Losure, Mary. The Fairy Ring, or Elsie and Frances Fool the World. Candlewick, 03/2012. 183p. Non-Fiction. Grades 4-8. OUTSTANDING. $16.99. ISBN 978-0-7636-5670-6. Nine-year-old Frances has recently arrived in England when she sees fairies in the [continue reading]
May 2012
Still Need Summer Reading Ideas?
Check out Susan Dailey’s blog, with storytime songs appropriate for the “Dream Big” summer reading theme: http://www.susanmdailey.com/2012SRP.html Check out the California Library Association’s ideas, given by Youth Services librarians at the last conference, available at: [continue reading]
“Briefings” Newsletter from CLA
The latest issue of the Briefings Newsletter from the California Library Association’s Youth Services Interest Group is now available: http://www.cla-net.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=261 . The new editor is Celeste Stewart of the Alameda County Library System, and ACL [continue reading]
Review of the Week
LaCour, Nina. The Disenchantments. Dutton, 02/2012. 308p. Fiction, 9-12, OUTSTANDING. $16.99, 978-0-5254-2219-8. In her second novel (Hold Still, 2009) local author LaCour perfectly captures the transcendent moment after high school graduation when nothing is settled [continue reading]
2012 South Asia Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
2012 South Asia Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2012 Winners Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw (Henry Holt and Company, 2011). Pen Pals Elliot and Kailash discover that even though [continue reading]
Jean Craighead George Dies at age 92
Author Jean Craighead George, best known for her middle grade novels such as Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain, has died at the age of 92. A cause of death has [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Nahson, Claudia J. Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats. Ezra Jack Keats, Illus. Jewish Museum/Yale Univ., 2012. 92p. $27.50. 978-0-300-17022-1. HIGH ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL City scenes and city kids populated Ezra Jack Keats’ [continue reading]
Teen Read 2012 Website Offers Ideas
YALSA launched its Teen Read Week 2012 website at http://teenreadweek.ning.com/ . Teen Read Week will be celebrated Oct. 14-20, with a theme of It Came from the Library, which dares teens to read for the [continue reading]