Foothill High School Library

Daniel Bradford, Head Librarian

Julie Minor, Library Assistant

Home of the Foothill Falcons

Library Hours

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday:

7:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday:

8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Friday:

7:15 a.m. to 2:48 p.m.

Foothill High School Library
Foothill High School
4375 Foothill Road
Pleasanton, CA 94588
ph: 925-646-6626
alt: 925-646-6646
falconlibrary@gmail.com

WELCOME TO OUR LIBRARY

February Books of the Month

That's right, BOOKS--the California Young Reader Medal books for 2009-2010!

1. Saint Iggy by K.L. Going

2. Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Foothill students who want to vote for the statewide winner of the 2009-2010 California Young Reader Medal contest will:

1. Read all three books (we have sixty of each title!)
2. Vote before March 30, 2010
3. Be entered in a drawing to win a free set of all three books--20 students will win!

Ask the library staff or your English teachers for the books and more details!

Saint Iggy

K.L. Going

"Do something that contributes to the world."

That's the advice Iggy Corso's principal gives to him after suspending Iggy indefinitely from school for something Iggy didn't do.

But how can Iggy make a difference in the world? He doesn't do drugs, even though he was born addicted to crack. He lives in a city housing project, in an apartment filled with furniture that his stoned and drunken father collects from the street. Iggy's mother is an addict who has been AWOL for a month.

But Iggy doesn't feel sorry for himself. And he's determined, against all odds, to prove that everybody--his teachers, his principal, his own parents--are wrong about him.

"You're always going to hate me...for something I did when I was thirteen."

Story of a Girl

Sara Zarr

Deanna Lambert was only thirteen when her father caught her in the back of Tommy Webber's Buick. Even though it's three years later, Deanna has to live with the consequences of that night: an unfair reputation as the school's "bad girl" and a father who won't even look her in the eye.

Desperate to move out of her unhappy home, Deanne gets a summer job to start saving money. Little does she know that her job at a crummy pizza place will make her face her past head-on--because one of her co-workers is Tommy Webber.

Story of a Girl was written by Pacifica, California native Sara Zarr.

"I want the world to pay attention to me."

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

Arnold "Junior" Spirit--the son of an alcoholic absentee father and a long-suffering mom--decides to take a chance, get off the "rez" and attend a "white" private school in Rearden, Washington so "the world will pay attention to me.".

To Arnold's surprise, once he becomes a "part-time Indian", he leaves the world of bullies and bullying behind and encounters new friends who share some of his interests.

His basketball team meets up with old classmates on the court, and a battle of both bodies and cultures begins. The author, Sherman Alexie, based this book on his own experiences as a Native American teenager.

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