Simi Valley High School Library

05/14/2018

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04/30/2018

Tell us what you think of the SVHS Library! Students can take the survey online!

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04/20/2018

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Calling All High School Students!

April is Financial Literacy Month, and we're celebrating in a huge way! Ramsey Solutions, along with Amridge University, is inviting high school students across the country to test their personal finance knowledge by taking the $20,000 Financial Literacy Challenge.

YOU COULD WIN WITH GREAT PRIZES!



$10,000 College Scholarship

Two $500 Amazon Gift Cards

If you're a high school senior, you could win a $10,000 scholarship! If you're a freshman, sophomore, or junior, you could win one of two $500 Amazon gift cards. And the school of each winner will receive a one-year subscription to Foundations in Personal Finance and Foundations in Entrepreneurship high school curricula. See official rules https://www.ramseyeducation.com/challenge?utm_source=cnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4.15cnl_ymal_section_ramsey_education_student_challenge&utm_term=education_solutions_bu&utm_campaign=finlit_2018_student&cd17=CNL+180415+B
for details.

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04/17/2018

Charlotte Brontë, Trailblazer

April 21 is the birthday of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), the English novelist and poet best known as the author of Jane Eyre. Along with her sisters, Anne (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) and Emily (Wuthering Heights), she was a literary trailblazer whose iconic stories and (for the time) daring social commentary made her a polarizing figure in her lifetime and an inspiration to subsequent generations. The oldest surviving child of an Anglo-Irish clergyman and his Cornish wife (who died when Charlotte was five), Charlotte was determined to earn her keep from her writing, despite daunting literary rejection and intense societal pressure to turn to more "womanly" pursuits. (To get around such prejudice, she used the pseudonym Currer Bell; Jane Eyre had been in print for a year before the publisher discovered that its runaway best-seller had been written by a woman).

Through the mysterious alchemy of literary genius, all three Brontë sisters transformed childhood tragedy, unhappy boarding-school experiences, and keen observances of the people and harsh landscape of their native Yorkshire, into masterworks whose universal themes of belonging vs. independence, love vs. hate, and forgiveness vs. revenge still resonate today. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights remain perennial best-sellers in their own right; and the sisters' works and lives continue to inspire adaptations and retellings, both fictional and nonfictional, in both books and film. Charlotte, the oldest among them, only lived to age 38, and died childless; but through their life's work and literary "offspring," she and her sisters have achieved immortality.

04/16/2018

2018 Teens' Top Ten Nominees. View the list with annotations at www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten.

04/09/2018

04/08/2018

Pioneer Book club Tuesday at lunch. Looking forward to discussing Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dr...

01/21/2018

Great book to read when your home with a cold.

Eleven of the world’s best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlaine Harris are paired with eleven of the world’s best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille. The stories are edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.

In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world’s most popular thriller writ...

12/08/2017

11/30/2017

Pioneer Book Club & Holiday Party TUESDAY at lunch in the library!

11/16/2017

See School Library Journals Best Books of 2017 list below.

11/16/2017

See the YA List up close at this link
http://slj.com/bestof2017/youngadult.php