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There are many reasons to write novels in verse, according to author Terry Farish: To reflect a culture’s music and literary heritage; to offer reprises of a language's rhythm; to create a fast pace that mirrors the character’s own ride; to bring the cinematic camera intimately close.
The new operating system of Amazon's tablet, the Kindle Fire, integrates social reading platform Goodreads, enabling users to rate and review books, track personal reading lists, share quotes, and see what friends are reading.
Barbara Park, creator of the loveable and impish children’s book character Junie B. Jones, died on November 15 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 66.
Written by Native American authors, the novels in the "PathFinders" series tell fascinating, fast-paced stories about contemporary and historical Native American teens. Publisher 7th Generation is giving SLJTeen readers an opportunity to win a set of all four titles in the "PathFinders" series.
Fifty Connecticut schoolchildren joined ALA president Barbara Stripling, library officials, and other Connecticut residents for a signing of the Declaration for the Right to Libraries at the Hartford Public Library.
The Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) Library Service to Special Population Children and Their Caregivers committee is now accepting online applications for the 2014 Candlewick Light the Way grant, $3000 specifically earmarked to promote library outreach to underserved and special populations.
"Okay, it’s time for us (and the real Newbery committee) to submit two more nominations for the month of November," writes Jonathan Hunt, on the blog Heavy Medal.
As school library professionals from around the country flock to Hartford, CT, this weekend for the AASL National Conference, Connecticut’s own media specialists are at a crossroads. They face one of the highest achievement and budget gaps in the US between the state’s poor and wealthy school districts. However, the potential for successful advocacy is very high.
At a tween-only library in Stockholm, the only patrons allowed are children between 10 and 13—a group that often feels too old for children’s sections but not yet ready for full-on YA experiences.
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