Media Moment: Olympics
A newsletter from the West Noble School Libraries
February 2014
NBC Learn has dozen of video clips linked to K-12 lessons to motivate and also challenge students in science and engineering. Registration is free through the IDOE.
The ALA's Youth Media Award Winners are announced!
Newbery Medal Winner
Part chapter book, part graphic novel: Flora, a cynic, is not easily surprised. But finding a flying, poetry-writing, superhero squirrel? “Holy bagumba.”
Michael L. Printz Award
The place: the Scandinavian island of Blessed. The time: always. In seven stories spanning centuries, Eric and Merle find—and lose—each other again and again.
YALSA Award- Nonfiction
Argentina, 1960: a team of spies sent code to Israel: “The typewriter is okay.” After sixteen years in hiding, ex-Nazi commander Adolf Eichmann had been caught.
Caldecott Medal Winner
Locomotive by Brian Floca
Hear the hiss of the steam? It is the summer of 1869, and a family is riding west from Omaha, Nebraska, on America’s first transcontinental railroad.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
The Watermelon Seed written/illustrated by Greg Pizzoli
One funny crocodile has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized?
Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner
Parrots Over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth
Iguaca! Iguaca! Here are the intertwining histories of Puerto Rico and the colorful parrots that nearly became extinct.
Pura Belpré Award
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
Piddy’s struggle to adjust to her new school becomes nightmarish when a girl she doesn’t even know bullies her. Can Piddy find the strength to ask for help?
William C. Morris Award
Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn
Andrew is at war within himself. He’s part Win, the lonely teenager sent to boarding school after a family tragedy. He’s part Drew, the angry young boy with violent, controlling impulses. Which part will win?
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
A young boy discovers the power of art during wartime (Departure Time, 2010). Based on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian during WW II.
Coretta Scott King Award, Author
P. S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are back in Brooklyn after visiting their mother in California. The sequel to One Crazy Summer
Coretta Scott King Award, Illustrator
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty
A father no longer lives at home, and his son feels his absence acutely: “Papa, come home, ’cause I want to be just like you, but I’m forgetting who you are.”
Coretta Scott King/ John Steptoe New Talent Award
Traces the birth of hip hop to a summer party in the South Bronx in 1973, and a young man with a new way of playing the music.
Schneider Family Book Award (ages 0 to 10)
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant
“The war brought out all the art in me.” After an arm injury in WW I, Horace learned to draw again; eventually become a famous painter.
Schneider Family Book Award (ages 11-13)
Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell
When a greedy cousin steals Princess Tilda’s lands, the young princess goes on the run with two would-be dragon slayers.
Schneider Family Book Award (ages 13-18)
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Rose, an eighteen-year-old transport pilot, is flying over liberated France when Nazi planes force her behind enemy lines. Companion to Code Name VerityAbout WNMS LMC
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