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Students purchasing AP tests today through Friday, please see Mrs. Whitaker before school or during 4th period lunch only. Next week sales will resume with Mrs. Muse.

Current sophomores and juniors, are you looking for a 3rd year science course? Logan offers AP Chemistry! See Mr. Ting in Room 226 or your counselor for more information.

By Yari Nieves-Rivera, Courier Book Editor

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins is the second book in the critically acclaimed Hunger Games trilogy. Very much like the first novel, it follows Katniss’s struggles to get over the events of the first book and her trying to cope through the mess that has followed her to District Twelve.

It begins soon after the 74th Hunger Games, with Katniss still hunting illegally in the woods. Even though she clearly states that she has not only gained honor to her family, but has provided them the life that she had always wanted for her family--specifically for Prim. Still, this doesn’t help Katniss deal with the fact that she had to end so many lives. To add to the stress, President Snow is displeased with Katniss. It not only does makes the situation worse off for Katniss, but it gives her more to fear and the feeling of being weaker.

By Molly Eichel
Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)

PHILADELPHIA — Professor Matthew Delmont set out to write about how the '50s dance show "American Bandstand" was an integrated bastion of pop culture, where Philadelphia's black and white teens mixed and mingled on television even though the rest of the country was bitterly divided by race.

Then he discovered his entire premise was dead-wrong.

In the resulting book, "The Nicest Kids in Town," this assistant professor of American studies at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., details how "American Bandstand" kept African-American teens off the show, despite host Dick Clark's later claims to the contrary.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (March 14, 1833 – October 3, 1910) was the first American woman to graduate from dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1866).

Lucy Hobbs was born on March 14, 1833 in Constable, New York. She entered the working world by teaching school for ten years in Michigan. In 1859, she moved to Cincinnati, intending to become a dentist. When she was refused admission to dental school, she began a private program of study with a professor from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.

Learn more about Lucy Hobbs Taylor, free from Ohio History Central.