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“Booked” by Kwame Alexander
Tag: boys
Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Television
We Are Tied to Opportunity: Indi Review
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Jenny – “12 Children Who Changed the World” by Kenya McCullum
Cathie Sue – “Hot Rod Hot Dog” by Todd H. Doodler
Karl – “The Raven King” Maggie Stiefvater (Playaway edition)
Kelly – “A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls” Jessica Spotswood, ed
Adrienne – The West Wing podcast
Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy, Folktales, Nonfiction, Science Fiction
Hold a Tick: Indi Reviews
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Hold a tick. We’ve go indi reviews ready for you now.
Jenny – “Saved by the Boats: The Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11” by Julie Gassman and illustrated by Steve Moors – “Dragons vs. Drones” by Wesley King
Cathie Sue – “Skunked: Calpurnia Tate: Girl Vet” and “Counting Sheep: Calpurnia Tate: Girl Vet” by Jacqueline Kelly
Kelly – “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” by Jack Thorne
Karl – Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress [image from abcnews.go.com] – “Bright April” by Marguerite De Angeli
Adrienne – “Finders Keepers” by Roy Deering – “Extraordinary Jane” by Hannah E. Harrison – “Chukfi Rabbit’s Big Bad Bellyache” by Greg Rodgers and illustrated by Leslie Stall Widener – 2016 Reading Roundup Double “R” Author Tour
Action-Adventure, Alternative History, Fantasy, Graphic Novels
The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks
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Fantasy
Renewed: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
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We renew our checkout of “The Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater. This book kicks off the Raven Cycle series:”The Raven Boys,” “Dream Thieves,” and “Blue Lily, Lily Blue.” Get caught up before the fourth book “The Raven King” is released April 26, 2016.
Bullying, Contemporary Fiction
B.U.G. by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
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“B.U.G.” by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
Karl made a klezmer music playlist for B.U.G. in GrooveShark – http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Klezmer+For+B+U+G/88347562
Upcoming podcast: “Panic” by Sharon Draper
Fantasy
The False Prince
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“The False Prince” by Jennifer A. Nielson
All recommendations are on the CYA Podcast Pinterest board
Cathie Sue
Emily
Jenny
Karl
Adrienne
Upcoming books:
“Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am” by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
Art, Author Visit, Bullying, Fantasy, Television
Grimm Legacy & Leverage
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Polly Shulman (author website)
Joshua C. Cohen (book website)
Roll Call Question
What author would you most like to meet?
Extended Leverage Resources
When She Hollers by Cynthia Voight
Brick (movie, Wikipedia entry, currently Netflix Instant)
Recommendations
Cathie Sue
Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward
Jenny
Hint Fiction by Robert Swartwood
Whiff of Pine, Hint of Skunk a Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell
Karl
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl (Wikipedia entry)
Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
Modern Masters series published by Abbeville Press
Swords: An Artist’s Devotion by Benjamin Boos
Adrienne
The Good Wife on CBS
My So-Called Life, Netflix Instant (Thanks FYA!)
Emily
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
ALSC, American Library Association, Humor, Television, YALSA
Guys Read: Funny Business, or, Prison Ages You
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edited by Jon Scieszka, Guys Read – author website, boys literacy program website
Roll Call Question: What book have you read the most times in your life?
Cathie Sue: But Not the Hippotomas, Go Dog Go, Caddie Woodlawn, Gone with the Wind
Emily: Good Night Moon, Monster at the End of the Book, The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Hobbit, Weetzie Bat
Karl: Phantom Tollbooth, The Dark is Rising series
Adrienne: My Book About Me, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Christine
Topic: ALA Youth Media Awards 2011; ALSC, YALSA
Recommendations:
Emily
Nova Science Now hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson
Cathie Sue
TV Shut off for a week
Karl
Lost by Jacqueline Davies
Silk by Caitlain Kiernan
Adrienne
Modern Family
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Bradley Cooper
Last Words:
Maureen Johnson at Metropolitan Library System Libraries, April 5 – 7, 2011 (Facebook)
Gene Luen Yang at Tulsa City County Library System Libraries
Upcoming Books:
6 picture books selected by Cathie Sue and Jenny
- Banana! by Ed Vere
- Stalling by Alan Katz
- Two Dumb Ducks by Maxwell Eaton
- Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton
- Big Rig Bugs by Kurt Cyrus
- Phileas’ Fortune by Lestrade and Thirteen Words by Lemony Snicket
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
Grim Legacy by Polly Shulman