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= Welcome to the Nassau Elementary School Library Media Center Wiki =

=**Our Mission **=


 * A t the Nassau Elementary School Library, our mission is to prepare students to be lifelong learners who are able to define their information needs, find and select appropriate resources to solve problems and answer questions, and clearly communicate their results. Equally as important, we strive to create a love of reading. **

=2011 Winner of the Caldecott Medal =

__**A Sick Day for Amos McGee **__, Illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead.

 In this story of friendship, zookeeper Amos McGee gets the sniffles and receives a surprise visit from his caring animal friends. Illustrator, Erin Stead, created woodblock prints and fine pencil drawings to compliment Philip Stead’s text.


 * 2011 Winner of the Newbery Medal **[[image:http://www.ala.org/img/alsc/images/newbtitl.gif width="55" height="107"]]

**__Moon over Manifest__** by Clare Vanderpool

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

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