Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers. Non-fic. Candlewick, 2013. 148p. $24.99. 978-0-7665-5117-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-ADULT. The “Triple Nickles,” the first African-American paratroop unit [continue reading]
Reminders for ACL Institute, Infopeople Webinar
Reminder: ACL Institute this Friday, April 12, 2013: http://www.bayviews.org/institute.html – “We’re History: Finding and Sharing the Voices and Stories of Our Past,” 9:00am at the San Leandro History Museum, 320 West Estudillo Ave, San Leandro (one [continue reading]
Eve Bunting to Speak at SFPL, Misenta Wins Lindgren Award
Eve Bunting to Speak at San Francisco Public Library, April 30th, 6pm: Multi-award-winning author Eve Bunting, who has written more than 200 books for preschoolers, school-age children, and young adults, will be the San Francisco [continue reading]
Outstanding!
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]
ACL Dorothy Helfeld Fellowships Available
Children’s Librarianship – Is it for you? The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California (ACL) invites students of children’s librarianship and/or children’s literature to apply for one of three annual membership scholarships. Discover a [continue reading]
Review of the Week
Mills, Claudia. Zero Tolerance. Fic. Farrar, 2013. 231p. $16.99. 978-0-374-33312-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-8 When Sierra accidentally takes her mom’s bag lunch to middle school instead of her own, she realizes there is a small knife [continue reading]
Free Webinar – What’s New in Teen Literature
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Start Time: Pacific – Noon, Mountain – 1:00 PM, Central – 2:00 PM, Eastern – 3:00 PM Speaker: Michael Cart Are you wondering: What the latest things in YA literature are? [continue reading]
ACL Institute Rate for SLIS Students, BayViews.org Updates
Library School Students – take advantage of a special student discount and attend the Association of Children’s Librarians 2013 Institute, for just $25 for the day. The program, to be held on Friday, April 12 [continue reading]