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Checkout Periods
- Students may checkout materials for two weeks and renew an item twice.
Number of Checkouts
- Students in grades 1-8 may check out as many books as their grade level. For example, 1st Grade may check out 1 book and 8th Grade may check out 8 books.
- Students in Kindergarten may check out 1 book at a time. Students in PreK do not check out books.
Limits on Materials
- Except under special circumstances, students in Kindergarten and 1st Grade can only check out books from the story corner.
- Magazines - 2nd Grade and up.
- Graphic Novels - 3rd Grade and up.
- Young Adult - 6th Grade and up. (4th and 5th Grade students may check out YA materials with written permission from their parents.
Overdue Items
- Overdue notices are sent out once a month.
- Students are not charged fines, however they are charged replacement costs for lost or significantly damaged materials.
- If you think you have lost an item, please contact Mrs. McManus at library@ashevillecatholic.org.

Accelerated Reader is a reading enhancement program designed to test student comprehension and encourage additional reading.
It is open to students in grades 1-8.
The tests must be taken at school, however students can read books for the program both at home and at school.
Over 100,000 children's books are included in the database. To find out what books are available, please see AR BookFinder

Battle of the Books is an extracurricular activity open to students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades.
Students read a list of 27 titles and compete against other schools in quiz-bowl style competitions.
The following is the Battle of the Books timeline for 2011-12
- June-August: Read as many books as possible from the list.
- August-October: Monthly book discussions.
- November: The official team is formed. Weekly lunch and after school practices begin.
- December-February: Weekly practices to prepare for the competition.
- March: District competition.

Author	Title
A Single Shard	Linda Sue Park
Al Capone Does My Shirts	Gennifer Choldenko
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians	Brandon Sanderson
Beneath My Mother's Feet	Amjed Qamar
Chasing Lincoln's Killer	James L. Swanson
Cuba 15	Nancy Osa
Fever, 1793	Laurie Halse Anderson
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village	Laura Amy Schlitz
Good Night, Mr. Tom	Michelle Magorian
Journey to the River Sea	Eva Ibbotson
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery	John Feinstein
Mockingbird	Kathryn Erskine
Moon Over Manifest	Clare Vanderpool
My Life in Dog Years	Gary Paulsen
One Crazy Summer	Rita Williams-Garcia
Road to Tater Hill	Edith M. Hemingway
Romiette and Julio	Sharon M. Draper
Tangerine	Edward Bloor
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel	Michael Scott
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn	Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The House of the Scorpion	Nancy Farmer
The Other Half of My Heart	Sundee T. Frazier
The Other Side of Truth	Beverley Naidoo
The Red Pyramid	Rick Riordan
The Roar	Emma Clayton
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Elizabeth George Speare
Treasure Island (Complete & Unabridged)	Robert Louis Stevenson

August 31 - Book Discussion - 3:00-4:00 pm

September 21 - Book Discussion - 3:00-4:00 pm

October 19 - Book Discussion - 3:00-4:00 pm

November 7 - Battle of the Books test - 3:00-4:00 pm

November 9 - Battle of the Books makeup test - 3:00-4:00 pm

November 11 - Team announced

November 14 - Practice begins