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“A Book That Shaped Me” Summer Writing Contest | News Bites
Students entering the fifth and sixth grades in the fall of 2013 are encouraged to enter the “A Book That Shaped Me” Summer Writing Contest. The competition is sponsored by the Library of Congress in...
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Masters of Middle School Drama and Trauma | SLJ Day of Dialog 2013
Authors of SLJ’s DOD 2013 panel “Middle School Drama and Trauma.” l. to r. Holly Sloan, Ayun Halliday, Gordon Korman, Linda Urban, and Josh Farrar. From tragic turning points to budding first love,...
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McCall Smith, Green Win Audie Awards
The winners of the Audie Awards, the audiobook industry’s equivalent of the Oscars, were announced at the 18th Annual Audies Gala held at The New York Historical Society in New York City on May 30,...
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Help Rebuild Oklahoma Libraries; Lammys, Ezra Jack Keats Minigrants Presented...
Rebuild Oklahoma Libraries Capstone in helping young victims affected by the recent tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. The publisher will work with the two schools most affected by the disaster, Briarwood...
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Celebrate 15 Years of Harry Potter; Summer Reading for Latino Kids | News Bites
Throw a Harry Potter Library Party To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Scholastic is sponsoring a contest to give public libraries the...
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YALSA’s Best YA Fiction; Stop the Summer Slide; A Fake Blake | News Bites
The nominees for the 2013 Teens’ Top Ten have just been announced by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). These titles were published between January 1 and December 31, 2012. From the...
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Playaway Bookpack Program Launches; Educator Workshop at Serious Play...
Audio + Print = Literacy Skills Librarians can pair audio with print to build literacy skills. The launch of the Playaway Bookpack program has been announced by Findaway World. Each Bookpack features...
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PEN/Stephen Kroll Finalists Announced; I Love My Librarian Award Nominees...
Oldies but Goodies Ig Publishing has announced the launch of a new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books, committed to bringing back into print the best in young adult literature. The list will run the gamut...
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Applications Wanted for Kids in Need Foundation, Estela and Raúl Mora Awards...
Granted The Kids in Need Foundation is calling for applications for its 2013 grants program. The awards range from $100 to $500 and must be used for classroom projects. To apply for the program,...
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‘Allegiant’ Audiobook Narrator Contest; 2013 National Book Festival | News Bites
Audiobook Contest HarperAudio wants you to decide who should be the voice of Four in Allegiant, the final book in Veronica Roth’s young adult “Divergent” trilogy. The first two books—Divergent (2011)...
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NASA in the Classroom; Penguin Awards; ‘Artemis Fowl’ on Film; ‘He Said/She...
Save the date “NASA’s ‘Amazing Space’: Using Hubble Space Telescope Images in the Classroom” is being presented by the Smithsonian Online Education Conference series on August 14 at 4 pm EDT as part of...
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Capstone’s Interactive “Super” Ebooks; Gamers Wanted for the Innovation Math...
Interactive Comics Thirty-two titles from the “DC Super-Pets,” “DC Super Heroes: The Man of Steel,” “Superman,” and “Batman” series are now available as interactive ebooks from Capstone. An...
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Pick of the Day: A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole (Audio)
A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole. By Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano. CD. 1:17 hrs. Prod. by Listening Library. Dist. by Listening Library/Books on Tape. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8041-2181-1. $15. Gr 5-7–Gravity,...
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Manzano Wins Americas Award; Celebrate International Dot Day | News Bites
Celebrating Latin American Culture The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (Scholastic; Gr 6–10) by Sonia Manzano won the 2013 Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, established by the...
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Poetry Writing Contest for Kids; Eric Carle’s ‘Friends’ Exhibit | News Bites
Dare to Dream Contest Students in grades three through eight can enter the Dare to Dream…Change the World Second Annual Writing Contest for Children by creating an original biographical poem and a...
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Lego Essay Contest; Celebrate Picture Book Month | News Bites
Celebrate Picture Books For the third year, schools, libraries, booksellers, and book lovers are coming together to celebrate Picture Book Month in November. It’s an international literacy initiative...
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YALSA Summer Reading Grants; LOC’s Twitter Feed for Educators | News Bites
Summer Grants Looking for a great way to help fund your summer reading program? Well, the Young Adult Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), can help....
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Pick of the Day: Mr. Lincoln’s High Tech War (Audio)
Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War. By Thomas B. Allen and Roger MacBride Allen. 4 CDs. 4 hrs. AudioGO. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62460-216-0. $29.95. Gr 5 Up–The well-researched book (National Geographic, 2009)...
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Scholastic Art and Writing Awards; 2014 IRA Conference Program | News Bites
Ebooks on Demand Terri Soutor, former vice president of marketing and digital products at Lerner Publishing Group, a sister company to Brain Hive, and a key player in the formation of the company, has...
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Pick of the Day: Divergent | Audio
Divergent. By Veronica Roth. 10 CDs. 11:11 hrs. Harper Audio. 2013. ISBN 978-0-06-228643-7. $22.99. Gr 9 Up–In the dystopian Chicago setting of Roth’s novel (Katherine Tegen Bks., 2011), the population...
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