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September 2015

Review

The Way Home Looks Now Review

Shang, Wendy Wan-Long. The Way Home Looks Now. Fiction. Scholastic, 04/2015. 272p. $16.99. 978-0-545-60956-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Twelve-year-old Peter recalls life before his older brother died in an automobile accident, before his mother became despondent, [continue reading]

Published on Sep 30, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: The Way Home Looks Now, Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Read-Alike

Counting by 7s Read-Alikes

Read-Alikes for Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan      For ideas on using Counting by 7s in a book discussion group, check out: www.penguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CountingBy7s_lessonplans_14-lowres.pdf Baskin, Nora R. Anything but Typical.  Bryant, Jennifer. Pieces of [continue reading]

Published on Sep 28, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan

BAYA Authors Panel Scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, 2015 in San Leandro

The Bay Area Young Adult Librarians will be holding their annual Authors Panel on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 from 9am-Noon at the San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro, CA 94577. Scheduled authors include [continue reading]

Published on Sep 25, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Professional Development
Tags: BAYA

Review

Pool Review

Lee, JiHyeon. Pool. Lee JiHyeon, Illus. Picture Book. Chronicle Books,  06/2015. [50]p. PLB $16.99. 978-1-4521-4294-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-5. In this wordless picture book, JiHyeon Lee’s delicate colored pencil drawings show a boy who is preparing [continue reading]

Published on Sep 23, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: JiHyeon Lee, Pool

Professional Reading: WRITER TO WRITER by Gail Carson Levine

Levine, Gail Carson. Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink. Harper, 2015. 295p. $16.99. ISBN 978-0-06-227530-1. Adults and older high school students interested in writing fiction will enjoy this conversational follow-up to Levine’s earlier work, [continue reading]

Published on Sep 21, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Out of the Ordinary
Tags: Gail Carson Levine, Writer to Writer

Reading While White Blog, Star Wars Reads Day, New BayNews from ACL

Reading While White Blog: A new blog, “Reading While White” debuted this week,   co-created by Nina Lindsay of the Oakland Public Library, along with Sam Bloom, Allie Jane Bruce, K.T. Horning, Angie Manfredi, and Megan [continue reading]

Published on Sep 17, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Message from ACL, News
Tags: ACL BayNews, Reading While White, Star Wars

Review

The Jumbies Review

Baptiste, Tracey. The Jumbies. Fiction. Algonquin, 04/2015. 240p. $15.95. 978-1-616-20414-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-5. The Jumbies is a modern take on Haitian folktales about the strange creatures who inhabit the forest. Eleven-year-old Afro Caribbean Corrine attracts [continue reading]

Published on Sep 16, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: The Jumbies, Tracey Baptiste

National Book Award Finalists Announced

National Book Award Finalists Announced: Ten books were named to the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award, Young People’s Literature category: www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_ypl_ll.html#.VfcSB5csDsb . Among them are Steve Sheinkin’s Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the [continue reading]

Published on Sep 14, 2015
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: Awards
Tags: National Book Award
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