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Portola Springs Elementary
Library and Media Center
Welcome to Portola Springs Elementary’s Library & Media Center. Our mission is to teach our students the information literacy skills necessary to access and evaluate information, to use it accurately, creatively, and ethically to provide a wide variety of materials to support the curriculum, and to encourage a life-long love of reading.
Thank you,
Library Media Technician
Shirley Ku ShirleyKu@
Erin Yarborough ErinYarborough@
Open Hours
Students have access to the library during their weekly scheduled library time.
Book check-out information
- Students will check out 1 or 2 books a week depending on grade level.
- Additional books will be permitted for school assignments.
- All books checked out need to be returned before any new books can be checked out.
- Students with late books or fines will not be allowed to continue checking out library books until their materials are returned and their account cleared.
WHAT IF I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I BORROWED
Students can access their accounts and view their information anywhere through Destiny. You can view library books borrowed and their due dates online.
Fines (Damaged and Lost Books)
Fines are collected for lost or damaged books. Replacement book
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Summer Reading 6th Grade
Suggested Titles for Upcoming 6th Graders
Fiction and Graphic Novels
24 Hours in Nowhere -- Bowling, Dusti
Thirteen-year-old Gus, having been saved from the bullying of Bo Taylor by Rossi Scott who agreed to trade her dirt bike in exchange for Gus being left alone, agrees to go into Dead Frenchman Mine with Rossi and two other kids to find a piece of gold to buy the bike back; and, while on their adventure, the four bond over how hard life is in their small town of Nowhere, Arizona.
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All He Knew -- Frost, Helen
In six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II.
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Among the Hidden (The first book in The Shadow Children Series) -- Haddix, Margaret Peterson
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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Ban this Book -- Gratz, Alan
A fourth grader fights back when 'From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler' by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent a