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About Our Media Center

Orange County Public Schools' library media programs are the hub of our schools and provide equitable access to resources that engage students in learning. Through promoting reading appreciation, teaching digital and information literacy skills, facilitating inquiry through both independent and collaborative learning, library media programs contribute to ensuring that every student has a promising and successful future.

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HCMS Library Staff

Collection Development Procedures

Orange County Public Schools' collection development procedures are documented on School Board Policy IJL - Library Materials Selection and Adoption. Library media materials, whether purchased or donated, are selected by a school district employee who holds a valid educational media specialist certificate. Our school’s collection development plan can be accessed using the link below:

Library Catalog

Orange County Public Schools uses Follett Destiny’s Library Management System to catalog all materials maintained in the school library media center. The Destiny Library Catalog can be accessed by hovering over the Media Center tab on this website and selecting the “Destiny Library Catalog” option from the dropdown menu.

The public has access to search any school’s library catalog for available titles. This brief video demonstrates how to search a school’s library catalog: Destiny Instructions Video (Spanish Video)

Additional library media materials can be accessed through the following links or on LaunchPad.

Classroom Libraries

Our school's classroom libraries are available to the public at the link below and may be searched by title or author.

Instructional Materials

A list of all instructional materials, including those materials used to provide instruction required by Section 1003.42, Florida Statutes, are linked below.

All supplemental instructional materials, purchased by the school or district, are linked below:

School and Grade-Level Reading Lists

A list of all materials, specifically books, required as part of a school or grade-level reading lists are accessible below.

  • A list of all materials, specifically books, required as part of a school or grade-level reading lists are accessible below.Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards: Sample Texts
    •  Pages 158-160 for 6th-8th grade ELA Sample Texts & page 170 for 6th-8th Civic Literacy Reading List https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7539/urlt/elabeststandardsfinal.pdf
  • Classroom Novels Embedded in OCPS Approved Curriculum which Language Arts teachers may use:
    • 6th: Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
    • 7th: Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
    • 8th: Graphic novel version of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, and Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
    • Scholastic Lit Circle Books 
  • Other novels/texts approved by administration that Language Arts or Reading teachers may use:
    • 6th: Love that Dog by Sharon Creech, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Mulan (movie), Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
    • 7th: Holes by Louis Sachar (book & movie), The Lottery (short film), Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
    • 8th: Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Stephen Gammell; The Giver by Lois Lowry; The Giver (movie, with permission); The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton; The Outsiders (movie, with permission); My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (podcast); Twilight Zone: Button, Button; The Mars Patel Podcast; Serial (podcast, with permission); Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson; National Treasure: Book of Secrets (movies); The Lorax (movie)
    • 6th-8th Intensive Reading: “Baseball Pasta” by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

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OCPS and HCMS use Beanstack!
Beanstack is an app/site to participate in reading challenges!

Have more questions about Beanstack? Visit our Information Sheet for additional information. Let's show OCPS what amazing readers we are!
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OCPS and HCMS use SORA!
Sora is an app/site used to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks. 


Don't know how to use Sora? Visit our Information Sheet to find out. It is an amazing resource --let's make sure to utilize it!

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Need to pay a library fine or for a lost book? Visit here.

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HCMS hosts a renowned author yearly!

2026’s visit is returning favorite CHRISTINA DIAZ GONZALEZ!
All students will be able to see Christina present!

Christina Diaz Gonzalez smiles while signing books, surrounded by stacks of her novels.

Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Website
Visit is on February 27th, 2026!

Mark Oshiro smiles, holding a copy of 'The Sun and the Star' by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro.

This year we get a bonus author visit, too!! Author Mark Oshiro coming to visit our school on November 6th, 2025! For this visit, students will be able to sign up to attend. 
Mark Oshiro’s Website

Want to help fund our annual author's visit? 
Reach out to Ms. Moye at Kellee.Moye@ocps.net to make a donation!

Our Past Visiting Authors
2019 - Jennifer Nielsen
2020 - Neal Shusterman
2022 - Nathan Hale
2023 - Christina Diaz Gonzalez
2024 - Jerry Craft
2025 – George O’Connor
Help us fund our next visit!