Library Events

November-December 2025

 

 

To celebrate the 2025 big-screen and streaming adaptations of Stranger Things Season 5, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Clown in a Cornfield and We Were Liars, our Library will be holding a contest giveaway of the original novels that these four productions are based on.

This year's four prizes include:

One copy of Stranger Things: Heroes and Monsters by Rena Tahir

One copy of I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

One copy of Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

One copy of We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

To enter the contest, you just need to checkout any print book or magazine from our Library during November to early December. Each time you checkout items from our Library, you’ll get a chance to fill out an entry ticket for the contest. The official drawing for the prizes will be held December 11th, so get down to our Library and checkout a great book today!

 

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GHS Library Celebrates Veterans Day

November 2025

During the month of November, the GHS Library honors our staff and their families who have served in the United States Armed Forces with a Veterans Day display. Come by the Library to see the contributions of some of our GHS staff or check out a great military history book today! Thank you to Ms. Hanft, Mr. Brittain, Ms. Drechsler Andree and Ms. Armstrong for participating in this year's celebration.

 

It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories From the American Revolution to Afghanistan edited by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow - This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words - from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East. 

Patriots From the Barrio: The Story of Company E, 141st Infantry: The Only All Mexican American Army Unit in World War II by David Gutierrez - As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, "El Sancudo", and his service in World War II, where he earned a Silver Star, three Purple Hearts, and escaped from the Germans twice. Later, Dave decided to find out more about his father's cousin, and he discovered that Ramon Gutierrez was a member of Company E, 141st Infantry, a part of the 36th "Texas" Division that was comprised entirely of Mexican Americans - the only such unit in the entire U.S. Army.

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell - Four US Navy SEALS departed one night in 2005 for the Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that followed.

American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Buckley - A moving tribute to the military’s unsung heroes, American Patriots tells the story of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield, even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front.

Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng - A concise history of how a group of Navajo Indians were recruited by the United States Marines Corps to create and employ an unbreakable secret code on the battlefields of the Pacific during World War II. Based on their own Navajo language, this code frustrated every effort by the Japanese to break it and helped the United States to secure victory in the Pacific.

Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina - An excellent history that chronicles the Japanese American combat participation in World War II in the segregated US Army infantry units of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In time these units merged and, exhibiting formidable mastery of infantry combat, compiled a combat record in Italy and France that it would be an understatement to call distinguished.

 

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GHS Library Celebrates National Native American
Heritage Month

November 2025

November is National Native American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the contributions of Native Americans to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/
 

Check out some great Native American history books, biographies and novels from our Library today!

 

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GHS Library Celebrates National Hispanic American Heritage Month

September 15 - October 15 2025

September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the contributions and cultures of both Hispanic and Latino Americans you can click on this link: National Hispanic American Heritage Month or this link: Hispanic Heritage Month - National Archives

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Banned Books Week

October 5 - October 11 2025

October 5th through October 11th is national Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of our freedom to read. Exercise your right to read by checking out a Library book today or pick up a Banned Books Week button at our GHS Library! Check out the Banned Book Week website for related on-line events and activities.

What were the most challenged books of 2024? Check this list of the Ten Most Challenged Books of 2024 from the American Library Association.

 

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GHS Library eBooks = 24/7 Summer Reading

If you are looking to do some quality reading over the summer, our Gresham High School Library has great eBooks available all-year-round! Through a grant from the Gresham Barlow Education Foundation, our GHS Library has more than 600 eBook titles available for student and staff use. Just use your school Google login and password to check out eBooks any time you want!

For more information on how to download and use our eBooks you can click on this link: Library eBooks

To go directly to our eBooks and to log-in to your Gresham eBook account click on this link: Mackinvia

Our eBooks are available 24/7, 365 days a year, so check one out today!

 

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GHS Library Celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month

June 2025

June is LGBTQ Pride Month! Find out more about this month long commemoration and celebration of LGBTQ activism and culture by clicking on this link: https://people.com/human-interest/pride-month-explained-pride-month-facts/

GHS Library Celebrates Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month

May 2025

May is National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the development of our nation check out this link Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month or this link History Channel: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month