Byers, Grace. I Am Enough, Keturah A. Bobo, Illus. Picture Book. Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, 2018. [32]pp. $18.99. 978-0-06-266712-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-1. In an inspiring and uplifting book that provides positive affirmation of the value of every [continue reading]
ACL Meeting this Friday, July 13 in Oakland
ACL Meeting Friday, July 13, 2018: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, July 13, 2018, from 9am–Noon at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Tragic Tales for Primary Grades
Tragic Tales for Primary Grades Beaty, Daniel. Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me. Bee, William. Beware of the Frog. Brisson, Pat. I Remember Miss Perry. Brown, Margaret Wise. The Dead Bird. Bunting, Eve. Smoky [continue reading]
Alcatraz Escape Review
Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss. Alcatraz Escape, The. Sarah Watts, Illus. Fiction. Book Scavenger Series; bk. 3. Christy Ottaviano/H. Holt, 05/2018. 262pp. $16.99. 978-1-62779-963-8. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES 4-7. As a promotion for the reopening of Hollister’s bookstore [continue reading]
Orchestras Storytime
Orchestras LIBRARIES ROCK! is the 2018 summer theme for the Cooperative Summer Library Program: www.cslpreads.org/ . For libraries using this music-themed summer reading/learning program, we have offered sound and music storytime outlines for the past [continue reading]
Estranged Review
Aldridge, Ethan M. Estranged. Ethan M. Aldridge, Illus. Graphic Novel. HarperCollins, 08/2018. 208 [+7]pp. $21.99, 978-0-06-265387-1, PB $12.99, 978-0-06-265386-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-7. In this fantasy adventure of two children switched at birth, a cruel sorceress [continue reading]
Buses Storytime
Buses The 2018 summer reading/learning program from iRead and the California Library Association is READING TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE!: www.ireadprogram.org/ and calchallenge.org/ . A great way to focus on this for toddler and preschool storytime is [continue reading]
Truth as Told by Mason Buttle Review
Connor, Leslie. Truth As Told by Mason Buttle, The. Fiction. K. Tegen/HarperCollins, 01/2018. 329pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-249143-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Mason is the biggest, tallest, sweatiest seventh grader at Merrimack Middle School, whose best friend Benny [continue reading]