Monday, January 18, 2010

GLGB

The Great Lakes' Great Books Award will be coming to a close on Jan. 29th. The choices that the students are reading this year are:

Grades K - 1st

The Chicken of the Family by Mary Amato
Stick by Steve Breen
Pink by Nan Gregory
How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham
Look Out, Suzy Goose by Petr Horacek
The Cheese by Margie Palatini
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Story Blanket by Ferida Wolff & Harriet May Savitz

Grades 2nd - 3rd
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale by Deborah Hopkinson
When the Wolves Returned by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
Nurk by Ursula Vernon

Grades 4th - 5th
Chicken Feathers by Joy Cowley
Marco Polo by Demi
Who’s Jim Hines? by Jean Alicia Elster
The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich
Our White House: Looking In Looking Out Editied by the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
Blue Like Friday by Siobhan Parkinson
Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex
Beowulf: A Hero’s Tale Retold by James Rumford

23 Things

The library staff at GHAPS is participating in 23 Things. We will be reviewing and practicing various 2.0 tools, including blogging.