Bureau of Braille & Talking Book Library Services: 2008 Address Change

From the Florida Department of Education:

The Bureau has a new mailing address as of July 1, 2008. Mail sent to our old address will be delivered until 2010. Our new address is:

Bureau of Braille & Talking Book Library Services
421 Platt Street
Daytona Beach, FL 32114-2803

The web address for the Bureau has also been changed. The new address is:
http://dbs.myflorida.com/library/index.php

The address for the web catalog & ordering system is:
http://www.klas.com/talkingbooks/florida.com

Our phone number remains the same:
1-800-226-6075

2008 Summer Reading Program at Marathon Middle/High School

Melody Dodamead gave us the list for your Summer Reading Program. Just to remind you…

"Students enrolled in regular reading or English choose ONE book from the appropriate grade level list; students enrolled in ADVANCED reading or HONORS English choose TWO books from the appropriate grade level list, including at least one selection from the starred Advanced/Honors choices.

* DE English and Advanced Placement English students have separate lists. They are to see Mr. Schubert for A.P. Literature (room 2206) and Ms. Baldino (room 2205) for D.E. English summer reading assignments."

Here’s the list. ENJOY!

Grade 6 Reading

Almond, David
* Skellig

Choldenko, Gennifer
* Al Capone Does My Shirts

Fox, Paula
*One-Eyed Cat

Funke, Cornelia
* The Thief Lord

Gantos, Jack
* Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Konigsburg, E L
* The View from Saturday

Peck, Richard
* A Year Down Yonder

Philbrick, Rodman
* The Last Book in the Universe

Soto, Gary
* Baseball in April


**Recommended for 6th grade Advanced Reading

Avi
* Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Hesse, Karen
* Out of the Dust

O'Dell, Scott
* Sarah Bishop

Grade 7 Reading

Adams, Richard
* Watership Down

Bauer, Marion Dane
* On My Honor

Danziger, Paula
* The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Dessen, Sara
* Just Listen

Farmer, Nancy
* The Sea of Trolls

Howe, James
* Misfits

Mikaelsen, Ben
* Stranded

Pullman, Philip
* Subtle Knife

Riordan, Rick
* The Lightening Thief


**Recommended for 7th grade Advanced Reading

Dahl, Roald
* Boy : Tales of Childhood (Autobiography)

Spinelli, Jerry
* Knots in my Yo-Yo String


Grade 8 Reading

Cooney, Caroline
* The Face on the Milk Carton

Haddix, Margaret Peterson
* Running Out of Time

King, Stephen
* Thinner

Korman, Gordon
* No More Dead Dogs

Pelzer, Dave
* A Child Called It (Adult non-fiction, 362.76 PEL)
* The Lost Boy (Adult non-fiction, 361.7609 PEL)

Speare, Elizabeth George
* Sign of the Beaver

Windsor, Patricia
* The Blooding

Woodson, Jacqueline
* I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This


**Recommended for 8th grade Advanced Reading

Avi
* Nothing But the Truth

Collier, James & Chris
* My Brother Sam is Dead

Snicket, Lemony
* The Grim Grotto


English l

Bradbury, Ray
* Dandelion Wine
* The Illustrated Man

Colfer, Eoin
* The Wish List

Going, K L
* Fat Kid Rules the World

Lipsyte, Robert
* The Contender

Paolini, Christopher
* Eragon

Patterson, James
* Maximum Ride

Smith, Roland
* Peak


**Recommended for Honors English l

Albom, Mitch
* Tuesdays with Morrie

Mezrich, Ben
* Bringing Down the House

Twain, Mark
* Huckleberry Finn, also listed as
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


English ll

Brashares, Ann
* Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Krakauer, Jon
* Into Thin Air

Malamud, Bernard
* The Natural

McCaffrey, Anne
* Dragonsong

Paolini, Christopher
* Eldest

Roberts, Willo Davis
* Hostage

Sparks, Nicholas
* The Notebook

Stewart, Mary
* The Crystal Cave Series is available as
*** Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy, and also under the titles:
***** The Crystal Cave (First book in the trilogy)
***** The Hollow Hills (Second book in the trilogy)
***** The Last Enchantment (Third book in the trilogy)

Swift, Jonathan
* Gulliver's Travels


**Recommended for Honors English ll

Potok, Chaim
* The Chosen

Tan, Amy
* Joy Luck Club


English lll

Alten, Steve
* Meg

Alvarez, Julia
* How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

Chbosky, Stephen
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Giles, Gail
* Shattering Glass

Hersey, John
* Hiroshima (Adult non-fiction, 940.5425 HER)

Kidd, Sue M
* The Secret Life of Bees

King, Stephen
* The Stand

Sebold, Alice
* The Lovely Bones

Wells, H G
* The Time Machine


English lV

Allende, Isabel
* The House of the Spirits

Haddon, Mark
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Haley, Alex
* Roots (Adult non-fiction 929.2 HAL)

Hosseini, Kheled
* The Kite Runner

McCourt, Frank
* Angela's Ashes (Adult non-fiction 929.2089 MCC)

Morrison, Toni
* Beloved

Niffenegger, Audrey
* The Time Traveler’s Wife

Peretti, Frank
* This Present Darkness

Sinclair, Upton
* The Jungle : The Uncensored Original Edition

2 Cool 4 School : 2008 Summer Program for the School-Age Crowd

Marathon Public Library Presents 2 Cool 4 School : 2008 Summer Program for the School-Age Crowd

Thursday Mornings, 10-11 A.M.

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* July 17 – LAND OF THE INCA, AZTEC, AND MAYA
Stories from Central and South America.


* July 24 – AFRICAN ODYSSEY
Journey up the Nile! Explore the world’s greatest continent through its stories, myths, and legends.

* July 31 – THE JOURNEY OF CHONCEY CONCH
A program of instruments, books and music from the Caribbean with author Bryan Mays and illustrator Mary Jo Seagrist. Enjoy this tale of the Caribbean as you sing and dance to reggae and calypso music.

* August 7 – MOVIE: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
An award-winning, animated adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic book. Enjoy the wacky adventures of Toad, Mole, and Badger on the big screen!

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It’s cooler at the Library. So please join us!

Marathon Public Library is located at 3251 Overseas Highway, mile marker 48.7.

Questions? Call us at (305) 743-5156.

Marathon Library still in business, at least for the next year

Now that the July 2nd BOCC meeting has come and gone, we can all let out the collective breath we were holding--at least until the next time. The uproar created by the entire Keys’ community made a difference. Unless, of course, the threat of Libray and Social Services closures was a feint, a figurative pail of cold water in our “taxpayer” faces to wake us up and make us deal with real-life facts.

As citizens, and voters in Monroe County, we must understand that a certain amount of tax money must be collected to cover the County’s provision of services. Otherwise, we’ll lose things such as our libraries, veterans’ services, and the like. All the things that make life worth living here -- all part of the Community Services Division in Monroe County -- must be paid for by us.

By our reactions to the threat of library closures, we showed the BOCC that we’re willing to pay for services we, the citizens, hold dear. But did they, and the new County Administrator, also understand that we’re tired of being taxed for unneeded, and sometimes grandiose, projects that THEY dream up? I wonder.

Do the BOCC and County Administrator understand that the ordinary citizens of Monroe County -- and the U.S. in general -- are desperately trying to deal with the economy-wide inflationary tidal wave caused by the constantly increasing prices of all petroleum-based products? At the same time, recessionary forces are at work, too. Folks are afraid of losing their jobs, or if they keep their jobs, of not being able to meet all of their much higher living / working expenses.

Please BOCC, don’t start any new buildings or things of that sort. If you spent less on Capital Expenditures (is that what it’s called?) wouldn’t there be more money for the rest of the budget, for the services the County NEEDS to provide for its citizens? We need the police and emergency folks. We need the courts. We need the teachers. We need the Community Services, but you, BOCC, also need us.

You need us to bag your groceries, to fix your cars, to wait on you in stores and restarants, to check out your library books. If you take care of us by using our tax monies wisely so we don’t have to leave the Keys, then we’ll be here to take care of you.

Thanks.


[The opinions expressed in this posting were submitted by one of gobbysml.blogspot.com readers. It wasn’t approved by the Marathon Library staff or any other Monroe County employee.]