ASB Book of the Week

Former Vice President Al Gore has made remarkable efforts on creating the world’s awareness of global warming.  In both his book and movie, An Inconvenient Truth, he explains what global warming is, what causes it, and most importantly action we may all take in preventing global warming.  Both resources are very clear, informative, and visually pleasing–although the message is pertinent.  We must do something to protect the resources we have, Mother Earth.   

The Big Book of Brain Games is big! It’s got 1000 brainthinks within it over 420 pages.  The puzzles are specific to art, science, or math.  The puzzles are marked by their difficulty, so you can mark your progression.  All the puzzles are super colorful, and the answer key in the back is very explanatory.  This is a very, very fun book that could keep you entertained for hours! 

With Teen Tech Week this week, this book seems like the perfect Book of the Week.  Inside MORE How Stuff Works is a second book filled with a description of exactly what the title states–how stuff works.  Here’s a sampling taken from the cover of the topics that can be found out about inside this book: black holes, fire extinguishers, CD burners, venus flytraps, encryption, cloning, hurricanes, artificial  hearts, metal detectors, and espresso machines.  The array of topics is vast, and just about everything is explained.  This is a perfect book to browse but could even be read straight through.

Why not make last year’s yearbook the Book of the Week!? I had it out on the circulation desk for reference, and many, many students have stopped to take a look.  Sometimes it fun to pull out old yearbooks from the past. The timing is good also as we lookforward to the end of school and the arrival of this year’s yearbook.

Last year’s yearbook was especially unique: it was published as a guide to ASB.  Everything is alphabetized and sectioned off with tabs.  It’s like a complete binder all about ASB.  Usually, one reads the yearbook in chronological order.  For this one you have to go to the “F” section for first grade while the 11th grade is one section earlier under “E.”  This is definitely a fun yearbook to browse through with plenty of pages for adding personal notes to friends.