The James Logan Courier

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Logan Students, not sure about what elective class to sign up for next year? Get information about elective courses for next year. Come to the ROP/Elective Fair in Colt Court today during both lunches.

Dear Logan Students: Want to spread your wings and fly higher? Come and sign up for a Chinese course and give yourself a competitive edge. No prior learning experience is required. Any new students who have prior Chinese learning experience are recommended to take a placement test with Ms. Du in Room 313 to be placed in the right level. Check out Chinese program details from myzhongwen.net or stop by at the elective fair table this Thursday, March 1st.

By Yari Nieves-Rivera, Courier Book Editor

Imagine being separated from the only life you’ve known. Your brother, who was to accompany you, dies on the trip to your new lives, and leaves you alone to deal with the consequences. Imagine your mother leaving you because she’s afraid for your well being, with a couple you’ve never even heard of. Now, imagine that this was all happening in Nazi Germany.

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak follows young Liesel, a girl who’s parents were communists; something you didn’t want to reveal in the days of Nazi Germany. At the age of ten, she’s taken to Molching, Germany, to stay with a foster family for the remainder of the war. There she meets unlikely friends. A boy who’s the perfect example of the Aryan race and wants to be like Jessie Owens, an African-American man who won the Olympics in running. She also makes an unlikely friend through her father’s need to help people, a boxer who would certainly be dead if found.

Forlorn little Liesel finds comfort in one thing: books. Any book. It all began on the day of her brother’s burial. She found a book in the snow as she walked away from his grave, and took it with her so that she would always remember her brother. Unfortunately, Liesel had never learned how to read or write. When her new papa finds the book under her mattress, he decides to teach Liesel how to read and write.

By Steve Giegerich
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)

Warning: By Page 7 of the prologue, you may wish "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" were fiction and not, as it happens, a vividly real account of unimaginable squalor, deprivation and tragedy.
Keep reading, and don't be deterred.

Exquisite in every detail, this book about a slum in India informs the mind, elevates the soul and will leave you invested in the lives chronicled by one of the premier journalists of our time.
Hardscrabble represents upward mobility for the lives unfolding in Annawadi. A slum perched on the edge of the Mumbai airport, its trees' leaves are grayed by dust from a nearby concrete plant.

Its "lake" is putrid and contaminated.

From wikipedia:
Willi Donnell Smith (February 29, 1948 – April 17, 1987) was an American fashion designer, regarded at the time of his death as one of the most successful young African-American designers in the industry. His company Williwear Ltd. sold $25 million worth of clothing a year.

Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied commercial art at Mastbaum Technical High School and attended Philadelphia College of Art for fashion illustration. He then moved to New York to go to Parsons The New School for Design, the highly competitive art and design college of The New School university. For a short time Smith freelanced with Arnold Scaasi and Bobbie Brooks's sportswear company.


Read more about Willi Smith, free from Big Bend Cares' Virtual AIDS Quilt memorial.

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