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1. 에스더 원장님의 각 한년별 추천도서

Grades 3/4
Bo & Mzzz Mad by Sid Fleischman
When his father dies, Bo Gamage warily moves to the Mojave Desert home of his distant and estranged relatives, the Martinkas, and finds that “Mad” lives up to her name, Paw Paw despises him, and Aunt Juna hopes he’ll help search for the gold mine that started a family feud. 

Grades 5/6
The Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen
When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

Grades 7/8
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from an abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans. 

Grades 9/10
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson
The novel opens with the death of a fisherman and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto who is charged with his murder. But this is more than a novel about a murder trial. This is also a novel about the charmed love affair between a white boy and a Japanese girl. Set in the time of WWII when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched, Guterson deals with themes such as teen love, racism, war and confronting the past.

Grades 11/12
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term ("catch-22") to the dictionary. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of John Yossarian, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Yossarian is also trying to decode the meaning of Catch-22, a mysterious regulation that proves that insane people are really the sanest, while the supposedly sensible people are the true madmen. No novel before or since has matched Catch-22's intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. Heller satirizes military bureaucracy with bitter, stinging humor, all the while telling the darkly comic story of Yossarian, a bombardier who refuses to die.

2. 아이들을 위한 행사 (8월)