Lake Highlands Junior High Library

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  Local News  

Summer Reading!

Click here for a link to the summer reading lists.

Remember incoming 7th and 8th graders must read one book from the list, two if taking Pre-Ap.

Outgoing 8th graders going to the Freshman Center will need to read one book from the high school list. If taking Pre-Ap, then you must read one book from the list and choose between Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe or Watership Down by Richard Adams.

Happy Reading!!

 

  National News
  Dallas Morning News     CNN
   Channel 8     Fox News
  KRLD     Weather Channel
  TXCN      National Public Radio
         
           
  Quotations   Student Helps   Dictionaries and Translators
  Bartlett's Quotations   Citation Machine   American Heritage Dictionary
  The Columbia World of Quotations       Merriam-Webster
      ABCD Bibliography   Babel Fish Translator
  Simpson's Contemporary Quotations   The Career Key    
  The Quotations Page   Social Studies TAKS Review Games   Language Dictionaries and Translators
  BrainyQuotes   TAKS Zone Hands On link

Evaluating Websites

Math Practice

  Poetry sites!
           
   

 

The purpose of the Wildcat Library is to instruct in the use of library resources necessary to be successful in all classes, promote a lifelong love of reading and develop information-seeking skills for the pursuit of future information needs.
    

For library procedures, click on Explore your Library

For the Lone Star List and Pre-AP reading lists, click on Teen Read!

 
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim." Linton Weeks (Washington Post article, 13 January 2001)

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