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Our next book club discussion is Monday, March 28 @ lunch. Stop by the RHS library to pick up your free copy of the book now & get reading!!

Book Club begins!!

Sign up for "Dope Sick" on February 14 @ 3:05pm in the Roosevelt Library. See Ms. French for more info.

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Welcome to FCI Ashland

Find out a bit about the prison where author Jack Gantos served his time. FCI Ashland

Marijuana use. How does it really affect you?

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Books that filled the hole for Gantos

•Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

•Peter Pan by James M. Barrie

•Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

•An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

•This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

•The Delicate Prey by Paul Bowles

•On the Yard by Malcolm Braly

•Naked Lunch by William S.Burroughs

•Papillon by Henri Charrière

•Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

•The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

•Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

•The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet

•The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

•The Odyssey by Homer

•On the Road by Jack Kerouac

•One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

•Martin Eden by Jack London

•Billy Budd by Herman Melville

•Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall

•The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

•Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

•Seven Long Times by Piri Thomas

•The Car Thief by Theodore Weesner

•The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

•A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

•Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

•Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Boating & Sailing Lingo

Boating Basics Glossary of Terms

Boating Basics Online

Jib-part of a sail
Port-left side
Starboard-right side
Bow-front
Stern-back
Fore-toward the bow (front)
Aft-toward the stern (back)
Buoy-An anchored float used for marking a position on the water or a hazard
Hatch-An opening in a boat's deck fitted with a watertight cover
Screw-A boat's propeller.
Cleat-A fitting to which lines are made fast (tied).
Stanchion-upright or vertical
Gaff-part of the sailing rig
Boom-pole at the bottom of the sail
Dinghy-A small open boat
Mast-tall vertical pole to which the sails are attached
Galley-kitchen
Bowspirt-pole extending off the front of the boat for the sail.
Porthole-window
Rudder-A vertical plate or board for steering a boat
Trawler-type of boat
Sextant-navigational tool, like a compass, used to measure direction using the sky & stars.
Keel-centerline of the boat (underneath) running from front to back

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Jack Gantos & Hole in My Life

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Meet Gary Soto: Author of The Afterlife

Visit the author's website!

Did you know there is a Gary Soto Literary Museum?

Gary Soto answers his readers' frequently asked questions.

April's Book Selection: The Afterlife by Gary Soto

IF you liked reading "One of Those Hideous Books...", you might enjoy these books about

Losing a parent

• Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron
  
• Bounce by Natasha Friend
• Scout by Christine Ford
  
• Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton
• The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going
• How Ya Like Me Now by Brendan Halpin
• Buried by Robin Merrow McCready
• Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
  
• The She by Carol Plum-Ucci
• Witch Dreams by Vivian Vande Velde
  
• You Are Not Alone: teens talk about life after the loss of a parent by Lynne Hughes (155.937 Hughes)
  

Authors who write novels-in-verse

• Ellen Hopkins (Crank, Glass, Burned, Impulse, Identical, Tricks)
  
• Lisa Schroeder (I Heart You, You Haunt Me; Far From You; Chasing Brooklyn)
• Virginia Euwer Wolff (Make Lemonade, True Believer, This Full House)
  

Novels-in-verse

• The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff
• Jimi & Me by Jaime Adoff
  
• Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
• All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
• Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
  
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
• Scout by Christine Ford
• Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton
• Loose Threads by Lorie Ann Grover
  
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
  
• Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
• Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
• The Geography of Girlhood by Kirsten Smith
  
• Hard Hit by Ann Warren Turner
  
• Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans
• Reaching For Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
  

Moving

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
  
• Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
• Not Like You by Deborah Davis
  
• The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going
  
• Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Drawing the Ocean by Carolyn MacCullough
• Love, Meg by C. Leigh Purtill
• The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau
  
• Out of the Blue by S.L. Rottman
  
• The Secret Hour (Midnighters #1) by Scott Westerfeld