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Welcome to the Library!!!
Library Hours: Wednesday-Friday
8 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ready them more fairy tales.”
–Albert Einstein
BOOK TALKS
Are you ready to try a new book? Watch a Book Talk and see which one you like then check it out of our library!
Hidden
The Hunger Games
Around the World in 80 Days
Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Skies
Blood on the River
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Son of Neptune
Magnus Chase: The Sword of Summer
Revolutionary War on Wednesday
Dream Jumper
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw
The Perfect Blindside
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Sponge Out of Water
Leanin’ Dog
Heartless
Tommysaurus Rex
Green Eggs and Ham
Schooled
Ghosts
Oh the Thinks You Can Think
Ugly
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Last Straw
Holes
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Smile
Wonder
Booked
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Ghosts
P.S. I Like You
Salt in His Shoes
Star Wars Jedi Academy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway
Sisters
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Double Down
The Locket’s Secret
El Deafo
Roller Girl
The Girl Who Could Fly
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Getaway
The Way to Stay in Destiny
Roads to Falaise
Pete the Cat and the Lost Tooth
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1
El Deafo
Tea for Ruby
Homework
Student Poetry Corner
Toad in the Garden Poetry
Yellow and white Tulips
bushes with leaves
sitting in the shadows
A dark green and yellow frog
hopping around under the tree roots
playing in the mulch
watching blue flowers bloom
– Anonymous
The big gross weird frog is jumping through the
grass. Big weird gross legs going up and down.
Gross and green looking mean through the
greens. Through the grass and through the
trees he be green.
– Julian Alcazar
hiding behind the bunches of yellow flowers
mulch is stuck to his/her feet
hops over to the tree on the left
sits under it’s roots
– Tess Drabik
An army green colored frog sitting
on a root of a tree sits as it’s
bumpy skin blends in with the
tree
The grass is green and so many
blue and yellow flowers.
Sir frog hops through the bunches
of flowers
Sir frog spots a fly buzzing over
a blue flower
Gulp.
– Carly T.
The forest looks very green with
A lot of long grass and flowers.
The toad is sitting a branch
From a tree in the forest. -The
Toad is dark green with bumps
And a yellow belly.
– Anonymous
The forest burns with the sound of
The wind rustling the leaves & colorful
Flowers. The round lumpy frog ribbits
As it bounces from grass to branch
To dirt.
– Emily Leon
small, bumpy frog roaming around the
forest with yellow + blue flowers.
the green, ugly frog found white flowers
amd a bunch of trees
the frog saw a plainfield w/ a bunch
of trees + flowers blooming + growing.
the last stop was near an area
with rocks + water in the
forest.
– Anonymous
Grumpy toad hopping in a garden
Yellow, white, blue flowers under shady trees
Icky squash among the daffodils
Jumps in the awkward bush
– Anonymous
Lush green life, plant and frog
hophophop yellow flowers
pass by.
ribbit ribbit, he eats a fly
yellows whites greens and
blues
Oh all these beautiful
Hues.
– Anonymous
The garden and The Frog
Hoppdy hop hop hop goes the dark greyish blue
frog. Into the dark shaded flower bed. Mr. Frog
then hides under all the flowers stems to
escape the summer heat. Mr. Frog then
stays awhile till the sun goes down and
hops away.
– Anonymous
The brown toad camo with
the tree. The toad with warts
was hopping around the very
pretty garden
– Kuma
Camo Toad went into
the Blooming, Bright, Pretty
Garden. It’s silver eyes
reflected of the sun while
it hid between the flora.
– Cayden
purple, yellow white, flower
with TOAD
IN the NATURE with
TREES
– Abigail Callejas
flowers waving with
beautiful colors like
white, yellow, blue, the
toad is sitting on the grass
– Anonymous
The toad can camouflage in the Garden
the toad is very small in the garden
the Frog is muddy and the garden is dry
– Anonymous
A distorted rainbow hopped from
branch to branch, to seek it’s
destination. At last it reached
the dry green garden. It’s
yellow daffodils glowed in
the bright sun.
– Anonymous
A bumpy mysterious toad. In a bright
colorful garden full of God’s creations.
With Life and beautiful colors. A
magical Garden with many colors.
– Catherine Saenz
I see flowers, trees, I see branches, dirt
grass. light. I see the roots of the tree.
I see a toad, green, bumpy, ugly, and fat.
The fat, ugly, bumpy, green toad has
gotten into the garden of flowers, trees,
grass, light, dirt, and branches.
– Carlos
The toad lives in Dirt. The toad is hopping on
the rocks. The toad is blending in with
the green grass. The toad is eating the
blue flower
– Anonymous
The toad hops across to get
his beautiful wife a flower
blue is the color he picks
he loves her very much.
– Anonymous
This toad is in our garden now.
He hides behind the yellow flowers
blending into the mulch. He
does not blend in with the
blue flowers though. He blends
into the tree, and the mulch.
Flowers, as far as the eye
can see. Then we see our
blended, hidden Mr. Toad.
– Tama Yanks
Resources
Battle of the Books
Battle of the Books is an after school club open to 5th and 6th grade students in Catholic schools throughout the Diocese of Arlington. The Holy Family Catholic School club meets Thursdays from 3:15-4:15 pm after school in the library. An assigned book is discussed in detail each meeting and two books are reviewed monthly. There are 15 books on this year’s list representing different genres of literature. In May, the diocesan Battle of the Books competition takes place, where each school is represented by a team of five students.
The Battle of the Books program is challenging and fun for students who enjoy reading books and competition. Please contact Mrs. Dunlop for additional information about the Battle of the Books.
Battle of the Books – 2017/18 Reading List
Categories include nonfiction, historical fiction, fantasy, classic, mystery, adventure, realistic fiction and Catholic Librarian Association (CLA) choice.
Nonfiction
Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet
Hidden Figures Young Readers Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
Mystery
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
Fantasy
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
Adventure
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Doldrums by Nicholas Gannon
Realistic Fiction
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
Ghost by Jason Reynolds.
Historical Fiction
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg
Classic
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
My Side of the Mountain by Jean George
CLA Choice
The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi
About
Mrs. Dunlop, Library
library@holyfamilydalecity.org
What’s your librarian been reading lately? I just finished Leepike Ridge by N.D. Wilson, Rascal by Sterling North, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia, Rules by Cynthia Lord, The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman, and Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan. And I’ve completed all 15 of the Battle of the Books selections for 2018.
