The James Logan Courier

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

The Martian Way and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Hardcover: 222 pages
Publisher: Bentley Publishers (January 1982)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 083760463X
ISBN-13: 978-0837604633
From bentleypublishers.com:

This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or social possibility.

LUNCH:
Boneless Chicken Drumettes,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Congratulations to Juanita Dominguez - she received an “Editor’s Choice Award” for “Outstanding Achievement in Poetry”, presented by Poetry.com and the “International Library of Poetry.

Join Logan Gymnastics! A meeting will be held at Pacific West Gymnastics for all that want to join on June 12, at 5:30 pm. See Mr. Rosenthal for more details. Everyone is welcome.

Reviewed by Hassina Obaidy, Courier Staff Writer

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse; Reprint edition (April 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN‑10: 0689848935
ISBN‑13: 978‑0689848933

Revenge is a strong action that many people use in our society. We use this action to get back at our loved ones or just to those who are accused of the wrong things.

When I picked up this book, the title sounded interesting so I knew I had to read it.

Courier Staff Report
Last month's Unity Fair on the Big Green raised lots of green money for many of Logan's Clubs, according to Leadership Teacher Cheryl Kuhlmann.

Sales of food and other goods and the lunch-time celebration of diversity and unity at Logan netted more than $3,283 for the clubs, Kuhlmann wrote in an email sent to the school staff Wednesday afternoon.

The top money-raising club was Interact, which added $416.50 to its account with the Associated Student Body.

By Helen T. Gray
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Did you know?

You can change anything in your life.

Your life is in your hands.

The universe will rearrange itself to give you whatever you want.

If this sounds like magic, you haven't read or seen "The Secret," the best-selling book and DVD by Australian TV producer Rhonda Byrne that promises to reveal the "Great Secret" that "has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen and bought for vast sums of money."

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor


<b>Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (April 10, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400096278
ISBN-13: 978-1400096275

“It’s a truism that people are complicated, multifaceted, contradictory, surprising, but it takes the advent of war or other momentous events to be able to see it. It is the most fascinating and the most dreadful of spectacles, she continued thinking, the most dreadful because it’s so real; you can never pride yourself on truly knowing the sea unless you’ve seen it both calm and in a storm. Only the person who has observed men and women at times like this, she thought, can be said to know them. And to know themselves.”

Némirovsky’s insight into the workings of the human mind and nature during wartime and occupation is amazing, and the way she puts it forth urges the reader to agree, despite the usually offensive traits that are portrayed. Her descriptions are stunning, transporting the reader right into France during World War II, before and during the Nazi occupation. Although a little lengthy, and sometimes dry, it is well worth the read in the end.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was caught by the British. He is best remembered for his speech before being hanged following the Battle of Long Island, in which he allegedly said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country".

Hale has long been considered an American hero and, in 1985, he was officially designated the State Hero of Connecticut.

Visit the official Nathan Hale website for more information.