Category: Books

Printz and Alex Awards

ghostsIf you haven’t already done so, you may want to check out some of these titles that were honoured with 2016 ALA Youth Media Awards:

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:

  • Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Printz Honor Books:

  • Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
  • The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:

  • All Involved by Ryan Gattis
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
  • Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
  • Girl at War by Sara Nović
  • Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
  • Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton
  • Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia
  • Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
  • The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen

See the full list of all the 2016 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

We have some of these books already and many more will be arriving on our shelves very soon!

(Source: American Library Association)

eBooks: How to Borrow an eBook from your School Library

Source: CC BY-SA 2.0 Tina Franklin
Source: CC BY-SA 2.0 Tina Franklin

Through the school library, the district collection, and beyond to the public library system and other libraries, you have access to a large selection of eBooks that you can read on your tablet, phone, laptop or other device.

Here are the steps you need to follow to download eBooks onto your devices:

 

A. Find an eBook

  1. Go to our catalog.
  2. Sign-in with your district Username and Password.
  3. Search for a book.
  4. Follett eBooks will appear in the search results with a unique material type icon.
  5. If you wish, you can restrict your search to Follett eBooks.
  6. Select a title from the results.
  7. Or if you’ve viewed the record first, select “Open.”
  8. The eBook will open for viewing in your browser.

B. Download the eBook

  1. Download the Follett BryteWave app. (App Store.)
  2. Open the BryteWave app.
  3. Sign in with your Surrey Schools account username and password. Choose our school from the drop down list.
  4. Choose your book from the “My eReader” tab.
  5. If your borrowed books do not appear, click on the sync button.
  6. Open your book and select “Download this title” when prompted.
  7. Once the download is complete, you can read the entire book on your device, even if you are offline.

(The above instructions will work for downloading to an iPad or other IOS device. You may need to follow different steps for a different device.)

For an illustrated version of these steps, and more info, go here.