The Battle of the Books is a competition between SRVUSD middle school students who love to read. Participating schools will meet during the spring at Cal High School for a Jeopardy-style competition to see who can answer the most questions about the 10 books they will read. Iron Horse won last year - nice work! We have won the Battle of the Books two times in the five year history of the competition. Let's hope we do it again. This year's titles have been chosen and we are in the process of ordering them. If you are interested in joining the team, come see Mrs. Gantt in the library. We will start meeting after winter break and Mrs. Gantt will have several copies of each book for students to use. Go Jaguars!

Here are the titles:

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, Flush, Gregor the Overlander, Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival, Out of My Mind, Down the Rabbit Hole: an Echo Falls Mystery, Flipped, Pop, The Project, Skulduggery Pleasant, the Scepter of the Ancients. 

In an effort to ensure that all students have access to a quiet place to work, read, or study at lunch, we require that each person visiting during that time have a pass. These may be picked up in the morning before school or during break in the library. Our guidelines are as follows:

Help the library by purchasing books from our Amazon Wish List. Just click "Amazon" below to follow the link to the list. When you place your order you can have it sent directly to the school! Thanks for your support.

Using digital images in your presentation will create interest and capture your audience's attention. You must cite all of your sources, even these. Use the "All 58 Options" tab on EasyBib to find the correct format for digital images. When possible, use pictures and videos you create. Finding copyright-free images is the next best bet. Below you will find a list of potential sites for those. If you use an image that is protected by copyright, you may not publish it on the web without permission, but may use it as fair use for education for reports that you turn into class.

The following links have links to MANY copyright friendly sites:

http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/

http://www.public-domain-image.com

http://www.pdphoto.org/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress