The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14
Purchase of Books Con-
forms With State
Ruling
SUPT. APPROVES
SELECTIONS
Children Encouraged to
Read Progressive
Books


volumes are added to the school H..
brary of the city schools in conform
ity to a requirement of state board
of education. The amount to be spent
annually is determined by the county
superintendent of schools and spec
ial fund is set aside for that purpose.
The list of books must receive the
approval of the county superinten-
dent before ordering.
Seventy-two new volumes have just.
been received and, with the exception
of few copies intended for use in
the low or intermediate grades they
will be sent to the Roosevelt building
for use in writing book reviews in
English classes by the seventh and
eighth grades. These books together
with volumes already on hand are be
ing catalogued, supplied with book
pockets and library cards and will be
loaned over week ends to pupils. The
daily schedule of classes this year.
provides time during school he,,~-
for library reading in the assembly
room. 1t is believed that fuller ut
ilization of library facilities results.
and more children acquire good read
ing habits when material is easily
accessible and the help of teachers
personally interested in the progress
and growth of the pupils is available.
Nearly all the books were selected
from the Winnetka graded book list.
and only those books were selected
that had a high index score based ON
the amount of worthwhile interest
aroused in the juvenile reader.
The list of new books Includes.
Sinopah, The Indian Boy. Smith
Bird Stories from Burroughs; SOUR
rels and Other Fur Bearers, Bur
roughs; The Spy, Cooper; Ivanhoe,
Scott; The Talisman, Scott; Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm, Wiggin; Two
Years Before the Mast, Dana; GOOD
Stories for Great Birthdays, jenkins:
Good Stories for Great Holidays, Jen-
kins; Wild Animal Ways, Seton; Au-
photography, Franklin; The Story of
Ny Life, Helen Keller; Captains of
Industry, Parton; Careers for Wo-
men, Filene; Heroes of Progress,
Tappan; Pilgrims Progress, Bunyan,
A Lincoln Conscript, Greene; Ella
a Little School Girl of the Sixties.
Tappan; When Sarah Went to
School, Singmaster; Adventuring in
Young America, Mcclure; Building
our Country, Mcclure and Philips.
Red Howling Monkey, Tee-van; The
Golden Trumpets, Thompson; North
ward Ho, Schwartz; Kak, The Copper
Eskimo, Stefansson and Irwin; A
Friend Indeed, Schwartz; The Story
of Mankind, Van Loon;Toby Tyler.
Otis; Beautiful Joe. Saunders; Five.
Little Peppers and How They Grew.
Sidney; Katrinka, Haskell; Little.
Women, Alcott; Hans Brinker.
Dodge; Call of the Wild, London:
Huckleberry Finn, Twain; Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, Twain; Little Men.
Alcott; Story of A Bad Boy, Aldrich;
Hoosier School Boy, Eggleston; Swiss
Family Robinson, Wyss; Mrs. Wiggs
of the Cabbage Patch, Rice; Old
Fashioned Girl, Alcott; Biography of
A Grizzly, Seton; Daddy Long Legs,
Webster; Penrod. Harrington: White
Fang, London; Black Arrow, Steven
son; Captains COURAGEOUS, Kipling,
Men nf Iron, Pyle; Three Muskete-
ers, Dumas; Last of the 4Mohicans.
Cooper; The Crimson Sweater Bar
hour; When Patty Went to College;
Webster; Anne of Avonlea, Mont
gomery; Baby Elton, Quarter back.
Quirk; Seventeen, Tarkinton; A
Daughter of The Rich, Waller; The
Last of The Chiefs, Altsheler; For
the Honor of the School, Barbour;
Trees. Stars and Birds, Moseley; The
Boy Mechanic, four volumes; Texas
Scouts, Altsheler Miniature Aircraft,
How to Make and How to Fly Them,
Day and Vincent.