New ACL BayNews Posted: The October 2015 BayNews (the newsletter for the Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California) is now available on our website: http://www.bayviews.org . You will find the the first part of [continue reading]
National Book Award Nominees
National Book Awards Nominees Announced: The five nominees for the National Book Award, Young People’s Literature Category were announced on Oct. 14, 2015. The five are: The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin, Little Brown [continue reading]
Professional Reading: Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens
Cart, Michael, and Christine A. Jenkins. Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens: Coming Out, Being Out, and the Search for Community. Chicago: Huron Street Press, 2015. 180 pages. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-937589-56-1. Grade 7 to Adult, [continue reading]
“BookPALS” – a Project of the Screen Actor’s Guild Foundation
BookPALS, which stands for Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools, is a project of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. It is their “signature children’s literacy program,” with the goal of developing the love of reading [continue reading]
Outstanding! – September 2015
Every 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]
Reminder: ACL Meeting this Friday, October 9, 2015
ACL Meeting Friday, October 9 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, October 9, 2015, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Novel-Ties Videos Available, Bridge to Reading Award Nominees Announced
Novel-Ties Videos Offered by Multnomah County Library: Check out this new resource from the Multnomah County Library (Oregon): Novel-Ties! https://multcolib.org/educators/school-corps/novelties. Multnomah County Library School Corps librarians wanted to share these videos, in hopes they will be [continue reading]
George
Gino, Alex. George. Fiction. Scholastic, 09/2015. 240p. $16.99. 978-0-545-81254-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-6. A 10-year-old, white, transgender girl, George (or Melissa as she names herself later in the novel), takes first steps toward introducing her true [continue reading]