Library
		Fall into Books Week 2009
		From the Library Our readers are off to an exciting start this year!  Students in grades K-3 will be reading the Red Clover picture books and choosing their favorites, and students in grades 4-6 can choose to participate in the Dorothy Canfield Fisher (DCF) books contest.  Our older students can write reviews of DCF books on our blog, vote for their favorite book and win prizes for participating.  It's great to see so many of our students excited about books! I thought it might be a helpful reminder for parents to know our book return schedule.  Books may be checked out for one week, so students should return books on their next library class.  Students who would like more time with a book can always renew, and students who finish early are more than welcome to come in on their own during breakfast or lunch and make an early book switch! Here are the days library books are due for each class: Kindergarten -- Wednesdays First grade -- Wednesdays Second grade -- Tuesdays Third grade -- Thursdays Fourth grade -- Thursdays Fifth and Sixth grade -- our 5/6 students are independently shopping for their books so they may come in any time to borrow and return books. Thanks for your wonderful support of our Mettawee Readers! Mrs. Ahlfeld
		Author Visit on November 12th Michael Daley will be coming November 12 to present to our 4-6 graders.  He is a Vermont author who has a book Rat Trap on this year's DCF list, plus he lives in a solar house, writes sci fi and is married to author Jesse Haas.
		Red Clover Books 2009-10 The nominees for the Red Clover Award for the academic year 2009 - 2010 are:   A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever Frazee, Marla Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale Hopkinson, Deborah Finding Home Markle, Sandra How to Heal a Broken Wing Graham, Bob Owney, the Mail Pouch Pooch Kerby, Mary Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City Schulman, Janet Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder Stone, Tanya Lee Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad Rumford, James The Chicken of the Family Amato, Mary Wangari's Trees of Peace Winter, Jeannette
		DCF Books 2009-10 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List 2009 – 2010 AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER GRADE Abrahams, Peter Into the Dark Harper Collins 5 up Aguilar, David 11 Planets National Geographic 4 up Balliett, Blue The Calder Game Scholastic 5 up Bradbury, Jennifer Shift Atheneum 7 up Broach, Elise Masterpiece Holt 4 up Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games Scholastic 7 up Daley, Michael Rat Trap Holiday House 4 up Dowell, Frances O’Roark Shooting the Moon Atheneum 5 up Farr, Richard Emperors of the Ice FSG 6 up Feldman, Jody The Gollywhopper Games Greenwillow 4 up Frost, Helen Diamond Willow FSG 5 up Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book HarperCollins 6 up George, Jessica Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow Bloomsbury 6 up Goodman, Allegra The Other Side of the Island Razorbill 6 up Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan Christo and Jeanne-Claude Roaring Brook 4 up Haddix, Margaret Peterson Found S & S 5 up Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale Rapunzel’s Revenge Bloomsbury 4 up Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea Viking 6 up Law, Ingrid Savvy Dial 5 up Napoli, Donna Jo Mogo, the Third Warthog Hyperion 4 up Nuzum, K.A. The Leanin’ Dog HarperCollins 5 up O’Connor, Barbara Greetings from Nowhere FSG 5 up Pearson, Ridley Steel Trapp: The Challenge Disney 5 up Qamar, Amjed Beneath My Mother’s Feet Atheneum 6 up Rutkoski, Marie The Cabinet of Wonders FSG 5 up Scieszka, Jon Knucklehead Viking 4 up Shusterman, Neal Antsy Does Time Dutton 6 up Soo, Kean Jellaby Hyperion 5 up Spradlin, Michael P. Keeper of the Grail Putnam 6 up Vande Velde, Vivian Stolen Marshall Cavendish 5 up
		Books and Beyond Theme 2009-2010 "Mettawee Reading Olympians" This year's Books and Beyond theme is "Mettawee Reading Olympians". Students will be celebrating the Winter Olympics 2010 held in Vancouver, Canada by moving around 8 stations: bob sledding, figure skating, skeleton, biathlon, snowboarding, alpine skiing, ski jumping, and ice hockey. The students who complete the eight stations earn their Gold Medal at our end of the year reading celebration ceremony. This program will run from September 22nd to May 28th. We hope all Mettawee students will read at home throughout the year and share with their parents the love of reading.
		Spring Author Visit Nick Bruel is an author and illustrator of the wildly popular and award winning "Bad Kitty" series will visit with our K-3 students during Children's Book Week in May.

		Kelly Ahlfeld Librarian, Mettawee Community School 5788 VT Route 153 West Pawlet, VT 05775 (802) 645-9009, ext. 215 kahlfeld@mettaweeschool.org