Not going to BookExpo America (BEA) this year? Neither am I. But I’m still going to keep up with all the hype and happenings through my subscription to the Children’s Bookshelf, the fabulous weekly enewsletter from our colleagues at Publishers Weekly. Current issue here; sign up here. Sometimes the best things in life really are free.
Mideast Peace Starts with Its Students A Web site run by college students, hoping to foster conversations about peace in the Middle East, was one of five winners of a $10,000 Berkman Award for its efforts to celebrate and embrace diversity in one of the most polarized regions of the world.
The 21-year-old director of Mideast Youth, Esra’a Al Shafei, from Bahrain, received the cash award from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society last week. The Harvard University-based research center is celebrating its 10th year, and is now a multidisciplinary program focused on fueling discourse about cyberspace. read more...
Hot Picks
BOOKS How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt
From SLJ 6/1/2008 Gr 9 Up–Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans is spending her summer with Homes from the Heart, a teen volunteer organization that is rebuilding a home in Bailey, TN, after the town is hit by a major tornado.
Listen up J. K. Rowling fans: a special anniversary edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, featuring exclusive bonus material from the author, new cover art, and a four-color frontispiece by illustrator Mary Grandpré, will be released on September 23, 2008.
The new cover depicts 11-year-old Harry looking into the Mirror of Erised, which the boy wizard comes across during his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and learns that the mirror shows more than what one desires. read more...
The American Civil Liberties Union has expressed privacy concerns over a Texas high school’s practice of piloting an electronic monitoring system to track truant students.
"They're residents of the United States, where certain freedoms are extended to everyone, even truants," says Terri Burke, director of the Texas ACLU, adding that however negligent in attending school these students are, they’re still entitled to a certain degree of privacy. read more...
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and Scott Nicholson, School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. This free Webcast is sponsored by Polaris Library Systems, and will be moderated by Bill Schickling, President and CEO.
Watch and Read: Spotlight on Media Tie-ins
A Cure for the Summertime Blues
The hype is building for Camp Rock, a Disney Channel Original Movie that will debut on television on June 20, 2008, and is sure to be popular with the High School Musical crowd. Aspiring singer/songwriter Mitchie Torres (Demi Lovato) longs to attend Camp Rock, a prestigious summer program for would-be pop sensations, but her family can’t afford the tuition. When her mother (Maria Canals) accepts a job as camp cook, Mitchie is thrilled to go along, even though it means helping in the kitchen. The shy 14-year-old feels a bit intimidated by the other campers, kids who seem accomplished, confident, and well connected in the entertainment world. read more...
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Gr 9 Up–Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans is spending her summer with Homes from the Heart, a teen volunteer organization that is rebuilding a home in Bailey, TN, after the town is hit by a major tornado.
