Check out our new books!!!

A BIG thank you goes out to Mrs. Cheri Scott, Grandmother of 7th Grade Spartan and library aide, Sarah. She has donated the following 6 awesome new books to our library media center:  

Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney

Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! by James Patterson

My Fairy Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison

The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Mrs. B is reading...Freak the Mighty

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Everything changes for Maxwell Kane the summer before his 8th grade year when Freak moves in down the street.

Max, who is in the learning disabled class, describes himself as a Butthead who doesn’t have a Brain. Max is a big kid who does his speaking with his fists and his feet. It doesn’t help that he looks like his father, Kenny “Killer” Kane. Since Maxwell’s mother is dead and his father is in jail, he lives in the basement with his Grim and his Gram.

Max is bored, hanging out in his back yard one summer day, when he notices a moving van parked down the street. Soon after, he sees a “weird-looking little dude” about two feet tall with a twisted body, waving his crutches around and yelling at the movers. Max soon discovers that while the boy’s body is crippled his brain is not. He is a genius! When the new kid spots Max, he demands that he identify himself and goes on to shoot him with his crutch saying “die, earthling, die!” So while it doesn’t look like the start of a beautiful friendship, in no time the two are inseparable.

With Kevin riding on Max’s shoulders, the two start having adventures together as Freak the Mighty. They go on a quest to rescue fair maidens and slay dragons. It turns out to be a really cool summer. But not all fairy tales have happy endings.