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 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]