WELCOME!

Ah, the first day back! The library will open at lunch on Friday so you can borrow a book for the weekend.

Welcome back to a new school year, everyone!  I’d like to extend a special welcome to students in grades seven and eight who are new members of the HPSS community.  Last year was my first year at Heritage Park, and I know you too will find the people here to be amazingly friendly and helpful.  It’s a beautiful school with one of its finest features being the large and comfortable library located between the high school and the college. I hope to see all of you in here in the first weeks of school.

Last year, we added well over a thousand new books to the library collection, mostly fiction.  As a result, the fiction shelves became badly overcrowded, so I undertook a major reorganization this summer. You will now find the nonfiction reference books on the shelves around the outside of the room while the fiction takes up almost the entire middle section.  Literature Circle books are shelved with the general fiction, so when you browse through the fiction, you will now see everything we have to offer.  Graphic novels have been moved up to the front of the library with a special round display of new graphic novels.

Dozens of new books have arrived in the library since the end of June! We have next-in-the-series books, brand-new-series books, stand alone fiction and nonfiction, and graphic novels. There are spy thrillers, action adventures, romantic fantasies, magical comedies, social dramas, dystopian horrors and steampunk mysteries. We have books for every taste and every grade. Come in to explore the new books display or browse the greatly expanded fiction section. There are treasures to be discovered!

Over the next few posts, I will introduce many of our new titles.

Here's to a year of great stories!