Today's Podcast 11/24/2009

• Knowles, Johanna. JUMPING OFF SWINGS

  Knowles, Johanna.
  JUMPING OFF SWINGS
  Cambridge : Candlewick, 2009
  IL YA
  ISBN 0763639494
  "Their words made me feel beautiful. Irresistible. Even powerful for that one brief moment before it was over. But I was none of those things. I was nothing" Ellie has learned the hard way that she can be used. She believed the boys when they lied but then saw them just leave when it was over. Even Josh. Ellie thought he was different. But he just left her in the car and went back to the party. She saw him through the window laughing with the other boys. Laughing at her. Her depression deepens when she finds there are more serious consequences to her actions than talk in the boys lockerroom.

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Today's Podcast 11/23/2009

• Frost, Helen. CROSSING STONES

  Frost, Helen.
  CROSSING STONES
  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
  IL YA
  ISBN 0374316538
  They've been best friends just about all their lives. Muriel and Ollie Jorgensen and Emma and Frank Norman. They've grown up on adjacent farms and have jumped over the stones in the brook many times to get to the other farm. But now Frank has enlisted to fight in World War I. He is leaving for Europe and he asks Muriel if she will be his girl so he'll have someone to come home to. Is that a good reason? And then Ollie lies about his age and enlists as well. Told from the four perspectives, we see how war effects those who fight and those who wait.

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AASL 2009

Well, I am finally coming down from the high of AASL Charlotte. It was an amazing few days filled with excitement, information and the chance to hang with friends. The AASL Smackdown was a lot of fun. I got to be on the panel with some absolutely incredible librarians. Here I am with Nancy White. We co-presented Web 2.0 applications for reading promotion.

The final event was an evening at the Imaginon. This is the children's library of Charlotte. It is an amazing place. And was filled with amazing people. Here I am with Sara Kelly Johns at the party!

Today's Podcast 11/22/2009

• Patterson, James. WITCH & WIZARD

  Patterson, James.
  WITCH & WIZARD
  Boston : Little, Brown, 2010
  IL YA
  ISBN 0316036242
  Think it doesn't matter who is in charge of the country? Do you think that it is all the same if it Democrats or Republicans? Maybe you don't even pay attention to such things. Well, let's hope you never wake up to banging on your door in the middle of the night. Now that the New Order has taken over, things are changing rapidly. And the leader of the Order, The One Who Is The One, is trying to eliminate the children. And he really wants to get rid of Wisteria and Whitford Allgood. They don't understand why they are arrested and tortured. But when they are rescued by the resistance they learn the truth about their lives. And their destiny.

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Today's Podcast 11/16/2009

• Willems, Mo. NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED

  Willems, Mo.
  NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED
  New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2009
  IL K-3, RL 2.9
  ISBN 142311437X
  OK, what do you think of when you hear the word "naked"? OK, it means not wearing any clothes, right? So naked mole rats don't wear any clothes, right? Right. What's a naked mole rat you ask? “1. They are a little bit rat. 2. They are a little bit mole. 3. They are all naked.” Except for one. Wilbur. He is very different from his friends. He likes to wear clothes. And he has lots of clothes to choose from. Now his friends want him stopped. What will the colony ruler do?
  
  

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Today's Podcast 11/15/2009

• Westerfeld, Scott. BOGUS TO BUBBLY : AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF THE UGLIES

  Westerfeld, Scott.
  BOGUS TO BUBBLY : AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF THE UGLIES
  New York : Simon Pulse, 2008
  IL YA
  ISBN 1416974369
  Have you read Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series? Well, if not let me tell you a little about it. It takes place in the future when physical beauty is very important. As a matter of fact, everyone undergoes surgery to make them beautiful. Before then, they live together as a society of uglies. In the first book, we meet Tally who ends up not being sure that she wants to be like everyone else. The next 3 books follows the story through the end. This guide book is intended to be an overview of the world and help readers understand what is going on. You'll find out about the cliques. And the gadgets involved in the story. And so much more.

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Today's Podcast 11/12/2009

• Walsh, Chloe. FASHIONISTAS

  Walsh, Chloe.
  FASHIONISTAS
  New York : HarperTeen, 2008
  IL YA
  ISBN 0061370886
  Can you imagine what it would be like to get a job as an intern at a Vogue-like magazine. Wow, what a chance of a lifetime. The four girls in this story have done just that. Join them as they cover the teen fashion scene for the magazine.

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Today's Podcast 11/09/2009

• Vega, Denise. GRANDMOTHER, HAVE THE ANGELS COME?

  Vega, Denise.
  GRANDMOTHER, HAVE THE ANGELS COME?
  Boston : Little, Brown, 2009
  IL K-3, RL 3.0
  ISBN 0316106631
  As we get older, we change. Our hair may get a bit whiter. Our eyesight dims a bit. It gets harder to hear. As a young girl asks her grandmother about these, her grandmother has wonderful answers. “Grandmother, Grandmother have the angels come and painted your hair?” “Yes, my darling granddaughter. / They have painted it white / so I may become more like the clouds.”

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