Monroe Schools LMCs

04/04/2026

Thank you Mrs. Schmelzer and Mrs. Keene for all you do in our school LMCs! ❤️📚🎉

01/02/2026

Agreed! 👍

Reminder for anyone who needs to hear it: Reading Graphic Novels over winter break is READING!

11/23/2025

How fun! Check out this young adult series before it hits the big screen!

Marissa Meyer's "THE LUNAR CHRONICLES" series is officially getting an animated movie adaptation!

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation have teamed up to develop the adaptation. Although it's not yet confirmed, it is likely going to be a series of movies to adapt all the books.

The movie will be directed by Noëlle Raffaele and is scheduled for release on November 3, 2028!

11/15/2025

We are so thankful she did. It’s an enduring classic. ❤️

Louisa May Alcott didn’t want to write a girls’ book. In 1868, short of money, she finally agreed—and used her own family to create Little Women. She had spent years supporting her idealist father Bronson Alcott, whose ventures like Fruitlands failed, and she had worked any job she could. During the Civil War she nursed Union soldiers, caught typhoid, and likely suffered from mercury treatment. Little Women, published in two parts (1868–69), sold fast and has never gone out of print. When readers begged for Jo to marry Laurie, Alcott wrote in her journal that she wouldn’t do it “to please anyone,” marrying Jo to Professor Bhaer and giving her work and purpose. That honesty—about poverty, quarrels, ambition—made the book endure.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica (Louisa May Alcott); Greaves (2007), Emerging Infectious Diseases; Time (2018); The New Yorker (2018); NYPL (2015

10/14/2025

Learn more about our local tribes.

As we prepare to celebrate in Wisconsin on Oct. 13, learn whose treaty lands and which nations are located closest to your home with this interactive map from PBS Wisconsin Education. ⁠
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Then, explore booklists, interactive games, videos and more for learning about Wisconsin First Nations at https://wisconsinfirstnations.org/.
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01/03/2025

Read something new each month in 2025 using this reading challenge. Check for updates and ideas each month at MHS LMC. Grab a bookmark or challenge sheet to keep track of your reading adventure...

09/27/2024

Celebrate your right to read! https://wix.to/x7DGf4N

DID YOU KNOW The American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 demands to censor library books and resources in 2023? The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by OIF in....

05/20/2024

Check out my blog post https://wix.to/dZl0ob9

MAY 13 - AUGUST 26, 2024 - Join us this summer with SORA’s annual reading program. Sora Sweet Reads is designed for schools in the United States and Canada to encourage students to keep reading all year long. We’re offering a collection of free, simultaneous-use ebooks (and select audiobooks) th...

01/31/2024

It's time for another MHS LMC contest! The Blind Date With A Book runs 2/1-3/1. There are 4 prizes for this one!

Grand Prize gift basket of goodies valued over $100.
$30 "Study Break" gift card to various establishments.
$15 gift card to Dunkin' Donuts.
$15 gift card to McDonald's.

Enter to win one of these prizes by selecting a wrapped book on the Blind Date With A Book display in the MHS LMC. Check out the book, unwrap it to find out what you chose, write your name on the tag attached and enter it into the drawing box.

The grand prize winner will be drawn first, the $30 "Study Break" gift card will be drawn second, and the two $15 gift cards will be drawn third and fourth.

01/11/2024

The Schneider Award turns 20! Learn all about this amazing book award...

Authors, committee members, and Katherine Schneider herself reflect on how the Schneider Family Book Award has propelled disability representation into the spotlight.