Great Math Sites!

Great Math Websites from the T.C. Marsh Library!  

The library is the perfect place for reading, research...and MATH! Have fun this summer (and all year long) at the library with these fantastic math games and awesome support sites for math! Special thanks to Mrs. Hons at Pioneer Heritage Middle School in Frisco ISD for sharing some of her favorite math sites. (This list has been tweaked and added to by Mrs. Meeks, T. C. Marsh Middle School librarian.)

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

by John Boyne

Author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

     "Noah Barleywater left home in the early morning before the sun rose, before the dogs woke, before the the dew stopped falling on the fields. He climbed out of bed and shuffled into the clothes he'd laid out the night before, holding his breath as he crept quietly downstairs...Am I doing the right thing? he wondered, a great blanket of happy memories trying to break through and smother fresher, sadder ones.

     But he had no choice. He couldn't bear to stay any longer. No one could blame him for that, surely. Anyway, it was probably best that he went out to make his own way in the world. After all, he was already eight years old and the truth was, he hadn't really done anything with his life so far."

     

Teachers Love Libraries

Marsh teachers and administrators share why they love the library! See great clips of students in action at the Bluebonnet Party, Read-a-Thon, Book Fair, and everyday happenings in the Russell Hughes Library at T.C. Marsh Middle School. The library is an integral part of academic success at T.C. Marsh...take a look and see!

Wrinkle in Time book trailer

Watch our original book trailer on the brilliant fantasy adventure A Wrinkle in Time.  Special thanks to my 12-year old son for the original music created on GarageBand and awesome iMovie editing help! Wrinkle is the first book in his favorite series, and our first collaborative book trailer creation. I hope there will be more to come!

Fall Semester Highlights

Click to see slideshow highlights from fall 2010-2011!

Maximum Ride by James Patterson

Do you love X-Men, fantasy, sci-fi? Then you will love this action-packed adventure about 6 "orphan" kids that escape from The School, a secret laboratory that conducts hideous genetic experiments on children that alter their DNA. These kids are 98% human and 2%...bird. Yes. They can FLY. And they have other bizarre powers that they keep discovering about themselves. Unfortunately, the escaped kids are mercilessly hunted and attacked by the Erasers who are part wolf, part male super-model. Really, really bad dudes. This book has intense fight scenes and nail-biting moments on just about every three pages. Not for the faint of heart!

I started this book and read it ALL NIGHT until I finished! I couldn't find a good place to stop because the chapters were short, and I just had to know what happened next! Explosions, chase scenes, loyalty to family and friends, teen humor, fighting for the under-dog... this is another great book by James Patterson! I can hardly wait to read Max, the next Maximum Ride adventure!