ALA/ALSC Announce Youth Media Awards American Library Association announces 2023 Youth Media Award winners NEW ORLEANS – The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children [continue reading]
January 2023
Free YA Novelists’ Convention
Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) 2023 Author Bill Konigsberg. The Peninsula Libraries’ 8 th annual Young Adult Novelists’ Convention (YANovCon) will take place Saturday, February 11, 2023, at the Burlingame Community Center, opens a new [continue reading]
Woman Who Split the Atom Review
Moss, Marissa. Woman Who Split the Atom, The: The Life of Lise Meitner. Harry N. Abrams, 04/2022. 264pp. Biography. Grades 6-10. $19.99. 978-1-4197-5853-9. Outstanding. Moss crafts an engrossing biography of Lise Meitner, a Jewish Austrian nuclear physicist, exploring the [continue reading]
Last Mapmaker Read-Alikes
Read-alikes for The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat Ahmed, Samira. Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds. Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Barnhill, Kelly. The Ogress and the Orphans. Connor, Leslie. [continue reading]
You Only Live Once, David Bravo Read-Alikes
Read-alikes for You Only Live Once, David Bravo by Mark Oshiro Brown, Roseanne A. Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting. Calonita, Jen. The Retake. Gemeinhart, Dan. The Midnight Children. Hernandez, Carlos. Sal and Gabi [continue reading]
Meg Medina Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Meg Medina Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Newbery Medal-winning author Meg Medina was named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2023-24 by the Library of Congress. She is the first Cuban-American to [continue reading]
2023 Mini-Grant Applications Now Available
ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN’S LIBRARIANS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MINI-GRANT APPLICATION FOR LIBRARY PROGRAMMING – 2023 The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California are pleased to announce our next round of Mini-grants for library programming, [continue reading]
Peace Is a Chain Reaction Review
Stone, Tanya Lee. Peace is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together. Candlewick, 09/2022. 165pp. Non-Fiction. GRADES 5 – 10. OUTSTANDING. Trade $24.99. 978-0-7636-7686-5. With a [continue reading]