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Game time! In which we take ALA Printz and Newbery winners and mash them with Goodreads blurbs. Can you guess what the titles and authors are?
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Game time! In which we take ALA Printz and Newbery winners and mash them with Goodreads blurbs. Can you guess what the titles and authors are?
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Jenny: “Meditation is an Open Sky: Mindfulness for Kids” by Whitney Stewart and Sally Rippin
Karl: “Infinite Loop” an app game
Adrienne: “Peaky Blinders” Wikipedia entry of the BBC television show available on Netflix
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In which we play another game. Yay! Name That Title: Beginning or End; or Everyone vs Adrienne. Emily, Jenny, Cathie Sue, and Kelly get to choose a hint from the beginning or end of a title. They get two chances and discover this is a much harder and Adrienne is evil.
Producers note: please excuse the audio. Volume by participants ranges from soft to cheering. Adjust accordingly.
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In which we play a game called, Name That Title: Random Words! Emily, Jenny, Cathie Sue, and Kelly have to guess the title from two words picked randomly from the title. If they give me the title they get two points, if they need help, they get the author clue, for one point.
Shout it out if you know them.
Let the games begin!
Producers note: please excuse the audio. Volume by participants ranges from soft to cheering. Adjust accordingly.
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Yeah, we keep it real, yo. Our individual reviews for your ear bones.
“Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra” by Jason Fry
“Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” board game
“Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon In Two” by Catherynne Valente
“Man Made Boy” by Jon Skovron
“A Tangle of Knots” by Lisa Graff
A written review by Jenny
This book is a puzzle/story that is revealed as you read the book. Eleven year old Cadie is an orphan and lives in Poughkeepsie, NY in a world where everyone has a ‘talent’. Cadie innately knows the perfect flavor of cake for a person.
Cadie’s adventures start when she is adopted and goes to live in a boarding house over a luggage emporium. She is unknowingly connected to every person that stays there: a family with three spirited kids, one whose talent is spitting exactly where he wants, a woman who has lost the ability to speak, a loner and a very grouchy owner. A man in a gray suit makes several appearances and “knows more about the world than he’s letting on.”
Younger readers will need to read carefully to stay on top of the multiple viewpoints. I found this a thoroughly delightful read, crying and laughing along with the escapades of the well developed and loveable characters. The action moves along quickly as Graff knits the threads of the lives of each character into a satisfying whole. Each chapter begins with a cake recipe relating to the character the chapter is about. The author has baked these cakes and recipes are also on her website, http://www.lisagraff.com/. (One is called Zane’s Garlic Cake?) And, oh–a turquoise suitcase plays and important role in this book.
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“Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline (author website)
All recommendations are on the CYA Podcast Pinterest board
Cathie Sue
Emily
Jenny
Karl
Adrienne
Guest: Scott Freeman
Upcoming:
“Never Fall Down” by Patricia McCormick
6 PB Reviews:
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White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
Topic:
“The Rejectionist: A YA Op-Ed Mad Lib for Your Editorial-Writing Convenience“. The Rejectionist. Sunday, October 16, 2011.
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Cloaked by Alex Flinn (author website)
Resources
Elves and the Shoemaker
The Frog Prince
The Six Swans
The Golden Bird
The Valiant Little Tailor
The Salad
The Fisherman and His Wife
Grimm Stories has some of the tales here
Read Alikes
Modern Witches Guide to Cooking with Children by Keith McGowan, grades 5 – 8
Scribblies is a writers group with Emma Bull. The story Karl is citing is Jack the Giant-Killer by Charles de Lint. It’s easiest to find now in the volume called Jack Of Kinrowan, which puts it together with the sequel, Drink Down The Moon (http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Kinrowan-Giant-Killer-Drink-Down/dp/0312869592).
The series is just called The Fairy Tales Series, and you can see a listing of the books here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Windling#Bibliography.
Roll Call Questions
What author created a world so appealing you wanted to live there?
Topic
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Mary Sue
Recommendations
Cathie Sue
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
Mastiff by Tamora Pierce – book 3 of the Beka Cooper series
Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry – book 2 of the Rot & Ruin series
You Don’t Know About Me by Brian Meehl
Custom Knits by Wendy Bernard
Emily
Local hardware stores for art supplies
Jenny
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes and Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin with videos
Forger’s Spell by Ed Dolnick
Codex Alera by Jim Butcher – 5 book series
Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff
Karl
The D.U.F.F. by Kody Keplinger
L.A. Story (movie) with Steve Martin
Adrienne
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Game of Thrones on HBO
So You Think You Can Dance -Fox
Playaway View
Mugglefest: The Last Chapter – Norman Public Library
48 Hour Book Challenge by MotherReader
Interactive Fiction – text-based games, archive, and history
Upcoming Books
I Am J by Cris Beam
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
6 Children’s Books
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Red Glove by Holly Black (author’s website)
Roll Call Question:
What children/young adult blogs do you read?
American Indian’s in Children’s Literature
Bookshelves of Doom
MotherReader
Topic:
Oklahoma 2011 Sequoyah Winners and 2012 Masterlists
Recommendations:
Cathie Sue
Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
Mermaids are the new trend, here, here and here.
Ripple by Mandy Hubbard
Green Money by Not Holly Black
Emily
Dr. Who (BBC)
IPhone Nike +GPS app
Karl
Echo Bazaar (online game)
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly and playlist
Weeding your collection (see Space Between Trees entry)
Adrienne
List of best written and acted TV Shows