Library and Media Center Vision
Supporting the mission of The Christ School, the Library and Media Center is intended to be a centerpiece of The Christ’s School’s academic program. Since literacy includes but also exceeds books, it is our goal to provide all the members of our school community access to information in a wide variety of formats including print, audiovisual and electronic, and to provide a physical environment for the achievement of this goal. The Media Center is a place where the Christ School community can go for information, resources and recommendations. The center assists students, staff and parents in becoming independent, effective researchers of information, and teaches the skills necessary to strengthen and support every area of the curriculum.
Library and Media Center Mission Statement
The Christ School Media Center mission is to provide a comfortable and stimulating environment where students learn to read for pleasure, read for information, and develop the literacy skills that prepare them to be leaders and life-long learners.
About the Library and Media Center and Mac Lab
- 5 desktop PC’s for research and AR quizzes
- Wireless access
- 3 Mac computers with 30” screens
- SmartBoard with video projection
- Story telling area
- Reading lounge
- 13,800 volumes
- Open 8:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
- Teachers visit with their classes as often as desired to check out books, take AR quizzes and do research.
What is Accelerated Reader (AR)?
The Accelerated Reader program is used at The Christ School in grades 1 – 7.
This is a program that helps teachers determine if their students are reading at the appropriate level for their comprehension ability. Students take quizzes that ask questions pertaining to the books read and their scores reflect how well they have understood each book’s content. Students in grades 1 – 7 are tested twice per year to determine their current reading level and suggested challenge level through the STAR reading test.
TCS has the Universal Renaissance AR package that is accessible at Renaissance Learning. This product accesses all books that have AR quizzes, not just the books in our collection. Each AR title will have this information on the spine–first is the reading level, by grade and month, and second is the highest point value given for the quiz for that title. A higher point value means more difficult content.
Summer Reading Recommendations – 2010
Rising First Graders
Frog and Toad - Arnold Lobel
Skippy Jon Jones - Judy Schachner
Fancy Nancy -Jane O’Connor & Robin Glasser
Olivia - Ian Falconer
Magic Tree House - Mary Pope Osborne
Horrible Harry - Suzy Kline
Fairy Books – Daisy Meadows
Biscuit A.S. Capucilli and Pat Schories
Dr.Seuss Books
Henry and Mudge - Rylant and Stevenson
Poppelton Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague
Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Rising 2nd Graders
Hungry, Hungry Sharks – Joanna Cole
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series – Jeff Kinney
The Boxcar Children Mystery series - Gertrude Chandler Warner
Junie B. Jones series – Barbara Park
Cam Jansen series – David Adler
Nate the Great series – Margorie Weinman Sharmat
Horrible Harry series – Suzy Kline
Judy Moody series– Megan McDonald
Horton Hatches the Egg and other books by Dr. Seuss
The Magic Tree House series – Mary Pope Osborn
Humphrey series – Betty G. Birney
Geronimo Stilton series – Geronimo Stilton
Henry and Mudge series – Cynthia Rylant
Bailey School Kids – Dadey, Jones and Gurney
Flat Stanley series – Jeff Brown
No Talking – Andrew Clements
Emily Wind Snap series by Liz Kessler
Amelia Bedelia series – Peggy Parrish
The Hardy Boys series – Franklin W. Dixon
Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
Rising Third Graders
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
Felicity Learns a Lesson – Valerie Tripp
School Mouse -Dick King-Smith
Behind the Bedroom Wall – Laura E. Williams
Happy Birthday Kristen – Janet Shaw
The Siege – Kathryn Laskey
Sheep – Valeria Hobbs
Vet Volunteers – Say Good Bye – Laure Halse Anderson
Socks – Beverly Cleary
Extra Credit – Andrew Clements
The Report Card – Andrew Clements
The 7 Wonders of Sassafras Springs – Betty Birney
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing – Judy Blume
Skeleton Creek – Patrick Carman
Hatchet -Gary Paulsen
How to Train your Dragon - Cressida Cowell
Me and the Pumpkin Queen – Marlane Kennedy
Inkheart - Cornelia Funk
A Week in the Woods – Andrew Clements
Rising Fourth Graders
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 3.9
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 4.7
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 4.6
Island, Dive, On the Run series by Gordon Korman 4.6-5.3
Hardy Boys series by Franklin Dixon 4.8-5.7
Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Wilder 4.9-5.3
Matt Christopher series 3.7-5.3
Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene 4.8-5.6
Shiloh by Reynolds Naylor 4.4
Lunch Money and any other books by Andrew Clements
Any 2010-2011 Sunshine State books:
The Seer of Shadows Avi
Cicada Summer Andrea Beaty
Masterpiece Elise Broach
Obi, Gerbil on the Loose M. C. Delaney
Kenny and the Dragon Tony DiTerlizzi
The Gollywhopper Games Jody Feldman
The Girl Who Could Fly Victoria Forester
Eleven Patricia Reilly Giff
Bird Lake Moon Kevin Henkes
Piper Reed: Navy Brat Kimberly Willis Holt
Safe at Home Mike Lupica
11 Birthdays Wendy Mass
Mogo, the Third Warthog Donna Jo Napoli
Someone Named Eva Joan M. Wolf
The Earth Dragon Awakes Laurence Yep
Rising Fifth Graders
The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley
On the Run by Gordan Korman
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Island by Gordan Korman
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Artemis Fowl by Eon Colfer
Tunnels by Roderick Gordon
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Pendragon by DJ MacHale
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stuart
Single Titles
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
Fairest by Gail Caron Levine
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
Schooled by Gordan Korman
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Cambell Bartolleti
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach
Rising Sixth Graders
A Single Shard – Linda Sue Park
Among the Hidden – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Double Identity – Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Egypt Game – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
The Fighting Ground – Avi
Frightful’s Mountain – Jean Craighead George
Guardians of Ga’Hoole – Kathryn Lasky
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
Odysseus – Geraldine McCaughrean
Redwall – Brain Jacques
Shakespeare’s Secret – Elise Broach
The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
The Time Hackers – Gary Paulson
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
The Wanderer – Sharon Creech
White Fang – Jack London
Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Rising 7th Graders
Scat – Carl Hiaasen
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Into the Wild – Sarah Beth Durst
Out of the Wild – Sarah Beth Durst
Found – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sent - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Leaving Fishers – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Green
The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
White Fang – Jack London
Little Women – Louisa Mae Alcott
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Angel on the Square – Ann Rinaldi
Rising 8th Graders
Fever 1793 – Laurie Halse Anderson
Johnny Tremain -Esther Forbes
A Break with Charity – Ann Rinaldi
Just Jane - William Lavender
My Brother Sam is Dead -James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
A Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne W. Houston & John D. Houston
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Hiroshima – John Hersey
Rebecca -Daphne Du Maurier
Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
Ghost in the Tokaido Inn – Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler
Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
