SBHS Library Celebrates National Women's History Month
March 2025
Marchis National Women's History Month! To find out more about this official month-long celebration of the history and contributions of women to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://womenshistorymonth.gov/
Februaryis National Black History Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the history and contributions of African Americans to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://blackhistorymonth.gov/
This year, our Barlow Black Student Unioncollaborated with our Library to develop an enhanced Black History Month display.Swing by our Library to see the work of the dedicated students of the BSU! Our Barlow Library also has some great nonfiction titles about the African American experience and novels written by some of the best African American authors featured in the display.
Check out some great African American history books, biographies and novels
from our Library today!
Great Books on Screen 2024 Contest Winners
December 10th, 2024
The winners of theGreat Books on Screen 2024 contesthave been chosen! From the many entries this year, these are the four lucky winners.
Kya Anderson - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Kelvin Bolden - Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia
Jaclyn Buchanan - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Ollie VanOrsow - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Great Books on Screen 2024 Contest!
November-December 2024
To celebrate the 2024 big-screen and streaming adaptations of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Teen Titans: Beast Boy, Turtles All the Way DownandUglies, our Library will be holding a contest giveaway of the original books that these four productions are based on.
This year's four prizes include:
One copy of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
One copy of the graphic novelTeen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia
One copy of Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
One copy of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
To enter the contest, you just need to checkout any print book or magazine from our Library during November/early December. Each time you checkout items from our Library, you’ll get a chance to fill out an entry ticket for the contest. The official drawing for the prizes will be held on December 10th, so get down to our Library and checkout a great book today!
SBHS Library Celebrates Veterans Day
November 2024
During the month of November, the Barlow Library recognizes our staff and their family members who have served in the United States Armed Forces with a Veterans Day display. Come by the library to see the contributions of some of our SBHS staff or to check out a great military history title. Thank you to Mrs. Rethwill, Mr. Jones, Mr. Stewart and Ms. Ichikawa-Yamashita for participating in this year's celebration.
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by J. Todd Moye- In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen - the country's first African American military pilots - historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project. Denied the right to fully participate in the U.S. war effort alongside whites at the beginning of World War II, African Americans - spurred on by black newspapers and civil rights organizations - compelled the U.S. Army Air Force to open its training programs to black pilots, despite the objections of its top generals. Thousands of young men came from every part of the country to Tuskegee, Alabama, to enter the program. By the end of the war, Tuskegee Airfield had become a small city populated by black mechanics, parachute packers, doctors, and nurses. Together, they helped prove that racial segregation of the fighting forces was so inefficient as to be counterproductive to the nation's defense.
Patriots From the Barrio: The Story of Company E, 141st Infantry: The Only All Mexican American Army Unit in World War II by David Gutierrez- As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, "El Sancudo", and his service in World War II, where he earned a Silver Star, three Purple Hearts, and escaped from the Germans twice. Later, Dave decided to find out more about his father's cousin, and he discovered that Ramon Gutierrez was a member of Company E, 141st Infantry, a part of the 36th "Texas" Division that was comprised entirely of Mexican Americans - the only such unit in the entire U.S. Army.
War by Sebastian Junger- Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina- An excellent history that chronicles the Japanese American combat participation in World War II in the segregated US Army infantry units of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In time these units merged and, exhibiting formidable mastery of infantry combat, compiled a combat record in Italy and France that it would be an understatement to call distinguished.
Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng- A concise history of how a group of Navajo Indians were recruited by the United States Marines Corps to create and employ an unbreakable secret code on the battlefields of the Pacific during World War II. Based on their own Navajo language, this code frustrated every effort by the Japanese to break it and helped the United States to secure victory in the Pacific.
SBHS Library Celebrates National Native American
Heritage Month
November 2024
November is National Native American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the contributions of Native Americans to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/
Check out some great Native American history books, biographies and novels from our Library today!
SBHS Library Celebrates National Hispanic American Heritage Month
September 15 - October 15 2024
September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the contributions and cultures of both Hispanic and Latino Americans you can click on this link: National Hispanic American Monthor this link:Hispanic Heritage Month - National Archives
We currently have a display of related books to honor this month in our Library. See the photo below and check one out today!
Our Barlow Library also has many great novels from Hispanic and Latino American authors that you can check out. These novels include such titles as All of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil, The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez, Don't Call Me Hero by Ray Villareal, Gabi - A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero, Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena, Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall and many more. You can find them in print and eBook form in our Destiny Catalog.
Banned Books Week
September 22 - September 28 2024
September 22 through September 28 is national Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of our freedom to read. Exercise your right to read by finding a great book today or pick up a Banned Books Week button at our Barlow Library! Check out the Banned Book Week website for related virtual events with popular authors and reading activists.
Which books were most challenged in 2023? Check out this list of the Ten Most Challenged Books of 2023 from the American Library Association.
SBHS Library eBooks = 24/7 Summer Reading
If you are looking to do some after-hours or summertime reading, our Barlow Library has great eBooks available all-year-round! Through a grant from the Gresham Barlow Education Foundation, our SBHS Library has over 600 eBook titles available for student and staff use. Just use your school Google login and password to check out eBooks any time you want!
For more information on how to download these eBooks you can click on this link: Library eBooks
To go directly to our eBook resources or log-in to your Barlow eBook account click on this link: MackinVIA
Our eBooks are available for use 24/7, 365 days a year, so check one out today!
Check out these great topical Barlow Library books! You can learn more about them in our Destiny Catalog.
LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel Madrone
LGBTQ in America by Barbara Sheen The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg Happily Ever Island by Crystal Cestari
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (eBook)
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
The Fever King by Victoria Lee Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt (eBook)
One Life (Megan Rapinoe) More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (eBook)
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Girls Like Me by Tanya Savory (eBook)
Need help with studying for the upcoming AP tests? Our Barlow Library has test guidebooks for every AP course offered at Barlow. Why buy a guidebook when you can borrow one for free? Check out one of these test prep guides today!
SBHS Library Celebrates National Arab American Heritage Month
April 2024
Aprilis National Arab American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the history and contributions of Arab Americans to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/arab-american-heritage-month
Check out some great books from Arab American authors from our Library today!
SBHS Library Celebrates National Poetry Month
April 2024
Aprilis National Poetry Month! To find out more about this official month-long celebration of poetry and poets, you can click here for more information: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
Check out a few great poetry compilations from our Library today!
SBHS Library Celebrates National Music
in Our Schools Month
March 2024
Marchis National Music in Our School's Month! To find out more about this official month-long celebration of music and music education in our nation's schools, you can click on this link: https://nafme.org/programs/miosm/
Want to learn to play the guitar? Learn about the history of jazz? Read a great music related novel? Check out these great music books from our Library display today!
Barlow CTE Display in Library
Spring 2022
Examples of some of the great work and accomplishments of the Barlow CTE (Career and Technical Education) programs were on display in the Library display case the Spring of 2022. Be inspired by the work of the students from Ms. Pate, Mr. Ingoglia, Mr. Holzbach, Ms. Lamoureux, Ms. Mann and Mr. Toth's classes! Also featured were informative SBHS Library books on careers in various CTE fields.
Lightbox Art in Our Library
January 2022
Our Barlow Library has a new Bruin lightbox art piece on display! Created by former principal, Mr. Schmidt and student Gavin Schmidt in January of 2022, this display is a permanent addition to our Library. See the picture below for a view of the box or swing by the Library to see it in action!
Library eBooks - 24/7 Reading
If you are looking to do some after-hours reading, our Barlow Library has great eBooks available all-year-round! Through a grant from the Gresham Barlow Education Foundation, our SBHS Library has over 600 eBook titles available for student and staff use. Just use your school Google login and password to check out eBooks any time you want!
For more information on how to download these eBooks you can click on this link: Library eBooks
To go directly to our eBook resources or log-in to your Barlow eBook account click on this link: MackinVIA
Our eBooks are available for use 24/7, 365 days a year, so check one out today!
Author Rick Riordan Came to Town!
October 9th 2017 - East Hill Church in Gresham
On October 9th, 2017 at the East Hill Church in Gresham, best selling author Rick Riordan came to speak about his writing career and his many successful book projects. Brought here by the Clackamas Barnes & Noble book store, students, parents and staff of the Gresham-Barlow School District were able to attend this major author event and fourteen Barlow students volunteered to help out with issuing autographed books, directing people to seats...etc... See below for photos of the event and our students in action!
- Of the eight cities that comprised this tour that started at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, Gresham was the only city on the entire West Coast where he spoke.
- Mr. Riordan started writing in order to satisfy his son's desire for Greek mythology after he ran out of actual Greek mythology to share with him.
- Mr. Riordan worked as a middle school English teacher for fifteen years.
- Mr. Riordan used kids and staff from his own classes and school as characters in his first novel.
- Mr. Riordan was rejected by 13 of 14 publishers.
- Mr. Riordan has approximately 35 million copies of his books in print in America alone.
- His advice to young writers: Write a lot, read a lot and be persistent... If he had stopped writing after the first publisher rejection, or the fifth, or the tenth, where would he be now?
Author Veronica Roth visits Sam Barlow
High School!
February 29th 2016
New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth visited Barlow High School on February 29, 2016! Creator of the wildly popular Divergent series of young adult novels, Ms. Roth held a presentation/Q&A session in our auditorium with our students and staff. Ms. Roth shared her insights on the writing process and the need to be persistent in pursuing your dreams and aspirations. See below for images of Ms. Roth's visit to Barlow!
Ms. Roth in front of Sam Barlow High School
Ms. Roth answering student questions during the assembly
Barlow History Display and the Library
Our Library maintains a wonderful display showcasing the history of Sam Barlow High School. See the photo below for a sample of what can be seen in our display case outside of our Library.
