Love Your Library Week

Gelinas celebrated it's first annual "Love Your Library Week". There were raffles, giveaways, and a special bookfair.

Rachel's Challenge- Read Inspiring Stories

Rachel's Challenge Book Display

Read inspiring stories:

The courage to give : inspiring stories of people who triumphed over tragedy to make a difference in the world by Jackie Waldman.

• Book Summary: Tells the stories of thirty people who healed their own suffering by reaching out to others

Beating the odds : a teen guide to 75 superstars who overcame adversity by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

• Book Summary: Discusses the adversity faced by successful people, such as Mitch Albom, Salman Rushdie, and Jodie Foster, as they pursue their dreams, and explores social issues such as religious prejudice, medical conditions, eating disorders, and poverty.

Miracles happen : one mother, one daughter, one journey by Brooke Ellison

• Book Summary: Brooke Ellison discusses how she managed to overcome an automobile accident which left her paralyzed from the neck down and became the first ventilator-dependent quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University.

Newbery Winner Announced

The Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman is this year's Newbery award winner. Gaiman the author of Coraline (Soon to be in theaters) has written a story about an orphan named Bod, short for Nobody, who is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months. He is raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.

Honor Award Runner Ups:

After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

Savy by Ingrid Law

The Surrender Tree: Stories of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

All of these titles are on order at Gelinas Library. We will let you know when they arrive.