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Friday, July 17, 2015

Make the Crossover: You need all the right moves and books!

Do you have all the right moves? Not if you haven't gotten "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander from they library!  Check it out... Yea, literally and figuratively speaking!

Here are some GREAT resources you need to check out.
                http://www.bookinaday.org/


I joined the Book Club for Kids!
http://www.bookclubforkids.org/

http://www.bookclubforkids.org/new-blog/2015/7/14/episode-2-the-crossover
 Book Club for Kids

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Need Another Good Book List?


Are you looking for your next "good read?"

 Try these on for size!



North Carolina School Library Media Association 
Book Awards

 2015-2016 Nominees
https://sites.google.com/site/ncslmayabookaward/
Middle School
  1. Anybody Shining by Frances O'Roark Dowell, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (October 7, 2014)
  2. Blue Birds by Caroline Starr RoseG.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers (March 10, 2015) {replaces The End by Michael Hopf}
  3. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander,  HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014 *
  4. The President Has Been Shot by James Swanson, Scholastic Inc, 2013
  5. The Flame of Olympus by Kate O'Hearn, Aladdin, 2013
  6. The Port Chicago 50 by by Steve Sheinkin, Roaring Brook Press (January 21, 2014)
  7. Rule of Three by Eric Walters, Square Fish (January 20, 2015)
  8. Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer, Putnam Juvenile (2014)
  9. The Troubles of Johnny Cannon by Isaiah Campbell, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (October 14, 2014)
  10. What I Came to Tell You by Tommy Hays, EgmontUSA, 2013

* Also on the MSBattle of the Books list!