With finals week nearly finished, your friends in the CRC want to wish you a happy summer!
Maybe you are looking forward to some vacation time, a summer job, or even summer classes. Whatever you’ll be doing, here’s hoping that you enjoy the season and feel renewed.
Remember that the CRC will be open during the summer. Our hours will vary, depending on whether classes are in session. Check out the web site for the latest updates.
It’s almost finals week. Good luck to all of our students as you prepare for the end of spring semester!
If you need a break from your studying, remember that the CRC is your source for great novels for your leisure reading.
I know this spring hasn’t flown by for everyone, but as I have been counting down my time here at the CRC it certainly has for me. Today is my final day here and I want to express how privileged I’ve been to work with so many wonderful people. What a joy it has been to serve such appreciative preservice teachers who constantly make my day when they tell me I’ve made theirs! I’ll miss all the great resources and books, yes, but what I’ll really … Continue Reading
National Library Week is underway. Enjoy the activities at Jerome Library–Dunkin Donuts, the Authors and Artists Reception, and popcorn among them. And watch for the CRC Prize Patrol cart for your chance to answer book related questions and win fabulous prizes!
Here’s a review of another YA title in the CSCL collection by BGSU staff member Anne Lake. You’ll find it in the front hall at JUV A277iL.
Title: Illuminate (Gilded Wings #1)
Author: Aimee Agresti
Summary: [from GoodReads]
Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend Dante and their quiet and brilliant classmate Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city— Chicago—and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing Lucian Grove; and their stunning but aloof staff of glamazons called The Outfit.
As Haven begins falling for Lucian, she discovers that these beautiful people are not quite what they seem. With the help of a mysterious book, she uncovers a network of secret passageways from the hotel’s jazz-age past that leads her to the heart of the evil agenda of Aurelia and
company: they’re in the business of buying souls. Will they succeed in wooing Haven to join them in their recruitment efforts, or will she be able to thwart this devilish set’s plans to take the souls of her classmates on prom night at the hotel?
This was one of those rare books that I hadn’t heard of before picking it up off the shelf at the library. I didn’t really know what to expect
- the blurb I saw hardly gave anything away. So I was delightfully surprised to find Illuminate was one of those books I just could NOT put down.
BGSU Libraries staff member Anne Lake gives this review of a new CSCL book found at JUV S8551ra
Title: The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1)
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Summary: [from GoodReads]
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem.
But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
Maggie Stiefvater is one of those authors that I have a kind of love/dislike relationship with. Every time I read a synopsis for a book she’s written it sounds like the most awesome book ever and I am dying to get my hands on it. Then, when I finally do read them I’ve hyped them up so much that they seem kind of mediocre. I’d been burned a little too often so when it came to The Raven Boys I just kept putting off reading it. I shouldn’t have been worried though – finally I found one that lived up to its fullest potential!
April 2 is International Children’s Book Day. The date was chosen because it’s the birthday of Hans Christen Andersen, author of a number of classic children’s books. The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid are just two of his famous titles. Children all over the world are invited to take part in reading, writing, and learning about authors.
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