SUMMER PAPERBACK CHECKOUT

All students in grades 5, 6, and 7 were invited this week to participate in the Lakeview IMC's Summer Paperback Checkout. Each student was allowed to checkout up to 5 paperback books for the entire summer. Books are not due back in the Lakeview IMC until Tuesday, September 3rd. Students who would like to return books early are welcome to place their books in the special Summer Book Return Box in between the main doors at Lakeview. Many students took advantage of this program and picked out some fine books for their summer reading.

Starting next week this blog will stop and my summer reading will be reported in my summer blog. Let me know what you are reading this summer and if you have read any of the books that I am.

All students are also invited to participate in the Lakeview Summer Reading Program. Read more about in the What's Happening blog.

JERRY SPINELLI

Spinelli's books are always popular with students. I had a chance to read one of his newer books Smiles To Go which starts with a scientific discovery and ends with a family discovery. Will Tuppence and his friends Mi-Su and B.T. play Monopoly every Saturday night following the same routine. For Will this is a perfect life until he sees B.T. and Mi-Su kissing one night at an Astronomy Star Party. Now Will has to take a look at his feelings for Mi-Su. Also Will has to deal with his five-year-old sister who is a pest, always trying to bother him. It takes a family tragedy for Will to understand that the world and life is always changing. And that's a good thing!