The Media Center at Linden High School is available to all students throughout the school day.  Students may use the Media Center during student lunches or obtain a pass to use the Media Center during class.  The following services are available through the Media Center:

• Borrowing reading material for class assignments 

• Borrowing reading material for personal enjoyment

• Borrowing required textbooks for courses

• Printing documents

• Computers for student use

• Access to digital material, such as eBooks, audio books and research databases

• After school tutoring

• Purchase of some school supplies, including poster board and index cards

Open on school days from 7:30 until 2:30.  Closed daily for staff lunch from 11:09 to 11:42.

Tutoring Lab is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30 to 3:30.

Tutoring Lab is available for any students wishing to get help or needing a quiet place to study.  It is held in the Media Center on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30 to 3:30.  National Honor Society student volunteers are usually available to give help to students who request it. The lab is staffed by certified teachers who are also available to assist students.  Computers are available for students to use as well.  Students using the lab must sign in with the QR Code or on the high school web page.

When cleaning out your bookshelves at home consider donating the following to the high school Media Center:

High Demand Titles

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Graceling by Kristin Cashore

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

• The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

• Ann Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

• Paper Towns by John Green

• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

• Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

• Real Friends by Shannon Hale

• Always and forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

• P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

• To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

• Blood, Bullets, and Bones by Bridget Heos

• Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate

• It by Stephen King

• The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

• American Sniper by Chris Kyle

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

• The Other Side Of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon

• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

• Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh

• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

• The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel

• The Nest by Kenneth Oppel

• Wonder by R. J. Palacio

• Alive: the story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read

• Ghost by Jason Reynolds

• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell 

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde

• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

• The 5th Wave by Richard Yancey

• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 

High Demand Authors

• P. C. Cast

• Orson Scott Card

• Chris Crutcher

• Sarah Dessen

• John Green

• Charles Higson

• Ellen Hopkins

• Anthony Horowitz

• Stephen King

• Kenneth Oppel

• Christopher Paolini

• Gary Paulsen

• Jason Reynolds

• Rick Riordan

• J. K. Rowling

• Nicholas Sparks

• Richard Yancey

• Nicola Yoon

Other Fiction Needs

• Star Wars novels

• Graphic novels (ie. Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Rave Master)

Non-Fiction Needs

• Arts and Recreation

• Computer Science

• Philosophy & Psychology

• Technology

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