Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Hunger Games is now a movie!




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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

'Speak' Goes Digital


'Speak' Goes Digital

Since it was first published in 1999 by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak has reached millions of readers. Now Macmillan is hoping to attract millions more with the digital debut of Speak and the release of a new paperback edition from Square Fish. Twelve years after its debut, with more than 2.5 million copies sold, a 2005 movie adaptation starring Kristen Stewart, and after being translated into 20 languages, the novel still speaks just as loudly now as it did then.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's a Superhero Librarian.


It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's a Superhero Librarian.

How many of you think that Mrs. Harding is a Librarian by day, Superhero by night?? All of you?? Wow! Click HERE to nominate her to become a superhero on cool things like your lunchbox and thermos!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

'Today Show' Snubs 2011 Caldecott, Newbery Winners


'Today Show' Snubs 2011 Caldecott, Newbery Winners

Student Vaughn Hillyard Awarded for Defending Free Speech

Student Vaughn Hillyard Awarded for Defending Free Speech
It took former Arizona high school students Vaughn Hillyard and Sophia Curran 10 months to finally get a controversial story published in their Thunderbird High School student paper. But it was worth the wait.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Librarians Highlighted in New Book on Fun Careers


Librarians Highlighted in New Book on Fun Careers
As a little girl, Alisa Weinstein wanted to be a librarian—one of the reasons her new book, Earn It, Learn It (Sourcebooks, 2011), highlights the profession as one of the 50 fun careers that kids can mirror as they learn about the value of hard work and earning an income.