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Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior!
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
Honoré de Balzac
LIBRARY STAFF
LINDA WILLIAMS
LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST
Kristi Manuel
Library Assistant
A 1983 IHS Graduate, Mrs. Williams has been with Idabel High School since 2002, serving as Library Media Specialist since 2008. She is married to Barry, retired IHS Ag Instructor and her son and daughter both graduated from IHS.
Graduating in 1995 from IHS, Mrs. Manuel has been employed as the Library Assistant since 2014. She is married to an IHS Alumni, Andy. Together they have a son who is a 2021 IHS graduate and a daughter who currently attends school at IHS.
Along with our student aides, we love serving and helping others. Please contact us if we can be of assistance! Go Warriors!
IHS Library Mission
The mission of IHS Library is to promote the joy of reading, to nurture the development of lifelong independent learning, to support the curriculum by providing access and instruction to information in all forms, and collaborate with staff members to provide engaging learning experiences.
IHS Library Vision
The Idabel High School Library Media Program seeks to create a 21st century environment that promotes learning for all students by providing equitable access to information, teaching information literacy skills, and encouraging lifelong learning. The library media center strives to be a center of collaborative learning that produces creative students who have an appreciation of literature, critical thinking skills, and a respect for others and self.
DESTINY DISCOVER AND LIBRARY CATALOG
Students may access the many ebook titles we have and login with their username and passwords.
CHROMEBOOKS
Chromebooks are provided to all IHS students. There is a $40 per year District Tech Fee that can be paid in the Library or through My School Bucks. Create a free account and add your student to pay the yearly fee.
IDABEL PUBLIC LIBRARY RESOURCES
Students and staff have the opportunity to receive a Digital Library Card to access the free resources that our Public Library offers.
HELPFUL LINKS
EBSCO
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WORKS CITED
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CAN YOU SPOT "FAKE NEWS"
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STRANGER THINGS SERIES
"It's the summer of 1969 . . . As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code named MKULTRA. Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight lipped researchers . . . and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover . . . To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesn't know she exists--a young girl with unexplainable, superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008"--Provided by publisher.
THE HATE U GIVE AND ON THE COME UP
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.
ON THE COME UP
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri’s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much a part of Bri’s life as beats and rhymes. With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it—she has to make it.
On the Come Up is Angie Thomas’s homage to hip-hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families.
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