Welcome to the Otter Creek Media Center. Please visit this website often as a way to keep up with new materials, resources, and events at the library.
“It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of the school, and without a librarian it is but an empty shell.” Jarrett J. Krosoczka author and illustrator
Scholastic Book Fair
The Scholastic Book Fair is scheduled to be held from Friday, February 2, 2024-Friday, February 9, 2024. On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, the fair will be opened after school from 4:00-6:00, along with the science fair. If you want to shop the fair online or set up an eWallet account for your student, go to our Scholastic Book Fair website at https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/ottercreekmiddleschool1
Award Winner
Heroes
Alan Gratz
Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees
2023-2024
Alone
By Megan Freeman
Amari and the Night Brothers
By B.B. Alson
The Boys in the Back Row
By Mike Jung
Candidly Cline
By Kathryn Ormsbee
Concealed
By Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Fighting Words
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Girl of the Southern Sea
By Michelle Kadarusman
Go with the Flow
By Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann
Healer of the Water Monster
By Brian Young
Isaiah Dunn is My Hero
By Kelly J. Baptist
Liar’s Room
By Dan Poblocki
Living with Viola
By Rosena Fung
Lupe Wong Won’t Dance
By Donna Barba Higuera
Ophie’s Ghosts
By Justina Ireland
Red, White, and Whole
By Rajani La Rocca
Starfish
By Lisa Fipps
Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
By Anne Ursu
Unsetteld
By Reem Faruqi
Violets are Blue
By Barbara Dee
Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero
By Saadia Faruqi
Media Center Resources
James Patterson’s Read Kiddo Read Website. Gives age appropriate book recommendations to parents for students who don’t like to read. For more information click here.
The Ask Rose Homework Help Hotline is a free math and science tutoring service for Indiana students in grades 6-12. If you need help call 1-877-Ask-Rose, Sunday-Thursday, 7:00 pm-10:00 pm. Students may also go online for help. Visit Site.
2023-2024 OCMS Library Helpers!
For more information on how to become a library helper, contact Ms. Whitlock.
Otter Creek’s Battle of the Books team were County Champions last year. Students read twenty books and competed in a competiton at the administration building in April of 2023.
