Birthday Song

A pleasant surprise. The Estudiantina came to sing The Maninatas song for my birthday. So many talented students on our campus.

Library Statistics

Well Porter Readers, you did it again. This second six weeks was just as busy as the first six weeks with everyone checking out books and magazines. In my last post I suggested that we should aim for 4000, well we hit 4003!!! That is just wonderful. The numbers are high once again in the 741.5 area but we had almost 1200 circulations in Fiction. New books are arriving soon so let's keep reading through the holidays.

Anime Club

Our wonderful Anime kids recently had a meeting in the library. They watched a video and our club President quizzed them afterwards. The winner received an Anime key chain. It was a hard quiz considering the video was in Japanese.

Cross Country Team

Good Luck to our Boys Cross Country Team as they get ready to compete this week-end at Regionals. All those early morning practices and ten mile runs paid off. "May the wind always be at your back".

Library Statistics

I knew it was a busy first six weeks but really I had no idea! We circulated over 3,600 items this six weeks. Most of our circulations are in the fiction area, how great is that?
Our other big area of circulation is of course 741.5, gee I wonder why. Porter Readers are great! Let's keep up the reading and try for 4,000 circulations.

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week is celebrated the week of September 26 - October 3. The central message for Banned Books Week is that censorship violates the right of free expression. Observed annually, this ALA event celebrates the freedom to read books that may be considered inappropriate or express unpopular ideas.

We have set up our annual display showcasing some of the challenged titles. This display always generates interest and discussion among our students and faculty as they see some of their favorite titles in our display case.

While in Austin this past summer I visited my favorite store Book People and found the following bumper sticker : Everything I need to know about life I've learned by reading Banned Books.

From the Fields to the Stars

What an inspirational story. This just proves that "Si se puede". We are a high school that is predominantly Hispanic with a Migrant population. It takes hard work, sacrifice and dedication but everything is possible.

From the Fields to the Stars

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