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Welcome Ms. Dunlap, Summer School Library Assistant

The library will be open
7:00 am - 12:30 pm
Monday - Friday through August 1.

BILLY MARTINEZ

Graphic artist to teach manga drawing at PHS Library.

Thursday, May 29 from 2:30 - 3:30.

RSVP as spaces are limited. Email powayhslibrary@gmail.com or stop by the library to sign up for this event. Drawing materials will be provided. Program provided by San Diego County Libraries.

See more of his work at: http://www.nekopresscomics.com/pages/About.html/

5/8/08 TWO READERS' CHOICE AWARD WINNERS!

 
Photograph by Johnny Mabie
Photograph by Sean Petro

Your votes were equally divided. So we will award both! Stop by and see all the winning posters soon.

3/24 -4/1 Stop by the library, check out a book & VOTE for your favorite READ photo. The photo with the most votes will win the coveted READERS' CHOICE AWARD.

California Young Reader Medal Nominees
Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi
Sold
Life As We Know It

Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz.

Sold by Patricia McCormick.

Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer.

Podcast booktalks will soon be available for all nominees. Click on Sold for the first booktalk.

All nominees are available for check out. Follow this link for more information about the

California Young Reader Medal.


Database Trials

3/13/08 Thank you for using the literary database trials. Your favorites were:

Gale's Literature Resource Center and Ebsco's Literary Reference Center.

As soon as the funds become available we will add one to the PHS databases. Until then both public libraries have literary databases that you can access with your public library card barcode and PIN.

2/7/08 Please welcome Danielle Hurt. She is the new youth services librarian at the Poway branch. Stop by at lunch to meet her and learn about programs and opportunities at our local public library.

2/4/08 Hot off the press "PHS Library VHS/DVD catalog" . Our Valentine's gift to any teacher. Email Ms. Vedborg for your copy today.

Students, remember you can check out our audiovisual materials as well, we will keep a catalog at the circulation desk.

1/25/08 We go live with the new website. This was designed for us by senior, Ryan Balcom. We are very pleased with the design and finally being able to display our READ posters. Please browse about and let us know what you think ( click on the link or email, kpowell@powayusd.com) We will post comments on this news page.

2007 Michael L. Printz award winner

BEST Young Adult book of the Year

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughren

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

Check it out today at your library


PHS Librarian, Katherine Powell with Deborah Hipes and Erica Turner.

Ms. Powell attended a seminar on What's New in Young Adult Literature.

Ms. Hipes, a bookstore owner and school librarian conducted the seminar. Click here for Deb's Dozen, her top books in 2007.