School Library Journal

Libraries Gear Up for 'New Moon' Release By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 11/16/2009 2:00:00 PM School and public librarians are getting ready for the November 20 release of New Moon (Little, Brown, 2006), the second movie...

In this article: New Moon, Maplewood High School, Twilight, Jacob Black, Carmel High School, and Skype

...O'Brien and Mike Sullivan Suggested from the American Library Association's 2009 Notable Children's Books Briefly, from The School Library Journal (grades four and up): "This handsome photo-essay features contemporary Afghan children...

In this article: Community School, Naples, Snacks, Cotton candy, Pizza, and Strategic planning

...(via Publisher's Weekly) Reed Business Information is putting Publishers Weekly and its affiliated publications, Library Journal and School Library Journal, up for sale. The sale of the group is part of RBI's strategy to divest most of...

In this article: Reed Elsevier, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Reed Business Information, and Random House

...for the week of Nov. 2, 2009 Suggested from the American Library Association's 2009 Notable Children's Books Briefly, from The School Library Journal (grade eight and older): "In this fairy tale of India set during the early 1900s, Raka,...

In this article: Outward Bound

...Chicago Opera Theater in 2003 that he also worked with its librettist Tony Kushner on a children's book version of the opera. The School Library Journal reviewed it this way: "This is an ambitious picture book that succeeds both as a...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Brundibar, Chicago Opera Theater, Hans Krasa, Where the Wild Things Are, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera

...compiles more than 100 poems by poets famous and lesser known into sections celebrating nine aspects of the natural world. A critic for School Library Journal has already pronounced the book an instant classic, "a powerfully integrated book of...

In this article: Erasmus Darwin, William Wordsworth, London, and Connecticut

...and the Recovery of the Past" Suggested from the American Library Association's 2009 Notable Children's Books Briefly, from The School Library Journal (grades five to eight): "Deem's lucid account explores mummified remains...

In this article: Outward Bound and New Balance

...new FCC net neutrality proceeding. The text is available from the FCC web site in PDF form relative to what the Commission is proposing. School Library Journal ran a piece in the matter. The story included extraneous issues that are not being...

In this article: FCC, Docket, E mail, and American Library Association

...His Forgotten Frontier Friend)" Suggested from the American Library Association's 2009 Notable Children's Books Briefly, from The School Library Journal (kindergarten through grade three): "Hopkinson has created a lively, participatory...

In this article: Collier County and Naples

...publishing. Her first novel arrived last year on a gushing wave of praise. Graceling was named a Best Book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews. Foreign rights were sold in 21 languages. Advance copies of...

In this article: Copper, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Williams College, and Simmons College