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The 2008 Average Book Prices are in. Get them while they’re hot.
P.S. Attention, you Maniacs (and residents of Alaska, Kentucky, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Scholastic Library Publishing's AMERICA the Beautiful Scavenger Hunt Sweepstakes ends on March 15, and we’ve received very few entries from those states. So head on over and submit an entry.
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| TechTrends |
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The San Jose, CA-based software maker is seeking creative high school students to submit their best work for its ADOBE Innovation Awards already underway.
Under the theme "My Community—My Planet—My 21st Century," students in grades 9–12 are invited to enter their best samples in Web design and development, film and video, and graphic and print design. read more... |
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Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye
From SLJ March 2008
 Gr 7 Up–Bees, Nye contends, could clearly teach us humans a thing or two. Though the insects themselves do not appear in all of this collection’s 82 pieces (poems are interspersed with short prose pieces), their spirit does. |
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Animated Tales of the World
Gr 3-6–This series offers an engaging look at folktales from around the world. John Henry tells the story of America during its westward expansion. |
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Uptown
K-Gr 3–A young boy takes youngsters on a tour of his beloved uptown neighborhood in New York City's Harlem in this visual and aural treat (Holt, 2000) written and illustrated by Bryan Collier. |
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| News and Views |
| Underachieving Kids May Have Poor Working Memory |
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Don't assume that your underachieving students aren't bright. They may just have poor working memory, say researchers who have produced a tool to assess kids’ memory capacity in the classroom.
Durham University researchers in the United Kingdom who surveyed more than 3,000 children found that 10 percent of kids across all age groups suffer from poor working memory that seriously affects their learning. Nationally, this equals almost half a million children in primary schools alone who are affected by this problem. read more... |
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| Teens' Knowledge of History, Literature Is Very Poor |
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One in five teens have no idea who America's enemy was in World War II, and more than a quarter believe that Columbus embarked on his journey of discovery after 1750. Meanwhile, half don't know what Senator Joseph McCarthy was investigating or what the Renaissance was.
Those are some disturbing results from a telephone survey of 1,200 U.S. teens that became the basis for a report called "Still at Risk: What Students Don't Know, Even Now" from Common Core, a new advocacy group for liberal arts education. read more... |
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| Fresh Approaches: Noteworthy New Editions and Reissues |
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Don’t Miss the Glump!
Shel Silverstein's first poetry collection, and his only volume to be illustrated in full color, Don't Bump the Glump! And Other Fantasies, makes an eye-dazzling return in a new edition scheduled for release by HarperCollins on March 18, 2008. Originally published as Uncle Shelby's Zoo in 1964, this book has been out of print—and missing from many libraries' shelves—for quite some time. Forty-five silver-tongued poems introduce a flock of fanciful creatures, including the elusive "Quick-Disguising Ginnit," the always-accommodating "Considerate Soft-Shelled Phizzint," and the ferocious "Feezus" ("There is a terrible twenty-foot Feezus./Shhh…I don’t think he sees us"). Ranging in tone from humorous to the slightest bit scary, each enchanting
offering stands solidly on its own: "This is the tail of the/Man-Eating Fullit./Let's not pull it." Silverstein's distinctive black-line renderings of bizarre beasts-unexpectedly splashed with bright watercolor washes—emphasize and enhance each poem's impact. read more... |
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| Children's Section Supervisor |
King County Library System
Bellevue/Lake Hills/Crossroads Library Cluster
Supervises & coordinates staff, work & activities of the Children's section providing professional library services to assure effective children's library services. Manages the collection development & programming budgets.
To see all positions available through the SLJ Career Center, click here...
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