MavLibrary

celebrating !

This book is available as an e-book in SORA (accessible via ClassLink)!

Happy Reading!

Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month!

Book of the Week: "Tapestry of Hope : Holocaust Writing for Young People" by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz

Synopsis:
A collection of firsthand accounts by survivors, poetry, drama, and selections from novels and short stories regarding the Holocaust. Writings describe life in the ghettos, the struggle for survival in the camps, resistance, and life after the Holocaust.

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

Book of the Week: "Lucy and Linh" by Alice Pung
Synopsis:
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family with her life at a pretentious private school.

Summer is here...have you downloaded SORA?

SORA is our digital library accessible via Classlink OR downloadable as an app. Set up instructions are available in the CANVAS course!

If you need any assistance, please contact a librarian!

New Year, New Books!

Stop by the to check out this NEW book!

"If You're Not the One" by Farah Naz Rishi
Anisa Shirani is . . . well, perfect. Of course, it's all a front to feed her own praise-obsessed ego. Behind closed doors, she is--some might say--a little slobbish and snobbish, and she works obsessively to maintain her God-given talents. Fate has favored her, but Ani knows better than anyone that fate is made by effort. And effort is a must, especially if Ani is to become a top-notch lawyer with a top-notch education and one day marry Isaac, total heartthrob and eldest son of the richest family in the community. A perfect girl deserves a perfect life, and Ani's perfect life is going exactly the way it should . . . Until Ani's parents announce they're getting divorced. Until Isaac shows all the signs of . . . cheating. Sort of. Until she starts catching feelings for Marlow, an overly friendly weirdo she's hated since the moment she laid eyes on him in class. How can fate be so wrong?

Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month!

Book of the Week: "Impossible Escape : A True Story of Survival and Heroism in N**i Europe" by Steve Sheinkin

Synopsis:
Childhood friends, Rudolf Vrba and Gerta Sidonová were just teenagers growing up in Slovakia when Adolf Hi**er and the German N**is began invading countries across Europe. While nineteen-year-old Rudi was captured and sent to Auschwitz, Gerta and her family escaped to Hungary where they changed their names and posed as Catholics. With determination and cunning, Rudi managed to stay alive for two years and he and fellow prisoner, twenty-four-year-old Alfred Wexler, plotted their escape. Though they knew it was highly dangerous, the pair risked their lives to tell the world what was going on at Auschwitz by escaping the camp and walking to Slovakia. Meanwhile, N**is closed in on Gerta and her family, and they are eventually arrested and sent to a detention camp. Rudi and Alfred's report, known as the Vrba-Wetzler report, was responsible for saving the lives of over 100,000 Jews and helping to expose the N**i's atrocities to the world.

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

Book of the Week: "Lunar New Year Love Story" by Gene Luen Yang
Synopsis:
If her grandmother is to be believed, Vietnamese American teenager Valentina Tran's family is just unlucky in love and she's destined never to find it. After an encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers at the Lunar New Year festival, old childhood imaginary friend turned nemesis, Saint Valentine, urges her to give him her heart to protect it from further pain. Valentina bargains with the spirit to turn it over in a year if she has not found love and embarks on a personal journey to break her family's curse.