Pérez, Celia C. First Rule of Punk, The. Fiction. Viking/Penguin/Random, 08/2017. 310 [+14]pp. $16.99. 978-0-425-29040-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Twelve-year-old Mexican American, zine-creating María Luisa—who goes by Malú—must move from Florida to Chicago for two years [continue reading]
Magic Misfits Read-Alikes
The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris Carnival Life, Orphans, and Outlaws Almond, David. The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas. Beasley, Cassie. Circus Mirandus. Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Clark, Henry. [continue reading]
Evaluating Books about Police from Oakland PL
Evaluating Books about Police: Colleagues at the Oakland Public Library (CA) have developed Evaluating Children’s Books About Police: a toolkit for librarians and other evaluators of children’s literature to help library selectors evaluate books for [continue reading]
December BayViews Session this Friday, Dec. 22nd
Hi all- Even though the December meeting has been cancelled, some ACL members are planning to hold a copy editing session this Friday, so that we can still get the December BayViews published and sent [continue reading]
A Different Pond Review
Phi, Bao. Different Pond, A. Thi Bui, Illus. Picture Book. Capstone, 08/2017. [32]pp. $15.95, 978-1-62370-803-0, PLB $23.32, 978-1-4795-9746-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. A boy describes a pre-dawn fishing trip with his father, who goes out before [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Cancelled for December; Next Meeting on January 12th
Message from our President Melissa Morwood: After much discussion, the ACL Board has decided it would be too difficult to try to hold a December meeting in the next few weeks, so we will next [continue reading]
Her Right Foot Review
Eggers, Dave. Her Right Foot. Shawn Harris, Illus. Non-fiction. Chronicle, 09/2017. 104pp. $19.99. 978-1-4521-6281-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. Full of random trivia, Eggers (This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, McSweeney, 2015) maintains the same flip tone [continue reading]
December 8th ACL Meeting Cancelled Due to Strike
The ACL meeting scheduled for Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 has been cancelled due to the strike by Oakland employees (including library staff), and closure of the library. Even though an alternate venue was available, the [continue reading]