New award winners to watch for....

Do you have an overdue book in your backpack or your car or your bedroom? 

Do you need to pay for that book that your dog ate back in September? 

Do you keep getting irritating messages from FHS Library? 

Well, now's the time to take care of all that.  Nobody wants to be the jerk that kept a book for eight weeks while other people were waiting to borrow it. What can you do?  Just take the time before finals to turn in or renew anything ...

Caleb Smith, a 1995 graduate of FHS and now an assistant professor of English at Yale, will speak to the AP Literature classes in the library at noon on Friday. The session is open to all, and this is a food-friendly event.  His book, published in 20...

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides tells the fascinating tale of five sisters who - you guessed it - commit suicide. They are not, however, all virgins. And this story is told by a most unusual narrator: an amorphous mass of peeping-tom teenage boys, who remain highly...

One may say that because this book is about a child, then this book would be for a child. That's not the case with Ender's Game  by Orson Scott Card .  This novel tells the epic tale of Ender Wiggin, who among his schoolmates is considered a genius....

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , by John Boyne , is about a boy named Bruno. During World War 2, Bruno's father is a very important Nazi Soldier. When Bruno and his family move from Berlin, to a house with many other soldiers, Bruno realizes he can see a camp with lots of people in striped pajamas fro...

The Pilot's Wife , written by Anita Shreve, is a relatively quick read.  The novel is centered on Kathryn Lyons, a middle aged woman leading a seemingly ordinary life.  A typical day for Kathryn involves her high school teaching job, an independent, savvy fifteen-year-old daughter and her marriage to an airline pilot....

Come celebrate Teen Read Week with new author and former LadyBack Celia Anderson on Wednesday, October 21st at lunch in the Library!  PBS, DECA, and the FHS Library have teamed up to bring in Ms. Anderson, who is the author of Love, Ocean

This week the library is celebrating Banned Book Week. The freedom to choose what we read is rooted firmly in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. Would-be censors, however well...