Shang, Wendy Wan-Long. The Way Home Looks Now. Fiction. Scholastic, 04/2015. 272p. $16.99. 978-0-545-60956-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Twelve-year-old Peter recalls life before his older brother died in an automobile accident, before his mother became despondent, [continue reading]
September 2015
Counting by 7s Read-Alikes
Read-Alikes for Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan For ideas on using Counting by 7s in a book discussion group, check out: www.penguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CountingBy7s_lessonplans_14-lowres.pdf Baskin, Nora R. Anything but Typical. Bryant, Jennifer. Pieces of [continue reading]
BAYA Authors Panel Scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, 2015 in San Leandro
The Bay Area Young Adult Librarians will be holding their annual Authors Panel on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 from 9am-Noon at the San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro, CA 94577. Scheduled authors include [continue reading]
Pool Review
Lee, JiHyeon. Pool. Lee JiHyeon, Illus. Picture Book. Chronicle Books, 06/2015. [50]p. PLB $16.99. 978-1-4521-4294-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-5. In this wordless picture book, JiHyeon Lee’s delicate colored pencil drawings show a boy who is preparing [continue reading]
Professional Reading: WRITER TO WRITER by Gail Carson Levine
Levine, Gail Carson. Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink. Harper, 2015. 295p. $16.99. ISBN 978-0-06-227530-1. Adults and older high school students interested in writing fiction will enjoy this conversational follow-up to Levine’s earlier work, [continue reading]
Reading While White Blog, Star Wars Reads Day, New BayNews from ACL
Reading While White Blog: A new blog, “Reading While White” debuted this week, co-created by Nina Lindsay of the Oakland Public Library, along with Sam Bloom, Allie Jane Bruce, K.T. Horning, Angie Manfredi, and Megan [continue reading]
The Jumbies Review
Baptiste, Tracey. The Jumbies. Fiction. Algonquin, 04/2015. 240p. $15.95. 978-1-616-20414-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-5. The Jumbies is a modern take on Haitian folktales about the strange creatures who inhabit the forest. Eleven-year-old Afro Caribbean Corrine attracts [continue reading]
National Book Award Finalists Announced
National Book Award Finalists Announced: Ten books were named to the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award, Young People’s Literature category: www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_ypl_ll.html#.VfcSB5csDsb . Among them are Steve Sheinkin’s Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the [continue reading]