Check it out!
NEW! You can now access our library catalog from school and home. To use the fabulous and innovative web-based catalog please go to Destiny! *Please note: ALL library books are due on or before May 27th.
Students are welcome and encouraged to checkout books before and after school or anytime during the school day with a pass from their classroom teacher.
Summer Readers
Reading never goes out of season! For over 3 years, Sudbrook Magnet has had the highest Summer_Reading participation in the Northwest Area. Check out some TEEN_Reads at your Baltimore County Public Library branch this summer and sign up for their Teen Reading program anytime from June-August. You may find me at the library with my boys for story time. Enjoy all 76 days off, my dear readers! Best wishes in High School, eighth graders! We will miss you!
The Bird with the Word!
Spread the Word! Learn new words to improve your vocabulary. Schmeagle the Eagle, the school library mascot, brings you the word of the week. Click on Schmeagle's picture to read this week's word. If you wish to view episodes of The Bird with the Word please visit Schmeagle's video album on Teacher Tube!
Schmeagle's sister has arrived safely to our Sister School in Moka City, Japan. Our Japanese friends and colleagues now have a new "mascoto". We would like to say Arigatou Gozaimasu to the all Yamazaki students and faculty for a very memorable visit to the Sudbrook Library!
Library Information Services
Please take advantage of the BCPS_Databases. The databases provide reliable educational resources exclusively for Baltimore County students. Please stop by the library if you need an additional handout with the user names and passwords to access the databases from HOME.
Research_Models are lessons conducted with the Library Media Specialist and Content Area Teacher. These self-guided online lessons promote inquiry-based learning and allow students to research using a variety of electronic and print resources in the library.
Recommended Reads
What's on Schilpp's Shelf? Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a 2007-08 Black-Eyed Susan Winner and my favorite read at the moment. The books were so captivating; I had a really hard time focusing on anything else until I finished the final book Eclipse. The next book, Breaking Dawn, will be coming out in August. In the meantime, read Chapter one of Midnight_Sun, which tells the Twilight story from Edward's perspective.
Get hooked on a banned book! Read a challenged book and see what all the fuss is about. Some of our shelves most beloved tales appear on the very long list of forbidden books. The only thing dangerous about books is not reading them. We need to protect our Intellectual Freedom and always remember that Free People Read Freely!
Literacy Events
Students Made Reading A Hobbit! Students conducted Creature_Research by using an Online Research Model to learn more about Tolkien's characters and have a better understanding of the novel The Fellowship of the Ring. Guidebooks on each character were created. The students did such a fabulous job that a literacy event was planned for our school community and their families. Click here to view a short documentary of the project.
"I am immensely fond of you all, and that eleventy-one years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." - Bilbo Baggins
Library Love
We LOVE our library! Please check out our video that was accepted by the American Library Association's You Tube page ilovelibraries.org under Careers in Libraries and see why the Sudbrook Library is "literally the coolest place in the school!"