Wake by Lisa McMann Seventeen-year-old Janie gets sucked into other people's dreams, and she can't control it. Since the age of eight, she experiences everyone else's falling dreams, walking naked into class dreams, sex dreams, and nightmares. She has managed to keep her "condition" hidden for all these years, but now she is falling into a nightmare that is affecting her more than any other. Can she learn to control it? And what about Cabel, her newly attractive neighbor? What secrets is he hiding? Part mystery, part romance, and lots of the supernatural, I couldn't put this one down. I can't wait to read the next one!
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell WWII is over and the soldiers are returning home, including Evie's step dad, Joe. Shortages are over, skirts are longer and fuller, and 15-year-old Evie can't wait to be like her glamorous mother. And then she meets and falls in love with Peter, a young soldier who served with Joe "over there." But Peter has secrets, grown-up secrets he shares with her parents, and when those secrets blow up in their faces, Evie is forced to grow up and make some very adult choices. I literally was up until 3 a.m. finishing this book...so good! Karla Giraldéz, BCL
The Adolescent Literacy Workshop, help March 18, had a great turn out! Speakers Nicole Strang, Connie Abert, Jill Sharp, Donna Young, Pat Peters and Kym Buchanan did an excellent job.
Public librarians, academic librarians and media specialists gathered for the day to talk about this very important topic.
Hand outs and audio podcasts of the presenters are available on the NFLS CE Page.
I'm working on the promotional materials for the Zoomobile presentations this summer. As usual, you will get some posters and an attachment to customize a press release.
NFLS will send you an invoice for the $25 once the Zoomobile is at your library. You do not need to worry about paying the day of the presentation!
Here is the schedule.
May 14
TigertonSchool, 10:30 AM
June 10
Gillett Library @ 10:00 & Oconto Library @ 1 PM
June 16
Shawano Library @ 10:30 & 1 PM
June 23
SisterBay @ 10:30 & SturgeonBay @ 1 PM
July 1
Kewaunee @ 1 PM & Forestville @ 4 PM
July 8
Menominee @ 1 PM
July 14
Weyers-Hillard (Howard) Branch @ 1 PM
July 15
Kress Branch (DePere) @ 11 AM
July 22
Peshtigo @ 10:30 & Lakewood @ 1 PM
July 29
BrownCounty Central Library @ 10:30 & 1 PM
August 5
Coleman @ 10:30 & Niagara @ 1:30
August 6
Wrightstown @ 10:30 & Brown CountySouthwest @ 1 PM
The CCBC Choices booklets are in! Each library should've received its copy, of will be very soon. Remember that the CCBC presentation will be held on Thursday, May 21 from 1 -3:30 at NFLS. Invites will be mailed out in the near future.
Also, the DPI sent copies of a graphic novel that was worked on by DPI staff. It focuses on stories of 4 families with a loved one deployed to war. It was produced in cooperation with DPI, UW-Extension and Operation Military Kids. Please add it to your collections. There is a curriculum that goes along with it, but it is not being distributed at this time. If you'd like a copy of the the curriculum, there is a website on the back cover of the novel where one can be received.
The Curious George children’s program website offers earth science investigations to conduct with preK-2 children.These tested, age-appropriate activities are detailed online at aptly named “Curiosity Centers”.At these “Curiosity Centers” (or activity stations), children can make their own discoveries about recycling, wind, water drops, and the properties of soil and sand. Family take-home activity sheets can be downloaded along with book recommendations. A related episode from CURIOUS GEORGE, which might help introduce the topic of earth science to children, can be ordered for free by contacting Gay Mohrbacher at gay_mohrbacher@wgbh.org.Family activity pages in Spanish also can be ordered in quantity and will be shipped gratis.
Author and librarian Susan Dailey has added a page to her website with some activities you could use in storytime to go along with the “Be Creative” theme.
What is the relationship between the brain and music? That very question animates the Library of Congress' Music and the Brain series, and their website allows interested parties to listen in on some of the conversations, lectures, and symposia. Noted psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison chairs the initiative, and the programs bring together physicians, theorists, composers, and performers. Visitors can listen to some of these recent conversations via this website, and they can also sign up to receive new podcasts via iTunes. Currently, there are five different podcasts available. They include talks with Dr. Charles J. Limb ("Your Brain on Jazz"), Jessica Krash ("Dangerous Music"), and Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel on "The Music of Language and the Language of Music".(From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/, 2/13/09)
This web exhibition from the Getty Museum traces the influences of the Carracci family of Bologna, Italy, thought by some art historians to have revitalized painting in the late 16th century, after the passing of the great Renaissance artists. The Explore tool provided by the Museum allows visitors to see and read about all 43 paintings in the exhibition, including works by the Carracci themselves, brothers Annibale and Agostino, and their cousin Ludovico, as well as some of their followers and students, Guido Reni, Domenichino, and Francesco Albani. Works can be sorted by theme, artist, or lending museum using the tool. For example, sorting by portraiture creates a set of portraits: a young boy, possibly Antonio Carracci, who was Agostino Carracci's illegitimate son, shown with cherries and a lute; Giulio Mascheroni, a lute player; and two important religious leaders: Pope Gregory XV and Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino.(From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/, 2/13/09)
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