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Oregon District Keeps School Libraries Open to Prevent Summer Slide
Oregon’s Salem-Keizer School District is helping its students avoid brain drain—by keeping several school libraries open during the summer months. Seven Title I media centers throughout the district...
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On the Radar: Top Picks from the Editors at Junior Library Guild: Another...
As summer comes to a close, we think of things we love: walks on the beach, watermelons, and time to read whatever we want. So as you gear up for the fall, take that last walk on the beach, go to your...
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Giveaway: Win a Barftastic Backpack of Boredom Busters!
Q: If you hold 9 oranges in one hand and 10 lemons in another, what do you have? A: Really big hands! Q. What’s the definition of Barftastic? A. Amazing times fantastic plus unbelievable. Squared....
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We’re Ready for You! Planning for Summer Reading | Fresh Paint
We have ordered 2,500 Challenge Cards, scheduled 83 special events, and registered 100 teen volunteers in anticipation of Gum Spring library’s first Summer Reading Program (SRP)—In Your Backyard…and...
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Reading Nonfiction for Pleasure | On Common Core
hat will be in your tote as you head out to the beach, a nearby lake, or your own front stoop this summer? Our bags are already heavy with Paula Byrne’s The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things...
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Celebrate 15 Years of Harry Potter; Summer Reading for Latino Kids | News Bites
Throw a Harry Potter Library Party To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Scholastic is sponsoring a contest to give public libraries the...
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Dog Day Delights: Great Books for Summertime
Help youngsters celebrate summer with a selection of alluring books bursting with vacation-time fun. From picture books to graphic novels, there’s something here for every reader. Picture Books Dozens...
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SLJ Resources for Summer Reading
As the end of the school year approaches, school media specialists and teachers are equipping their students with lists of books to read over the summer break. Meanwhile, public librarians are prepping...
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Pictures of the Week: Double-0 Darien Summer Reading Program
Send your pictures of the week to sdiaz@mediasourceinc.com The children’s services staff (l. to r. Krishna Grady,Marian McLeod, Elisabeth Gattullo, Kiera Parrott, and Claire Moore) at Darien Library,...
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JLG’s On the Radar: Summer Reading for Middle School Students
Adolescence is a time when everything seems as if it couldn’t be worse. Peer pressure can seem insurmountable and kids have problems at home and school. Reading about teens who have even more difficult...
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Fight the Summer Slide—with a Library Card | Annie Murphy Paul
How to counter the “summer slide”? Simple, kids during the out-of-school months should read more books, according to Annie Murphy Paul. And libraries play a critical role, as the journalist and...
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Alexie’s ‘True Diary’ Removed from NYC School’s Summer Reading List
The inclusion of Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian—winner of the 2007 National Book Award—on a required summer reading list for sixth graders has raised the ire of a...
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YALSA Summer Reading Grants; LOC’s Twitter Feed for Educators | News Bites
Summer Grants Looking for a great way to help fund your summer reading program? Well, the Young Adult Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), can help....
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Mid-Continent Public Library Proves Summer Reading Programs Boost Student...
The results of a pilot study of Missouri’s Mid-Continent Public Library (MCPL) suggest that summer reading programs actually raise student reading levels by their return to school in the...
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How to Create a Knockout Summer Literacy Program
Illustration by John S. Dykes Over the summer, librarian Lindsey Tomsu lets teenagers at the La Vista (NE) Public Library play hide and seek in the stacks, run movie marathons from 10:30 a.m. to 9...
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Scholastic Kicks off Free Teacher Registration for Summer Reading Challenge...
Registration for the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge kicks off April 7. Starting April 7, K-8 educators can register their students for the 2014 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge at...
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Summer Reading: STEM Fun with Ooblek of Dr. Seuss, MaKey MaKey, and Scratch
This year’s Collaborative Summer Reading theme is STEM-related. STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) is making its way into library programs via makerspaces, Hour of Code, Teen Tech Week, and...
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Invitations to Imagination | Summer Reading for K-3
Summer ushers in a time of unstructured play, when children can explore their surroundings and connect to the outside world through their imaginations. This selection of books provide launch points for...
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Creep around Graveyards, Search for Spies | Summer Reading for Grades 4-8
With selections from award winners such as Tonya Bolden and Merrie Haskell and new books from favorite authors Megan Frazer Blakemore and Matt Faulkner, there’s sure to be something on this list for...
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Classics are Cool, But…| Summer Reading for Grades 9-12
Summer Reading, summer snoozing–some teens can’t seem to tell the difference when it comes to a recommended list. The last thing many young adults want is someone telling them what to read, especially...
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