Welcome to the JBE Media Center!
Media Specialist - Cherie Baumgartner
baumgac@martin.k12.fl.us
Media Assistant - Donna Gosik
gosikd@martin.k12.fl.us
Computer Assistant - Carolyn Magdalena
Our commitment is to grow lifelong readers and help students to access the wide world of information available now and in the future. Seventy percent of the jobs our children will have in the future have yet to be invented. They will probably change jobs at least 4 to 5 times over their life span as technology expands faster and faster. Whether reading for information or for fun, we want to give them a foundation in order for them to achieve their future goals.
Use
our WEB based OPEC (Online Personal Electronic Catalog) to view what books
we have in our media center. You can also access books by their AR
level and points. Go to
http://destiny.sbmc.org/common/welcome.jsp?site=205.
Circulation Policy:
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Students in 1st grade may check out one book at a time.
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Students in 2nd through 5th grade may check out two books at a time.
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Library books are checked out to students for one week.
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Students may renew books if necessary.
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There are no fines for overdue books, but a student may not check out any additional books until overdue books are paid for or returned.
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Reference books not be checked out and are for use in the media center only.
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All books checked out are the responsibility of the student. Lost or damaged books must be paid for in full before any additional books may be borrowed.
2009 - 2010 Sunshine
State Young Reader's Award Program
This statewide reading motivator was developed for students
in grades 3-5. Students that read a minimum of 3 books will be voting
(statewide) for their favorite book. Trophies will be given out at year-end
assemblies for those students reading the required number of books (3rd
grade- 5 books, 4th grade - 10 books, and 5th grade - 15 books).
| TITLE | AUTHOR | READING LEVEL / POINT VALUE |
| The Puzzling World of Winston Breen | Eric Berlin | 4.2 / 8 |
| Middle of somewhere | J. B. Cheaney | 5.4 / 8 |
| The Lemonade War | Jacqueline Davies | 4.1 / 4 |
| The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School | Candace Fleming | 3.9 / 4 |
| Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in it | Sundee T. Frazier | 4.0 / 6 |
| Igraine the Brave | Cornelia Funke | 5.6 / 7 |
| Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 5.0 / 9 |
| Defiance | Hobbs, Valerie | 4.0 / 7 |
| Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat | Jonell, Lynne | 4.7 / 9 |
| Me and the Pumpkin Queen | Kennedy, Marlane | 4.8 / 4 |
| Year of the Dog | Grace Lin | 4.2 / 3 |
| Highway Cats | Janet Taylor Lisle | 4.8 / 3 |
| Punished | David Lubar | 3.6 / 1 |
| Night of the Howling Dogs | Graham Salisbury | 3.5 / 5 |
| Crooked Kind of Perfect | Linda Urban | 3.9 / 4 |
2009-2010
Florida Reading Association
Children's Book Award
Kindergarten, First, and Second grade students participate
in the FRA program. These books will be read to the students during the
course of the year. The students can vote for their favorite book at the end
of the year.
| Titles | Authors |
| Grace for President | Kelly DiPucchio |
| Help Me, Mr. Mutt! | Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel |
| I Know an Old Teacher | Anne Bowen |
| Listen to the Wind | Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth |
| One | Kathryn Otoshi |
| Thea’s Tree | Alison Jackson |
| The Happiness Tree | Andrea Alban Gosline and Lisa Burnett Bossi |
| A Seed is Sleepy | Dianna Hutts Aston |
Visit These Cool Websites!
www.justreadfamilies.org
www.go.grolier.com
www.library.martin.fl.us
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