Learning Center Mission Statement

The BSMS Learning Center mission is to be an integral part of the instructional program by providing books and resources that enable all members of our school community to become critical thinkers, effective users of information in various formats, and promote life-long reading and learning both for pleasure and for information.

Rebecca Caudill Award

Once again students at BSMS will have the opportunity to participate in the selection of the Rebecca Caudill Award recipient for 2009.  Voting for the award takes place in late February.   For a student to participate in the voting process they must read at least three of the 20 nominated books for the award.  Those 20 books are available in the library.  Check out the bulletin board for annotated bibliographies of the books.

Here’s the list:

• Alabama Moon by Watt Key

• Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle

• Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson

• Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone

• Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz

• Gossamer by Lois Lowry

• The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

• Heat by Mike Lupica

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

• Letters From Wolfie by Patti Sherlock

• Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

• Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People by Albert Marrin

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

• Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park

• Rules by Cynthia Lord

• shug by Jenny Han

• Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver