Volume 4, Issue 1 
October 2005 

WHAT’S NEW 
In the 
Library? 


Books on Tape 
for student 
use: 

•It’s Not about the 
Bike (Lance 
Armstrong)


•Bud, Not Buddy 
(Christopher 
Curtis) 


•Running out of 
Time (Margaret 
Peterson Haddix) 


•Holes (Louis 
Sachar) 
•Homeless Bird 
(Gloria Whelan) 

Non-Fiction Titles 
Read Black Hands, 
White Sails to 
understand the story 
of African-American 
Whalers. 
Shark Life is a book 
of true stories about 
sharks & the sea 
written by Peter 
Benchley of Jaws 
fame. 
Alone in the World 
details the trials of 
orphans and 


Amity Middle School Orange 

MEDIA MATTERS 

Amity’s Summer Book Chat Café 
Readingto Meet 


Successful September 27th 


Students at Amity Orange participated If you enjoy reading and talking about 
wholeheartedly in the Governor’s Reading books, then this is the club for you! Book 
Challenge. Each year the school completes a Chat Café is a school club which meets in 
report for the Governor. This year the the Media Center after school from 2:18-


report included the following data: 3:30 p.m. once a month on Tuesdays. 

The student body consists of 385 students. Our goal is to read and review new teen 

Of those students 381 students read the titles. After careful review, this club 
required two books. That computes to recommends the titles it deems the best new 
98.9% of the student body! teen titles for inclusion on Amity’s Summer 

Reading List.

Students turned in the titles of books read. 
The entire number of books read this Refreshments are always served so students 
summer totaled 2,142. GREAT JOB! can reflect on books and enjoy each other’s 

New Fiction Titles 
company. 

The club is run by 
Mrs. Nancy Goss, School Library Media 
Specialist at Orange 
& 
Mrs. Meryl Farber, Case Memorial Head 
Librarian. 


Students need a signed After School Permit. 

Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer 
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 
Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix 
Stravaganza City of Masks by Mary Hoffman 
The Convicts by Iain Lawrence 
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley 
The Color of Fire by Ann Rinaldi 
Finding Lubchenko by Michael Simmons