All VHS students are invited to stop by the library on Friday May 24 in C lunch to find out about the Henrico Public Libraries Summer Reading Club. Jean Burchill from Varina Public Library will be here to talk about the club and plans for the new Varina Public Library on Route 5. Students may also pick one free book from our Summer Reading Book Exchange. Stop by to sign up today!
May 05
Varina 50th Celebration
Varina High School is celebrating its 50th anniversary at the Messer Road campus with a re-dedication program on Sunday May 5 at 3 pm. Alumni, current students, staff and and community members are invited to join in the festivities!
May 02
Book Swap for Summer Reading
The Library and the Blue Devil Book Club are conducting a book drive and swap in the month of May. Please check your shelves for gently used books to donate. At the end of the month we will host a book exchange for anyone interested in getting a book to read over the summer. Stop by to drop off a book or books today!
Apr 25
Beatnik Poetry – Spring Poetry Reading
The Blue Devil Book Club hosted a Spring Poetry Reading on April 25 in Directed Study. 27 Students came to present and listen to poems.
Apr 24
Varina Students Visit Adriana Trigiani
Students from Ms. Sanchez, Mrs. Nogueras’ classes and the Blue Devil Book Club went to see author Adriana Trigiani on Tuesday April 24 at Glen Allen High School. Ms. Trigiani talked about her novels Viola in Reel Life
and The Shoemaker’s Wife. Sophomore’s Cheyanne Woodard and Summer Anderson officially thanked Ms. Trigiani for her visit and
May 02
New Blue Devil Book Club Selection
Slammed by Colleen Hoover is our current selection. It is the story of two teenagers who are raising their younger siblin
gs due to tragic circumstances. They are drawn together because of their young brother’s friendship and a need of support as single parents. Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother after the unexpected death of her father. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she’s loosing hope.
One young man brings change to all of this. After movingacross the country, Layken meet her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams. Within days of their introduction, Willand Layken form and intense connection, leaving Layken wit a renewed sense of hope.
Not long after a heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt.
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Pl
ains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys al
one
g since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house — is pregnant, alone herself, wit after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl — her father lon
h nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they’ve ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together. Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from.
Dana is a modern Black woman who is transported to the antebellum South where she finds herself enslaved. She saves the son of a plantation owner and is drawn back repeatedly to protect him.
by Octavia Butler
KINDRED is one of those rare novels that grabs you
by the throat and doesn’t let you go until the very end.
From the first sentence, Butler’s simple, straightforward prose moves the story quickly,
making it nearly impossible for the reader to put down. (from Amazon review)
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