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We will be starting Freshman Orientations at the beginning of October due to the installation of our new software. If you have any questions let me know, I can do a mini orientation for the basics until our software is completed. I hope you are all ready to read! Check out our links for useful information.
pop in and check out our books for Spring
This month we have a contest for who can read the most books in the month of March!
Stop by the LMC for details……………good luck!
Kaiser Permanente was on our campus Wednesday. They presented information to our students about career options in the Medical field. If you want any information stop by the Career Center and visit Nicole Lee our counselor.
Check your school email for the trail version…………..give us your feedback.
Stop by for a read in the LMC………..green, Irish and Luck we have something for you!!!!
Wrestling: Northview, West Covina win titlesBy Fred Robledo on February 15, 2011 10:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (14) |
Saturday’s CIF-SS Dual Meet Wrestling Finals
Division 2
Northview 39, Servite 27
Division 4
West Covina 31. Ventura 28
By Steve Ramirez
It was a crowning achievement for two of the area’s premier high school wrestling programs. But in a way, it was more than that for Northview and West Covina, who each won CIF-Southern Section dual division titles Saturday. The Bulldogs girls team also dominated en route to winning the CIF Southern California Regional championship.
“It’s, overall for our program, the greatest day in our program, to have both our boys and girls win CIF,” West Covina coach Donnie Stephens said. “We’re one big family. It was a pretty awesome feeling to see one team running off the bus to meet the other who was running out of the gym. It was a great day.” 
Are you hungry to read? Catch the fire! The Hunger Games series now available for you in the LMC!
Do you love to read? Do you want to improve your understanding of literature with a great group of people? Do you want a club that will look great on your college application? If so, please fill contact Mrs. Karmann in the LMC to sign up for the club
. Come prepared with a small list of books you are interested in reading in the club. We will combine the lists and choose from the top three books………..sign up now!
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The Literary Lawyer
John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father, a cotton farmer and itinerant construction worker moved the family frequently, from town to town throughout the Deep South, settling in Southaven, Mississippi in 1967. Although his parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and insisted that he prepare himself for college.
By his own account, he had no interest in writing until after he embarked on his professional career. For his first two years in college, Grisham drifted. He attended three different colleges before earning a degree. After abandoning a youthful dream of a professional baseball career, he settled down to study accounting and prepare for a career as a tax lawyer. While in law school, his interest shifted from tax law to criminal law and litigation. After graduating from the University of Mississippi law school, he returned to Southaven and established a small private legal practice. He was elected the to Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983. By his second term he held the vice chairmanship of the Apportionment and Elections Committee, as well as memberships on the Insurance, Judiciary “A”, and Military Affairs Committee.
In Mississippi, attorneys in private practice are sometimes called upon to appear as public defenders for indigent clients. In this way, Grisham received invaluable experience of the criminal justice system. Inspired by a case he observed in a Mississippi courthouse, Grisham decided to write a novel. For years, he arrived at his office at five o’clock in the morning, six days a week, to work on his first book, A Time To Kill. His manuscript was rejected by 28 publishers before he found an unknown publisher who was willing to print a short run. Without the benefit of a major publisher’s marketing apparatus, the novice author went directly to booksellers, encouraging them to stock his book. Although A Time to Kill sold a disappointing 5,000 copies, Grisham had already begun work on a second novel The Firm. At the same time, bored with the routine of the state capital and eager to spend more time with his family, he decided not to seek re-election to the state legislature. He closed his law practice and moved his family to Oxford, Mississippi, determined to concentrate on his writing.
At age 36, his career as a novelist bloomed when movie rights to The Firm were sold for a hefty price, even before the book had found a publisher. The Firm, sold more than seven million copies and spent 47 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. With the success of The Firm, John Grisham gave up his law practice to write full time. He has returned to the practice of law on only one occasion since, in 1996, to win a settlement for the family of an injured railroad worker. Meanwhile he has continued to write enormously successful legal thrillers at he rate of nearly one a year. As of this writing, seven of his books — The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, The Summons and The Broker — were the bestselling novels of their respective years.
Beginning in 2001, Grisham has occasionally departed from the format of the legal thriller to write works of fiction on other subjects, mostly dealing with aspects of life in the rural South. The first of these was A Painted House, followed by Skipping Christmas, Bleachers and Playing for Pizza. No fewer than ten of Grisham’s film have been adapted for film and television, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker and The Gingerbread Man. The film version of Skipping Christmas was re-titled A Christmas With the Kranks.
Today, John Grisham and his wife and two children keep homes in Oxford, Mississippi and near Charlottesville, Virginia. Apart from his writing, Grisham is a generous supporter of Little League teams in Oxford and Charlottesville and has endowed writing scholarship at the University of Mississippi. He is also a board member of the Innocence Project, an organization that promotes the use of DNA evidence to exonerate the wrongly convicted. Grisham’s one nonfiction book to date, The Innocent Man (2006), recounted the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a former professional baseball player sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Williamson was eventually released, but his case exposed glaring inadequacies in the criminal justice system. Despite these interests and activities, Grisham has not stopped producing bestselling legal thrillers. The year 2009 saw the publication of his 21st novel, The Associate, as well as a book of short stories, Ford County, that returns to the setting of his first novel. A new legal thriller, The Confession, will appear in October 2010.
2011 Young Writer’s Contest
Like to write? Why not submit one of your stories to Mrs. Nelson’s annual writing contest?
Entries for this year’s contest will be accepted from February 1st to March 12th.
Enter into your appropriate age category:
Group One — Ages 6 to 9
Group Two — Ages 10 to 13
Group Three — Ages 14+
Entries will be judged by a group of local authors, led by Q.L. Pearce and winners will be announced at the end of April.
Mrs. Nelson’s Toy & Book Shop
Young Writers Contest
1. Each entry must be an original work, submitted in the appropriate age group: Group One — Ages 6 to 9
Group Two — Ages 10 to 13
Group Three — Ages 14+
2. Entries must be typed (double-spaced) or neatly printed in ink on a standard page size of
8 1/2 by 11-inches. If submitting a print copy, the pages should be stapled in the upper left hand corner. It is preferred that entries are submitted electronically. Please submit the entry in a Microsoft Word document. If you are submitting artwork, please scan it.
6. A panel of local Southern California writers, headed by Q.L. Pearce, will be judging all works.
Place winners will receive a gift certificate for ten dollars. There will be five Honorable Mentions in each age group. Prizes will be awarded at a special celebration at Mrs. Nelson’s (all participants are welcome) and the winning manuscripts will be on display in the book store.
1030 Bonita Ave, La Verne, CA 91750 (909) 599-4558
Entries must have the name, phone number, and email address (if available) of the writer.
3. With the exception of poetry, entries should be no less than two and no more than four pages of text for Group One, no less than two and no more than six pages of text for Group Two, and no less than four and no more than eight pages of text for Group Three, with no less than 100 words per page. Please add to this a cover sheet with your name, age, address, telephone number, email address, name of your school, and the title of your story. You may include illustrations if you like, but please do not put a cover or folder on your submission.
4. Your entry may be on any subject and in any genre including fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography, mystery, humor, science fiction, horror, or fantasy.
5. Entries must be submitted to Mrs. Nelson’s Toy and Book Shop between February 1st, 2011 and March 12th, 2011. Entries can be emailed to
Printed entries will not be returned but they may be picked up at the book store after the contest.
Make sure you clear all fines, truants and fees with ASB, Dean’s Office and Library
BETWEEN by Jessica Warman
At Teenreads.com, we always have our hands on the latest books before they’re published. How else would we know what to recommend? Now, with our Sneak Peek Feature and Contest, we are offering you a chance to read one of our early picks — and share feedback on it. We know that readers champion books that they love, and we want you to be part of the excitement of upcoming releases as early as possible.
We kick off our Sneak Peek Feature with BETWEEN by Jessica Warman, which releases in August 2011. It’s about your average, über-popular, teen-queen mean girl and her journey as she learns how to really live. Only, she had to die first. We have 30 specially formatted early reader editions of BETWEEN to give away to readers who would like to preview the book and share their comments about it.
We really want to hear what you have to say about BETWEEN, so if you will have time to read it and answer some questions by Tuesday, February 1st, please enter this contest. If not, don’t worry! This won’t be the last time we’ll be giving you a sneak peek of a great book that hasn’t been released yet.
To enter, fill out the form below and answer the following questions by Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at noon ET.
Have you read either of Jessica Warman’s previous books: BREATHLESS and WHERE THE TRUTH LIES?
Which of the following books, if any, have you read: BEFORE I FALL by Lauren Oliver, IF I STAY by Gayle Forman, THIRTEEN REASONS WHY by Jay Asher, THE EVERAFTER by Amy Huntley?
Did you enjoy any of those books?
What is your favorite type of book to read (ie. Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, etc.)?
What social media do you use regularly: Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Shelfari, LibraryThing, etc.?
Which of the following best describes you: Student, Librarian, Teacher, Adult Who Likes YA?
You may also enter the contest by sending your name, email address, and answers to the questions to:
Teenreads.com/BETWEEN Contest
The Book Report, Inc.
250 West 57th Street – Suite 1228
New York, NY 10107
All entries must be postmarked by Thursday, December 30, 2010 and received by Tuesday, January 4, 2011.
Once the copies of BETWEEN have been shipped, we will contact our winners and ask them to respond with their thoughts on the book.
More about BETWEEN by Jessica Warman
Elizabeth Valchar — pretty, popular and rich — wakes up the morning after her 18th birthday on the yacht where she’d been celebrating with her closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, she finds her own drowned body is hitting the side of the boat. Liz is dead. She has no memory of what happened to her, and can only observe in horror the fallout of her death.
She’s also soon joined by Alex Berg, a quiet boy from her high school who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The two keep each other company, floating in and out of memories and trying to piece together the details of what happened to each of them.
In her regular life, Liz was a runner. It wasn’t abnormal for her to run 8-10 miles per day. But as memories from closer to her death begin to surface, Liz finds that she’d been running much more than normal, and that she’d all but stopped eating. Liz’s mother, who died when Liz was nine, had battled with anorexia as well, and those around her worried that Liz was following in her mother’s footsteps. But something more sinister was consuming Liz from the inside out…
You can win a brand new Flip video camera plus a prize for the library!
How? Enter the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Learning4Life in My School Library Student Video Contest, in association with Cisco and SchoolTube.com. Entries will be accepted from January 4 through March 18, 2011. Be creative, have fun and good luck!
School librarians valuable resource as digital content expands | American Libraries Magazine (americanlibrariesmagazine.org) The School Library Media Specialist: Library Media Program: Introduction (eduscapes.com) ALA | A Planning Guide For Empowering Learners (ala.org)
The West Covina Bulldog Football Team has once again gained the Title of CIF Champions. Last night they conquered the championship game by defeating Bonita Bearcats 37 – 33
Way to go Bulldogs! We are Proud of you all!
Help us purchase some books for our library please! I have the list on the wish list above this post!
you can ship it to the school and your name will be put in the book as the donator……….1609 E. Cameron Avenue, West Covina, CA 91791
thanks for your support!
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