(DLA Las Piñas GS LRC) Film Showing of the Week - Aladdin

Did you and your friends enjoy watching Frozen? We sure hope so! This week is stil Disney week though as we throw a classic and probably the ultimate flashback Friday so far on September 19 with the musical fantasy Aladdin based on the Arabian folktale from One Thousand and One Nights, a famous collection of Asian stories.

This is also somewhat of a homage to one of the best singers around, Ms. Lea Salonga, since she is Princess Jasmine's singing voice and to the late American actor Robin Williams who unfortunately passed away last month in California since he voiced the comical and powerful blue Genie.

In case you have amazingly forgotten, the film follows the story of the poor underdog named Aladdin who woos the spunky Princess by pretending to be a prince and getting help from a Genie who grants him three wishes. However, Aladdin has to tell Princess Jasmine the truth about his identity and defeat the evil power-hungry royal advisor slash sorcerer Jafar before happily ever after happens.

Aladdin was the most successful film on the year that it was released and has won many awards, mostly for its soundtrack (who could forget the shining, shimmering, splendid world that Aladdin promised to show Jasmine in that pop ballad while they were riding his wonderful Magic Carpet through an endless diamond sky?).

If you're up for an absolutely thrilling and entertaining adventure not only with the Magic Carpet, come and join us again on Friday at 4:00 P.M. onwards. Will love actually conquer all in the end? For comments and suggestions, don't hesitate to approach any of the available librarians or staff. :)

(DLA Las Piñas GS LRC) Film Showing of the Week - Frozen

Do you want to build a snowman?
It doesn't have to be a snowman.
Do you want to build a snowman
Or ride our bike around the hall?
I think some company is overdue...

Need we tell you more about this week's movie at the Grade School Learning Resource Center cinema? It's almost one year already from the first day we went on an epic journey with the estranged problematic Snow Queen Elsa, the fearless Princess Anna, the rugged iceman Kristoff, Prince Hans, the hapless Olaf, and Sven the loyal reindeer at the actual theatres with our family and friends yet we still can't get enough of unusually catchy lines!

The 2013 award-winning fantasy Disney film Frozen was inspired by the famous Danish children's literature writer, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen. The story is one of the author's longest and most highly acclaimed ones, centering on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai.

Frozen was met with strongly positive reviews from audiences, some film critics considered Frozen to be the best Disney animated feature film and musical since the studio's Renaissance during The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

Relive the songs and the tale of how the kingdom of Arendelle will persevere through winter on Friday, September 12 at exactly 4:00 P.M. before you come home and enjoy the well-deserved weekend! Don't forget to tell Mom, Dad, Kuya, and Ate that you'll be finishing the movie if you plan to so they won't be worried. If you want to see your favorite film next time, come tell any library personnel present.

(DLA Las Piñas LRC) Free Trial Access to World Book Online

World Book Online has granted free trial access for everyone in Divine Light Academy Las Piñas starting today until October 6! The World Book web site offers award-winning comprehensive, accurate, objective, reliable, and authoritative reference and instructional materials digitally such as encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides to meet the diverse information needs of students, educators, and library patrons alike to improve learning inside and outside the classroom.

Just go to the Learning Resource Center to get your hands on the link, log-in ID, and password to try out the special content, tools, and features such as the ones below:

• thousands of e-books
• content correlated to standards worldwide
• a vast collection of primary source documents
• classroom activities and lesson plans
• individual accounts that offer students the ability to save research
• regularly refreshed, selected content from more than 100 periodicals provided by EBSCO
• citation and timeline builders
• thousands of editor-selected websites

(DLA Las Piñas HS LRC) September Author of the Month - Jay Asher

Come meet the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling contemporary teen novel Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher! He was born on September 30, 1975 and has one younger brother named Nate. They both grew up with a family that encouraged them to do all of their interests, from playing the guitar to writing.

After high school, he decided he wanted to become an elementary school teacher so he attended college where Jay wrote his first two children’s books for a class called Children’s Literature Appreciation.

He then transferred to a state university where he left his senior year in order to pursue his career as a serious writer. Except for six months in Wyoming, Asher has lived his entire life in California. It was during those months that he came up with the idea for Thirteen Reasons Why.

He's worked at various establishments throughout his life. Many of Jay's work experiences had an impact on some aspect of his writing. He hopes, someday, to work for a used bookstore.

Asher has written several picture books and middle school humor novels. He is a fan of the TV teen drama series My So-Called Life, citing it as a major influence on his work. Jay plays guitar and goes camping when he is not writing. He is a sought-after keynote speaker at libraries and schools across the country about his novels, suicide prevention, and creative writing for teens. He is currently working on his second novel.

(DLA Las Piñas HS LRC) September Book of the Month - The Maze Runner

Perfect for fans of Divergent and Hunger Games, maybe even The Selection and Lost, we present you with this month's heart-pounding and thought-provoking New York Times bestseller feature from award-winning writer, James Dashner, whose film adaptation will be hitting film theatres everywhere in the world around the first few weeks of this month and no, it's not just another dystopian novel.

The Maze Runner is proper different, in the way that the book is narrated in a guy protagonist's point of view unlike the aforementioned novels whose stories were primarily narrated in a girl's words. Also, a noticeable fictionalized slang is present, adding more realism to the characterizations.

Through an elevator, a confused Thomas is brought into the Glade. The place is surrounded by a gigantic limitless ever-changing Maze in which maniacal part animal part mechanical beasts roam at night, huge doors all around the Glade protect the residents from these creatures by closing every time the day ends.

Thomas has no memories of his life or the world outside, the only thing he remembers is his name. Devoid of adults, he and a lot of other teenage boys are inside the place where there is a makeshift community in which everyone is assigned to his own job while supplies are brought every week.

However, the day after Thomas is brought to the Glade, a girl is sent. This is when everything does finally just snap and change, thus beginning a desperate end game for the Gladers. It starts out slow as the main character has to adapt but every suspenseful scene afterwards are exclamation-worthy. Hurry and come borrow The Maze Runner at the fREADom Hub before you see the major motion picture from 20th Century Fox!

(DLA Las Piñas GS LRC) September Book of the Month - Shiloh

This month's spotlight is first in a suspenseful and emotional adventure trilogy about an 11-year-old boy and the title character by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor revolving around various themes: ethics, consequentialism, religion and morality, and animal–human relationships.

Narrator Marty Preston finds an abused young beagle puppy owned by his brutal and mean-spirited neighbor Judd Travers who drinks too much, defying society's standards of not meddling with each other's business.

It is a moving and powerful look at the best and worst of human nature while the protagonist learns that morality is confounding and must choose between two unpalatable choices: rescuing an animal through stealing and lying or allowing for the abuse to continue.

Without breaking new ground, the unusually heartwarming and appealing tale is well told, with a strong emphasis on family values. The author has made sure to put a lot of details to make sure that readers can really imagine the story's settings and to better understand the feelings being portrayed.

Readers will be absorbed by the suspenseful plot, which will leave them with some strongly memorable characterizations as well as several intriguing questions. Animal-lovers everywhere would absolutely enjoy this wonderful tough-as-steel story especially if you're a fan of books like Charlotte's Web. Shiloh is currently on display at the GS LRC and is available for checkout.

DLA Las Piñas GS LRC: Top Library Users & Borrowers (August 2014)

Top Library Users

Zarah D. Munsayac

ELA Area

Kristin Q. Cabangunay

6 - Valor

Randolf Shem P. Husain

5 - Modesty

Top Library Borrowers

Maribel M. Lopez

Filipino Area

Edra Luz P. Aldover

3 - Faithfulness

Ma. Beatrice P. Pilar

3 - Faithfulness

(DLA Las Piñas GS LRC) Film Showing of the Week - Planet 51

Missed seeing all your favorite films, old and new, at the Grade School Learning Resource Center cinema with all your schoolmates just after a long at school and before hitting the piles of homework waiting for you when you get home? We sure missed seeing all of you, movie lovers too so we're bringing back the beloved film showing every Friday starting this week!

It's science fiction comedy Friday as we present you with the most expensive movie produced in Spain that's we totally recommend for those who likes adventure animations Monsters vs. Aliens and Robots.

Planet 51 introduces human Charles "Chuck" Baker, a NASA astronaut (voiced by wrestler actor The Rock, Dwayne Johnson known best for work in Tooth Fairy and some Fast & the Furious films) landing on a distant planet filled with little green humanoids with snail-like feelers and pointed ears happily and peacefully living in a white picket fence society reminiscent of an older America with alien technology, 1950s-themed alien homes, and with only one fear...

The American astronaut is surprised to discover that we are not alone in the galaxy but he gets the shock of his life when the residents mistakenly believe that his presence is the start of an alien invasion of the human kind!

Luckily, Lem (voiced by Justin Long who's famous as the charming and musical chipmunk Alvin), a teenage boy quickly realizes that Chuck is friendly after he discovers that they speak the same language and makes it his personal mission to help him return safely to his ship. Come watch Planet 51 with us on September 5 at 4:00 P.M. In case you want to see something else next time, please talk to any of the library personnel present. :)