Menasha Joint School District Library Newsletter - Winter 2015 Caldecott and Newbery awards, free online magazines, and more

Winter 2015

The best children's books: Newbery, Caldecott winners announced - CNN.com The winners of the 2015 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Coretta Scott King and other prestigious youth media awards were announced Monday morning by the American Library Association. In addition to books, these awards highlight videos and other creative materials produced for children over the past year.     continue »     Read Free Online Magazines Through End of February To Login to the Free Trial: Go to: http://trial.ebscohost.com User Id: s6242848 Password: trial Good through the end of February Let me know if there are magazines we should make part of our permanent online collection.     2015 Building STEAM with Día book lists | Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) The four Building STEAM with Día book lists are available for children from birth to Pre-K, kindergarten to 2nd grade, 3rd to 5th grade and 6th to 8th grade. PDFs of the reading lists are available online in full color and are free to download, copy and distribute.     continue »     BadgerBite: Student Research Center - YouTube Watch this short tutorial to learn how you can use Student Research Center to find helpful resources. BadgerLink (www.BadgerLink.net) is Wisconsin's online library which provides access to licensed content such as magazines, newspapers, scholarly articles, videos, images, and music.     continue »     TeachingBooks.net | Common Core Standards Support Identifying exceptional and relevant books for your classroom, Providing ready-to-use instructional materials for each text, Exposing students to a range of text types, formats, and cultural perspectives, Analyzing books with qualitative and quantitative text complexity measures. Select your grade level band on the left to get started.     continue »     Author, April Henry, to Visit We are working on a April date for author, April Henry, to visit our middle and high school.  Stay tuned for more information.     Best Adult Books for Teens (or Yourself) 2014 Above the Dreamless Dead, ed. by Chris Duffy All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr                                   Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Fever by Megan Abbott Lock In by John Scalzi The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman The Martian by Andy Weir Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Red Rising by Pierce Brown The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero     Library Resources Guidebook Lists resources available through the libraries, along with library staff and contact information.

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