1. H I L L C O U N T R Y M S
Library
A Monthly Newsletter
What’s Happening Caught Reading
is our middle name
Issue No. 14 - April 2010
Must Read
@ the Library
April is Poetry Month! The Summer I
* Come and create a poem on our Library Turned Pretty
interactive display regular,
by Jenny Han
Ari David,
* Check out a poetry book or verse relaxes
novel with a
* Attend the Poetry Slam good
book
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything
POETRY SLAM good, everything magical happens between the
Tuesday, April 20 (4:00-5:30 pm) March months of June and August. Winters are
Bring your poetry to read at the Lib
rary St
simply a time to count the weeks until the next
Poetry Slam! Meet in the library Visitors ats summer, a place away from the beach house,
: 2,215 away from Susannah, and most importantly,
after school for hot chocolate, Classes away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the
snacks, and a snapping time! : 123 boys that Belly has known since her very first
Check summer - they have been her brother figures,
Outs: 2 her crushes, and everything in between. But
Holds P ,721
CHESS TOURNAMENT laced: 1
one summer, one terrible and wonderful
summer, the more everything changes, the
Thursday, April 8 (all lunches in 49 more it all ends up just the way it should have
the Library) been all along. - www.dearjennyhan.com
Teen Tech Week Talk Read-A-Thon Results!
Last month we celebrated Teen Tech Week. HCMS raised an amazing $9,197 to purchase books for Austin kids!
Students completed tech tasks on an interactive bingo board.
Check out three book trailers that our students made @
http://tinyurl.com/ybhjz7u (first three videos)
Come check out a 2010-2011 Lone Star book!
The Texas Lone Star list is a recommended reading list to encourage students in grades 6, 7,
and 8 to explore a variety of current books. Students who raised $100+ or read Mrs. Cunningham’s 1st period was the top
1,000+ pages attended a Library Lock-In fundraising class, bringing in $875
* The Sweetheart of Prosper County by Alexander
* The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Beil
* All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse by Burg
* Graceling by Cashore
Author Tim Green visits HCMS
* The Demon King by Chima
* The Roar by Clayton
* The Maze Runner by Dashner
* North of Beautiful by Headley
* Girlfriend Material by Kantor
* The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Kelly
* Pop by Korman
* The Season by MacLean Kyle White talks up Misael Angeles gets his
Tim Green book signed
* The Hunt for the Seventh by Morton-Shaw Jake Wood, Tim
* Slob by Potter Green, Shelby
Adams, and
* When You Reach Me by Stead Misael Angeles
* Killer Pizza: A Novel by Taylor
* Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Walker
* Bull Rider by Williams
* Donut Days by Zielin
* Prophecy of the Sisters by Zink
Library Phone: 512.732.9224 or 31050 Online Catalog: destiny
