Monday, March 3, 2008

Books - Juvenile/ YA

JUVENILE
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
Applegate, Katherine - One & Only Ivan  2012 Newbery winner
Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting
Bell, Ted - Nick of Time An Adventure Through Time 08
Blume, Judy - Are you these God, It's me Margaret
Burnett, Frances - Secret Garden
Cabot, Meg - Princess in Waiting (Princess Diaries IV)
*Clements, Andrew - No Talking 09
Creech, Sharon
Cushman, Karen - Midwife's Apprentice (Medieval)
Forbes, Esther - Johnny Tremain
*Gaiman, Neil - Graveyard Book 08
Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust (Dust Bowl)
Hunt, Irene - Across Five Aprils
Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Roderick Rules (easy with line drawings)
Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars (WWII)
MacLachlan, Patricia - Sarah Plain & Tall
Paulsen, Gary - Hatchet , Woodsong , Brian's Return
Peck - Teacher's Funeral (midwest farming community early 1900's)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth - Life As We Knew It 09
Reedy, Trent - Words in the Dust (Afghanistan) 2011
Riordan, Rick - The Lightning Thief - 1st in Percy Jackson series - Percy is 1/2 Greek God
Pullman, Philip - The Golden Compass - 1st in Materials trilogy - Lyra & her daemon Pantalaimon
Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire,
Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows
Schlitz, Laura Amy (Park School) - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Scott, Michael - The Alchemyst, the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Speare, Elizabeth - Sign of the Beaver , Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee , Stargirl
Staples, - Shabanu
Stead, Rebecca - When You Reach Me 09
Taylor, Mildred - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Silmarillion - Hobbit -Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, 2 Towers, Return of the King)
Vanderpool, Clare - Moon Over Manifest 2010 - Newberry winner
Williams-Garcia, Rita - One Crazy Summer 2010 (Oakland Black Panthers)

JUVENILE - NONFICTION
Hatkoff, Isabella - Owen and Mzee, Owen & Mzee, the Language of Friendship
Hautzig, Esther - The Endless Steppe J & Ya JBHautzig 68
Hickham, Homer - Rocket Boys
Malone, Peter - Close to the Wind, the Beaufort Scale
Rubin, Susan - The Cat with the Yellow Star (WW II Terezin Camp) - J940.5318R 06


YOUNG ADULT
Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 07 Teen
Bacigalupi, Paolo - Ship Breaker 2010 Y PAL
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games; Catching Fire, Mockingjay
Korman - Son of the Mob
Lasky, Kathryn - Daughters of the Sea - Lucy (3 sisters/each is on-going series)
Lowry, Lois - The giver, Following Blue, Messenger
McCormick, Patricia - Sold (forced prostitution & eventual escape)
Paolini, Christopher - Eragon series (Fantasy)
Porter, - Girl of the Limberlost (classic) (movie)
Pullman, Philip - Golden Compass (SciFi)
Riordan, Rick - The Sea of Monsters (bk 2 in Percy Jackson & the Olympians) (1-Lightning thief)
Scott, Nicholas - Alchemyst,Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Selznick, Brian - Invention of Hugo Cabret
Westerfeld, Scott - Leviathan
Zusak, - The Book Thief 2010 holocaust

YOUNG ADULT - NON-FICTION
Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2011 813
Friedman, Benedict & Nancy - Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan 1947
Specht, Robert - Tisha - The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness 1976
Halpern, Justin - I Suck at Girls  818 H (not YA) 2012

Monday, January 21, 2008

USEFUL WEB SITES

http://www.firstgov.gov

http://www.votesmart.org/ - current elected officials etc

www.mdshare.org - like bcpl community info but for state

www.bcpl.info/centers/fastfacts/ff_vbfindex.html - virtual back file

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/readingpage/strive25/index.html
BCPS recommended reading lists with leads to other outside list sites

http://www.awesomestories.com/
BOTH your user name and password are cAse sEnsItivE.
Log-in at the ACADEMIC MEMBER box, on the lower left side of the site'shome page. Your access codes are:
Password: bcpl33

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cockeysvillelibstaff

http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/taxcredits.html#htcrtc.
Property Tax Credit Appllcations. (also in Back File under Taxes)
Also available from Community Info DB link
410-7676-4433 800-944-7403

www.dbm.maryland.gov
Maryland's budget and fiscal digest

http://www.ajbillig.com/buyers_foreclosure.htm
Info re MD sales of foreclosed propertieshttp://www.ajbillig.com/buyers_foreclosure.htm

www.healthfinder.gov

www2.fdic.gov/idasp/frm_ezfind.asp is a specific bank insured by fdic?


email (username): colibrarian1@yahoo.com
password: cockeysville
Use to log onto Balto. Sun for articles

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm for kids

www.allmusic.com
www.music.myspace.com for bands with no published albums

www.imdb.com tv & movies

www.rottentomatoes.com movie reviews

www.librarything.com/suggest.php to find read-alikes

www.metacritic.com all reviews books, music & video games

www.commonsensemedia.org re objectionable content in movies

www.shelf-awareness.com books getting attention/made into movies

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Sources.yahoo answers plus

Even though Yahoo! Answers is frequently sloppy and inaccurate, it's still the juggernaut in its field. Despite a rapid proliferation of answer-giving sites - Amazon.com's recently inaugurated Askville just jointed a crowded field that includes Answerbag, WikiAnswers, AnswerBank, and Ask Metafilter - Yahoo!'s is still by far the most popular.