ACL Meeting Friday, July 8, 2016: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, July 8, 2016, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Radioactive! Review
Conkling, Winifred. Radioactive! How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World. Non-fiction. Algonquin, 01/2016. 227pp. $17.95. 978-1-6162-0415-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-12. In the 1930s, “the world of physics was exploding with exciting [continue reading]
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs Review
Park, Linda Sue. Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs. Picture Book. Jennifer Black Reinhardt, Illus. Clarion, 03/2016. [40]pp. $16.99. 978-0-544-39101-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 1-4. Eighteen animals are joined with their homonymic and homographic verbs, sometimes doubled, sometimes [continue reading]
Flipped Read-Alikes
Romance for Tweens Readalikes for Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen Bauer, Joan. Squashed. Blackstone, Matt. Sorry You’re Lost. Blume, Judy. Tiger Eyes. Boie, Kirsten. The Princess Trap. Cleary, Beverly. Fifteen. Eyre, Lindsay. The Best Friend [continue reading]
Author Lois Duncan Dies
Author Lois Duncan Dies: Lois Duncan, author of suspense mysteries for tweens and teens including I Know What You Did Last Summer (Harper, 1973), has died at the age of 82 at her home in [continue reading]
Wooden Prince Review
Bemis, John Claude. Wooden Prince, The. Fiction. Out of Abaton Series, Bk. 1. Disney/Hyperion, 03/2016. 313pp. $16.99. 978-1-4847-0727-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-9. The fairytale of Pinocchio, the puppet who becomes a boy, is thrillingly twisted in [continue reading]
Professional Reading: Innovation Age Learning
Professional Reading Sakai-Miller, Sharon “Sam.” Innovation Age Learning: Empowering Students by Empowering Teachers. International Society for Technology in Education, 2016. 186p. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-56484-355-5. Although this was written for classroom teachers, youth services librarians will [continue reading]
Author Rhoda Blumberg Dies
Author Rhoda Blumberg Dies: Newbery Honor recipient Rhoda Blumberg died at home on June 6th at the age of 98. She wrote more than 25 nonfiction books for children, including Commodore Perry in the Land [continue reading]