we are fully in person. hope to see you in the library at lunch!
favorite book I read this summer? The Uninterrupted View of the Sky by Melanie Crowder.
Come by this week and let us know what yours was? Check out our newest books here.
welcome back!
summer plans
consider reading. here are some ideas to get started:
grab free books from the lobby. build a home library.
sign up on Sora for audiobooks all summer long.
check out books on a topic that interests you for summer check out in the library.
Create your own Book Club with the selections below. Come grab a copy of one in the library, behind Lissa’s desk:
CAS: join us 5/13 & 5/27
image credit: The Phoenix, https://thephoenix.earth/
spring readin’ time
waiting for a friend in the park . . .
these books were donated by brooklyn book bodega and we thank them!!
lunchtime & advisory
in quarantine? what are you reading?
i am midway through “when we make it” by brooklyn born boricua and amazing poet-author ELISABET VELASQUEZ. this book is so truthful that it makes you realize how unseen our lives can be sometimes. it follows two sisters in bushwick in the 1980s-90s (?), growing up, and making things work with their mother, their hopes, their faith (and doubts), their day-to-day, apt-to-apt life seeing as much of what to do as what NOT to fall into. readers witness underreported loyalties and beauty, as well as the difficulties navigating poverty. i hope you can borrow it in person. here are some knock-out lines:
The people in the streets / have their own story to tell.
& I’m writing my own story / so I can remember it accurately.
in case someone else / tries to tell it for me.”
page 52
Professional Spanish is fake friendly. / Is a warning.
Is a downpour when you / just spent your last $20 on a wash and set.
Is the kind of Spanish that comes / to take things away from you.”
page 145
our library’s digital platforms
ways to read for free
SORA–latest books for free !
MackinVIA–lots of audiobooks & healing titles
SORA–Online Reading for Free
This Book is Antiracist is our Whole School “Drop Everything and Read” selection for 2020-21
Read it or listen to it on SORA – Our school and public library online reading platform
Step-by-Step log in directions:
- Find my School: “NYC Department of Education”
- Log in: Use your DOE email username/password (set it up here with your OSIS #)
- Add a library: Link your NYPL BPL QPL library accounts to access more on SORA.
- To learn more: Watch this 2-min TUTORIAL
Lift Every Voice Nationwide Celebration of 250 years of African-American Poetry
2021 LIFT EVERY VOICE CELEBRATION
I am going to read Oak & Ivy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. What about you?
Read a Black poet online at Sora and MackinVIA.
To log in, set up your Dept of Ed email & log in w/those credentials
Set up your NYPL BPL QPL library accounts to access more on SORA.
Questions? Support?
Email your school librarian Lissa at lissa@cityas.org
February Break Reading Challenge: Read or listen to a book on a FREE platform
MACKINVIA – our free CAS audiobook platform (& ebooks!)
Select City As School
Log in WITH DOE email username/password (find easily here with your OSIS #):
SORA–Our public library platform
WITH DOE email username/password (find easily here with your OSIS #):
What I’m reading:
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