Fall Board Book Round-up, Part I As their older siblings go back to school, many babies and toddlers (and their caregivers) will be going back to the library for their own reading selections. In this [continue reading]
October BayNews Posted on ACL Website
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://staging.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]
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]