Sailing toward a new horizon? A bookmark I made for my SIL who loves to travel, in books and in real life. I’m still working on my Spanish. I continue to listen […]
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ALA Awards
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal, When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead. Yesterday, at something like 3:45 a.m. Alaska Time, the American Library Association announced their 2010 award winners, including […]
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father’s “Bunny Rabbit.” A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive […]
Weekend Site Seeing
Today I’m sending you to the readergirlz blog to see a video they re-posted from YouTube, originally made by John Green.Twilight, which will make sense after you go site seeing. I could […]
New Ambassador Announced
Jon Scieszka completed his two-year term as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature yesterday. I’ve oohed and ahhed and sighed over Jon Scieszka here before. I love his Math Curse and Science […]
Reading Roundup
What’s Mike reading to me? The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, by Rick Yancey. By most accounts, and especially by teen accounts, fifteen-year-old Alfred Kropp is a loser. Being over-sized and under-intelligent, […]
