Lee, Stacey. Downstairs Girl, The. Fiction. Putnam, 08/2019. 384pp. $17.99. 978-1-5247-4095-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-12. In 1890 Atlanta, Jo Kuan, a 17-year-old Chinese American girl, has just lost her job with a milliner for being a [continue reading]
ACL MINI-GRANT REPORT – DALY CITY
Fur, Tails, and Scales at the Westlake Library The Daly City Public Library was honored to be a recipient of the 2019 ACL mini-grant! On August 16th we were very excited to bring Fur, Tails, [continue reading]
Wait, Rest, Pause Review
Atkins, Marcie Flinchum. Wait, Rest, Pause: Dormancy in Nature. Non-fiction. Millbrook/Lerner, 09/2019. [32]pp. $27.99. 978-1-5415-6192-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. Don’t miss this well-executed non-fiction book for older preschool to second graders about a rarely discussed concept, [continue reading]
National Book Awards Names Longlist for Young People’s Literature
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]