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Reading Renaissance Home Access Students and parents may now access Accelerated Reader at home by going to this website: https://hosted2.renlearn.com/46198/HomeConnect/Login.aspx Students will not have access to the tests at home, but you will be able to see the student’s record by using his/her login and password.  You will also be able to see what tests are available.  If you have any problems accessing this site, call the school media center.

South Carolina Book Award Nominees for 2008-2009 The following list of books has been compiled by the school librarians in South Carolina.  They are some of the best new books available.  The students will have an opportunity to help choose the best book by voting for their favorite in February.  They must have read at least five of the books in order to vote.

South Carolina Children’s Book Award Nominees

South Carolina Picture Book Award Nominees

South Carolina Children’s Book Award

Archer’s Quest

Linda Sue Park

The Big One-oh

Dean Pitchford

Bringing Ezra Back

Cynthia DeFelice

Clementine

Sara Pennypacker

Melvin Beederman Superhero: The

Curse of the Bologna Sandwich

Greg Trine

Dexter, the Tough

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Drita, My Homegirl

Jenny Lombard

Earth Dragon Awakes, The San

Francisco Earthquake of 1906

Laurence Yep

Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson

Free Baseball

Sue Corbett

Gossamer

Lois Lowry

The Homework Machine

Dan Gutman

How to Save Your Tail* If You Are a

Rat Nabbed by Cats Who Really

Like Stories About Magic Spoons,

Wolves with Snout Warts, Big

Hairy Chimney Trolls… and

Cookies, Too

Mary Elizabeth Hanson

How to Steal a Dog

Barbara O’Connor

Jack Plank Tells Tales

Natalie Babbitt

The Miraculous Journey of Edward

Tulane

Kate DiCamillo

Pompeii: Lost and Found

Mary Pope Osborne

Room One: a Mystery or Two

Andrew Clements

Roxie and the Hooligans

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Winner’s Walk

Nancy Ruth Patterson

South Carolina Picture Book Award

17 Things I’m Not Allowed

To Do Anymore

Jenny Offill

Big Chickens

Leslie Helakoski

Chickens to the Rescue

John Himmelman

Comets, Stars, the Moon

and Mars: Space Poems

and Paintings

Douglas Florian

Don’t Touch My Hat

James Rumford

An Egg is Quiet

Dianna Hutts Aston

Fancy Nancy

Jane O’Connor

Henry’s Freedom Box

Ellen Levine

Hero Cat

Eileen Spinelli

I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Penda Diakite

I Saw an Ant on the

Railroad Track

Joshua Prince

Library Lion

Michelle Knudsen

Mama, I’ll Give You the

World

Roni Schotter

Not Afraid of Dogs

Susanna Pitzer

One Potato, Two Potato

Cynthia DeFelice

The Secret Science Project

That Almost Ate the School

Judy Sierra

The Show-and-Tell Lion

Barbara Abercrombie

SuperHero ABC

Bob McLeod

What a Day It Was at

School!

Jack Prelutsky

Winter is the Warmest

Season

Lauren Stringer