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Project Goal

Do you want to be challenged with clues? Are you figuring out a crime, a puzzle or yourself? If you think you are good at figuring out a good mystery then the media center is a place for you! The goal of these books is not only to read through plot twists and solve puzzles but also analyze the interaction between character development, setting, and plot in a literary text - standard ELA.8.R.1.1. These books open clues into the mystery of our emotions, events of the past and how to solve puzzles in the future. The students can explore a career in forensic science and understand literary texts at the same time.  

 

How Project Benefits Students

The media center is a place for learning development. Our hero crime solvers come to select books for decompression and stress relief. Our teachers come to supplement lesson plans and invoke interest in topics related to the Florida sunshine state standards. The media center focuses on all the students in the school, their reading level along with interest.

Nostalgic mystery books such as Nancy Drew are now high interest graphic novels. Books that have been made into TV Series such as Lemony Snicket’s books and Enola Holmes are available to curious readers. The students can get lost in a book and understanding the struggles the characters go through can make it a little easier to deal with struggles in their own life.

Crime scene investigation series and cryptology introduce the students to the history and techniques to solve a complicated scene. History is revisited as the story of how the Navajo language helped during World War II.

Our teachers come to find great texts and books to share with their students as they work on a unit such as the thematic 8th grade unit “Everyone loves a mystery: what attracts us to the mysterious?” 

 

Expected Outcome(s)

As a media specialist I work with our students and teachers to evaluate if we have the right collections available in the media center through checkout statistics. The books requested in this grant span various different sections in the library but cohesively create a great collection of LEX and formats to support the standard ELA.8.R.1.1. 

 

Detailed Cost Summary

The books requested in this grants are the following:
The Agathas -- Glasgow, Kathleen $44
Ali Cross Series - Patterson, James, Like father, like son, The secret detective $95
All The Wrong Questions - Snicket, Lemony $63
The box in the woods -- Johnson, Maureen $37
Camp So-and-So -- McCoy, Mary $8.50
Classic codes and ciphers -- Thomas, Rachael L $30
Crime scene investigation Series -- Hamilton, Sue L $92
Dead girls can't tell secrets -- Ichaso, Chelsea $18
Digital cryptology -- Thomas, Rachael L $30
Down the rabbit hole : an Echo Falls mystery -- Abrahams, Peter $16
Enola Holmes - The graphic novels, Book 1 & 2 $86
Every missing piece -- Conklin, Melanie $14.50
Finding Fortune -- Ray, Delia $33.50
Into the dark : an Echo Falls mystery -- Abrahams, Peter $15
Island of Spies -- Turnage, Sheila $35
The jigsaw jungle -- Levine, Kristin $16
Lock And Key Series -- Pearson, Ridley $100
Lumberjanes: Original Graphic Novel Series - Sturges, Lilah $125
Luna Garza, Accidental Detective Series -- Gray, P. J $125
Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series - - Bunce, Elizabeth C $47
Mystery -- Hamilton, John $23
Mystery in the morgue : be a pathologist -- Wood, Alix $22
Nancy Drew Diaries Graphic Novels Series $96
The Rembrandt conspiracy : a lost art mystery -- Hicks, Deron R $15
Scene of the crime : tracking down criminals with forensic science -- Newquist, H. P $21
Secrets of Navajo code talkers -- Thomas, Rachael L $30
Secrets of Shakespeare's grave -- Hicks, Deron R $15
Three times lucky -- Turnage, Sheila $16
The traitor's blade -- Sands, Kevin $17.50
Truly Devious Series -- Johnson, Maureen $113
The usual suspects -- Broaddus, Maurice $30
Yonder -- Standish, Ali $32
You'll be the death of me -- McManus, Karen M $46 

 

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