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The Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program is an opportunity for students in grades 3-5 to read quality books from the selected list during the school year, and then vote for their favorite book. Students from across the state participate, and its always such fun to see if the book selected by Chaffee Trail students is the same as is selected by other Florida students! Check out, post, and comment on our school's SSYRA blog: www.chaffeereads.blogspot.com!

	Berlin, Eric. The Puzzling World of Winston Breen. Puffin, �2009.
	Cheaney, J.B. Middle of Somewhere. Yearling, �2008.
	Davies, Jacqueline. The Lemonade War. Sandpiper, �2009.
	Fleming, Candace. The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School. Yearling, �2009.
	Frazier, Sundee T. Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It. Yearling, �2008.
	Funk, Cornelia. Igraine the Brave. Chicken House, �2008.
	Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found. Simon & Schuster, �2009.
	Hobbs, Valerie. Defiance. Square Fish, �2009.
	Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat. Square Fish, �2008.
	Kennedy, Marlane. Me and the Pumpkin Queen. HarperCollins, �2009.
	Lin, Grace. Year of the Dog. Little, Brown, �2007.
	Lisle, Janet Taylor. Highway Cats. Puffin, �2009.
	Lubar, David. Punished. Darby Creek, �2007.
	Salisbury, Graham. Night of the Howling Dogs. Laurel Leaf, �2009.
	Urban, Linda. Crooked Kind of Perfect Harcourt, �2009.

School Library Media Specialist:		Lucretia D. Miller Blog: chaffeechat
Library Assistant		Dawn Clapsaddle
Hours:		8:00 AM-3:00 PM
Policies:	Book Checkout:	Parents may check out as many books as needed for a project or as many as can be read at one time provided there are no overdue books or fines. Students can have up to five books out at a time, or may check out more if needed for a project with permission. Books may be renewed provided there are no holds on the book.
	Overdues & Fines:	There is no fine for an overdue book, however, if a book is lost or damaged, the cost to replace that book will be due. Due to the special library binding, processing and cataloging of our books, we can not accept replacement books, only the fine to replace the book. All books must be returned by the end of the school year for inventory.
	ALA Policies:	We adhere to the American Library Association's policies on the Library Bill of Rights, and the Freedom to Read.
	District Policies:	We adhere to all district media policies such as selection policy, book reconsideration, and collection development.
Library Birthday Book Club:		Celebrate your child's birthday by joining the Library Birthday Book Club! Return this form the month of your child's birthday with a $20.00 donation and your child will be able to select a new book from the library, receive a special nameplate in the book, be the first to check out the book, and appear on the morning news show! Click on the cake to the left to print it.

	Includes Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, World Book Encyclopedia, Popular Science Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia Americana.
	Includes Gale databases including: Kids Infobits, Gale Infotrac, Junior Reference Section, "What to Read Next," and Health and Wellness Resource Center.
	Great database from Proquest for geography and cultural information. Includes a site for world cultures, a kids' edition, and a states edition.
	Includes an online database which provides subscription access to history maps, interactive maps, U.S. maps, world maps, flags, atlases, lesson plans and thousands of educational resources to support learning of social studies, history and geography in today's classroom.
	Big Chalk professional education collection for elementary schools
	eLibrary Curriculum Edition. Includes more than 1,500 magazines, newspapers, reference works, transcripts, maps, images, Web links and audio and video sources
	Wilson Web Biography: database for biographies
	Database of US History from Encyclopedia Britannica
	SunLink is a database of all the public school library collections in the state of Florida. We can always do an Interlibrary loan from another school if we do not have the book in our collection. SunLink also has wonderful resources of websites for kids.
	The Jacksonville Public Library has many databases for your use. Some you may access directly from your home computer, others are for in-library use only.
	netTrekker d.i., the latest version of netTrekker, the award-winning search engine for schools, supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources, organized by readability level to help every child achieve.
	Access the library catalog from home! Click here for directions for the first time you access the catalog. The user name is Destiny, the password is duval.