Welcome to the Great Valley Middle School Library Website!

THE LIBRARY MEDIA curriculum focuses on:
  • Teaching students how to effectively and efficiently locate resources, including fiction and nonfiction books and electronic databases. Students learn how to assess,select, and utilize these resources for information problem-solving and for personal choice reading. Students learn to use the MLA bibliography style to cite sources used.
  • Instilling a life-long love of literature.
Resources:
Books
Click HERE to access the Library's catalog from home!
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Need a new book to read? Try these!

Adventure Fiction

Wild Man Island by Will Hobbs

Kit's Wilderness by David Almond

The Smugglers by Iain Lawrence

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson

Leaving Protection by Ben Mikaelson

Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo

Contemporary/Realistic Fiction

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris

One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte

You Don't Know Me by David Klass

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes

No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman

Historical Fiction

The Unresolved by T.K. Welsh

Shakespeare's Scribe by Gary Blackwood

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

The Breaker Boys by Pat Hughes

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney

Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Lost Colony byEoin Colfer

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Gifts by Ursula LeGuin

The Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Classics

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Rascal by Sterling North

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett

Nonfiction

Thanksgiving Cooking Library by Ellyn Sanna

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Jackson

It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong

Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Winterdanceby Gary Paulsen

George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas Allen

God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant (poetry)