Pinatas can be dangerous, but we book people like to live on the edge...

Our 3rd Annual New Book Release Party was held on Wednesday, September 3rd at lunch. For miles, stretched out on the horizon of the Media Center were shiny, good-smelling, brand-spanking new books...

And as the old adage goes, if you buy them...they will come.

Also, if you feed them cookies and punch they will come. 

And then came the pinata.  It was not the most brilliant or thought out idea I have ever had, but it was so cute and it matched my theme.  Kids lined up for their turn to violently WHAM the pinata with the broom handle I grabbed from the corner of my office.  One minor injury and lots of squealing diving-for-candy kids later, I realized my love/hate relationship with pinatas.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't like to see anyone get hurt, but it is truly priceless to hear the pinata finally break and see 50 kids fling themselves towards the bursting candy like raging lunatics. 

Like I said, we book people like to live on the edge.

Until next time,

Amy Hutto, LMS
South Side High School