Have a Great Spring Break!

A book recommendation for Spring Break

Hot Girl by Dream Jordan - Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah.

You need a book for Spring Break!

These are the top circulating fiction books at the CBHS library since January. If you need an idea, try one of these.

Magnetic Poetry @ Your Library!

OK Go - Rube Goldberg music video

Remember playing Mouse Trap as a kid and trying to make your own Rube Goldberg machines. This new music video by OK Go is amazing. It must have some science application. It's fun to watch. Enjoy! [And once again---sorry YouTube is blocked for you guys at school--watch it at home or ask a librarian and we'll show it to you.]

Rita Dove to read at The Menil

Poetry Reading
Rita Dove
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Esteemed American writer and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove will read at the Menil Collection as part of the opening of the Houston Museum of African American Culture. She is the author of a dozen volumes of verse; her awards and honors include the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2004–2006). Dove will read from her new book-length narrative poem, Sonata Mulaticca (2009), which re-creates the life of the biracial violinist George Bridgetower, the first performer of Beethoven’s "Kreutzer" Sonata.

Thinking about a driver's license?

Try these sites for information. Ask your librarians if you need assistance.
Parent Taught Driver's Education
Texas Drivers Handbook (also found on the shelves at 629.28 TEX)
Teen New Drivers' Website
Edmund's Teen Driver Safety Series

It's time to cowboy up! How about a rodeo book?

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Definition of monstrumology:

1: the study of life forms generally malevolent to humans and not recognized by science as actual organisms, specifically those considered products of myth and folklore.

2: the hunting of such creatures.
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey is the tale of Dr. Pellinore Warthrop and his assistant Will Henry. Will is an orphan under the care of Dr. Warthrop, a peculiar man who studies dangerous creatures and monsters. In the middle of the night in 1888, a nightmarish specimen is carted to the monstrumologist's home. Will can barely stand the sight of a half-eaten girl and an anthropuphagi, which is a vicious man-eating creature without a head. Will is forced to assist the intense doctor and is eventually led on a quest to find more of the creatures.
from Guys Lit Wire

The Greater Houston Teen Book Convention

Our event is scheduled for Saturday, April 10th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Alief Taylor High School. Admission to the event is free! Talk to one of your librarians, Ms. Buckley or Ms. Sullivan, for more information. Here's a chance to see some of your favorite authors.