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What are they reading for fun? Well, the word from the west, at least, is—you guessed it—lots of fantasy. Check below for the full report.
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| Interview |
| Life in the Wild |
 Biologist, ecologist, and photographer George Schaller has hope that his images of wild creatures in Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts (Farrar/Melanie Kroupa Bks, 2008) will inspire a new generation to protect the earth. We spoke with him in between his recent travels.
What do you think young people will respond to in the book?
It’s about animals that everybody can relate to: pandas, and tigers, and so forth. And that automatically creates interest and empathy because after all, conservation comes from the heart. If you can stimulate people emotionally, you will help conservation. Also, it shows photographs of my wife and children, which makes children aware that when they grow up they don’t have to settle down. They can go to wild, beautiful places with their whole family. We lived for over three years among lions in the Serengeti, and we lived with tigers in India. Children learn just by observing there are different kinds of life. It’s not just American culture. Other cultures are fascinating and unique. Each country offers something that’s worth considering. And children absorb that.
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| What Are They Reading for Fun? |
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For recreational reading, some teens are deep into fantasy–and brushing up on their Shakespeare, too.
Catherine Ensley, Latah County Library District, ID:
Moscow, ID, is the home of the University of Idaho, with Washington State University only seven miles away, which means that the parents of many of the town's high schoolers are professors. So when I polled the after-school crowd, one set of books mentioned was "No Fear Shakespeare" (Spark Publishing). Otherwise, there were few surprises. For teen readers in our rural environs, it’s still about fantasy. Among the series names that rolled off their tongues were Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” (Hyperion), “Inheritance” by Christopher Paolini (Knopf), “Ranger’s Apprentice” by John Flanagan (Philomel), and Erin Hunter’s “Warriors” (HarperCollins). Also mentioned were old-standby favorite authors Madeline
L’Engle, Lloyd Alexander, and Tamora Pierce. In manga, Tite Kubo’s “Bleach” (Viz Media) is at the head of the list. When someone said she liked Celia Rees, I was delighted to hand her Sovay (Bloomsbury, 2008), Rees’s latest historical novel. read more... |
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| News and Views |
| Rhode Island Now Educates Kids About Dating Violence |
There’s a new subject being taught this fall in Rhode Island middle and high school health classes: dating violence. The state legislature and the governor have approved the Lindsay Ann Burke Act in an effort to protect those most vulnerable to dating violence and now requires schools to educate kids on the subject.
Texas mandates unspecified awareness education on dating violence for students and parents, and other states, like Massachusetts, encourage it. But Rhode Island is the first state to require the topic be incorporated annually into the curriculum for students in seventh through 12th grade. read more... |
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| CyberPatrol Offers Free Online Safety Videos |
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, CyberPatrol has unveiled a series of family-oriented online safety videos that provide parents, educators, and others with easy to understand and useful advice on how to protect children from predators, cyberbullies, inappropriate material, and other online threats.
The series features Internet safety expert Linda Criddle, president of Look Both Ways, a company that consults with state and national governments, law enforcement agencies, and other organizations on online safety. Criddle also operates an Internet safety Web site and is the author of the award-winning book Look Both Ways: Help Protect Your Family on the Internet (Microsoft Press, 2006). read more... |
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| Remarkable Reads |
| Jealousy |
Negative emotions, ideas, or acts are sometimes triggered when someone believes a rival or a third party is threatening an important relationship. When a young child experiences jealousy, it is most often because he or she suspects that something loved–a person or a thing–could be taken away by someone else. It always helps to talk about it, and these titles are great discussion openers.
CROFT, Priscilla. Dealing with Jealousy/Qué hacer con los celos. tr. by Mauricio Velázquez de León. Rosen/Buenas Letra. 2008. PLB $21.25. ISBN 978-1-4042-7662-8
Gr 2-4 Rosen is moving through its entire “Dealing with…” series and adding bilingual editions with updated photographs. read more... |
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| Librarian's Internet |
| United Nations Cyberschoolbus |
| www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.shtml |
United Nations Day is October 24, the day the UN came into existence back in 1945. The Cyberschoolbus will teach kids about why the United Nations was formed and how it is organized. To find out about individual countries in the UN, click on the “Country at a Glance” section, then compare country data by experimenting with the “Infonation” database—a great source for statistics and homework assignments. Infonation is also a wonderful library reference resource—be sure to bookmark it.
Show teachers all the thematic lessons and units in the “Curriculum” section dealing with poverty, world hunger, human rights, and ethnic discrimination. Finally, don’t forget to try out some of the great educational online games—especially Against All Odds (a simulation that will let kids experience what it's like to be a refugee) and Stop Disasters (a disaster simulation), which are perfect for middle school kids. — |
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| Administrative Librarian |
Delaware Division of Libraries
Dover, DE
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