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Ah, Children's Book Week (May 13-19,2013) -- one of my favorite weeks of the year.  Yes, it's a week devoted to children's books, but it is so much more!  Established in 1919, it is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country.  It is sponsored by Every Child a Reader and the Children's Book Council.  The official website has tons of great celebration ideas for kids and teachers/librarians.  Will you read a Children's Choi

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is on most high school reading lists.  And, beginning May 10, 2013, it is also on the big screen.  Obviously, you should read the book first.  If you don't get around to it until after you see the movie, that's okay too.  If you never get around to it because you're too busy reading other amazing books set in The Roaring Twenties . . . well, I guess we can forgive you.
FICTION
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen (#1)
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers
Sirens by Janet Fox
Vixen by Jillian Larkin (#1)
BEHIND-THE-SCENES
The 1920s: From Prohibition to Charles Lindbergh by Stephen Feinstein
The 20s & 30s: Flappers & Vamps by Cally Blackman
America in the 1920s by Edmund Lindop & Margaret J. Goldstein
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
Three Across: The Great Atlantic Air Race of 1927 by Norman H. Finkelstein

That's Eoin Colfer and Rick Yancey, two of my favorite authors. Both are known for fantastical adventure series and had a new book come out yesterday, May 7, 2013.  Both books are starts to new fantastical adventure series.  Yesterday was a good day.
W.A.R.P.: The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer
Riley has been pulled into the FBI's covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.  Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

Summer vacation is fast approaching and so is summer reading.  Make sure your child embraces both.  Numerous studies indicate that students who don't read over the school break experience what is known as the "summer slide" -- a stagnation or regression in reading ability.  This is easily avoidable if you follow these helpful hints.

Confession!  I haven't yet been pulled into one of James Riley's fairytale adventures.  But it is at the top of my to-do list.  How could it not be?  The kids in my This Just In! book club love him.  The kids I talk to after my speed booktalking sessions in the schools love him.  And the kids looking for his books right here at Hoover Public Library -- guess what?  They love him!  Which reminds me, I better wrap this blog up so I can grab his first book before someone beats me to it.
1. Half Upon a Time
2. Twice Upon a Time

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