We will meet on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 during SSR in the library to discuss the book (movie ??) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Bring a snack and/or drink if you like.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Friday, September 9, 2011
September Book Club News
Our first book club meeting of the year will be held in the library on Tuesday, September 13, during advisory SSR time. Please bring a book you've read recently and we'll share ideas and titles for upcoming group reads.
I'm looking forward to another great year of reading and discussing some good books!
You may also send book club title suggestions to me via email: dcrawford@oharahs.org
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Hate List - a review by George Morejon
Hate Listby Jennifer Brown
**** stars
What would you feel like if your school was shot up by another student? Now what if that other student was the person you were going out with? And what if you were accused of helping them? This is what happen with Valerie, the young girl in Hate List whose boyfriend, Nick, one day in may decided to put 'their' plan into action. After struggling to get over the tramatic experience, she got shot in the leg, not to mention was a prime suspect for making the 'hit list', she has to go back to the same school for her last year. What will people think of her?
They'll hate her, that's what. The unity presented in the newspapers isn't real she sees, with all the normal fighting and argueing still happening. But she makes a friend in an unlikely person, one of her worst tormenters from the year before, and takes on a project to honour their classmates.
This was a 5 hour book that had an interesting concept that i hadn't put together before, a list of people a person hates whichh leads to a school shooting. It plays out where you can see Valerie as either a cause of the problem or the victim, and i saw her as a victim. The mother was too overprotective, always worrying about protecting the world from her daughter after the event. I agreed with Valerie's unlikely friend when she said "It's not your fault. After all, you didn't shoot anyone."
Monday, April 6, 2009
Johanna Kelly's Book Review
Testimony
Anita Shreve
**** stars
One tape…Several drinks…A few hours…Three boys’ lives forever changed. Three boys have to face the guilt and punishment of committing statutory rape. When a scandal breaks out at Avery Academy, a prestigious high school, several peoples’ lives are changed forever. Should high school seniors face criminal charges and be expelled for having sex with a fourteen year old? Is eighteen truly the age to be called an adult? There are so many moral issues packed into the novel Testimony.
At this point I’m not sure what to believe in. Before I read this novel I looked down upon those eighteen and over who have sex with those who are younger. When I think of “statutory rape” I think of cases where a sixth grade student has sex with a forty year-old teacher. I think of a fifteen year-old having a twenty five year-old boyfriend. These cases are serious and should be handled as criminal.
But what about two eighteen year-olds and a nineteen year-old with a “willing” fourteen year-old? In Vermont, the law says that these boys should be charged with sexual assault. I really don’t believe that what happened in Testimony should be classified as sexual assault.
The only way you’ll be able to know what you think is if you read Testimony. This was a great novel that was very well written. Read it today!
Anita Shreve
**** stars
One tape…Several drinks…A few hours…Three boys’ lives forever changed. Three boys have to face the guilt and punishment of committing statutory rape. When a scandal breaks out at Avery Academy, a prestigious high school, several peoples’ lives are changed forever. Should high school seniors face criminal charges and be expelled for having sex with a fourteen year old? Is eighteen truly the age to be called an adult? There are so many moral issues packed into the novel Testimony.
At this point I’m not sure what to believe in. Before I read this novel I looked down upon those eighteen and over who have sex with those who are younger. When I think of “statutory rape” I think of cases where a sixth grade student has sex with a forty year-old teacher. I think of a fifteen year-old having a twenty five year-old boyfriend. These cases are serious and should be handled as criminal.
But what about two eighteen year-olds and a nineteen year-old with a “willing” fourteen year-old? In Vermont, the law says that these boys should be charged with sexual assault. I really don’t believe that what happened in Testimony should be classified as sexual assault.
The only way you’ll be able to know what you think is if you read Testimony. This was a great novel that was very well written. Read it today!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Chance Norton's Book Review
Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
***
Stargirl is about what happens when a person is truly being who they are on the inside, without influences from the school, peers, or television. It is about figuring out who you are, or what you aren’t because of the influences around you. Jerry Spinelli’s book will make you think about why you act the way you do and why some people have different acts for different friends. I personally do behave differently around a friend that I have had basically for my entire life than I do around friends that I met this year or the year before. I am sure that almost everyone does this, unconsciously at least, and that is why a girl like Stargirl is so controversial even in a high school. No one can believe that a girl like her could exist, like Hillari said in chapter two, “She isn’t real, she is an actress. It’s a scam to make us have school spirit.” No one behaves this way because no one either has the courage or everyone wants so badly to be accepted that they cannot allow themselves to.
This is a book about how things can go wrong, and right, when you let all of yourself be seen, all day, every day.
by Jerry Spinelli
***
Stargirl is about what happens when a person is truly being who they are on the inside, without influences from the school, peers, or television. It is about figuring out who you are, or what you aren’t because of the influences around you. Jerry Spinelli’s book will make you think about why you act the way you do and why some people have different acts for different friends. I personally do behave differently around a friend that I have had basically for my entire life than I do around friends that I met this year or the year before. I am sure that almost everyone does this, unconsciously at least, and that is why a girl like Stargirl is so controversial even in a high school. No one can believe that a girl like her could exist, like Hillari said in chapter two, “She isn’t real, she is an actress. It’s a scam to make us have school spirit.” No one behaves this way because no one either has the courage or everyone wants so badly to be accepted that they cannot allow themselves to.
This is a book about how things can go wrong, and right, when you let all of yourself be seen, all day, every day.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
October Book Club
Attention – would you like to join the October Book Club? We are reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. We have 7 copies of the book available in the library. Stop by if you are interested. All students are welcome to join. Our meeting will be held in the library on Friday, October 31 at 7:40 am. Bring your breakfast and join in the great discussion of a hugely popular book.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Book Club for September
We are reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult for this month's OHS book club.
I have 5 copies of it available for check out so stop by and pick up yours. If you prefer, you may obtain the book from a local public library. Our meeting will be held on Friday, September 26 at 7:40 am in the library. All interested students who read the book are welcome to join us. Bring your breakfast!
Mrs. C.
I have 5 copies of it available for check out so stop by and pick up yours. If you prefer, you may obtain the book from a local public library. Our meeting will be held on Friday, September 26 at 7:40 am in the library. All interested students who read the book are welcome to join us. Bring your breakfast!
Mrs. C.
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