RENO HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY May – June 2018

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Sizzlin’ Summer Reads! Summer is a perfect time to pick up a great book or series. Currently, we have the 2018 best books and best series on display. If you need something to read during EOCs or are looking to add to your ‘to read’ list, I highly recommend coming into the library to check out

our amazing selection of books. All books are due on May 31st. Just because you’re turning in your books, doesn’t mean you can’t get a list going of all the great titles to read over the summer. Consider participating in the summer fun and join :

Huskie ‘Lucky 7’ Reading Challenge There are only 7 weeks in summer. Read one book per week over the summer (for a total of 7). Write the titles and authors on the special bookmark you can find in the library. Turn in your bookmark at the beginning of the year, and you’ll get into a drawing for $20 to Uber Eats. Open to students and teachers. Bookmarks due by Friday, August 17th.

Patriot’s Malcolm Mitchell and his Book Club

Malcolm Mitchell, drafted by the Patriots in 2016, has an

interesting story about how he joined book club. Not only does play great football, but Malcolm Mitchell loves books. He recognized in college that he needed to become a better reader and actively sought out a way to make that happen. Watch this story—it’ll make you feel good about life. And it might also inspire you to read, or possibly, join a book club.

Huskie Celebrity Reader

Mr. Meinert Honors Chemistry & AP

Chemistry 1. What was your favorite book when you were a teenager and why? As a kid I was a huge Hardy Boys fan. I read a lot of Agatha Christie

too. I loved the mystery novel genre. Mostly I read the World Book Encyclopedia and National Geographic. I continued doing that through high school. I’d grab a volume of the encyclopedia each night (A-Z… didn’t matter) and just read the entries. The encyclopedia taught me things that I never imagined, and National Geographic took me places that I could only dream about.

2. What is one book by a science-based author that you think everyone should read? It would have to be “The Discoverers” by Daniel Boorstin – a marvelous description of man’s journey to know his world. Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything,” and Marc Reisner’s “Cadillac Desert,” run a close second and third.

3. If you could have dinner with one author, who would it be and why? What would you want to ask that person? Or what would you want to talk about? I’d have dinner with Mark Twain. He’s the entertaining, well-traveled, humorous writer that I would like to be. We would discuss his travels and observations about the world. I’d especially love to get more details about his trip across the country by stagecoach in “Roughing It” – just a few years before there was a transcontinental railroad. I have an original copy.

4. What's on your bedside table waiting to get read right now? “The Gates of Rome” – the first in the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden. I love ancient history. Also “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Victor Hugo is my favorite author that I love and tolerate in equal measure.

5. What is one book you think every person should read before they die? The World Book Encyclopedia. Learn as much about everything until the day you kick.

6. One funny thing we don't know about Mr. Meinert…? I’m not that funny. Ask my students. But something you may not know is that I’ve been writing in a journal since 1984.

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What Newbs is reading:

Sourdough by Robin Sloan. If you love sourdough bread, and computers, you should read this book! It’s a light read about a woman who stumbles across a sourdough starter and turns in her high-paying

computer career to bake bread.

Newberry’s summer reading list:

The Map of Salt and

Stars by Jennifer Joukhadar

Love and Ruin by Paula McLain

Rise: How a House Built a Family

by Cara Brookins

On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a

by John O’Leary

My Life Next Door By Huntley Fitzpatrick

Calvin by Martine Levitt

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

The Future is History:

by Masha Gessen

The Martian by Andy Weir

Live Dangerously –Join:

Bridge Club Tuesdays & Thursdays After school in the library New players welcome!

Book Club Tuesday, 15th at lunch in the

library; we’ll discuss our summer reading plans