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Do you have druthers? You know, those things you’d druther be doing, but you failed to follow your heart? Well, Jocelyn will not have them! She kicked around the idea of joining the Peace Corps for a while and as I write this she’s pretty much on her way there. In the following post, she attempts to explain why she wants to go to Benin, to be part of the Peace Corps but it’s so deep in her that there really is no reason. I really look forward to reading about her experience in Benin and watching her grow and change over the years! I hope you’ll follow her, too! Her blog is Peace Corps Journey to West Africa.
The Peace Corps was brought to my attention by one of my biggest mentors. I was in the middle of my senior year in college, and my heart was really yearning for me to do some service work.
Jocelyn
However, I wasn’t quite sure what that looked like. She told me that I should look into the Peace Corps, and I started to do my research. At first, two years seemed like such a long time, but then I realized that I could make that kind of commitment. In the scheme of life, two years is really a fraction of our lives. So I started my journey of applying for one of the most well-respected organizations in the United States. Along the way, God showed me so many signs that He was the one who had put this mission on my heart, and that I was really doing what I was supposed to be doing. I thank Him every day for that.
When people ask me what I am most looking forward to in Benin, the first thing that pops into my head is music. I have been singing since the age of seven, and I have ha d the opportunity to travel all around the world with truly talented choirs. I had the blessing of going to South Africa three years ago with my college choir, and we were able to share the our voices with them and vice versa. It was truly inspiring to see these wonderful people willing to sing for us that it brought me to tears multiple times. I am really looking forward to creating that kind of community in my new home in Benin. It is truly going to be life changing.
I am excited about being able to serve in another country. I know that there are less fortunate people all over the world, but my heart is really drawn to somewhere overseas. I know that I am going to be able to use a lot of my knowledge that I learned in college towards this once in a lifetime opportunity. God has really showed me what is looks like to be His servant here on Earth, and I know that He is going to carry me through it every step of the way.
“Peace Corps Journey to West Africa”
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“In 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer decided she wanted to try to register to vote after attending a SNCC voter registration meeting at William Chapel Church in Ruleville, MS pastored by the late Rev. J. D. Story. It would turn out to be just another way of asking to die.
After returning home, Mrs. Hamer was ordered to go and take her name off the registrar’s book. If she refused to do so, she would have to move. Refuse she did and move she did.
I didn’t go register for you sir, I did it for myself”, replied Fannie Lou to her boss. Mr. W. D. Marlowe. She was kicked off the plantation where she had lived for the past eighteen years.
Sixteen shots were fired into The Tuckers home over the bed Mrs. Hamer slept where she had fled for safety. “God had already told me to move on, so I wasn’t there that night,” Fannie said.
Fannie Lou Hamer, June E. Johnson, James West, Euvester Simpson, Annelle Ponder and others were jailed in Winona, Mississippi. Two black prisoners were ordered to beat Mrs. Hamer. She was beaten so badly she no longer had feelings in her legs.
Mrs. Hamer’s passion for her people and her interest and understanding of how powerful the political process was in America led her and others to create the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the Credential Committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1964 to be seated rather than the regular Democrats who they exclaimed were “illegally elected” based on discriminatory practices against blacks statewide. “We Will Not Accept The Compromise”, stated Mrs. Hamer”. read more
A life-sized (all of her 5’4”) bronze statue of civil rights great Fannie Lou Hamer will be unveiled at her burial site in Ruleville, MS, on October 5 at 10AM. This will be the very first statue of a civil rights activist in the MS Delta. The artist has been selected and is working on the piece at the moment. The statue committee has raised almost $70,000 and is still trying to find the remaining $30,000 The artist has agreed to work on the installment plan if necessary.
From the Fannie Lou Hamer Statue Project Committee:
We invite you to join us in helping to assure that the life contributions of Fannie Lou Hamer will be forever recognized by placing a much deserved statue at the heart of the City of Ruleville to pay homage to one of the great-est civil rights leader of our time. Please make your contribution today.
Donations are tax deductible and all contributions will be made available to the public. Credit card payments can be made at www.nbuf.org. Please make checks payable to NBUF in care of Fannie Lou Hamer Statue Fund.
Mail to:
National Black United Fund
40 Clinton Street – 5th Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102.
Updates on The Fannie Lou Hamer Statue Project are available at www.fannielouhamer.info/donors. You can find us on Facebook
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As reported by Melissa Walker at I Heart Daily and readergirlz:
When Sarah Dewitz, 12, from Orlando, Florida, learned about a town next to hers that was facing a lot of hardship and poverty, she immediately thought about the kids and what they had to do without. She wondered if they had access to books.
Then she had an idea: If every child at her school donated "just one book," it would amount to 763 books that could go to the neighboring town! In her proposal to her school principal, she wrote, "I want to do this because if I was a child who did not have any books to read I would not be as smart as I am today. When I read books it makes me feel like I am an entirely different person and the world escapes my mind... If this is what books do for me, imagine what it can do for other children and the difference it would make in their lives..."
Read Melissa's entire post.Visit just1book.com
The American Library Association (ALA) has set the standard for number of school library books per student to be 11:1. Eleven books per kid. Ballou High School used to have less than ONE book per student. Now, thanks to the efforts of Colleen from Chasing Ray and the bloggers and supporters of Guys Lit Wire, the school has two books per student. Please help us fill their library even more!
Here's an update from Colleen of Chasing Ray, who organizes these book fairs:
Between our spring book fair and a small holiday fair last November we have helped Ballou move from a library that had less than one book for each of its 1,200 students at the beginning of 2011 to a ratio now of two books per student. While this is an impressive achievement and something we are quite proud of, the American Library Association advocates ELEVEN books for each student. It's obvious that Ballou is still operating at a serious literary deficit and because of that we have decided to commit ourselves to the long haul and stay with this school library until they have everything they need.
So how can you help? Donate books with a click of a mouse!
Go to this book wishlist for Ballou through Powell's Books. Colleen's directions:
Once you have made your selections (note: the school prefers NEW or "standard used" condition, NOT "student-used" condition) head to "checkout" and you will be prompted to inform Powell's if the books were indeed bought from the wishlist. This lets the store know to mark them as "purchased" on the list. After that you need to provide your credit card info and also fill in the shipping address.
Melissa Jackson, LIBRARIAN
Ballou Senior High School
3401 Fourth Street SE
Washington DC 20032
(202) 645-3400
It's very important that you get Melissa's name and title in there - she is not the only Jackson (or Melissa) at the school and we want to make sure the books get to the library.
Please share the links to both the wishlist (
http://bit.ly/GLWBookFair) and
Colleen's post at GLW through email, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs so we can fill up this library!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Don't let it stop there. If you know of a library, school, shelter, or hospital that's in great need of books and other items, give back. Rally up your co-workers, patrons, students, and friends, gather donated items (new or gently used), and donate them to your chosen organization or charity. Share your good fortune and good spirits with others.
I probably should save these comments so that I could actually have something to write about come Sunday, but heck! I’m on spring break and I’ve got nothing but ideas!
First, I have to share with you that I’ve gotten a new position! I’ll be working as an Assistant Reference Librarian at Indiana State University beginning this spring and if it weren’t for all the books (and other stuff) that need to be packed between now and then, I’d be flipping cartwheels!
I did take time out for a walk this morning and enjoyed the cool crisp air as much and the pink and white blossoms on the trees. Such beauty really got me to thinking… about books… Does your local Barnes and Noble have a Starbucks? Mine does and I’m wondering why the Starbucks near me doesn’t have a Barnes and Noble. I mean, many people actually sit for a spell 
at Starbucks, taking the time to read, computer or just chat. So, why don’t these companies increase each of their sales potential by putting books for sale in the Starbucks and heck, while they’re at it why not allow Nook access in the Starbucks just like at B&N? Seems like a no brainer to me!
Voya just shared an article based discussion on Twitter regarding “The power of Young Adult Fiction.”
Have you ever noticed how national news programs send the Latino guy to cover Latino issues and the Black guy to cover Black issues? I hate when they do that because while the network looks like they’re relating ethnically diverse issues, they’re really marginalizing the issue and stamping it as a Latino/Asia/Native American issue and not as a people issue.
To me, that’s what the New York Times has done with their piece on Young Adult fiction. Why not have a White author address diversity? An Asian address complexities and Latina talk about social networking? Why let readers continue to believe that the lack of diversity that surrounds us only continues to concern people of color? And, by the same token make it seem as if people of color have no other issues? Go on, join the discussion!
Time to pack some more boxes!
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* Snag the bookplate - download it HERE - created by the uber-talented David Ostow (who blogs hilarious cartoons here), and add it to your blog and social networks, linking back to this post to share the love. Proclaim that you will ROCK THE DROP!* Print a copy of the bookplate and insert it into a book (or 10!) to drop on April 12th. Drop a book in a public spot (park bench, bus seat, restaurant counter?). Lucky finders will see that the book is part of ROCK THE DROP! * Plan to snap a photo and post it at the readergirlz facebook page. Then tweet the drop at #rockthedrop with all the other lovers of YA books.
Get ready for the celebration! Get ready to rock!
Just read this post and wanted to pass it along in hopes that others would help:
Fellow Blogger loses everything...
January 21, 2012, Posted by Donna at 11:05 am
One of our fellow bloggers and dear friend Yara lost everything yesterday in a devastating house fire. She and her family are all safe, but they have lost everything.
If you want to help Yara and her family we suggest you do so through the Twilight Moms site. If you want to support Yara, please follow this link.
We totally trust that Lisa and the Twilight Moms will make sure every penny reaches Yara and her family. And every penny will help them rebuild the pieces of their world.
Sending positive thoughts your way, Yara!
~EFG Staff
To help and/or donate, please
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I just learned about The Make It Safe Project at Lee Wind's blog. I hope that you (yes, you, wonderful readers) will help support Amelia's efforts. Here's more about the project, as detailed at their website:
The Make It Safe Project donates books about sexual orientation and gender expression to schools and youth homeless shelters that lack the resources to keep their teens safe.
Giving: We donate books to K-12 schools, their Gay-Straight Alliances (a group that educates the school community about equality), and LGBT-inclusive youth homeless shelters nationwide. For information on how you can help give books or receive books for your school or shelter, please click here.
Support: If you are wondering what starting, leading, or joining a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) would be like, you can browse through stories written by teens who have been involved with GSAs here.
Advice: If you have experience starting, leading, or being in a GSA, you can anonymously submit a story about your experience here.
One book can save a life.
For every $100 raised, the Make It Safe Project sends a pack of GLBTQ books to a school or youth homeless shelter. The pack will include around ten of the books on the following list:
Fiction BooksAsh by Melinda Lo
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Gardener
Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Nonfiction BooksIt Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge
Kicked Out edited by Sassafras Lowry
Like Me by Chely Wright
Let's Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents by Tina Fakhrid-Deen
If you are a student, teacher, parent, or principal at any K-12 school or a volunteer or client at a youth homeless shelter in the USA and your school or shelter is in need of books, please contact
the Make It Safe Project.
Someone told me that to be a good librarian, I shouldn’t just read librarian related materials. This makes sense because librarians should be able to guide users to all kinds of information. For example, as a high school librarian, I have numerous conversations with students and staff about college. I was glad to see this series being put together by HigherEdJobs on “Making College Accessible”. This is the introduction to the first article in the series:
HigherEd Careers will be doing a special series addressing the topic of “Making College Accessible.” Our guests will be discussing critical issues surrounding making post-secondary education open to all who desire it. These individuals include students of minority populations, the unique opportunities and challenges associated with first generation college students, and the issues of financing higher education for economically disadvantaged students. Through these interviews we will also examine how staff and faculty at our colleges and universities manage these key issues today.
To begin the series with our June HigherEd Careers interview, we are pleased to have Mr. Neil Horikoshi, President and Executive Director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF). Mr. Horikoshi will be discussing ways to support the Asian and Pacific Islander students in higher education, myths and challenges associated with this population, and advice on how to succeed at working in higher education, specifically within a distinctly multi-cultural community.
After reading, we invite you to continue the discussion in our LinkedIn group or follow HigherEd Careers on Twitter.
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Happy Earth Day! Here's a cool recycling program that TerraCycle Inc just announced which will lead to schools and communities getting new playgrounds. I don't wear flip-flops myself, so I'm posting this in hopes that those of you who do will donate your worn-out or outgrown pairs of flip-flops to this worthy cause.
Dear TerraCycle Brigade® Participants,
TerraCycle® is proud to announce that we have partnered with Old Navy to collect used flip-flops at Old Navy stores through the Flip Flop Brigade! The Brigade begins on Earth Day Friday, April 22nd and runs until the bins are full or Saturday, May 21st (whichever comes first) in all continental US Old Navy stores.
Just bring your used flip-flops to the Old Navy nearest you and look for the TerraCycle collection bin located near the store entrance. Once the collection bins are full, Old Navy will ship the flip-flops to TerraCycle to be recycled into playgrounds that Old Navy will give away to a few lucky schools and community organizations. If your Brigade location is interested in becoming a recipient of a TerraCycle Old Navy playground, please complete the TerraCycle Old Navy Playground Questionnaire.
Not only will you keep your used flip-flops out of the landfill, but you will also be helping to create a positive play environment for some deserving schools and community organizations. Now that’s flip-n-cool!
Participation in the Flip-Flop Brigade is simple and it’s completely FREE. There is no purchase necessary and you do not need to sign up on terracycle.net to participate.
For more information please contact TerraCycle customer service at 866-967-6766 or [email protected]. Or to find an Old Navy store near you go to http://www.oldnavy.com/storelocator.
Happy collecting,
The TerraCycle Team
* Please note that unfortunately this program is not available in Old Navy stores located in Canada, Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
I add: If you are in one of those places, just send your flip-flops in the mail to a friend in another region so that he or she may donate them on your behalf!</i>
We recently provided books to Healing Haiti, an organization that currently supports 53 orphans, living in two small orphanages who have lost their families to extreme poverty, hurricanes and AIDS. For kids with such great needs, this small donation seems trivial, but I mention it because I Get Around concept has always included getting books around to kids and families who may not have them for various reasons. The bookmark shown here is now included in some books sold at retail, even though donating books has always been—and always will be—part of the plan.
Thanks to Sheila McLeod for pointing me to this link. Sheila writes: "I've often wondered how it could be possible to make picture books accessible to children who cannot see or cannot see well. Thought I'd pass this link along in case it interests you or someone in your creative network."
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity offering support and advice to almost two million people with sight loss. UK Helpline: 0303 123 9999. URL: www.rnib.org.uk.
BREAKING NEWS! readergirlz and First Book are partnering to give away more than 125,000 brand-new books to low-income teen readers.
They’re great books, too, donated by generous publishers. Among the three dozen choices are P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast’s HOUSE OF NIGHT series and Alyson Noël’s SHADOWLAND.
We need your help getting the word out about the A Novel Gift campaign. Right now! Right now! As in, now!
Let's get organizations serving these teens registered with First Book so they can be matched with inventory during the holidays.
Here’s what we need you to do:
Post to Facebook and tweet your beak off about these books using the hashtag #novelgift.
Here’s a tinyurl link to their registration page: http://tinyurl.com/2a5mwpj.
Or you can link to this blog post: http://readergirlz.blogspot.com/2010/11/novel-gift-over-125000-free-books-to.html
Then, get in touch with every group you can think of that works with young adults–schools, after-school programs, church youth groups, community centers, etc.—and let them know that these books are available now.
The five-minute online registration these groups can use is here:
http://booksforkids.firstbook.org/register/
First Book is also eager to answer questions, either by email to [email protected], or by phone at 866-READ-NOW or 866-732-3669.
If you particip
Love is louder than hate. Love is louder than fear. Love is louder than intolerance. Love is louder than doubt. Love is louder.
Join the movement led by Brittany Snow:
http://www.loveislouder.com
http://twitter.com/LoveisLouder
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-is-Louder/160446023982554
Watch the video we made today:
St David's, a Minnetonka center for preschool, therapy, child and family services, is celebrating 50 years on Saturday AND the opening of the first toddler playground in Minnesota combining inclusive and natural play elements. They also have a school
forest. I love it. The festival events will include Minnesota Zoo animals, hayrides, nature crafts, and I'll be there helping kids journal about how and where they like to get around. Know any kids YOU can bring?
Dog hit by car in Montgomery Co. needs community's help.
Please, please, PLEASE help save this dog's life. This stray was hit by a car and taken to a vet, but she needs money for surgery, and if she's not adopted by Monday, they'll put her down.
I want to cry.
Please forward / repost / tweet / blog / share this link and this story, especially if you or anyone you know live in or near Virginia. This dog deserves a good life, and she needs good people and a good home to help her.
Let's save a life today!
It's time for
Operation Teen Book Drop 2010! We want YOU to leave a book in a public place
TODAY, Thursday, April 15th, 2010. Nationwide, librarians, authors, and teens will drop YA books in their own communities today to raise awareness for Operation TBD 2010 and Support Teen Literature Day. Participants can download bookplates to insert into the books they'll leave behind.
Click here to get the bookplates from the readergirlz website. You may also purchase books from the
TBD Wish Lists which will go directly to two tribal school libraries.
Click here to learn how to purchase books for students at Ojo Encino Day School and Alchesay High School.
Operation TBD is brought to you by readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and If I Can Read I Can Do Anything. These organizations will be dropping over 10,000 new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American tribal lands.
Everyone will join an online TBD Post-Op party tonight at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST that evening at
the readergirlz blog, where we also invite you to post a picture or video that shows how you rocked the drop. Example:
Check out Crissa-Jean Chappell's stealthy book drop.Are you participating? What books did you donate, and where did you drop them?
Click here to learn more about Operation TBD.Watch the trailer at YouTube.Read the press release.
Less than 24 hours until
Operation Teen Book Drop 2010! Are you ready? Have you decided which books you're going to drop and/or donate?
We want YOU to leave a book in a public place on April 15th. Nationwide, librarians, authors, and teens will drop YA books in their own communities on
Thursday, April 15th, 2010, to raise awareness for Operation TBD 2010 and Support Teen Literature Day. Participants can download bookplates to insert into the books they'll leave behind.
Click here to get the bookplates from the readergirlz website. You may also purchase books from the
TBD Wish Lists which will go directly to two tribal school libraries.
Click here to learn how to purchase books for students at Ojo Encino Day School and Alchesay High School.
Operation TBD is brought to you by readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and If I Can Read I Can Do Anything. These organizations will be dropping over 10,000 new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American tribal lands.
Everyone will join an online TBD Post-Op party on Thursday night at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST that evening at
the readergirlz blog, where we also invite you to post a picture or video that shows how you rocked the drop. Example:
Check out Crissa-Jean Chappell's stealthy book drop.Click here to learn more about Operation TBD.Watch the trailer at YouTube.Read the press release.
For more information contact:
Martha Brockenbrough, publicist for readergirlz
Martha Bee Productions
[email protected]
206-328-737410,000 BOOKS DELIVERED TO TEENS ON
NATIVE RESERVATIONS & TRIBAL LANDSNationwide, scores of young adult authors and librarians drop books on April 15
to surprise young readers on Support Teen Literature Day
April 15, 2010 – Operation Teen Book Drop will deliver 10,000 new books to teens on Native Reservations and Tribal Lands, an event that coincides with Support Teen Literature Day.
In addition, more than 100 top young adult authors will leave their books in public places for young readers to discover, and members of the public can buy books online and have them shipped to tribal libraries.
Publishers donated the books, valued at more than $175,000.
"These publishers have shown astounding vision and generosity by supporting Operation Teen Book Drop," said readergirlz cofounder Dia Calhoun, an award-winning novelist herself. "Now underserved teens can benefit from the current explosion of high quality YA books. These teens can see their own experience, their tragedies and their triumphs in these books, books that become shining doorways to the young human spirit."
The donations are especially significant to Native teens. "In their lives, they really don’t have new books," said Mary Nickless, the librarian at Ojo Encino Day School, one of 44 institutions that will benefit from Operation TBD.
A nationwide effort of authors, publishers, librarians and readersIn its third year, Operation TBD is part of a massive effort by librarians, young adult authors, and avid readers to spur reading on a nationwide scale. The day aims to encourage teens to read for the fun of it.
The effort is coordinated by readergirlz, the Young Adult Library Services Association, GuysLitWire, and a new partner, If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything, a national reading club for Native children.
• More than 100 young adult authors - including David Levithan, Sara Zarr, and Cynthia Leitich Smith - are participating by leaving copies of their books in public places for teens to find.
• Teens and other fans of YA literature are also invited to "rock the drop."
• GuysLitWire has created a wish list of 750 books that supporters can buy from Powells.com. Beginning April 7th, these purchases can be made and sent directly to one of two tribal school libraries, Ojo Encino Day School or Alchesay High School.
In 2008 and 2009, the groups coordinated the delivery of 20,000 new books to teens in hospitals.
"Operation TBD was originally conceived with the hope of reaching a number of teen groups," rgz co-founder Lorie Ann Grover said. "While we donated books to hospitalized teens for two years, I was personally compelled to donate books to the local Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. We were thrilled to discover we could broaden this effort with If I Can Read and gift TBD to our second targeted group, Native teens."
"By making Operation TBD part of Support Teen Literature Day, YALSA and its partners help raise awareness of the importance of teen literature to all teens," said Linda W. Braun, YALSA President. "Our thanks to the publishers, If I Can Read I Can Do Anything, readergirlz and Guys Lit Wire for joining us in supporting such a worthy cause."
Participating publishers this year include Abrams Books; Bloomsbury/Walker Books/Candlewick Press; Chronicle Books; Hachette Book Group; Boyds Mills Press; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Milkweed; Mirrorstone Books; Orca Book Publishers; Scholastic; Simon & Shuster Children's Publishing; Tor/Forge/Starscape/Tor Teen/ Roaring Brook Press, an Imprint of the Macmillans Child
If you know any amazing young actors - boys between 10 and 13 - who use a wheelchair, please pass this casting call on to them. The press release was posted at multiple online news resources, and the casting call was in Back Stage West, so it would appear to be legitimate.
The submission deadline is March 19th.
There are boys and girls (and men and women) everywhere who dream of acting but are sadly often told that they'll never make it due to their physical limitations. That's simply not true. I encourage you all to follow your dreams, and help others do the same.
From http://www.tvpilotcastingcall.com -
Online Open Casting Call for a New Television Pilot Starring Paul Reiser
We are looking for kids who are physically challenged and use a wheelchair to play Paul Reiser's 11-year-old son in a half-hour comedy pilot for Bonanza Productions Inc. and NBC. The TV pilot shoots in Los Angeles, starting April 7, for roughly one week.
ZEKE:
MALE. 11 years old. Please submit ages 10–13. The kid is sweet, funny, really smart and upbeat. He loves sports, music, and everyone he meets – especially adults. Inquisitive and with a mind like a steel trap, he remembers everything – which can be good or bad! He can easily get anxious and sometimes gets a bit obsessively focused on things.
And oh, he has used a wheelchair since birth.
Jumpstart's Read for the Record needs help selecting its official campaign book for 2010. This is Jumpstart's fifth annual Read for the Record, which they describe as "a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the crisis in early literacy through celebrating the joy of reading with children."
Four classic Penguin picture books have been named the finalists:
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Voting only takes a minute, and it's so easy to do. For every vote received, the Pearson Foundation will donate $1 to Jumpstart to support, and I quote, "[Jumpstart's] yearlong efforts to help preschool children in low-income communities develop the crucial language and literacy skills they need to succeed in school and life."
Click here to vote now!
You may also vote via a text message sent from your cell phone. You may vote up to 5 times via text message. Here are the text shortcuts:
BLUE to 90999 – to vote for Blueberries for Sal
DUCK to 90999 – to vote for Make Way for Ducklings
PETER to 90999 – to vote for Peter's Chair
SNOW to 90999 – to vote for The Snowy Day
Book voting will close February 28th, 2010. The winner will be announced March 2nd.
Thanks to Jennifer Stone for the link!
I've been following an absolutely sad story for the past week about an ailing cat named Zoe. As she happens to belong to bestselling author Neil Gaiman and his family, posts made by Neil and other members of Zoe's family have been read and shared and cried over all over the web. Visit Neil's journal.
It is obvious that you were loved, Zoe, and you will be missed. I enjoyed hearing about your antics from your humans' blogs.
To those who knew her: I'm so sorry for your loss.
The reason I'm sharing this is not to make you sad - goodness knows I'm about to cry myself, and thinking of my cats, especially Twinkie, who, impossibly, I lost ten years ago as of tomorrow - but to inspire you to hug your loved ones, especially the quadripeds. If you are the giving sort, I hope you will share these charitable links and notes with others:
Lorraine's request: "Many people have asked if there is anywhere to send something in her name. We would ask, if this is what you want, to send donations in Zoe's name to Great Lakes Bengal Rescue. You can Paypal to [email protected] . All $$ go to saving Bengal cats, who are unwelcome at most shelters. Zoe wasn't a Bengal. But she had the heart of one. A heart like a Leopard. Loyal, loving and true."
Autographed Neil Gaiman & Zoe Portrait taken by Kyle Cassidy up for auction on eBay: "Proceeds will benefit City Kitties and an as yet undetermined cat rescue group in Minneapolis near where Zoe was found as a kitten." Bidding ends on January 29th, 2010.
Thinking of adopting a pet? Please go to your local animal shelter and save a life.
In 2008 and 2009,
readergirlz (
http://www.readergirlz.com),
GuysLitWire (
http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com), and
YALSA (
http://www.ala.org/yalsa) orchestrated publishers' donations of nearly 20,000 new young adult books to hospitalized teens across the country. For 2010,
If I Can Read I Can Do Anything (
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican) has joined forces with these three organizations to drop thousands of new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American reservations. Nationwide, librarians, authors, and teens will drop YA books in their own communities on
April 15th, 2010, to raise awareness for Operation TBD 2010 and Support Teen Literature Day. Everyone will join an online party that evening at the readergirlz blog (
http://readergirlz.blogspot.com).
Inciting all to participate in Operation TBD in its drive to spur reading on a national scale, readergirlz invites teens and YA authors to leave a book in a public place on April 15th. Participants can download bookplates to insert into the books they'll leave behind. Come rock the drop in 2010!
What To Do Now?If you'd like to be part of TBD '10, please bookmark this page and check back for updates in the coming months. We'll have bookplates, bookmarks, and more available for you to download, print, and share!
Download the TBD 2010 flyer (PDF)
Feel free to post the
TBD countdown widget at your website or blog. Simply click the Get Widget button underneath it for the code. If you can't see the widget,
click here.
Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of my favorite places on Earth. On a recent visit to their website, I learned that they offer various programs for teens. I wish I had had such opportunities when I was a teenager. They sound so cool! Take this one, for example:
Young Women in Science (YWS)
This week-long, summer day-camp is designed to get young women excited about and involved in science, the ocean and conservation. Through a variety of hands-on field activities, we strive to increase their knowledge and to spark a personal connection with the natural world that will lead them to become future stewards of the ocean. Kids get the opportunity to explore ocean habitats by joining in activities such as surface scuba diving, boogie boarding and kayaking.
We aim to serve young women regardless of primary language or economic background. We offer three camps in the summer that are conducted in both English and Spanish. Young women entering grades 6, 7 or 8, who reside in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties, are eligible to apply.
I hope that teens reading this post who qualify and live in California will apply to these programs. Likewise, I hope that those of you who work with teens or have teenagers of your own will pass the links and information along to them and encourage them to apply. I simply cut-and-pasted the text from the Monterey Bay Aquarium's site in an effort to help them spread the word and get more applicants. Please feel free to repost this post if you'd like, but note that YWS is only one of the four different teen programs that they offer.
For more information on these programs, visit their website and email [email protected]
Reprinting from the November issue of readergirlz and the readergirlz blog:
In Marlene Carvell's Sweetgrass Basket, Mattie and Sarah long for family. The two sisters would probably agree with Alex Haley, who said, "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
Link with your family on Saturday, November 21st for National Family Volunteer Day. Volunteering as a family is the perfect way to spend quality time with your loved ones while doing meaningful work in your community.
Visit http://www.serve.gov for a searchable database of volunteering opportunities near you and encourage the whole fam to get out and make a difference!
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Congratulations on the new job!! I’ve been saying for years that libraries need to have a Starbucks, just like B&N! I bet that would make the popularity of libraries go up overnight.
Katie,
Actually many high school school, public and academic libraries do house coffee shops. I think it would be really revolutionary to but libraries in the coffee shop. Book related industries really need to re-market themselves!
Wandered here from Fledgling. So glad I did! What a great blog!! I’ll definitely be back in the future!