LibGuides: Akira Toki Middle School: Home

Get Help for Your Chromebook

Tech Support Request
If you are having some tech problems with your Chromebook or Laptop. Please fill out the attached form.

Staff Greetings

Staff Flipgrid Greetings
Toki staff say hello to students and families during this time of social distancing.

more... less...

Once you go to the Flipgrid page, scroll down to see the staff's messages.

Toki's Librarian

Todd Hillmer

Email Me

Contact:

5606 Russett Rd
Madison, WI 53711

608-204-4758

Don't have a Public Library Card? Get a virtual one for free!

Click on card to sign up for a virtual library card. [You DON'T need one if you already have a library card]

NEW NEWS: MPL is doing CURBSIDE PICK-UP OF BOOKS, and phone help. You have to put the book on hold, and the libraries are NOT doing inter-library loans, so you will have to pick up at the library that has your book. More info here.

Spanish Library Portal

Connect

TOKI MIDDLE SCHOOL

Facebook

Xello - student access

Newbery Winners 2020 - hover over pictures to see description of each

New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0062691198
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1328780961
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker; Junyi Wu (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1250181429
Publication Date: 2019-07-30
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
ISBN: 0062747800
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
ISBN: 1481465805
Publication Date: 2019-01-15

Top selling Teen/YA Novels on Amazon

BLM - What Can We Do? 11 books that can help

Anti-Racism Resources Web page for middle schoolers and familiies

MMSD Online Resources

**Online Resources - For more resources click on the Books tab, Databases tab, or the #Create tab in this Library Portal**
All Subjects Crash Course Khan Academy Ted Ed IXL Quizlet WISELearn	ELA/Reading/Writing Lexia Achieve 3000 Epic
Math i-Ready CPM ebook YouCubed Math Games MMSD Resources/Games XtraMath	Biliteracy Reading Spanish Achieve 3000 Escritura Creative Colorin ColorRadio Discovery en la Escuela Nat Geo en Espanol Smithsonian en Espanol
Social Studies iCivics Digital History Smithsonian Google Earth Language Duolingo	Science Amplify iON Future (requires Flash) PhET Simulations PBS SciGirls Exploratorium NASA Steve Spangler Science

Search our Ebook & Audiobook collection - adding this box due to school COVID-19 closure:

Click on the image to go to our ebook & audiobook catalog

Click here to see Ms Phelps' short video about how to use Sora to get just what you want

Click here to see tips for searching Sora (Overdrive)

Click here to go to Wisconsin's Digital Library ebook & audiobook catalog (much bigger than ours)

Click here to Audible -- Amazon Audible now offers FREE Audio Books! [and then maybe choose Tween or Teen]

Search Our Library Catalog!

Find:

Book Suggestions?

Book Suggestion Form
Fill out Google Form to suggest or recommend a book that should be added to the Toki LMC collection.

more... less...

Suggestions for other media like audio books or TV programs or movies on DVD can also be suggested.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Toki Library Media Center!

The library is open Monday through Friday from 7:20 am - 3:00 pm. Your friendly librarian, Mr. Hillmer, is always happy to help!

Library Vision & Mission:

The Toki Library prepares students to participate in our global society as life-long readers and learners, critical thinkers, skillful researchers, and safe, ethical users and producers of information.

The LMC will provide resources, instruction, and support to reach this goal and meet the needs of our wonderful, diverse learning community!

ISTE Standards- Why Chromebooks Are Important Learning Tools

PBS Wisconsin At Home Learning

PBS WI At-Home Learning
Some great resources for learning at home.

Not Cancelled

What is Mr. Hillmer Reading?

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Call Number: FIC MBA
ISBN: 1368039936
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend Eddie when they were in a bus accident together. But on his first night at his grandparents' farm, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. When Tristan chases after, he finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Call Number: FIC SCH
ISBN: 1338111000
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
From #1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of "Stranger Things" and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.A New York Times bestseller!Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger.When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift," she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil -- and herself.And she'll have to learn fast. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined.#1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab delivers a thrillingly spooky and action-packed tale of hauntings, history, mystery, and the bond between friends (even if that friend is a ghost . . .).
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson (Illustrator); Omar Mohamed; Iman Geddy (Illustrator)
Call Number: 741.5 JAM
ISBN: 0525553916
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It's an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.