Mr. Buckmaster, U.S.History, Presidents Project

May 10, 2006

A couple of hints: 

Try the link on the library’s webpage to the Librarians’ Internet Index.  Select History, then United States History, then United States Presidency.  A treasure trove.

Try searching United States Presidency on Google.  I got 583,000,000 results. Now try putting “United States Presidency” in quotation marks.  It’s down to 232,000 results.  Try putting site:edu afterwards to get even fewer.

Try searching historical timelines on Google.


May’s Featured titles

May 1, 2006

davinci code.gif       The Da Vince Code by Dan Brown

Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

daughter of the forest.gif       Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

A retelling of the Celtic “Swans” myth, in which Sorcha, the only daughter in a family of seven children, is forced to leave the only safe place she has ever known in order to save her brothers from a spell that only she can lift.

boyfriend list.gif       The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart

Ruby Oliver, a moderately popular fifteen-year-old who has suddenly become a social pariah, begins seeing a psychiatrist and makes a list of all her past boyfriends in an attempt to understand where her life went wrong.

downriver1.gif       Downriver by Will Hobbs

Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

child called it.gif       A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother’s brutality and triumphed over his past.