National Book Awards Names Longlist for Young People’s Literature: The ten authors up for the National Book Award in the Young People’s category are: Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson for The Undefeated, Laurie Halse Anderson [continue reading]
Treasure Hunters Read-Alikes
Treasure Hunters by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein Cody, Matthew. “Secrets of the Pied Piper” series. Dougherty, John. “Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face” series. Ephron, Amy. Carnival Magic. Francia, Giada. Alex & Penny. Fry, Jason. “Jupiter [continue reading]
Author Brendan Wenzel Coming to Mill Valley PL
Brendan Wenzel is coming to the Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Everyone’s invited, and info is on the Mill Valley Public Library website: www.millvalleylibrary.org/events/cals.htm. He’s doing it as part [continue reading]
SFPL to Host Kwame Alexander, Tommy Orange, F. Isabel Campoy
Christy Estrovitz announces more author events coming to SFPL’s Koret Auditorium: Kwame Alexander in conversation with Aimee Lucido on Tuesday, September 24 at 1:15pm. Hope to see you at the next Effie Lee Morris Lecture [continue reading]
OUTSTANDING! – August 2019
Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ and nominated for our Distinguished List at our previous month’s meeting. Members can see full reviews of these books and many more [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, Sept. 13th at Oakland Public Library
ACL Meeting Friday, Sept. 13, 2019: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. Our meeting [continue reading]
Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen Review
Vargas, Jose Antonio. Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen. Biography. HarperCollins, 2019. 130pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-291459-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-8. Pulitzer-prize-winning author Jose Antonio Vargas opens this young-reader version of his autobiography with a brief [continue reading]
Save the Date – ACL Institute
Save the Date – Annual Association of Children’s Librarians Institute Friday, April 13, 2020, time to be determined San Francisco Public Main Library – 100 Larkin St. Save the date for the annual Association of [continue reading]