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Time Out for Reading is a program designed to provide students and staff with a time to read
for personal pleasure, enjoyment and relaxation in hopes that this time will spur the reader to set aside in their daily life to continue the habit of reading. It is also a time for students and staff to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to discuss and share ideas about a common reading experience. Refreshments and thematic decorations help to create a mood conducive to open sharing and the creation of new relationships. |
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month the Time Out for Reading selection for October is The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. This Award winning book, 2002 National Book Award, 2003 Newbery Honor Book, 2003 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, is a riveting sci-fi thriller about a young clone struggling for acceptance in his tumultuous, sheltered world.
Matt Alacrán is a clone of El Patrón, a powerful drug lord of the land of Opium, which is located between the United States and Mexico. For six years, Matt has lived in a tiny cottage in the poppy fields with Celia, who is charged with his care and safety. He knows little about his existence until he is discovered by a group of children playing in the fields and wonders why he is different. Though Matt has been spared the fate of most clones, who have their intelligence destroyed at birth, the evil inhabitants of El Patrón's empire consider him a "beast" and an "eejit." When El Patrón dies at the age of 146, fourteen-year-old Matt escapes Opium with the help of Celia and Tam Lin, his devoted bodyguard. After a near misadventure in his escape, Matt makes his way back home and begins to rid the country of its evils.
This book will be discussed during Time Out for Reading on Oct. 23.
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September 2008
The title for the first Time Out for Reading in September will be Host by Stephanie Meyers. This tantalizing SF thriller takes us to a time when earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But, Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away.
This book is by the author of the Twilight series and is the first book in a new series about the relationship between humans and the aliens who invade our world.
Enjoy an out of this world read over the summer!
See you in September.
Check out this youtube video about the book . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVfQ8ZYofc
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