Smyrna Elementary School
Media Center

 

     Welcome to Smyrna's Media Center home page. Our media center uses both traditional information sources and internet sources. We also have a separate computer lab within the center, as well as six, student computer stations in the media center itself. Our students use several computer-based programs on a regular basis. 

     One key to children's reading success is making their reading experience entertaining, relaxing, and enjoyable.  Parents and guardians should allow children to choose their own reading materials and be aware of what their reading interests are. Help them find books that pique their interests. I have listed here information about and links to many reading lists that identify high-quality titles and serve many different audiences and purposes.

 

Notable Children's Books An annual list compiled by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA.

Booklist Editor's Choice  Lists including "Books Youth" compiled by editors of ALA's review magazine, Booklist; with grade levels suggested.

Newbery Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children from books released in the previous year.

Caldecott Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished American picture book for children released in the previous year.

Pura Belpré Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses two works (one for narrative and one for illustration) that best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Coretta Scott King Award Books Each year, the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table chooses two distinguished books, one by an author of African descent and one from an illustrator of African descent, that promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream.".

 

SES B.O.B. team members for 2008-09: Matt Fulton, Randi Wescott, Jacob hancock, Pete Pitman, RW Lewis, Jace Lawrence, Chris Gaskill, Katlyn Rose, Priya Shah, Kai Ellenburg, Alex Rice, Carlee Boyd, Brianna Lewis

 North Carolina
Battle of the Books list  2008-2009

Battle of the Books  List  2008-2009

 

Title

 RL/Pts.

Author

Al Capone Does My Shirts

3.5 / 7

Gennifer Choldenko

Artemis Fowl

5 / 9

Eoin Colfer

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

5.8 / 7

John Boyne

Children of the River

4.3 / 8

Linda Crew

Cuba 15

4.9 / 9

Nancy Osa

Dovey Coe

 

5.4 / 6

Frances O’Roark Dowell

Elijah of Buxton

 

5.4 / 12

Christopher Paul Curtis

Fever 1793

 

4.4 / 4

Laurie Halse Anderson

Gentle’s Holler

5.1 / 8

Kerry Madden

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

 

5.1 / 7

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

 

5.6 / 2

Laura Amy Schlitz

Good Night, Mr. Tom

 

4.8 /  12

Michelle Magorian

The House of the Scorpion

5.1 / 15

Nancy Farmer

Johnny Tremain

5.9 / 13

Esther Forbes

Journey to the River Sea

5.6 /12

Eva Ibbotson

Kira-Kira

 

4.7 / 7

Cynthia Kadohata

LeRoy and the Old Man

 

5.1 / 6

W. E. Butterworth

Letters from Rifka

4.2 / 4

Karen Hesse

The Lightning Thief

4.7 / 13

Rick Riordan

My Life in Dog Years

5.6 / 3

Gary Paulsen

The Other Side of Truth

5.3 / 9

Beverley Naidoo

Romiette and Julio

 

4.7 / 10

Sharon M. Draper

A Single Shard

6.6 / 6

Linda Sue Park

Something Upstairs

4.1 / 3

Avi

Tangerine

4.3 / 13

Edward Bloor

Treasure Island (unabridged)

 

8.3 / 12

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wright 3

5.7 / 7

Blue Balliett

 

 

 

 

 

 

05/05/2008