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Cradlerock PTA in cooperation with Steven's Forest PTA is hosting Adrenaline Magician Brian Rudo for a night of magic. The "laugh and gasp" show features the Mouth Chain, 100 ft rope challenge, and fire eating.

Tix, can be purchased in advance through PayPal, using any major credit or debit card. Advanced tickets are $6 but they are $8 at the door. Continue

Congrats to the Kalivretenos, Warren, and Valentine families and all of Cradlerock school for their great ink in this weekend's Baltimore Sun.

Its wonderful that activities at our school are featured for the whole community to see.

Discovery Education embarks on the search for the Greenest Schools in America.

The grand prize: a FREE hybrid school bus to the winning school and a $5,000 scholarship to the student who submits the winning essay. Sponsoring teachers may receive $3,000 to use toward educational materials. Enter by visiting www.AmericasGreenestSchool.com… Continue

Howard County students are invited to submit original poetry January 21 through March 18. Winners receive a cash award and read their poems at a special spring event.

Details and entry form available here:
http://www.hclibrary.org/index.php?page=337

Neil Gaiman has won the 2009 Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins). Beth Krommes has won the 2009 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The House in the Night (Houghton Mifflin), written by Susan Marie Swanson. The awards were announced this morning at the American Library Association’s midwinter conference in Denver.

Four Newbery Honor Books were named: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (S&S/Atheneum); The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle (Henry Ho… Continue