Founded in 1982, Banned Books Week is celebrated annually during the last week in September and is observed by many schools in America. The event acknowledges Americans’ right to read books of ...
On a casual Wednesday afternoon, I approached Samuel Saenz with the intention of having a simple conversation about comic book movies. It turned out to be forty minutes of in-depth analysis: hole...
https://lhsnews.org/arts-and-entertainment/2016/02/27/comic-book-saturation-pleasing-or-frustrating/
For the past five years, Leyden has encouraged students to become a part of Abe Readers, which is short for Abraham Lincoln Illinois Readers’ Choice Award. Both East and West Leyden are registe...
https://lhsnews.org/arts-and-entertainment/books/2015/12/14/abe-readers-ready-for-vote/
Top Guilty Pleasures of 2014 Guilty Pleasures are defined as “something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in...
https://lhsnews.org/arts-and-entertainment/2014/10/15/top-guilty-pleasures/
The Leyden Media centers will be hosting an opportunity to meet one of this year’s Abraham Lincoln Award nominees, Ilsa Bick, at West Leyden on October 18 at 2:30 p.m. with a Google Hangout for...
https://lhsnews.org/top-stories/2013/10/11/a-special-award-winning-nominee-visits-leyden/
From the day she was born, Jayanti Tamm has been dubbed as the “Chosen One” and thrown into a life different than most girls. When other kids her age were going to birthday parties, she was g...
https://lhsnews.org/arts-and-entertainment/books/2012/11/27/cartwheels-in-a-sari-by-jayanti-tamm/
On January 18, 1962 Alison Arngrim is born to loving, but dysfunctional parents, Norma MacMillan and Thor Arngrim. Thor Arngrim has an enormous craving for publicity and Norma is the voice for Ca...
https://lhsnews.org/arts-and-entertainment/books/2012/11/27/confessions-of-a-prairie-b/
Monica Holloway’s first memoir, “Driving With Dead People” starts off with her childhood recollections of growing up in Galesburg, Ohio with her gore-obsessed, mentally and physically abusi...
As just three and four year olds, Maya Angelou and her brother, Bailey, are put on a train and shipped all the way from California to their grandmother who lives in the small town of Stamps, Ark...
Brutally abused at the tender age of two by her mother’s new boyfriend, Karly Sheehan is helpless. Her mother, Sarah Sheehan, does not show her daughter much compassion either. She acts oblivio...