February 2022 * Student Edition
LITERACY
DONORS CHOOSE
I'd like to give a HUGE THANK YOU to all of our donors! The grant proposal to increase our Spanish book selection has been funded. Donors Choose will soon purchase and send out authentic Spanish stories as well as translations of popular series to Hot Wells Middle School. If you would like to see the project click on the button.
90 SECOND NEWBERY FILM FESTIVAL
Enter the 90 second Newbery Film Festival. Read one of Newbery Medal Award Winners (full list here). Students should make a short movie that tells the entire story. Max film length is 90 seconds. What will NOT qualify are trailers, video book reports, or summaries of the stories. TO QUALIFY, students should write a script and act out the story in 90 seconds. WHAT IS IT?
The Newbery award is almost 100-years-old. It is given to the author that is most distinguished in contibuting to children's literature.
PRIZES Winning entries will be showcased at the Tobin Center's Riverwalk Plaza.
Our own Hot Wells Film festival winning time recieve a pizza party.
Prizes of 1,500 to winner and 1,000 to honorable mention to the library of the winner's choice.
Official entries will be submitted through the Bibliotech site. Entries due Feb 21, 2022.
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Celebrations
UPCOMING EVENTS Newbery Film Festival Entry due February 21, 2022
Read Woke Reading Challenge (March) BLOXELS Game Design Challenge
First Lego League Qualifier (March 19, 2022)
MAKER SPACE
Available in maker space is:
BLOXELS -- Video game design app. Students will be creating video games in the same vein as Mario Bros. by Nintendo. Student can design their main hero, the villain, and create artwork to decorate their game. They can add features to their characters like powers, life.
LEGO Spike Prime -- Students can create robots using the Lego Education tutorials. They will be using an iPad to program the Robot, create an obstacle course so that their robot can move around it.
SHPERO -- Students can practice their coding to move a plastic rolling robot around the room. It reminds me of a hamster ball or the car the boys were traveling around at Jurrasic Park.
Drones -- Practice you pilot skills with a drone. Try doing tricks with them or pick up the speed. Take aerial shots of different objects. The sky is the limit.
iMovie --Need assistance with shooting video and editing? I can help with the basics of camera shots, storyboarding, and editing videos that include intros, outros, music, and green screen. The Library space is available for student use every other week in the mornings at 8:05 a.m. and every day during 3rd lunch. Students who finish work from their teachers can also come and use the maker space. Student must have a pass to the library.
GO ON AN ADVENTURE
CRUSHING IT by Joanne Levy
Kat is already so over seventh grade. It doesn't help that her best friend and cousin, Olivia, grew a foot over the summer and won a spot on the school’s dance team, shooting her up on the popularity scale. In the jungle that is middle school, Olivia is a gazelle. Braces-wearing, manga-loving, uncoordinated Kat is a warthog.
Plus, Tyler, Kat’s next-door neighbor and buddy since birth, morphed into a really cute boy over the summer. Suddenly the person Kat’s used to playing Xbox with is causing her stomach to do cartwheels. What boy would ever choose a warthog over a gazelle? -- Good Reads
THE ONLY BLACK GIRLS IN TOWN by Brandy Colbert
12-year-old Alberta is thrilled to learn that the family who bought the bed and breakfast across the street is Black. Edie, the new girl, and Alberta click right away, even though they don't have much in common besides being Black. Alberta has lived all her life in the beach town of Ewing, California. Edie grew up in Brooklyn. Together the two girls navigate the drama of middle-school relationships; learn some lessons about Black history; and discover for themselves the power of research, including the old-school kind on microfilm at the library. -- Common Sense Media
Available on Sora.
Crush by Svetlana Chmakova
Grades 5 and Up
Call Number: 741.5 CHM
Sublocation: Graphic Novels
If you were to pass Jorge Ruiz on the street or in the hall, you would assume he had been held back. He’s big. He’s tough looking. But in reality, Jorge is sweet and gentle and all about keeping the peace. He’s not the bully. He’s the kid who protects you from them. He uses his size and the fact that people are afraid of him for good rather than evil.
Though he has his two best friends, Liv and Garrett, Jorge of late realizes he’s crushing on Jazmine. He gets tongue-tied whenever he is around her, but it doesn’t matter because Jazmine is already dating someone else. This is middle school, though, and no one stays a couple for very long. When the opportunity arises to start a relationship with Jazmine, it takes a while for Jorge to make a move. -- Yen Press
Available at Hot Wells Library
ROMEO BLUE by Pheobe Stone
Call Number: FIC AVI
Sublocation: Relationships
This absorbing follow-up to the The Romeo and Juliet Code (2011) picks up with the Bathburns in Bottlebay, Maine, one year later and with WWII in full swing. Flissy hasn’t heard a word from her parents, who are spies missing in Europe, but keeps herself occupied with her love interest, Derek, the boy the Bathburns unofficially adopted. When a man shows up claiming to be Derek’s long-lost father, Flissy struggles to keep her suspicions about him to herself. Soon, Mr. Henley, the local postman and poet, is called for duty in North Africa; Aunt Miami joins a USO traveling production of Romeo and Juliet; and Gideon, Flissy’s biological father, undertakes a secret mission. Intrigue and mysteries abound: Who is “The Moth Man”? What is Gideon doing in France? Will everyone come home alive? Our 13-year-old narrator captures the effect of the upheaval on her life and her family as she transitions, perhaps prematurely, from child to adult. -- Stared review from Booklist
A hard copy is available at Hot Wells Library
I ONLY HAVE PIES FOR YOU by Susanne Nelson
Call Number: FIC NEL
Sublocation: Relationships
Dacey Culpepper Biel comes from a long line of pie bakers. Her family’s shop, Pies N’ Prattle, is legendary in her small Texas town. But Dacey didn’t inherit a gift for baking. Her pies always end up as messy or burnt disasters. Even worse? Business has been slow lately, and Dacey wishes she could do something to help.
Then opportunity knocks: A popular TV show wants to feature the shop! But that means Dacey will have to spend time with Chayton Freedel, her arch-rival and the cute son of the show’s host. And when clues arise about a long-hidden family recipe, life at the shop may never be the same.
With a sprinkling of luck and some Southern charm, will Dacey be able to find the recipe, work alongside Chayton . . . and save her family’s legacy?
-- Scholastic Inc.
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