Teen Read Week 2015

Teen Read Week 2015 is October 18-24. Stay tuned for Teen Read Week event announcements.

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school. This promises to be a great year! The Learning Commons exists to serve you. Whether it's help connecting your phone or tablet to the network, finding or requesting a book to read, or locating resources for research, let us know what you need, and we'll do our best to help.

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New ebook titles

Check out our latest batch of ebook titles. Available in our OverDrive digital library. For details about gaining your free access, take a look at this page.

Title	Author
16 Things I Thought Were True	Janet Gurtler
Atlantia	Ally Condie
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas	John Boyne
Breathe, Annie, Breathe	Miranda Kenneally
The Crossover	Kwame Alexander
Delirium: Delirium Series, Book 1	Lauren Oliver
The Demigod Diaries	Rick Riordan
Dress Your Marines in White: Monument 14 Series, Book 0.5	Emmy Laybourne
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend	Kody Keplinger
Earth Girl: Earth Girl Series, Book 1	Janet Edwards
Earth Star: Earth Girl Series, Book 2	Janet Edwards
Erementar Gerade, Volume 1	Mayumi Azuma
Erementar Gerade, Volume 2	Mayumi Azuma
The Future of Us	Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
Hollow City: Miss Peregrine Series, Book 2	Ransom Riggs
The House of Hades: The Heroes of Olympus Series, Book 4	Rick Riordan
How I Lost You	Janet Gurtler
I'll Give You the Sun	Jandy Nelson
Just One Day: Just One Day Series, Book 1	Gayle Forman
Just One Night: Just One Day Series, Book 3	Gayle Forman
Just One Year: Just One Day Series, Book 2	Gayle Forman
A Long Walk to Water	Linda Sue Park
The Mark of Athena: The Heroes of Olympus Series, Book 3	Rick Riordan
The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection	James Dashner
Mitosis: The Reckoners Series, Book 1.5	Brandon Sanderson
Monument 14: Monument 14 Series, Book 1	Emmy Laybourne
The One: The Selection Series, Book 3	Kiera Cass
Red Queen	Victoria Aveyard
The Rithmatist: The Rithmatist Series, Book 1	Brandon Sanderson, Ben McSweeney
The Rule of Thoughts: The Mortality Doctrine Series, Book 2	James Dashner
Six Months Later	Natalie D. Richards
The Son of Neptune: The Heroes of Olympus Series, Book 2	Rick Riordan
Splintered: Splintered Series, Book 1	A. G. Howard
The Testing: The Testing Series, Book 1	Joelle Charbonneau
Twelve Years a Slave	Solomon Northrup
We Were Liars	E. Lockhart

Read eBooks on your phone, tablet, computer, or other device

Bummed when all of the print copies of The Fault in Our Stars, The Maze Runner, If I Stay, or Divergent are checked out? You can read these titles any many more using our digital collection, the OverDrive digital library. There are more than 400 titles in the collection, and more are added regularly.

You now have the ability to read online using a computer, tablet, or smart phone. Or, you can read offline using the OverDrive app.

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  Where is it? http://converse1schools.lib.overdrive.com/
• There is a link to it on the DHS Student Start Page.
• How do I log in?
• Username: Your student ID number
• Password: Your PowerSchool password
• On what can I read these e-books?
• PC or Mac - read online. No download necessary
• Tablets - iOS and Android
• read online in browser
• Download to your tablet and read using the OverDrive Media Console app.
• Smart phone - iOS and Android
• read online in browser
• Download to your phone and read using the OverDrive app.

Teen Read Week 2014

”Once Upon a Dream, you (verb +ed) for (plural noun) when you visited the DHS Learning Commons and found out you hadn’t missed Teen Read Week. Don’t just dream it. Make it a reality. Celebrate Teen Read Week with the DHS Learning Commons October 12-18. Turn Dreams Into Reality @Your Library.

To kick off the celebration: Return or renew your overdue books and we'll waive your fine. Stay tuned for daily announcements of upcoming events.

December and January Kindle winners

  

Congratulations to Rebecca Russell and Jacob Cropper, winners of a new Kindle Fire for December and January. You could be a winner too! Read OverDrive books and submit your AR test results. Each submission gives you one chance in the drawing. The more that you read, the better chance you will have.

Next drawing: February 27 during CATS. Deadline for entry: 11:00 am

OverDrive reminder AND an addition to our resources!

We're excited to tell you that we've added some resources to help you in your pursuit of knowledge and excellence. The highlight is e-books. We have two services set up for you. One (OverDrive) is primarily a fiction collection. The other is called Mackin VIA and we've compiled a large collection of primarily non-fiction books for your research and informational reading.

Both give you the ability to read online, using a tablet, or using your smart phone.

OverDrive Digital Library - Primarily fiction. Find and check out the latest fiction titles. Nearly  400 e-books and audio books

• Where is it? http://converse1schools.lib.overdrive.com/
• There is a link to it on the DHS Student Start Page.,
• How do I log in?
• Username: Your student ID number
• Password: Your PowerSchool password
• On what can I read these e-books?
• PC or Mac - read online. No download necessary
• Tablets - iOS and Android
• read online in browser
• Download to your tablet and read using the OverDrive Media Console app.
• Smart phone - iOS and Android
• read online in browser
• Download to your phone and read using the OverDrive Media Console app.
  
  
  

Mackin VIA E-Book Web portal - Primarily Non-Fiction. Use this for your research and informational needs. Over 3700 e-books in this collection

• Where is it? http://www.mackinvia.com/
• There is a link to it on the DHS Student Start Page.,
• How do I log in?
• School: Douglas High School
• Visit the Leraning Commons to ask for the username and password for this resource.
• This is a single username and password to be used by all DHS students. Books can be viewed simultaneously by an unlimited number of students.
• On what can I read these e-books?
• PC or Mac - read online. No download necessary
• Tablets - iOS and Android
• read online in browser
• Some titles can be downloaded
• Smart phone - iOS and Android
• read online in browser
• Download to your phone and read using the phone’s PDF reader app.