Author of the Month

Book Club selects Piers Anthony

as our Author of the Month

Piers Anthony was recommended as our author for the month of September because "he has a unique, warped sense of fantasy (meant in the best possible way) and is a prolific writer. He has more books to his name than any other author I know of" says Gary K.

Look for the Piers Anthony display in the LRC

For more information visit Piers Anthony's Home Page

http://www.hipiers.com/newsletter.html

Welcome CHS students

Book Club will be meeting

on the 2nd Friday of the month

Our next meeting will be Friday, September 11th

after school @ 3pm ~ so mark your calendars


Agenda: Be prepared to name your favorite summer read and share the reasons why~

Introducing our New Audio Books.

Please stop by and check them out!

Announcing the 2009-2010

Abe Lincoln Nominees

*Titles available in Audio for your listening pleasure

For more information on how you can participate in the nomination and voting process click this link: CHS Get your Abe On

• *An Abundance of Katherines -- John Green
• Aftershock -- Kelly Easton
• *Avalon High -- Meg Cabot
• *The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak
• Christopher Killer -- Alane Ferguson
• *City of Bones -- Cassandra Clare
• Does My Head Look Big in This? -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
• The Good Guy -- Dean Koontz
• Gym Candy -- Carl Deuker
• The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray -- Chris Wooding
• *I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You -- Ally Carter
• Inexcusable -- Chris Lynch
• Leaving Paradise -- Simone Elkeles
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier -- Ishmael Beah
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's Syndrome -- John Elder Robison
• The Luxe -- Anna Godbersen
• *Nineteen Minutes -- Jodi Picoult
• Pride of Baghdad -- Brian Vaughn
• Rooftop -- Paul Volponi
• *Rules of Survival -- Nancy Werlin
• Wicked Lovely -- Melissa Marr

*Audio books are available

Announcing the Abe Award Winners for 2008-2009

First Place: Crank by Emily Hopkins

2nd Place: Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

3rd Place: Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan

The new Abe Award books for 2009-2010 have been selected and will be announced after our Spring break. The LRC will have two copies of each of the 22 titles displayed on our Abe shelf. New this year will be Audio books available on Cd for your listening pleasure of all the Abe books that have sound recording available.

Read Across America

Join Community HS
in Celebrating
Read Across America
with a Lock-In & Read

When: Friday, March 6th
Periods 1 through 3

Where: LRC Reference Area

What to Bring: Pillow & blanket for comfort and of course that favorite book you've been wanting to read.

Cake and hot chocolate will be served during 3rd hour.

Permission slips and a $5.00 donation are required by Wednesday, March 4th

CHS Breakfast Bookclub

This Month's Book Club Selection:

Hawksong by Amelia Atwater Rhodes

Join us on February 5th in the LRC at 7am

On the Menu: hot cocoa & bagels and lots of discussion

CHS Breakfast Book Club News

Welcome and Congratulations to our newly elected officers: Liz Fortner - President, Gary Kurowski - Vice President, Laura Dalla Costa - Secretary, Edgar Hernandez and Haley Soutar - Publicity

• Book Club is off to a great start, we more that tripled our membership from last year. Way to go WE-GO!

• We sponsored our very first author visit in the past two years, welcoming Holly Black author of Tithe, Valiant, and The Good Neighbors her latest book and first graphic novel. Holly spent an entertaining hour at CHS discussing where she gets her inspiration to write novels about fairies living in the 21st Century.

• Planning and discussions are on the way about Read Across America in March and a possible Coffee House in April to kick off National Poetry Month.

• Our first drawing of the year was held to select a winner for the Abe Award drawing; congratulations to Kaylee Sayner

• Each month CHS Book Club will select a participating Abe Award reader to win a $10.00 gift certificate to Borders Book Store. Read those Abe Award titles to win!

Our next book club meeting is on November 7th, look for your 7:00 am pass in your advisory on November 5th.