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District Librarian, Cheerleading Sponsor & Author, Janis Blackwell

Welcome!Ms. Janis BlackwellThe Adventures of the Cactus Kids and Friends

I have had the pleasure of serving as head librarian at Lindsay ISD for the last four years.

In my free-time, in addition to riding  horses and competing in barrel racing, I’m also authoring a book series entitled, “The Adventures of the Cactus Kids and Friends.”

Book one in the series is available for download  as an ebook  -and- in print at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You can click the book cover for more info. Also you may Click Here or visit www.cactuskids.us to view my author’s web page.

Happy reading...

Ms. Blackwell

 

Lindsay High School Library & Resource Center

The Lindsay ISD libraries are proud to offer both hard copy library books and access to the TexQuest databases. for our students use.   TexQuest , provided largely by our state legislature, consists of 18 databases covering the wide range of topics our students research.  These sources are easily accessed even from home.   These resources are available to all students with the use of LISD logons/passwords.

Our High School Library Catalog is linked on this page as well so that all students can access it at any time to see if a particular book is in our junior high and high school collection.

Quick Links

Our elementary students participate in a number of programs to encourage reading.  Yearly, they will read with Mrs. Rauschuber all the books nominated for the Blue Bonnet Award and then vote on them.  They also participate in Read to Succeed, Book It, and Accelerated Reader.  In addition, we host an annual book fair each fall which is phenominally successful and also helps keep our students reading.  We have a very strong team of teachers, administrators, librarians and parents who emphasize and support the importance of reading in the children’s lives.  I believe this greatly contributes to the success we enjoy academically both in competition and on state tests.  Thank you to the whole team.

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Websites for Authors of Teenage and Young Adult Literature

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TEEN AUTHOR WEBSITES

Keep up with all the news from the authors of your favorite books. Find out when new books are coming out, connect with the author and other readers, even enter contests to win free books and other cool stuff!

Check out our Pinterest page of Favorite Authors

Laurie Halse Anderson - author of Speak, Wintergirls, Twisted, Prom, Catalyst, Fever 1793
Libba Bray - author of Beauty Queens, Going Bovine, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing
Heather Brewer - author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
Meg Cabot - author of The Princess Diaries series, Avalon High, etc.
Deb Caletti - author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, Stay
P. C. Cast - author of the House of Night series
Cassandra Clare - author of the Mortal Instruments series (City of Bones, etc) and Infernal Devices series (Clockwork Angel, etc.)
Suzanne Collins - author of the Hunger Games series
Julie Cross - author of Tempest
Chris Crutcher - author of Ironman, Whale Talk, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Deadline, Angry Management
Melissa de la Cruz - author of the Blue Bloods series
Sarah Dessen - author of What Happened to Goodbye, Along for the Ride, Just Listen, Lock and Key, Dreamland, The Truth about Forever, etc.
Carl Deuker - author of Payback Time, Gym Candy, Runner, Night Hoops, On the Devil's Court, etc.
Simone Elkeles - author of Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction, How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, etc.
Becca Fitzpatrick - author of Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence
Alex Flinn - author of Beastly, Cloaked, A Kiss in Time, Breathing Underwater, Bewitched, etc.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - authors of the Beautiful Creatures series
Michael Grant - author of the Gone series
John Green - author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, The Fault in our Stars, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Paper Towns
Rachel Hawkins - author of the Hex Hall series
Ellen Hopkins - author of Crank, Burned, Perfect, Fallout, Tricks, Identical, Glass, Impulse
Anthony Horowitz - author of the Alex Rider series
Pittacus Lore - author of I Am Number Four
Carolyn Mackler - author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, The Future of Us
Melissa Marr - author of the Wicked Lovely series
Lisa McMann - author of the Wake series, Dead to You, Cryer's Cross
Stephenie Meyer - author of the Twilight series, The Host
Walter Dean Myers - author of Monster, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Autobiography of My Dead Brother, Fallen Angels, etc.
Alyson Noel - author of the Immortals series
Dave Pelzer - author of A Child Called "It"
Matt de la Pena - author of Mexican Whiteboy, Ball Don't Lie, We Were Here, I Will Save You
Christopher Paolini - author of the Eragon series
Marilyn Reynolds - author of Detour for Emmy, Too Soon for Jeff, Baby Help, But What About Me?, Shut Up!, etc.
Darren Shan - author of the Cirque du Freak series, Demonata series
Alan Sitomer - author of Homeboyz, The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez
Nicholas Sparks - author of The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Dear John, etc.
Lili St. Crow - author of the Strange Angels series
Maggie Steifvater - author of The Scorpio Races, the Shiver trilogy
Allison Van Diepen - author of Street Pharm, Snitch, Raven
Nancy Werlin - author of Impossible, Extraordinary, The Rules of Survival, Double Helix, etc.
Scott Westerfeld - author of the Uglies series, the Leviathan series, Peeps, etc.
Sara Zarr - author of How to Save a Life, Story of a Girl, Sweethearts

 

 

ELEMENTARY LIBRARY

 

Reading

Curl up with a good book!

 

 There are 2 ways to read eBooks from the library: 

  #1 - Use the Follett Shelf logon and password to the right OR

  #2 - Read from our new ABDO eBooks.   Here are the instructions for reading the ABDO eBooks:

   1.  Once you are linked to this page, click on the     "Library Catalog" hyperlink in the right hand column.

   2.  Select "Lindsay Elementary" for the library.

   4.  Type ABDO in the "Find" line.

   5.  All eBooks will appear.

   6.  Click on "OPEN" to open the book you want to read.

   7.  Click on the tab at the top of the webpage to close the book.

There is no need to check the eBook out or check the eBook in! 

 

Quick Links

 

 

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Summer is here!  It is time for some summer reading. 

Grab your popcorn and soft drink and check out the cool book trailers below!

 

Simply click on the links below.  Then get ready to learn about the new books you want to read next!

Go to the Elementary Library during the school year, or go to the Cooke County Library during the summer and check one out!

 

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATOR, AND BOOK REVIEW AND TRAILERS!

 

https://lindsayisd.booksys.net/libs/lhs/LibrarianLogOn

 

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