Wed, November 23rd, 2011
Top Ten First Lines
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy and Lynn: Author Paul Zindel once set off noise makers that sounded like firecrackers in our library during a presentation to our students. He told them that stories should start with a “Bang!” The added sound effect got the point across to our middle schoolers. We’ve always been on the lookout for good opening lines [...]
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Fri, August 19th, 2011
Top 10 Book Titles
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy and Lynn: It’s time for another Top 10 list (i.e. we’ve been busy playing and haven’t read the same titles to do a regular post). Earlier this summer we posted our Top 10 Book Covers so the next logical progression is to feature our Top 10 Book Titles. This is in no way an exhaustive list…just books [...]
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Sat, June 18th, 2011
Top 10 Book Covers
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy and Lynn: We all know we are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but we all do. Our students do and it certainly influences us. We get really irritated (and so do our teens) when the cover art does not accurately portray the contents of the book. We understand that marketing is the [...]
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