PA Young Reader's Choice Awards Book Program

PA Young Readers Choice Award Books - this program encourages kids, K-12, to read. It's a great opportunity for public and school libraries to collaborate. The PA School Librarians Association develops the lists. School librarians manage the voting process (February/March elections), and the public libraries can simply buy books in support of their kids, their community, their schools, and their school library partners. What could be easier...and more beneficial for our students? :)

PA Young Reader’s Choice Awards Program - Master List for 2009-2010

Kindergarten to Grade 3

Elise Broach,When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
Carmen Agra Deedy, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: Cuban Folktale



Carmen Agra Deedy at 2008 TED Conference:



Marla Frazee, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
Janice N. Harrington, The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Juliana Hatkoff, Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World
Jennifer Holm, Baby Mouse 1: Queen of the World
Susan Katz, Oh, Theodore!: Guinea Pig Poems
Holly Keller, Help!: A Story of Friendship
Mona Kerby, Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch
Cynthia Rylant, Annie and Snowball and the Dress-up Birthday
Barbara Samuels, Dolores Meets Her Match
April Pulley Sayre, Vulture View
Gwenyth Swain, Riding to Washington
Melanie Watt, Scaredy Squirrel
Mo Willems, There Is a Bird on Your Head!

Children's Book Week May 11-17, 2009. I'm guessing May 10-16 are the dates for 2010.




Booktalk Scripts for K-3 Books

Grades 3 to 6

Tiki and Ronde Barber, Kickoff!



Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Andrew Clements, Room One: A Mystery or Two
Sally Cook & James Charlton, Hey Batta Batta Swing!: The Wild Old Days of Baseball
Ellie Crowe, Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
Candace Fleming, The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary
Charise Mericle Harper, Just Grace
Steve Jenkins, Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
Lynne Jonell, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Ellen Levine, Henry's Freedom Box
Grace Lin, The Year of the Rat
Elizabeth Matthews, Different Like Coco
Barbara O’Connor, How to Steal a Dog
Kevin O’Malley, Gimme Cracked Corn & I Will Share
Jody Feldman, The Gollywhopper Games

Booktalk Scripts for Grades 3-6 Books

Grades 6-8

Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
Avi, Seer of Shadows
Janet Lee Carey, Dragon's Keep
Caroline B. Cooney, Diamonds in the Shadow
Sid Fleischman, Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
Margaret Peterson Haddix, Found
Gordon Korman, Schooled
Kadir Nelson, We Are the Ship
James Preller, Six Innings
James Rumford, Beowulf:A Hero's Tale Retold
Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Jon Scieszka, Knucklehead
Jordan Sonnenblick, Notes from the Midnight Driver
Scott R. Welvaert, Curse of the Wendigo
Don Wood, Into the Volcano

Booktalks for Grade 6-8 Books

Young Adult

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Blake Nelson, They Came from Below
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Chris Crutcher, Deadline
John Green, Paper Towns
Gordon Korman, The Juvie Three
Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals
E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise over Fallujah
Mary E. Pearson, Adoration of Jenna Fox
Daniel H. Pink, Adventures of Johnny Bunko
Neal Shusterman, Unwind
James Swanson, Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

Booktalks for Young Adult Books

For more information, to to www.psla.org and click on PA Young Readers Choice Awards Program and Booklists.

Chris Crutcher


John Green on Romance




Scott Westerfield...from YouTube 1:46 minutes


2008-09 Podcast Video Booktalks for Book selections Grades 6-8

The New Book Report?

I just visited a terrific librarian, Penny Arnold.
She said kids today are different than kids of 10 years ago.
Part of the difference is technology.
I watched a class putting together a visual literacy project.
They were limited in the time their videos could run and the number of words they could use.
They used images, and if they wished, audio.
I have to wonder if some of the following aren't the new face of book reports...or reports in general.
Penny told me the power point is passe...kids just aren't interested.
Our need for literacy is expanding beyond just words.
Images are an international language.
Penny suggested learning Moviemaker software. She's absolutely right.


The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold...well, sort of. The creators take liberties with the storylines...but that's remix for ya!


The Lovely Bones - take 2! A different interpretation.


The Lovely Bones - take 3.


The Lovely Bones Movie-Book Trailer
It looks like a Hollywood production...but it's not credited as such on YouTube. It was posted on January 2, 2009 by catshattuck. Looks professional to me, and as I look at this it reminds me of the simplicity of Lessig's power points - images and words. Bottom line - we and our students have more tools with which to communicate.



And a spoof on Twilight, just for fun. Shelly shared this with me.

A thesaurus love story, be still my heart!

OK, I confess I'm a library geek...and loving it!
Hope you do too!

Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person

Libraries had best get with the program.
Check out this link...intelligent, funny, and true.
Created by Michael Edson for the IMLS WebWise Conference Feb 26-27, 2009

http://usingdata.typepad.com/usingdata/2009/03/web.html

Web 2.0 and education

Don Tapscott discusses education and work in the Web 2.0 environment