When I retired, I started writing book reviews for my friend and fellow librarian, Edi Campbell.
Here are a list of my reviews:
The Rhythm of Time
Last Chance Dance
The Davenports
Wade in the Water
As You Walk You On By
When I retired, I started writing book reviews for my friend and fellow librarian, Edi Campbell.
Here are a list of my reviews:
The Rhythm of Time
Last Chance Dance
The Davenports
Wade in the Water
As You Walk You On By
Before the pandemic, I received a grant from Community Connections, a local grantmaking agency, to host a book club discussion. The goal of this grant was to engage students in book discussions and develop and/or enhance work skills. With this grant, I was able to purchase books for anyone who wanted to read and participate in the discussion. In addition, our DSA multimedia students applied their classroom skills. They recorded, edited, and posted video recorded the bookclub videos to fulfill the grant requirements.
These were the videos we were able to record and post to youtube:
“With the Fire on High” by Elizabeth Ascevedo
“This is my America” by Kim Johnson
“Not so Pure and Simple” by Lamar Giles
“Island Games” by Clint Chico
“Love Radio” by Ebony LaDelle
title: The Poet X author: Elizabeth Acevedo date: HarperTeen; 2018 main character: Xiomara Batista YA fiction in verse Like Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of The Poet X, Xiomara Batista is Dominican American. I don’t know what other similarities exist between the two. I do know that The Poet X was Acevedo’s debut novel that has […]
2019 MG & YA Releases (Note: This list is continually updated) After working on this for a couple of weeks I’ve exhausted most of my resources in compiling this list of MG and YA books by Black authors that will release in 2019. Now it’s time for YOU to help complete this list. Hit the […]
I take strange pride in having the anchor of this month-long celebration of books. Today’s feature is longer than we usually make them. I hope you agree that it’s worth the time it will take to immerse yourself in it. I hope that it will take you back to the essence of why we, all [ Read the full article… ]
I’m thrilled to welcome Oge Mora to the Brown Bookshelf, just weeks after her debut picture book, Thank You, Omu, was named a Caldecott Honor book, an Ezra Jack Keats Award winner, and — woohoo! — a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner! (Yes, I am definitely Kermit the Frog arm-flailing as I [ Read the full article… ]
Source: Day 27 : Oge Mora