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NEW books in the library...

Here-to-Stay
Here to Stay
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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
American-Road-Trip
American Road Trip
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Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
Good-Girl's-Guide-to-Murder
Good Girl's Guide to Murder
The-House-of-One-Thousand-Eyes
The House of One Thousand Eyes
An-Assassin's-Guide-to-Love-and-Treason
An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason
The-Gravity-of-Us
The Gravity of Us
Logicomix:-An-Epic-Search-for-Truth
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
The-Faithful-Spy
The Faithful Spy
The-Memory-Police:-A-Novel
The Memory Police: A Novel
CCS Summer Reading
Everything explained in one place—follow the link above for required summer reading for all classes at CCS. (Because the course schedule won't be complete until later this summer, there are NO separate honors projects, though some honors teachers may assign a specific book to read at that point.)
image of an actual COVID-19 virus Coronavirus-Related Resources for CCS
Resources for teachers, students, and parents during these days of social distancing while dorms are closed and CCS has transitioned to distance learning for the remainder of the spring 2020 academic year.
FREE online books from the National Emergency Library
FREE collection of 1.5 million scanned books from the Internet Archive. Once you create a free account, you can download any as a PDF for 14 days at a time.
CITATION information!
Link to MLA info on the Purdue OWL site. Everything is here: focus on the Works Cited page and on in-text citations, but there’s also info on how to incorporate quotes into your paper.

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Code SwitchWed, September 16th - 1:24 PM 2020
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Memory PalaceTue, September 15th - 6:13 PM 2020
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717: Audience of One

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