Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair has ended and the sales exceeded expectations! The Library wishes to thank all those parents, students, and teachers who shopped for books and supported this special project. The Book Fair proceeds are used to buy books and materials for the Beaver School Library.

One -Room Schoolhouse

The fourth-graders are beginning a unit in the Library next week to prepare for their day at the Sunnyside School-house on the Beaver County Fairgrounds. The students will learn about life in the Oklahoma Panhandle in the early 1900's. They will use reference sources such as the World Book Online, the Beaver County Historical books, and the Internet to research schoolhouses, clothing, housing, food,and technology of the pioneer days. A mini-museum will be set up in the library so that the students can have hands-on experience with stereoscopes, butter churns, sad irons, washboards, early-day cameras and typewriters. They will sample hard candies such as horehound, lemon drops, sassafras, and licorice. The students will dress in old-fashioned clothing and bring their lunch in pails that they have made during their week of classes. The members of the Beaver County Historical society and the museum staff will be present to play games, provide a noon meal, assist during the day and to take the students on a tour of the museum. The fourth grade teachers, Mrs. Jennifer Oswald and Mrs. Shelley Noble, and the library media specialist, Mrs. Erma Costner, wish to thank the museum staff and our guest teacher for the day, Dr. Pauline Hodges, for making this unique experience possible for the students!

Reading Encouragement Program 2009-10

"Take One" to Read is this year's reading challenge/payoff! Mr. Cates will surprise the students with a special performance after they collectively read 750 books in 12 weeks. An "Academy Awards" assembly and Pop and Popcorn Party will culminate the event!

Sequoyah Books

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The new Children's Sequoyah Books are now available at the library! Read at least three to be able to vote in April 2010.

Dahlberg, Maurine. The Story of Jonas

Frazier, Sundee. Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It

Hilliard, Richard . Ham the Astrochimp

Keenan, Sheila. Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People

Kennedy, Marlane. Me and the Pumpkin Queen

McKissack, Patricia. A Friendship for Today

Mills, Claudia. Being Teddy Roosevelt

Paulsen, Gary. Lawn Boy

Perkins, Mitali. Rickshaw Girl

Schlitz, Laura. Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm

Sniegoski, Tom. Billy Hooten, Owlboy

Thomson, Sarah. Dragon’s Egg

Tripp, Jenny. Pete and Fremont

Urban, Linda. A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Weatherford, Carole. Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive

Wilson, N.D. Leepike Ridge