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ACTIVITIES:
The Day of Silence is Friday. See Mr. Roman in Room 52 or Mrs. Lee in Room 451 for materials.

Choir Auditions are May 13-16 at 3:30pm in the Choir Room. May 13 is for the Advanced and Jazz, May 14 is Jazz Callbacks, May 15 & 16 is Show Choir. See Ms. McShane if you have any questions.

Go see Alex Cho’s amazing artwork at the San Leandro Gallery & Museum between May 2 and May 9 at 320 W. Estudillo Ave. His work may turn out to go to Washington DC, if he wins the competition.

By Sarena Kaur, Courier Staff Writer

LeBron James has been called "the best high school basketball players ever." The book, The Rise of a Star LeBron James, by David Lee Morgan Jr talks about why LeBron James is as "big" as he is.

This book is the story of LeBron James from growing up in high school to becoming the number one NBA draft pick. This book has over 20 chapters that go directly into his life, which talks about his family, his coaches his friends and his teammates. The book includes over sixty personal photographs of him growing up. It also talks about how LeBron handles all the pressure from being a rising star while attending high school.

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Editor
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells illustrates a war between two species which takes place in England. As with many of H.G. Wells’ novels, The War of the Worlds is anchored in and around London.

The aggressors are from the planet Mars, as their planet seems to lose vital resources the creatures arrive on earth in search of other resources.

The novel is especially intriguing because it takes the reader into a type of fantasy setting which is rarely explored; this setting includes Martian aliens who are shown as a ruthless, merciless monsters.


Read The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, free from Project Gutenberg.

By Jowell Caballero, Courier Staff Writer

“Name one thing—other than the existence of God—that we take on blind faith.”

Ian Fletcher’s words ring in your ears through out Jodi Picoults’s Keeping Faith.

In Picoult’s novel, we are thrown into a raging religious controversy surrounding a 7-year-old girl who is believed to be “talking” directly to God. Mariah White is a woman who, after catching her husband cheating for the second time, has been abandoned. Left with nothing but her daughter she becomes increasingly depressed. Amidst what is going on, Mariah’s daughter Faith develops an imaginary friend, which she calls her guard. In the days that follow a rapid divorce from her husband, Mariah finds herself wrapped in a secession of miracles and stigmata, a medical condition where unexplained sores and open wounds develop on the hands and feet corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, through her daughter.