How about those summer readers!?

Libraries Lately November 2012

Volume 2, Issue 1

New Haven Public

Schools

Brennan Rogers students read well

over 1,000 books this summer, taking the

school’s summer reading challenge seriously.

Students pledged before the summer

to read a certain number of books toward

the school-wide goal of 1,500. Students kept

track of their reading on logs provided by

the New Haven Free Public Library. Librarians

there kept track of students who took part in

their program and provided librarian Susan

Martinez Sendroff with the results.

Brennan Student Shining Stars

Thousands of New Haven Public Schools students from all over New Haven spent time reading this summer for pleas-ure or to meet various challenges from their school, the

public library or the Governor.

More summer readers

recognized on Page 2

Students at Metropolitan Business Academy who participated in the school’s online summer reading program were entered into a raffle for prizes that included iTunes cards, movie tickets, flash drives, bookmark lights and water bottles. Students submitted reviews using an online review form. More than 80 review were submitted.

Charline Cupole (below), librarian at Metropolitan Business Academy, stands behind a list of summer reading challenge winners from her school.

End of Summer Quiz Fest at HSC

Sophomores Mariely Cervantes and

Curt LoPresto won first and second

place in the number of Accelerated

Reader quizzes taken for summer

reading. Both received movie tickets.

HSC students chose summer reading

titles from a list generated by the

English department. Mariely took and

past 14 quizzes and Curt passed four out of four. Library Fran

Pierson administers the AR and summer reading programs.

kids meal certificate

to Texas Road

House. Special guest

was Sharon Lovett-

Graff, head Librar-

ian of the Mitchell

Library who came to

speak to the stu-

dents. She rewarded

students with pencils

and bookmarks.

More than 70 students

celebrated their summer of

reading with Edgewood

School librarian Jennifer

Quirk. Students received a

reading medal and a free

East Rock Principal Reads to Students for

Hispanic Heritage Month

Quinnipiac Ladies Hockey Mascot Helps Recognize Summer

Readers

L IBRARIES LATELY

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Summer Readers at

Edgewood Treated

to Ice Cream

Boomer, the mascot for the Quinnipiac University

Ladies hockey team, helped recognize summer read-

ers at Benjamin Jepson School. Boomer came to two

of the three parties held for students who read over

the summer. Tyron Knight, Jepson’s top summer

reader, was invited to announce the start of the

hockey game on Oct. 5. Librarian Jeanne Z. Law-

rence arranged the visit.

East Rock principal Peggy

Pelley reads The Bossy

Gallito to East Rock stu-

dents as part of an His-

panic Heritage program.

The program was a col-

laboration between librar-

ian Paula Daitzman and

Jean Lawrence, the

school’s music teacher.

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1

Betsy Ross librarian Richard Naples (right) is making

sure every student has a book to read for pleasure,

part of a schoolwide reading promotion that aims to

put a ‘personal reader’ in everyone’s hand.

Barnard’s Go Green reading incentive program is off and

running! Go Green, which stands for Get Reading Each and Every Night, has children reading at home and submitting

to their teachers the amount of

pages read. Librarian Cheryl

Coppa (above) tallies the numbers

and displays them on the wall

outside the library.

Children read in the evening and

depending on grades write pages

or for little ones check that book

went home and comes back (prek and k)

End of each month gather number of pages and will graph it in front

hall to show amount read by class. The program started with a kickoff

outside at the star of schoolyear.

“We started it last year in January,” Cheryl said. “It worked great so

we’re starting it up again this year.”

Personal Readers at

Betsy Ross

Going Green at Barnard Library

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Librarian Lynne Martens

(above) reports that stu-

dents at Nathan Hale

read 2,392 books this sum-

mer!Congratulations to

eight graders, the grade

that read the most!

Mary McMullen, left, librarian at Hillhouse High School, leads a dis-

cussion during a meeting of her in-school book club. Students partici-

pating in book clubs at nine city high schools will attend the culmi-

nating event at Hillhouse on Dec. 6.

Students Check

Out Breaking

Night for first

district-wide

high school

book club of

the year

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Liz Murray, above, author of the memoir Breaking Night, the story of her life as the child of drug ad-dicts. Murray was home-less when she applied to Harvard and was ac-

cepted.