The James Logan Courier

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

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, by John Steinbeck
Paperback: 364 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reissue edition (April 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374523789
ISBN-13: 978-0374523787

From Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia:
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976) is John Steinbeck's retelling of the Arthurian legend, based on the Winchester Manuscript text of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. He began his adaptation in November 1956. Steinbeck had long been a lover of the Arthur tales. The introduction to his translation contains an anecdote about him reading them as a young boy. His enthusiasm for Arthur and his affinity for Anglo-Saxon language are apparent in the work. The book was left unfinished at his death, and ends ironically with the death of chivalry in Arthur's purest knight, Sir Lancelot of the Lake.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

UNION CITY - A television show promoting healthy eating, starring Searles Elementary School students and videotaped with the assistance of James Logan High School students, will make its debut Friday night.

The first of five episodes of “HEART Smart Cooking With Kids,” produced by the New Haven Unified School District’s Health Education and Resource Team (HEART), will air at 6 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. Sunday on Comcast Channel 28 in Union City and Hayward. Ensuing episodes will air on Fridays and Sundays at the same times.

The show also can be seen on Channel 27 in Newark and Channel 29 in Fremont, on the same Friday/Sunday schedule.

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By Veronica Brown, Courier Staff Writer

Graduation is an emotional time for parents, teachers and especially the graduating students. It marks a new beginning fraught with fear and hope, and the end of a time peppered with joy and disappointment. It sparked reflection among seniors interviewed by The Courier.

“I am very happy with how I did academically. I got into the college I wanted, and I’m satisfied with how I performed in forensics," said Kyle Curson, who's graduation means he'll no longer attend school with his mother, art teacher Julie Curson, "But, as always, with academic success often comes social disappointment. I mean don’t get me wrong, I have my fair share of close friends, but I feel like I didn’t have enough fun, that my love life sucked, and that I haven’t really discovered myself yet. ” Curson expects to spend the next four years at UCLA.

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); 100 Anv edition (October 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805072454
ISBN-13: 978-0805072457

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

So starts the children's classic Peter Pan, a rather anticlimactic beginning but a real interest-catcher all the same. As the school year draws to a close, the thing on many people's minds (besides summer vacation, sleep, and finals) is the impending responsibilities that come with growing up. What better way to counter this than by reading about a boy who doesn't grow up? It sure put things in a different light for me.

Read Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, online, free-of-charge, from Project Gutenberg.