Welcome back Warriors! I am excited to be joining you this year for many reasons. I started my career as an 8th grade ELA teacher in a district outside Houston. After starting my Masters at TWU, I went on to become a librarian at Hightower High School in the same district. Due to my husband's job transfer, we made the move to Austin in 2011 and I started in RRISD as Berkman Elementary's new librarian. I spent two years at the elementary level, and while there are things I will miss about Berkman, I am ecstatic to be back at the secondary level, especially at Westwood. Thank you for being so welcoming. No surprise, but I love to read. Always have, and I imagine I always will. One of my favorite books of all time is The Giver by Lois Lowry. If you have not read it, you should do so. In a seemingly Utopian society where there are no societal issues like hunger, pain, homelessness, and poverty to cause chaos, Jonas, the new Receiver, discovers that maybe by making life "perfect", his community has made life not worth living. 
I am currently reading Divergent by Veronica Roth. I had been told it is similar to The Hunger Games series, which I enjoyed, but that it was better. While I have yet to finish the first book, I am beginning to agree. Tris, like Jonas in the Giver and Katniss in The Hunger Games, is the "different" one in a dystopia. Her character is strong yet weak at the same time. She has joined the Dauntless faction, almost the opposite of her childhood faction, the Abnegation, which were a selfless community. So far, she is in the initiation stage which has been terrifying and exhilarating at once. This one is definitely a page turner!