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Libraries Join the Inauguration Bash By Rocco Staino - 01/19/2009
Today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States is being celebrated by libraries across the country. More
Libraries Gear Up for ‘New Moon’ Release By Debra Lau Whelan - 11/16/2009
School and public librarians are getting ready for the November 20 release of New Moon (Little, Brown, 2006), the second movie installment based on the popular Stephenie Meyer "Twilight" series about Bella and her vampire boyfriend, Edward.
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Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side 11/20/2009 Gr 7 Up–Seventeen-year-old Jessica Packwood was adopted as an infant and raised in rural Lebanon County, PA, by a socially conscious vegan couple.
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Those Shoes 11/19/2009 K-Gr 3–Maribeth Boelts’s award-winning picture book (Candlewick, 2007) offers a kid’s-eye view of shoe envy as well as a message about generosity.
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Graceling 11/17/2009 Gr 9 Up–Certain people in Katsa’s world are born with a particular Grace—a superhuman skill—and are identified by having two different colored eyes in Kristin Cashore’s debut novel (Harcourt, 2008).
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Bog Child 11/13/2009 Gr 8 Up–In Bog Child (David Fickling Bks., 2007), Siobhan Dowd has written a novel that can claim its place among the work of other great contemporary Irish authors, such as Frank McCourt and Roddy Doyle.
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A Fuse #8 Production Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Children's Center at 42nd Street June 13, 2007 Shh. Don't Say a Word.
Sheesh. I decide a book's one of my favorites of the year and then suddenly I don't ... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (unabr.). 9 cassettes or 9 CDs. 11 hrs. Recorded Books (recordedbooks.com). 2009. cassette, ISBN 978-1-4407-3888-3: $67.75; CD, ISBN 978-1-4407-3892-0: $97.75. Gr 7 Up–Seventeen-year-old Jessica Packwood was adopted as an infant and raised in rural Lebanon County, PA, by a socially conscious vegan couple.
Celebrity decorator Evette Rios reads to enthusiastic second graders at the Brooklyn Brownstone School library as part of a First Book donation event. The Eight O' Clock Coffee brand and Candlewick Press are teaming up to contribute 20,000 books to children across the country through their partnership with First Book, an organization that provides new books to children in need.
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Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (unabr.). 9 cassettes or 9 CDs. 11 hrs. Recorded Books (recordedbooks.com). 2009. cassette, ISBN 978-1-4407-3888-3: $67.75; CD, ISBN 978-1-4407-3892-0: $97.75. 
