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.

Abe Lincoln Award Nominee - The Tenth Circle by Jodi Piocult

Trixie an average looking freshman begins dating a handsome, popular, junior. Life is good until Jason breaks up with Trixie. She and her friend make a plan to get Jason back but the plan backfires changing Trixie and Jason's life forever. Read The Tenth Circle, you won't be disappointed!

CHS Breakfast Book Club - Summer Read

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult will keep you in mystery until the very end. Trixie is going to be a freshman in high school when she meets a very handsome upper classman at a summer party. Jason is everything Trixie isn't; popular, outgoing, and a super jock. Life was good until Jason breaks up with Trixie and she enters into self destructive behavior. As Trixies' life unfolds so does the mystery. Jodi Pocoult keeps you unraveling the mystery until the very end. Read: The Tenth Circle this summer and enjoy!