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GREENE — Morse Library in Greene has titles from the 2016-17 Maine Student Book Award list. Each year, the winner of the award is determined by Maine students in grades four through eight, who vote at their school or public library after reading three or more books from the list. The top vote getter for 2015-16 was “El Deafo,” by Cece Bell.
Books from the list the library owns include “Roller Girl,” by Victoria Jamieson; “The Worst Class Trip Ever,” by Dave Barry; “Upside-Down Magic,” by Sarah Mlynowski; “Awkward,” by Svetlana Chmakova; “The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other),” by Geoff Rodkey; “A Whole New Ballgame,” by Phil Bildner; “Masterminds,” by Gordan Korman; “Seven Dead Pirates – A Ghost Story,” by Linda Bailey; “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics,” by Chris Grabenstein; “The Blackthorn Key,” by Kevin Sands; “The Fog Diver,” by Joel Ross; “A Handful of Stars,” by Cynthia Lord; “Took – A Ghost Story,” by Mary Downing Hahn; “Fuzzy Mud,” by Louis Sachar; “Fish in a Tree,” by Linda Mullaly Hunt; “The War that Saved My Life,” by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley; “The Nest,” by Kenneth Oppel; “Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer,” by Kelly Jones; “Untamed – The Wild Life of Jane Goodall,” by Anita Silvey; “The Boys Who Challenged Hitler,” by Phillip Hoose; and “Terrible Typhoid Mary – A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America,” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
To see if an item is available, search the catalog on the library’s website. If the book you want is checked out, the library can reserve it for you and call you when it returns. Patrons may borrow items the library doesn’t own through the interlibrary loan service. For the complete list of Maine Student Book Award titles, including the cover and description of each book, see msba.umeedu.maine.edu.
Patrons must have a Morse Library card, free to residents of Greene and Leeds, to borrow library materials, request items through interlibrary loan, or use the Overdrive Download Library. To get a card, stop in anytime and bring proof of address. Morse Library is at 105 Main Street in Greene Village, just off Route 202 and a quarter mile from Greene Central School. Open hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 12-7 p.m. and Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. For more information, call 207-946-5544 or visit www.morse.lib.me.us.
