Monthly Archives: April 2009

I am the Messenger – 4/09 B.o.t.M.

I am the Messenger
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
– 5 stars

I Am the Messenger is a story about a 19-year-old Australian taxi driver named Ed Kennedy. Ed is an incredibly average person. He doesn’t have a glamorous well-paying job; he lives in a boring town; he hangs out with a group [...]

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Books are Due!

[ May 8, 2009; ] All books are due Friday, May 8th! Please return your books or pay any outstanding fines by that date. Thanks for your help in getting all of our library materials back in!

Students with outstanding fines or books still checked out will not be issued report cards until their library accounts are cleared.

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The Boy Who Dared – 3/09 B.o.t.M

The Boy Who Dared
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
– 4 stars
The Boy Who Dared is a novel based on the true story of Helmuth Hübener, a 17-year-old boy who has been sentenced to death for speaking out against the Nazi government in Germany during World War II.
Told in flashback from Helmuth’s jail [...]

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