Used Text Books

The Lions Quest program saw its first year, the pilot year, at the San Pedro Roman Catholic School as well as the San Pedro High School. What was supposed to be a test run, proved to be welcomed and accepted program by both students and teachers.

The Triad Middle School Student Council would like to help send 500,000 new/used CDs, DVDs and books on CD for the troops by Christmas 2008.

Dear freshmen, Welcome to the U. I used to be you. I walked around campus with a look of bewilderment. I read the newspaper in the coliseum that was Art History (merely a speck in a classroom of 300), sent text messages to other humans in "Does ET Exist?" (it sounded so easy!) and slept peacefully through Structure of English (isn't that a 5000-level class?).

As Nye County students know all too well, the lazy, carefree days of summer vacation have nearly slipped past, and soon it'll be time to get dragged to the store to shop for school supplies.

An article by Malise Ruthven from The New York Review of Books, August 16, 2007

It's a book collector's dream rifling through the shelves of a secondhand store and finding a valuable text for a bargain price.

Despite what has been dubbed the "Harry Potter Effect" -- which credits J.K. Rowling's blockbuster book series with turning Game Boy addicts into lifelong readers -- reading is in serious decline among teens nationwide, according to a forthcoming federal...

Julie and Wentworth Newman of West Lorne have saved piles of books from the dumpsters. Boxes of books filled their garage last week after local schools dropped off surplus books.

NEW YORK -- Two leading childrenâs publishers, Scholastic, Inc., and Disney, will soon discover whether the laptop compares to the lap in the hearts of young readers.

A velvet chastity belt, Florance Nightingale's slippers and a used guillotine: hardly the normal fare of science text books. But these and 500 other curiosities have just gone on display at the Wellcome Trust.