By RAMONA PRICE<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re a nervous 5-year-old starting kindergarten or a seasoned 50-year-old pursuing a new degree, August means back to school. No more lazy days at the beach, now we\u2019re shopping for school supplies and sharpening our new pencils! Here are some back-to-school books to get you in that studious mood.<\/p>\n
For that brand-new kindergartner in your life, \u201cSchool\u2019s First Day of School\u201d by Adam Rex is the perfect book to help calm their fears. It\u2019s the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and no one is more nervous than the school building itself. It\u2019s used to being mostly empty, with just the custodian for company. What will all the new children think of it? Will they be nice? Will they like the school? The first day of school starts off a little rocky, but as it goes on, the school starts to realize it isn\u2019t the only one with first-day fears.<\/p>\n
A modern classic of kids\u2019 chapter books, \u201cFrindle\u201d by Andrew Clements follows Nick Allen, who, after studying how words are created in school, starts to question why things are named the way they are. What if we stopped calling pens \u201cpens\u201d and called them \u201cfrindles\u201d? It starts off small, with just Nick\u2019s friends using his new word, but soon frindle catches on. Now the school is in chaos and Nick is at the center of it all. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but Nick\u2019s creation is beyond his control as frindle spreads across the country.<\/p>\n
In the young adult novel \u201cThe Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks,\u201d Frankie is starting her sophomore year at a prestigious boarding school and is finally ready to break free from her older sister\u2019s shadow and her parents\u2019 babying attitude. When her father mentions a secret society, The Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, which dates back to his days as a student, Frankie goes in search of information. To her dismay, she discovers that her boyfriend Matthew is a member, and that the society is only open to boys. Tired of always being told \u201cno\u201d because she\u2019s too young or a girl, Frankie embarks on a mission of fake identities and pranks to prove that she belongs with the Basset Hounds.<\/p>\n
Like \u201cFrankie Landau Banks,\u201d author Tana French\u2019s novel \u201cThe Secret Place\u201d is also about a boarding school, but this time, there\u2019s a murder to solve. It\u2019s been a year since a boy was found murdered at St. Kilda\u2019s girls\u2019 school, when Holly Mackey, a student at St Kilda\u2019s, shows up at the Dublin Murder Squad\u2019s office with a picture of the boy with the caption \u201cI know who killed him.\u201d Detective Stephen Moran joins up with the detective on the original case to follow clues that lead back to Holly\u2019s clique of friends, their rivals and the mysterious, private underworld of teenage girls.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Magicians\u201d by Lev Grossman has often been called a \u201cgrown-up Harry Potter.\u201d Instead of a magical boarding school, it\u2019s a college in upstate New York where Quentin Coldwater finds himself being recruited into a magical world he never knew existed. An outcast obsessed with a series of children\u2019s fantasy novels set in a land called Fillory, Quentin thinks he\u2019s finally found his place. However, magic doesn\u2019t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. And when he and his friends discover that Fillory is real, it turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. Despite the resemblance to a certain boy wizard, \u201cThe Magicians\u201d is definitely a book for adults, with all the drug and sex experimentation you would expect from a book about college life.<\/p>\n
The La Mesa Library has everything you need for a successful academic year \u2014 regardless of your age! We have math coaching twice a week and can order textbooks in from local colleges and universities, potentially saving you some big bucks. Adults can even earn a high school diploma at the library with our Library High School Program, which is completely free. Visit sdcl.org<\/a> or call 619-469-2151 for more information.<\/p>\n \u2014 Ramona Price is La Mesa Library\u2019s children\u2019s librarian.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By RAMONA PRICE Whether you\u2019re a nervous 5-year-old starting kindergarten or a seasoned 50-year-old pursuing a new degree, August means back to school. No more lazy days at the beach, now we\u2019re shopping for school supplies and sharpening our new pencils! Here are some back-to-school books to get you in that studious mood. For that […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":224773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Back-to-school books for all ages","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}