Library Reception

Think Green Display

In honor of the beauty of nature which we are reminded of each Spring season, the library has a Think Green collection on display.

This display includes titles on Green Careers, Conservation and Environmentalism and Plant Life.

Please feel free to stop by the library to browse through the display!

Spring Awakenings: Coming of Age Fiction Display

With Spring reminding us of renewal and growth, the library has a collection of coming of age fiction on display. 

According to Bloom's Literary Reference (which is available to Fontbonne students), coming of age fiction can be defined as, "stories that mark a child's passage from innocence to experience or knowledge, in which the child usually pays the price of pain or disillusionment". 

Included in our library Spring Awakenings display are the following titles: 

~Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos

~The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

~Dreamland by Sarah Dessen 

~The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

~Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

~Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

~The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

~The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 

~My Antonia by Willa Cather 

~The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 

~The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

~A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

~Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson 

Fontbonne Library Celebrates Spring

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Happy St. Patrick's Day: Mini Display

 Hello ladies!


In celebration of St. Patrick's Day we have a mini display up in the library. Titles featured in the display include: 

Ireland (Cultures of the World Series) by Patricia Levy 
The Irish American Family Album by Dorothy Hoobler
Irish Wonders by David Rice McAnally Jr. 
A Journey Through Boston Irish History by Dennis P. Ryan 
A Treasury of Irish Folklore by Padaric Colum 


Here is a link to an eye opening quiz about the holiday. Just how much do you really know about St. Patrick's Day? 


Happy Reading, 
Miss Kenny

150 Women who Shake The World

Hello ladies.

Newsweek  magazine has compiled a list of 150 Women Who Shake the World.  You can explore this list of extraordinary women further here. We also have a copy of this issue of Newsweek in the library if you would like to browse through it or check it out to take home.


The list includes women whose names we are all familiar with, like Diane von Furstenburg, Hilary Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Michele Obama as well as a number of notable women you have probably never heard mentioned but who have done great things. For example: 

ChouChou Namegabe (Congo)
Self-taught Congolese radio journalist who raises awareness of women's issues for hundreds of thousands of women and children.








Sussan Tahmasebi (Iran)
 Iranian women's and civil rights activist and co-founder of the One Million Signatures Campaign.



Pilju Kim Joo (North Korea)

North Korean agricultural expert who brings the gift of food to one of the world's hungriest regions.

Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

International Women's Day Video

Hello ladies.

As we celebrate Women's History Month, I will be sharing some videos, facts and other items I come across. Here is a video put together in celebration International Women's Day (March 8, 2011) that highlights some of the everyday things we do that would not be possible without working women. Enjoy!



Happy Viewing,
Miss Kenny