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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults
& Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 317
PUBYAC Digest 317
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Stumper
by Amy Blake <ablake@kcpl.lib.in.us>
2) Valentine's Day Books for Story Time
by "Elaine Moustakas" <elainem9@hotmail.com>
3) Bib: Recent 4th grade titles with multicultural characters
by "Bill or Mary Schrader" <bills@sirius.com>
4) Stumper: Short Story
by kay bowes <kbowes@tipcat.dtcc.edu>
5) stumpers solved
by Overmyer <overmyer@pacbell.net>
6) Auntie Bibba Stumper Solved
by kerri meeks <kercami@yahoo.com>
7) Loose Tooth
by Sugar Land Youth Ref Desk <yrefsl@fortbend.lib.tx.us>
8) Stumper - Johnny Microbe
by "Maria Glaser" <mglaser@weberpl.lib.ut.us>
9) garcia girls and discussion
by Nicole Marcucilli <nmarc@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
10) Stumper - Family Conflict, Forest .....
by Zaklina Gallagher <zgallagh@dcc.govt.nz>
11) New Year's Resolution and Families Online Week
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
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From: Amy Blake <ablake@kcpl.lib.in.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:50:19 CST
Dear Collective Minds,
A teacher is looking for a story that may be 15 - 20 years old: a little
bear
is carrying some glass (possibly a sheet of glass) from one end of town to
anther. He drops the glass and it breaks in to pieces which he puts on a
Christmas tree. A folktale? on how the first candles or lights were put on
trees. She is not positive of her recollection of the story. ANY
assistance
would be appreciated. I've checked Best Books For Children, Children's
Catalog, Novell (website). The closest I have come is "The Snow
Tree" by
Caroline Repchuk and the teacher says this is not it. Any assistance would
be
appreciated.
Thanks You.
Amy Blake
Knox County Public Library
Vincennes, IN
ablake@kcpl.lib.in.us
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From: "Elaine Moustakas" <elainem9@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Valentine's Day Books for Story Time
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:52:37 CST
I'm looking for "tried and true" Valentine's Day books (or something
along
the lines of friendship/love) for my 3-5 year old story times.
Ones I have so far that I think I'm going to use are:
Little Mouse's Big Valentine by Thatcher Hurd
The Best Valentine in the World by Sharmat
Many of the ones I came across seem long and boring. Any rhyming ones,
repeating lines, etc.. would be very helpful and preferably those still in
print! :)
Please respond to elainem9@hotmail.com
Thanks.
Elaine
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From: "Bill or Mary Schrader" <bills@sirius.com>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Bib: Recent 4th grade titles with multicultural characters
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:54:47 CST
Thank you to everyone who sent suggestions. These are the titles I =
received:
Recent titles for 4th graders with multicultural characters:
Darnell Rock Reporting by Myers
Thank You Dr Martin Luther King Jr! by Tate
Three books off the top of my head that deal with Native American =
characters
(in a multi-ethnic cast): "Bearstone" and "The Ghost Canoe",
both by =
Will
Hobbs. Also, "Songs of Power" by Hilari Bell. (I especially like this
=
one
because it depicts an Eskimo girl living in the near future, not in the =
past.)=20
All of these books are at the upper 4th grade reading level or a little =
higher.
You may also want to look at: "Longwalker's Journey" by Beatrice =
O'Harrell
(deals with the Trail of Tears journey of a Choctaw boy). Also, there =
are a=20
number of books in the Dear America/My Name is America series that =
depict=20
minority characters in multi-ethnic situations. In the American Girls =
series,=20
I believe that Kirsten has a Native American friend, and Josefina is, of =
course, Mexican American.
I loved "Francie" by Karen English, 1999, Rarrar, Straus, Giroux,
N.Y.=20
What about the books by Michael Dorris? I love them. They have Indian =
American characters.
This is a very nice series about a Chinese-American family:
Namioka, Lensey
Yang the youngest and his terrible ear
Yang the third and her impossible family
Yang the eldest and his odd jobs
Be sure to include A YEAR WITH MISS AGNES (McElderry, 2000), the
wonderful new novel by Kirkpatrick Hill (TOUGHBOY AND SISTER) set in a
native village in Alaska. It's stunningly good and accessible to even
struggling fourth grade readers!
I think these deserve a look:
F is for Fabuloso by Marie G. Lee, New York : Avon, 1999 (narrated by =
the
7th grade daughter in a recently immigrated family from Korea)
Sarah and the Naked Truth by Elisa Carbone, New York : Knopf, 2000 =
(three
4th or 5th grade friends doing regular school-kid things though one is
physically handicapped and two are from "ethnic minority" backgrounds)
Water Ghost by Ching Yeung Russell, Honesdale, PA : Boyds Mill Press, =
1995
(though this one is older and set in China in the late 1940's, it is
astonishingly interesting in its presentation of a non-American culture)
I also strongly recommend Family Tree by Katherine Ayres, New York : =
Bantam
Doubleday, 1996 (another older title but one that deals with another
non-mainstream culture, that of "shunned" Amish. My one-line
description
does not do the book justice.)
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From: kay bowes <kbowes@tipcat.dtcc.edu>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper: Short Story
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:57:08 CST
Dear Collective Brain,
We have had a request for a children's short story that we have no way of
locating. Is there such a thing as an index for children's short stories?
Meanwhile, is anyone familiar with a story by Dorothy M. Johnson titled
"Beulah Bunny Tells All?" If anyone could point me to a book
that might
have it, I would be ever so grateful.
Kay Bowes
Concord Pike Library
Wilmington, DE
kbowes@tipcat.dtcc.edu
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From: Overmyer <overmyer@pacbell.net>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: stumpers solved
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:01:27 CST
Thanks for all the suggestions for the stumpers I posted recently. We
think the time travel series is by Margaret Anderson- Mists of Time, Keep
of Time, etc.
No one seems to remember a 1970s version of the Cottage/Cabin in the Woods
song, but patron will be thrilled to know there's a 1991 version by Darcie
McNally.
Thanks again for the terrific help.
Elizabeth Overmyer
Berkeley Public Library
Berkeley, CA
Doug and Elizabeth Overmyer
overmyer@pacbell.net
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From: kerri meeks <kercami@yahoo.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Auntie Bibba Stumper Solved
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:03:44 CST
Thanks for all the help with the stumper about Auntie
Bibba. The book is So Much by Trish Cooke.
Kerri Meeks
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From: Sugar Land Youth Ref Desk <yrefsl@fortbend.lib.tx.us>
To: "'PUBYAC@prairienet.org'"
<PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Loose Tooth
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I have a patron who remembers a book about a little girl with a loose tooth.
The little girl has trouble pronouncing her words. For example, tooth
sounds like Ruth and everybody thinks her name is Ruth or she has a sister
named Ruth. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Thanks,
Sherrie Soland
Fort Bend County Libraries
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From: "Maria Glaser" <mglaser@weberpl.lib.ut.us>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper - Johnny Microbe
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:09:16 CST
Hello,
A patron came in today looking for a story about "Johnny Microbe."
A
teacher read this to his class some time in the early 1940's. He didn't
know if it was a book or a story within a book.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Maria Glaser
mglaser@weberpl.lib.ut.us
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From: Nicole Marcucilli <nmarc@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: garcia girls and discussion
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:19:47 CST
I'm looking to find reading group guides and discussion questions for the
book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez for a teen
book discussion group I will be holding in mid-February. Does anyone know
of a good web site for this? I've checked several, but none of them have
this particular book. Some have other books that Alvarez has written for
discussion, but not this one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
in
advance.
Nicole Marcuccilli
YA Librarian
Glenview (IL) Public Library
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From: Zaklina Gallagher <zgallagh@dcc.govt.nz>
To: "'PUBYAC'" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper - Family Conflict, Forest .....
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Please can this wonderful resource help with this one?
* Two families - one poor, one rich.
* Constant conflict between families
* Poor family has red hair and one newborn son
* Black haired family has one newborn daughter
* Daughter grows up not enjoying the conflict
* The son is the same
* The boy and girl meet one day
* They go off and live together in the forest
* They go though amazing experiences - hunting food, wounds, discovery
of moss and capturing horses.
* When they are 15 they move back to their families. They are married
and the girl is possibly pregnant?
* Family conflict is resolved.
* Possibly set in the middle ages?
We have done extensive research into this Stumper looking at Family
Problems, Survival etc.
It is NOT 'A Star to the North' by Barbara Corcoran.
If you can help, please contact me directly at the email address below.
THANK YOU
Cheers
Zak
Zaklina M. Gallagher
Young Adult Librarian
Dunedin Public Libraries
PO Box 5542, Dunedin
Ph: +64-3-4743626
Email: zgallagh@dcc.govt.nz
WWW: http://www.CityofDunedin.com
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: New Year's Resolution and Families Online Week
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:36:45 CST
Unfortunately, GetNetWise cannot provide hardcopy materials for Families
Online Week (December 26, 2000-January 3, 2001), but all of its resources
are available at its Web site, http://www.GetNetWise.org.
The GetNetWise resolution (http://www.getnetwise.org/resolution/)
can be
reproduced (even customized with the library's name, contact person and URL)
with attribution to www.GetNetWise.org.
For more information about Families Online Week, or about reproducing other
materials for distribution, contact:
Jim Browne, Director
GetNetWise -- A Project of the Internet Education Foundation
1634 Eye St NW Suite 1107
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 638-4370 voice
(202) 637-0968 fax
jbrowne@getnetwise.org
www.getnetwise.org
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