Dog. 135 p. Henry Holt Publishers. 2010. (First American edition 12-2012). $16.99 ISBN 978-0-8050-9516-6. Tags: dogs, family, animals, death, book review Series: This book is not part of a series. Interest level: Grades 4-7 Rating: … Continue reading
Pulse
Carman, Patrick. Pulse Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 2013. 371 p. $17.99, 978-0-06-208576-4 Grades 7-10, 4/5 stars Harvest Park Library will buy this book. Faith Daniels is a mysterious and beautiful teenager living in the year 2051. She lives in an area between … Continue reading
The 13-Story Treehouse
Terry Denton, illus. The Treehouse Books series Feiwel/Macmillan 2013. 239 p. $13.99, ISBN 978-1-250-02690-3, Grades 3-7 Harvest Park Library: The 13-Story Treehouse Terry and Andy are friends who live in a child’s dream home, a 13-story treehouse complete with a … Continue reading
Tim Tebow: Quarterback With Conviction
Tim Tebow: Quarterback with Conviction by Stephen G. Gordon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Tim Tebow: Quarterback with Conviction, is part of the impressive USA Today Lifeline Biographies series. Boys and girls in middle school and high school will … Continue reading
Merging my two blogs!
Hi, I am merging the two blogs that I write. The new website will be this one, http://www.jamiethelibrarian.com. Please bookmark this website to stay in touch with the book reviews that I do and also Harvest Park Library and other … Continue reading
American Library Association announces 2013 youth media award winners Excitement was in the air this morning as the American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media awards were announced! The link to the ALA press release is above. The Harvest Park Library … Continue reading
Books Mrs. Renton has read so far in 2012
My goal for 2012 is to read 50 books. That’s a lot considering I was in graduate school until May, 2012. Click on the link to see what I’ve read so far. Have we read any of the same books? … Continue reading
September news
September was a busy month for the Harvest Park Library. We checked out 1,406 books in September, our highest ever circulation for September! Here are the Top 10 Books for September: 1. Insurgent by Veronica Roth 2. Flipped by Wendelin … Continue reading
Embarrassed to Read by Donalyn Miller
Reblogged from Nerdy Book Club: A recent National Literacy Trust report found that 17% of children surveyed would be embarrassed if their friends saw them reading. According to a dictionary, “Embarrassment is an emotional state of intense discomfort with oneself, … Continue reading
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