New year, New books just for teens this January! From Fantasy to High School Romance, check out the latest in YA Fiction.
A Chat with a Career Online High School Graduate
The Pratt Library was able to chat with graduate Lacrisha Pullen about her experience with the Career Online High School. Read along to find out more!
What was the process of going to school online like? How did you balance school and life?
Going to school online was convenient for my lifestyle. It was a little frustrating at times because I am a mom of young children but it helped a lot.
How do you hope receiving your diploma will impact your life? What’s next for you?
Now that I have my diploma I can move around a little more with work and school. I do have hopes in attending college and building a foundation for my family.
What advice would you have for someone considering the program?
GO FOR IT! please! do not let the doubt over take you. The online school is legit and I have successfully applied for my FASA and am awaiting for a response. It took me a year and at times I just wanted to quit and go with what I know but give it a try. Get it out of the way!!!
More about the Career Online High School
This self-paced, flexible program is designed for adults 19 years of age and older to continue their academic career by earning their accredited high school diploma (not GED) and a career certificate in 6 -18 months. Students who meet the enrollment criteria will receive a scholarship to cover the cost of the program. If selected for the program, students can expect to dedicate 8-10 hours per week to their coursework.
If you are interested in learning more about the program, please visit www.prattlibrary.org/career-online-high-school .
January is Financial Wellness Month! Now is the perfect time to check out these personal finance books to help you start 2022 on the best financial footing.
Revealing this practical ten-step process for the first time in its entirety, Get Good with Money introduces the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems.
Millennial Money Makeover takes readers on a six-step journey to transform their financial life and set them up for lifelong success. From learning how to pay off student loans insanely fast to optimizing a financial ecosystem, Millennial Money Makeover teaches readers how to reclaim their financial future and jump-start the path to the rich life.
Millennial Money Makeover by Conor Richardson, eBook
Two professors combine their fascinating and cutting-edge research in behavioral science to explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smart spending.
Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, eBook
Read the latest magazines this year with help from Overdrive. With a collection of magazines on current events, technology, health, lifestyle, and fashion, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
In honor of his birthday, January 15, we wanted to spotlight biographies on and speeches by the Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We hope that they inspire you!
Visit the Pratt website to log in for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture featuring Larry Gibson on Saturday, January 15 at 2pm. Find out more information here. Also, In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, all Pratt locations will be closed on Monday, January 17.
With knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, Clayborne Carson brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson, eBook
This historical compilation features highlights by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. including major speeches at Lincoln Memorial, Brown Chapel and Final Speech, day before Dr. King`s Assassination.
I Have A Dream, Film
Jackson demonstrates how Martin Luther King’s early years as a pastor and activist in Montgomery, Alabama, helped shape his identity as a civil rights leader. Using the sharp lens of Montgomery’s struggle for racial equality to investigate King’s burgeoning leadership.
Becoming King by Troy Jackson, eBook
Seen and heard in this original footage are the highlights of dramatic speeches and coversations spanning 1956 to 1968, including his last address on April 3, 1968, the night before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
Been To The Mountaintop, Film
