The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a report on plans for use of the Cabello Elementary School campus after the school closes at the end of the 2006-07 school year. The new Cabello Student Support Center, scheduled to open July 1, will offer the following:

● Centralized Enrollment
● Special Education Administration
● Community Day School (see below)
● Special Education Preschool
● Kidango Preschool for residents on the west side of Union City
● Expanded Adult School for residents on the west side of Union City
● Home Schooling
● A Junior Kindergarten pilot program, for children too young to start school in the fall
● Storage for city records

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

ACTIVITIES:
Hey Juniors! Vote for your Prom King and Queen in Colt Court this week! Vote at lunch all week!

If you want to participate in the Unity Fair, please make sure you sign a contract. Contracts can be picked up in Room 476 at lunch.

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

Poison, by Chris Wooding
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Point (April 2, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0439943922
ISBN-13: 978-0439943925

From ChrisWooding.com:
Poison is a twisted fairytale fantasy about one girl's journey to reclaim her stolen infant sister. To do so she has to enter a world where humans are the lowest form of vermin, where a murderous pantheon of demigods plot and scheme to overthrow one another, and where someone is planning to do away with humankind altogether. But not before everything she knows as reality is turned upside down…

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

By Fire and By Sword by Elaine Coffman
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Mira (April 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778322882
ISBN-13: 978-0778322887

“She passed stone houses, where rows of chimneys blew wraithlike smoke into the frigid air. Occasionally, sprays of glittering snow driven by currents of wind slid from the pitched roofs and fell onto the walkway. The afternoon would soon begin to fade, already the number of people she saw was diminishing. The world around her was cold and white and terribly silent, as if she were the only person left on earth.”

This desolate scene one encounters upon first opening By Fire and By Sword foreshadows the terrible events that the main character, Lady Kenna Lennox, is destined to face, and also shows the reader how good Coffman is at describing the scenery beautifully. Sadly, the wonderful descriptions are the only redeeming qualities of the novel.

WILLIAM CAMDEN (1551-1623), English antiquary and historian, was born in London on the 2nd of May 1551. His father, Sampson Camden, a native of Lichfield, had settled in London, and, as a painter, had become a member of the company of painter-stainers. His mother, Elizabeth, belonged to the old Cumberland family of Curwen.

Read William Camden's Britannia, in English and Latin, free from the Philological Museum.