The James Logan Courier

Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.

Doppelganger by David Stahler Jr.
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Eos (April 25, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060872322
ISBN-13: 978-0060872328

From the publisher:
Raised in a cabin in the middle of nowhere by a mother who despises him, the doppelganger has left home at last. He is making his way toward human society. He's coming to do what every member of his monster race must: find an unsuspecting human and make his first kill. He will then take that shape and identity for himself.

Doppelgangers are not supposed to have doubts. But this one does. His mother was right. He's weak. Too human, maybe. But even that can't stop him from killing. He has to do it. It's who he is.

It is only after stepping into the life of a small-town teenager that the doppelganger learns that his may not be the only cruel existence. In fact, maybe monsters aren't always who we think they are.

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ACTIVITIES:
Nominations for Winter Ball Court will be held in Colt Court during both lunches today & tomorrow. Voting will be held Friday at the dance, so come and vote!

If you have not yet picked up your ID card, please pick it up in your House Office. If you need to have a new one made because you never took a picture or lost your ID, make-ups are in the Activities Office during lunch ($5). You need a valid ID to buy tickets to the dance.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)

MASS MARKET
1. The Innocent Man. John Grisham. Dell, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Next. Michael Crichton. Harper, $9.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Cross. James Patterson. Grand Central, $9.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 9
4. I Am Legend. Richard Matheson. Tor, $7.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 4
5. Wild Fire. Nelson DeMille. Vision, $9.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
6. Wife for Hire. Janet Evanovich. Harper, $7.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 4
7. Brother Odd. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $7.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4
8. Treasure of Khan. Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 4
9. The Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett. Signet, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 3
10. The Mist. Stephen King. Signet, $6.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3

By Debbie Ly, Karen Mui, and Jennifer Torres, Courier Staff Writers

The Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon may not sound familiar to many in our community, but their existence is very much significant, acting as a major factor in protecting the environment, the animals, and our own health.

Logan students can help preserve the ponds and earn community service hours at the same time.

These ponds were first acquired by the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, intended at first to be used as a flood basin called the Tyson Lagoon Wetland Center. However, in 1998, Richard Wetzig envisioned a site where teachers could also educate their students about the importance of storm water. He then founded the Tule Ponds project, which constructed a large water-filled basin, and three ponds.

By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer

On Sunday, I attended an advanced screening of The Kite Runner at Century 20, organized by the Muslim Student Association of Mission San Jose High School. This movie is based on Khaled Hosseini’s award winning novel The Kite Runner, published in 2003.

According to Courier Staff Writer Hassina Obaidy’s book review, The Kite Runner tells the story of “ A young boy named Amir Khan who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with his father and his best friend Hassan. Amir is the son of a wealthy businessmen who is Sunni Muslim and a Pashtun. Hassan's father, however, is a servant to Amir's father, who is Shi'a Muslim and Hazara.

From wikipedia:
Harriet Monroe (12 December 1860 – 26 September 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry magazine. Harriet was born in Chicago, Illinois and passed away in Arequipa, Peru.

Read The New Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson free from Bartleby.com.