

CMS Library Highlights! 2023-2024
An amazing year in the Claremont library
This Year in Numbers
- Total Book Checkouts: 8,192!
- Total Checkouts on SORA (ebooks): 8,921
- New books this year: 847
- Total books in the library: 7,002
- 6 scheduled class visits per week - every student visited the library with their English classes at least once every 3 week.
- 4 parent/community volunteers who did book checkout and helped keep the library running smoothly every day!
We Read...
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
The Girl From the Sea by Molly Ostertag
Demon Slayer: Stories of Water and Flame by Ryoji Hirano
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
#1 in Fiction with 15 checkouts
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
#2 in Fiction with 14 checkouts
Scythe by Neil Shusterman
#3 in Fiction with 12 checkouts
Students continued to love manga, graphic novels, scary books, cookbooks, fantasy, and dog books!
We Raised...
$1000 from the Elaine Wells 'Books Kids Want to Read' Grant
for new Spanish language fiction, among others!
$166 from the Mrs. Dalloway's School Fundraiser!
Plus extremely generous support from the PTA that brought in new supplies and new books for next year!!!
"I Like...(or don't)" Student end-of-year survey responses
"Sitting with my friends in the comfortable chairs and pillows"
"Getting books"
"The peacefulness"
"The books are boring"
“I love how cozy and welcoming it is. Ms. Wood is so nice and helpful, and I can always find an interesting book. The library is also a great place to hang out with my friends.”
"Manga and bean bags"
"It can be a bit loud sometimes."
"the manga and graphic novels"
We Had Fun With...
Crafts and Activites
Gaming at lunch!
Library Display Fun!
Library Glow-up
Before
After
Manga section Spring '23 ->
Now!
"Weeding" (like a garden) the library
We donated 32 boxes of old books - a weeded library is a healthy library! Special thanks to community member volunteer Ellen.
Tour the Library!
Thank you to our 8th grade computer science class for making this video!
Why Libraries in Schools?
Keep Reading This Summer!
Oakland Public Library
Enjoy OPL's Summer Reading Program!
Read online with SORA!
OUSD's spot for Ebooks and Audiobooks - just sign in with your student email and password.