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48 Hour Book Challenge Review #7
140 Character Synopsis/Review: Things are rough at home and soon Tommy has caused more trouble in the neighborhood than he knows what to do with, how can he fix it? Title: Paper Cowboy Author: Kristin Levine Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publication Date: 2014 Page Number: 333 pgs.
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Geronimo Stilton Party
Although I had hoped for a larger turnout as these books can’t stay on our shelves… we still celebrated with 7 kids in 2nd – 4th grade yesterday afternoon. I suspect that many families are getting to the burnout stage of the school year and just can’t do one more…
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National Readathon Day
Tomorrow (Saturday, January 24th) from Noon – 4:00pm in your own respective time zone, take some time to READ! The National Book Foundation is encouraging the nation to take time to pick up a book and read with this event, so make sure you have some reading material handy –…
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What’s Black and White and Read All Over?
I’m over at the ALSC blog today posting about a great program I did with middle school students. It’s a simple program involving old newspapers, some scissors, glue and scrap paper… and of course some imagination!
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Daniel Rubin Column
Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer posted an article today entitled “Libraries’ Experts on Call: A Dwindling Breed” about the librarians of the Free Library of Philadelphia that field the general information questions posed by patrons. Within the article Daniel Rubin points out how the 14 in-demand librarians of the…