Ahh! Summer! OOOoo!! Summer Reading! Each season seems to temper our reading selection and summer seems to be the time to stop meeting expectations and read to truly enjoy whether it be a pile of classics, a newly purchased paperback romance or the ESPN magazines that have been stacking up all year. It’s easier to get… Read More Summer Reading Matters
First, I’m so excited to tell you that Julie Kagawa’s Immortal Rules trilogy (yes! the entire trilogy!) has been purchased by Palomar Pictures. Her response to the news? Julie Kagawa @Jkagawa Guys, if you could see me…my feet are about 6 inches off the ground. Thank you all. #Giddy#theimmortalrulesmovie 🙂 Congratulations! The State Farm… Read More Cured and Gathered
ABC-CLIO’s 3rd Annual “Hunt for History” Brings History to Life with Scavenger Hunt for School Library Media Specialists, Teachers and their Students Winners to be announced in May. Prizes include iPads and online database subscriptions ABC-CLIO is calling for school library media specialists and social studies teachers around the country to join the 2012 “Hunt for… Read More Hunt for History
We hear a lot about what’s trending in YA lit (can you say DYSTOPIA?) but what’s trending when it comes to books with POC as main characters or books written by authors of color? What are you seeing that you haven’t read before? What seems to be repeating? This is what I’m noticing, please… Read More Trending in Color
If you missed Biblioburro on you local PBS station, you can view it here. I’ve got to start considering a blog platform that will allow me to embed a wider variety of videos! I watched this quiet story several weeks ago and was drawn into the labor intensive effort of delivering books to students in… Read More Biblioburro: The Donkey Library
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