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Teacher Librarian: Mrs. Ritchie

613-687-2095 ext. 236

ritchiea@fc.renfrew.edu.on.ca

Library Hours of Operation:

Monday- Friday 8:40am – 3:25 pm

Book of the Month:

Friday Night Lights

By: H.G Bissinger

In 1988, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner H.G. Bissinger decided to spend a year chronicling a season of high school football. The school he chose was Permian High in Odessa, Texas. Odessa, a West Texan town of about 90,000 people, exhibited a lot of the characteristics of the boom-and-bust mentality of a place whose reason for existence depended on oil and Middle Eastern politics. During Bissinger’s season, Odessa was in the midst of an economic downturn, a town with an alarmingly rising crime rate and such bleak prospects that Money magazine rated it the fifth worst place to live in the United States. Football at Permian High,was what held the town together. And hold it did, with crowds of 20,000 flocking to see games on Friday nights, and thousands watching every practice and internalizing every success and failure of the team.