Otter Creek Media Center

Welcome to the Otter Creek Media Center. Please visit this website often as a way to keep up with new materials, resources, and events at the library.
“It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of the school, and without a librarian it is but an empty shell.” Jarrett J. Krosoczka author and illustrator

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is scheduled to be held from Friday, February 2, 2024-Friday, February 9, 2024. On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, the fair will be opened after school from 4:00-6:00, along with the science fair. If you want to shop the fair online or set up an eWallet account for your student, go to our Scholastic Book Fair website at https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/ottercreekmiddleschool1

Award Winner

Heroes

Alan Gratz

Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees

2023-2024

Alone
By Megan Freeman

Amari and the Night Brothers
By B.B. Alson

The Boys in the Back Row
By Mike Jung

Candidly Cline
By Kathryn Ormsbee

Concealed
By Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fighting Words
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The Girl of the Southern Sea
By Michelle Kadarusman

Go with the Flow
By Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann

Healer of the Water Monster
By Brian Young

Isaiah Dunn is My Hero
By Kelly J. Baptist

Liar’s Room
By Dan Poblocki

Living with Viola
By Rosena Fung

Lupe Wong Won’t Dance
By Donna Barba Higuera

Ophie’s Ghosts
By Justina Ireland

Red, White, and Whole
By Rajani La Rocca

Starfish
By Lisa Fipps

Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
By Anne Ursu

Unsetteld
By Reem Faruqi

Violets are Blue
By Barbara Dee

Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero
By Saadia Faruqi

Media Center Resources

James Patterson’s Read Kiddo Read Website. Gives age appropriate book recommendations to parents for students who don’t like to read. For more information click here.

The Ask Rose Homework Help Hotline is a free math and science tutoring service for Indiana students in grades 6-12. If you need help call 1-877-Ask-Rose, Sunday-Thursday, 7:00 pm-10:00 pm. Students may also go online for help. Visit Site.

2023-2024 OCMS Library Helpers!

For more information on how to become a library helper, contact Ms. Whitlock.

Otter Creek’s Battle of the Books team were County Champions last year. Students read twenty books and competed in a competiton at the administration building in April of 2023.