The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a resolution establishing a Community Day School to serve expelled students in grades 7 through 12, students for whom the District has been unable to provide services for several years.

The New Haven Community Day School will be one of the programs offered at the new Cabello Student Support Center, after Cabello Elementary School closes in June. It also will serve Special Day Class students.

The Board also approved the first reading of a new policy authorizing the installation of video surveillance cameras at the discretion of individual school sites. The policy came to the Board at the request of members of the James Logan High School community, as a means of mitigating theft, vandalism and graffiti, and to provide a deterrent to bad behavior and evidence in the event of an incident.

LUNCH:
Teriyaki Beef Dippers with Rice and Vegetables,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Show Choir auditions are today! Be there ready to sing and dance at 3 pm in the Choir Room. Don’t miss out on all of the fun!

JOSTENS - today at lunch - Colt Court!!

57 Logan athletes were crowned MVAL Champions at the MVAL Track & Field Championships!!

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 5, 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)

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Simple Genius. David Baldacci. Warner, $26.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Michael Chabon. HarperCollins, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. The Children of Hurin. J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, $26
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. Rant. Chuck Palahniuk. Doubleday, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
5. The Woods. Harlan Coben. Dutton, $26.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
6. All Together Dead. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
7. Body Surfing. Anita Shreve. Little, Brown, $25.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
8. I Heard That Song Before. Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster, $25.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 5
9. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon, $21.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 3
10. Nineteen Minutes. Jodi Picoult. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 9

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

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Square Fish (May 15, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312367465
ISBN-13: 978-0312367466

From stephaniemeyer.com:

"Shoot," I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.

It all happened very quickly then.

Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table...

I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm—into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Random House (June 28, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400060281
ISBN-13: 978-1400060283

“We, Miss Snow Flower of Tongkou Village and Miss Lily of Puwai Village, will be true to each other. We will comfort each other with kind words. We will ease each other’s hearts. We will whisper and embroider together in the women’s chamber. We will practice the Three Obediences and the Four Virtues. We will follow Confucian instruction as found in The Women’s Classic by behaving as good women. On this day, we, Miss Snow Flower and Miss Lily, have spoken true words. We swear a bond. For ten thousand li, we will be like two streams flowing into one river. For ten thousand years, we will be like two flowers in the same garden. Never a step apart, never a harsh word between us. We will be old sames until we die. Our hearts are glad.”

This is the contract signed by Lily and Snow Flower when they become laotongs, old sames, or as Americans call it, best friends forever. Their eight characters were matched, from their horoscopes to their foot binding, and they were deemed a perfect match. Sadly, as in all books, there has to be some conflict, and in this case it is Lily’s wish to make everything better for Snow Flower and Snow Flower’s wish to just fly away that present the central conflict. It is written beautifully. The language and the scenery truly bring to mind a China when women were relegated to their own rooms all day unless they were cooking and they endured foot binding in order to marry into a good family.

From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Betty Carter (May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer who was renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."

Watch Betty Carter perform "Cobbs Choice" with the great Lionel Hampton, free from youtube.com.