Bloggin' in the Library
2013 YARP Winners!
Congratulations to this year’s winners! 2,078 South Dakota teens voted for their favorite book over the last 5 months and have decided their favorite books are: High School: Winner: Divergent by Veronica Roth Runner Up: Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Mayberry Middle School: Winner: Girl, Stolen by April Henry Runner Up: Matched by Ali Condie The new list will be selected this June by the YARP Committee and posted to our website at http://library.sd.gov/LIB/YAS/yarp/index.aspx shortly thereafter. So keep an eye out for a new list of exciting teen reads! |
Happy School Libraries Month!
Did you know that April, the month of spring showers, is also School Libraries Month? |
GYRO March 2013 Winners!
CONGRATS Eryn Z.,Kim E. and Mrs. Gies...GYRO Book Club’s March 2013 winners!
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GYRO Winner...February 2013!
CONGRATS Eryn Z. GYRO Book Club’s February 2013 winner! Other winners include: Mrs. Pistulka, Mrs. C. Keffeler, Mrs. Gies, and Kim E. |
2012-2013 YARP Contest for Teens
Participate Statewide!http://library.sd.gov/LIB/YAS/yarp/index.aspxSince 1989, each year the Young Adult Reading Program (YARP) Teen Reads Committee of the South Dakota Library Association publishes a list of books to promote quality literature and to help South Dakota teachers and librarians in selecting and promoting books for adolescents. The books are selected from among the many young adult and adult books that have received positive reviews by national reviewing periodicals. To qualify to vote, teens read books from the list and give it a star rating of 1 to 4, 4 being best. Teenagers may vote for as many books as they would like on a scale basis. One winner is selected from the Middle School List and another winner from the High School list. See list below. 2012-2013 YARP Nominee ListMiddle School List
High School List
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New Books!
Check out the new books in the library! Most are graphic novels… X Clamp: Vols. 1,2,3 Spice Wolf Vol. 1,2,4,5 Cirque Du Freak: Volume 12 Cirque Du Freak: Volume 11 Drifters Dragon Ball Z: Vol 24 Nabari No Ou: Vol 1,2,3 InuYasha: Vols. 1,2 Fables: Storybook Love Fables: Legends in Exile Naruto Anime Profiles Episodes 38-80 Naruto Anime Profiles Episodes 81-135 Naruto Anime Profiles Episodes 1-37 Sumo Solanin Star Trek: Countdown Fables: Animal Farm The Picture of Dorian Gray Troublemaker Fables Sons of Empire Kidnapped Twilight Frankenstein: Prodigal Son Hell’s Horizon Flirtin’ With the Monster Small Wars Japenese Fantasy Manga Daniel X Alien Hunter The Enchantress: The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Making Comics Not Simple The Incredible Hercules: Love and War Zombies Grimm Fairy Tales: Vol.1,2,3 Shopaholic and Sister Nascar: Then & Now The Graphic Canon: Volume 2 After Outcasts United Curses Foiled Again Flash Point Ten The Wrap-Up List True Legend Burning Blue Miller & Stentz |
Dec./Jan. Winner of the GYRO Book Club!
CONGRATS to Mrs. Pistulka, the Dec./Jan. winner of the GYRO Book Club! |
Overdrive books on a Kindle
Here are some basic instructions for getting Overdrive
ebooks on a Kindle courtesy of the Sturgis Public Library. See attachment. |
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SPL Kindle Instructions Overdrive.pdf
eBooks from the Sturgis Public Library
If you’re a Meade County resident, sign up for a library card online @ http://www.sturgis-sd.gov/forms.aspx?FID=110 and go online to: http://sturgispubliclibrary.blogspot.com/ to check out an eBook or audio book from anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection. |
2011-12 SD YARP Book Award Winners!
The winner in the High School category is Carter Finally Gets by James Dashner, and the runner up is Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith. 
The winner in the Middle School category is The Maze Runner by James Dashner runner up is Jump the Cracks by Stacy DeKeyser.  |
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