CGHS Library

Ellen Hopkins for the win

These ten books were checked out the most this year. Crank was checked out 14 times. (Our top 100 most checked out books will be available at the Council Grove Public Library this summer after June 1.)

1 FIC HOP Crank Hopkins, Ellen - 14
2 FIC HOP Glass Hopkins, Ellen - 11
3 GN Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim. O'Malley, Bryan Lee - 11
4 FIC HALO The Fall of reach. Nylund, Eric - 10
5 FIC Hopkins Fallout Hopkins, Ellen - 10
6 FIC Hopkins Tricks Hopkins, Ellen - 10
7 FIC HOP Impulse Hopkins, Ellen - 9
8 FIC REN Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging. Rennison, Louise - 8
9 FIC SPA The Last song Sparks, Nicholas - 8
10 GN Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim vs the world. O'Malley, Bryan Lee - 8

Summer Reading

One great thing about being an American is that this country has a library in practically every community, no matter how small. Your local public library has books and lots of other material available for free, and if they don't have something you want, they can get it for you. 

I love libraries and flickr, so imagine my joy when I found the North Central Kansas Libraries System's photostream.

Explore Something Technical

These free guides explore a variety of topics from Linux to Photoshop; networks to online shopping.

Fat Vampire (FIC Rex)

Invitation to World Literature

Hold Still (FIC LAC)

I've featured this book on the blog before, but every single person who has read it has liked it . . . lots, so I'm featuring it again.

Yale Digital Commons

The thing I like best about the internet is that I can access millions of hidden treasures that were never available before. Yale Digital Commons has collected and made freely available all kinds of art and print treasures. I searched "flowers" and found 1457 hits in less than half a second from five separate institutions at Yale including the library, the natural history museum, and two art galleries.

Take a look at this 1971 lithograph by Bardone from the Yale University Art Gallery. Cheerful.

Night Hawk (FIC OVE)

Night Hawk is a coming-of-age story set on a nineteenth-century Colorado ranch called Circle L. It tells the story of a scrawny kid who was booted off the train in Coalton, Colorado. Everyone thinks the kid is trouble. But Ty, the ramrod of the Circle L ranch, decides to hire the kid and take him under his wing. The kid refused to provide his real name, so he comes to be known as "Night Hawk." 

The kid is aggressive and argumentative, and he has a foul mouth.Ty doesn't give up on him, though - he keeps giving him chance after chance. When the sheriff receives notice that a young man is wanted for murder, everyone immediately suspects the kid. (Review by Greenwood Public Library)