Tuesday, October 24, 2006

LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. There are three competition levels: Level I for children in grades 4 through 6; Level II for grades 7 and 8, and Level III, grades 9 - 12. Winners receive cash awards at the national and state levels. The submission deadline is December 8, 2006.

To learn more about how to enter, go to http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/letters.html

Letters About Literature 

 

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

New Fiction Titles Added

The Redwood Library has added almost 40 new fiction titles to the library today!  Many of then are continuations in a series.  Come to the library and be the first to check them out!  
  • Allison, Jennifer.                      Gilda Joyce : the Ladies of the Lake
  • Baker, E. D.                            No Place for Magic  (book four of The Tale of the Frog Prince)
  • Barron, T. A.                           The Eternal Flame (book three of The Great Tree of Avalon series)
  • Batson, Wayne Thomas            The Final Storm (book three of The Door Within trilogy)
  • Bell, Hilari.                              The Prophecy
  • Boniface, William.                    The Hero Revealed (book one of The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy)
  • Brennan, Herbie.                      Ruler of the Realm (book three of The Faerie Wars Chronicles)
  • Buckley-Archer, Linda.            Gideon the Cutpurse
  • Cabot, Meg.                             How to be Popular
  • Cabot, Meg.                             Party Princess (book seven of The Princess Diaries)
  • Colfer, Eoin.                             Artemis Fowl : the Lost Colony
  • Collins, Suzanne.                       Gregor and the Marks of Secret  (book four in the Underland Chronicles)
  • Cornish, D. M.                          Foundling (book one of Monster Blood Tattoo)
  • D’Lacey, Chris.                        Icefire (sequel to The Fire Within)
  • Delaney, Joseph,                       Curse of the Bane (book two of The Last Apprentice)
  • DuPrau, Jeanne.                        The Prophet of Yonwood (the third Book of Ember)
  • Fisher, Catherine,                      Day of the Scarab (book three of The Oracle Prophecies)
  • Glatstein, Jacob,                        Emil and Karl
  • Grant, K. M.                             Green Jasper (book two of The De Granville Trilogy)
  • Gutman, Dan.                            The Million Dollar Putt
  • Haddix, Margaret Peterson.      Among the Free (book seven of The Shadow Children series)
  • Ibbotson, Eva.                           The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
  • Kadohata, Cynthia.                    Weedflower
  • Key, Watt.                                Alabama Moon
  • Klass, David.                            Firestorm (book one of The Caretaker Trilogy)
  • Korman, Gordon.                       Island Trilogy
  • Larbalestier, Justine.                  Magic Lessons (book two of the Magic or Madness trilogy)
  • Melling, O. R.                           The Summer King (book two of The Chronicles of Faerie)
  • Morpurgo, Michael.                   The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
  • Nicholson, William.                    Seeker (book one of The Noble Warriors)
  • Nimmo, Jenny.                          Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (book five of the Children of the Red King )
  • Pike, Christopher,                      The Yanti  (book three in the Alosha series)
  • Price, Charlie.                           Dead Connection
  • Riordan, Rick.                           The Sea of Monsters (book two of The Olympians)
  • Ritter, John H.,                          Under the Baseball Moon
  • Snicket, Lemony.                       The End
  
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Friday, October 13, 2006

POSTER CONTEST @ yourlibrary

Create an award-winning poster for the California School Library Association’s Student Poster Contest.  Your artwork may be displayed in the association’s office in Sacramento and in their on-line student art gallery for the entire world to see.  The contest will focus on the value of school libraries, and the main requirement is creativity.  A winner in the grades 6-8 category will receive a $50 savings bond.  Pick up an entry form in the library.
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Banned Books Week

More than 5,000 readers cast their votes for their favorite challenged books as part of celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling led all voting with 1,490 votes. Online voting was hosted by the American Library Association (ALA), one of the sponsors of Banned Books Week (September 23-30). The annual event celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of a wide range of materials in schools and public libraries.
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Teen Reading Survey

In conjunction with Teen Read WeekTM, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is asking  students ages 12 through 18 to complete an online reading survey offered by SmartGirl.org. Teens may complete the survey on the SmartGirl Web site at http://www.smartgirl.org/speakout/surveys.html from now until October 31, 2006.  Now in its ninth year, Teen Read WeekTM is a national literacy initiative of YALSA.  The theme for Teen Read WeekTM 2006, "Get Active! @ your library®," encourages teens to read for the fun of it and use the resources at their libraries to help them lead active lives and find books on sports, fitness, volunteerism, activism, college preparation career direction and more.
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Teen Read Week

Vote for your favorite books during Teen Read Week – October 15-21, 2006!  Come into the public library to cast your ballot for your top picks.  Or go online to http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenreading.htm and choose the best from twenty-two nominated Young Adult book titles submitted by teen groups from around the country. The library will also sponsor events during the week for teens in grades 6-12.  Pick up a flyer in the Redwood library for details.

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The End

Lemony Snicket’s 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, The End, will be released on Friday, October 13th.  Here is his letter to readers found on the back of the book: Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents. It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket
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