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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 891
PUBYAC Digest 891
Topics covered in this issue include:
1)
by "Lori Karns" <lkarns@rain.org>
2) books dealing with native reservation
by "Christine Montgomery" <christine.montgomery@lpl.london.on.ca>
3) STUMPER--Somali authors and characters
by Jeri Kladder <jkladder@gcfn.org>
4) Stumper
by Paulalef@aol.com
5) Book poems! (long)
by "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
6) Stumper: Jewish Folktales
by M Cinnella/Gulf Beaches Library <cinnelm@tblc.org>
7) Books about cliques for Kindergartners
by "Joy S. Wong" <jwong@tln.lib.mi.us>
8) Coraline question
by "G Gallagher" <gglibrarian@hotmail.com>
9) Stumper - lying
by hunzigel@hhpl.on.ca (Lisa Hunziger)
10) Thanks- parts of speech
by "G Gallagher" <gglibrarian@hotmail.com>
11) Stumper Rainforest Picture Book
by "Tina Martin" <tmartin@ahml.info>
12) Books about traffic signs
by Jennifer Parker <jmpwel@yahoo.com>
13) Stumper: Halloween Poem
by Marnie Colton <mcolton@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
14) stumper - girl, fire , ghost
by "Lori Fritz" <lfritz@mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us>
15) OIF Plans Lawyer Institutes
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
16) advanced books for younger kids
by Christina Tribe <christina_tribe@telus.net>
17) stumper: shipwreck on the moon
by "Jesse Lewis" <lewisj@pbclibrary.org>
18) Death and dying booklists
by "Williams, Sally" <WilliamsS@ci.mount-dora.fl.us>
19) Re: Teacher loans
by Karin Grossmann <karingrossmann@monarch.net>
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From: "Lori Karns" <lkarns@rain.org>
To: "pubyac" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
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Colorful characters! One of our librarians had a request from a third grade
teacher for books with characters who change color. She already has
"Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory" for the bratty girl who changes to blueberry
blue. Does anyone have any suggestions? You're welcome to reply to me off
the list.
Thanks!
Lori Karns
Support Services Manager
Ventura County Library
196 S. Fir Street, Suite 100
Ventura, CA 93001
lkarns@rain.org
805 641-4449
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From: "Christine Montgomery" <christine.montgomery@lpl.london.on.ca>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: books dealing with native reservation
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Hi pubyackers:
I need some books for kids in Grades 7 and 8 that illustrate life on a =
reservation, preferably with a positive slant.
Thanks!
Christine Montgomery
Byron Branch Library
1295 Commissioners Rd. West
London, ON N6K 1C9
(519) 471-4000
Christine.Montgomery@lpl.london.on.ca
"Librarians possess a vast store of politeness.
These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest
questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate
every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather
there is." (Garrison Keillor)=20
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From: Jeri Kladder <jkladder@gcfn.org>
To: PUBYAC <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: STUMPER--Somali authors and characters
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Hi all,
Thanx to Lynn Vitters and Sarah Joiner who recommended Mary
Hoffman's new book The Color of Home about a Somali boy immigrant to the
U.S. who describes life in Somalia and why his family had to leave. We
don't own it yet but we're going to really soon. I'm still hoping there
are other titles out there that I haven't found yet. - jeri
Jeri Kladder, Children's Librarian & Storyteller
jkladder@gcfn.org
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, Ohio
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From: Paulalef@aol.com
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Hi, all,
One of our trustees was asked by a friend in Arizona (which may or may not
be relevant) about a book she wants to give as a gift. She doesn't know
where or when it was published or where or when the friend saw it. This is
what she knows, and I hope of you you great ones recognizes it:
"The title is definitely Ann Loves Red. It's a little book with a little
girl (not with red hair) sitting on the front cover. It goes something like,
" A red dress for Ann, Ann loves red." "A red hat for Ann, Ann
loves red."
Something like that and very short like 10-12 pages."
The trustee is an academic librarian and between us we've tried our local
databases with a variety of search terms, including just slogging through
using "red" and "fiction" as search terms; Barnes and
Noble.com, and a
couple of used books databases with no luck. So you are my only hope and I
really don't look forward to telling a library trustee that I can't find the
answer! HELP!
Thanks so much!
Paula Lefkowitz
Parsippany (NJ) PL
paulalef@aol.com
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From: "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
To: Library Lovers <LibraryLovers@calibraries.org>,
PUBYAC <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Book poems! (long)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:36:00 CDT
Here are the poems that everybody sent. (And some I found myself.) I had a
blast - the kids had a blast! The 5th & 6th graders enjoyed reading
them
aloud to their classes. I pasted them on foam board and let the kids
"pick
a card, any card." Then I'd read the poem aloud, or the lucky kid
would.
Thanks again to everyone.
-Jendy
BOOK by Valerie Worth
Such a / Bountiful / Box of / Tricks:
Packed / With the / Five senses,
The seven / Seas, the / Earth's / Four winds
And corners, / All fitted / Exactly in.
BOOKS FALL OPEN by David McCord
Books fall open, / you fall in, / delighted where / you've never been
Hear voices not once / heard before, / reach world on world / through door
on
door;
Find unexpected / keys to things / locked up beyond / imaginings.
What might you be, / perhaps become, / because one book / is somewhere? Some
Wise delver into / wisdom, wit, / and wherewithal/ has written it.
True books will venture, / dare you out, / whisper secrets, / maybe shout
Across the gloom / to you in need, / who hanker for / a book to read.
LIBRARY by Valerie Worth
No need even / To take out / A book: only / Go inside
And savor / The heady / Dry breath of / Ink and paper,
Or stand and / Listen to the / Silent twitter / Of a billion
Tiny busy / Black words.
A BOOK by Myra C. Livingston
Closed, I am a mystery. / Open, I will always be
A friend with whom you think and see.
Closed, there's nothing I can say. / Open, we can dream & stray
To other worlds, far and away.
THE LIBRARY by Barbara A. Huff
It looks like any building
When you pass it on the street,
Made of stone & glass & marble,
Made of iron & concrete.
But once inside you can ride
A camel or a train,
Visit Rome, Siam or Nome,
Feel a hurricane,
Meet a king, learn to sing,
How to bake a pie,
Go to sea, plant a tree,
Find how airplanes fly.
Train a horse, and of course
Have all the dogs you'd like,
See the moon, a sandy dune,
Or catch a whopping pike.
Everything that books can bring
You'll find inside those walls.
A world is there for you to share
When adventure calls.
You cannot tell it's magic
By the way the building looks,
But there's wonderment within it,
The wonderment of books.
SURPRISE by Beverly McLoughland
The biggest
surprise
On the library shelf
Is when you suddenly find yourself
Inside a book -
(The hidden you)
You
wonder how
The author knew
TEN YEARS OLD by Nikki Giovanni
ten years old
i paid my 30 cents and rode by the bus
window all the way down
i felt a little funny with no hair
on my head
but my knees were shiny 'cause
auntie mai belle cleaned me up
and i got off on time and walked
past the lions and the guard straight
up to the desk and said
"dr. doo little steroscope please"
and this really old woman said
"Do You Have a Library Card?"
and i said
" i live here up the street"
and she said
"Do You Have A Library Card?"
and i said
"this is the only place i can use the steroscope for
dr. doolittle miss washington brought us here this spring
to see it"
and another lady said
"GIVE THE BOY WHAT HE WANT. HE WANT TO LEAD THE RACE"
and i said
"no ma'am i want to see dr. doolittle"
and she said "same thang son same thang"
The Rap N Robot Library Rap
Rob Reid (Family Storytime)
I'm a Rap 'n Robot and I got a job and that's telling kids about books!
Now lend me an ear, get on over here, and don't give me no dirty looks.
I'm a storyteller, a pretty nice feller, no need for you to be wary.
Get your act together, get light as a feather, and fly up to the library.
We g-g-g-got, we g-g-g-got, we g-g-g-got books on ..
Spiders savin' pigs, boys eatin' worms,
Bunnies with fangs, scary books to make you squirm.
We got the Boxcar kids, a curious monkey swingin' by,
We got Ramona the Pest, magic tree house in the sky.
We know where the sidewalk ends & where the wild things are,
We have Amelia Bedelia, and twinkle twinkle little star.
We have knock-knock jokes , even old Doc Seuss,
You can draw a dinosaur or read Mama Goose.
We got toys and tapes and video cassettes,
Books about Mudge, ABC's and BMX.
We have books to make you laugh & some to make you cry,
Nightmares in our closets, ladies swallowin' flies.
We g-g-g-got, we g-g-g-got, we g-g-g-got books!
I've said my rap, soon I'll take a nap, hope my dreams won't be too scary.
For when I wake up all new, I'll find my dreams can come true
Cause I'm goin' to the LIBRARY!
What could be hotter than Harry Potter?
Now choose a book, come on and just pick it, We have books by Sachar and
Lemony
Snicket
OVERDUES
Shel Silverstein
What do I do? What do I do?
This library book is 42
Years overdue!
I admit that it's mine
But I can't pay the fine -
Should I turn it in
Or hide it again?
What do I do? What do I do?
TWO LIVES ARE YOURS
Richard Armour
Books I think
Are extra nice.
Through books you live
Not once but twice.
You are yourself
And you are things
With fur or fins
Or shells or wings,
As big as giants
Small as gnats
As far as stars
As close as cats.
You live today
And long ago
The future, too,
Is your to know.
You're multiplied,
Expanded, freed.
You're you and also
What you read.
Nikki Giovanni
the reason i like chocolate
is i can lick my fingers
and nobody tells me i'm impolite
i especially like scarey movies
cause i can snuggle with mommy
or my big sister and they don't laugh
i like to cry sometimes cause
everybody says "what's the matter
don't cry"
and i like books
for all those reasons
but mostly cause they just make me
happy
and i really like
to be happy
A RIDDLE
Lilian Moore
What's small
holds treasure
yet fits in the hand
needs no battery
doesn't chatter
click or clatter
opens with ease
nothing to measure
no locks, no keys?
What takes you to
jungles and castles
and stars?
On day trips to Mars?
Brings you wizards
and witches,
camels and cooks?
Guess.
Yes!
BRING ON THE BOOKS!
GOOD BOOKS, GOOD TIMES!
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Good books.
Good times.
Good stories.
Good rhymes.
Good beginnings.
Good ends.
Good people.
Good friends.
Good fiction.
Good facts.
Good adventures.
Good acts.
Good stories.
Good rhymes.
Good books.
Good times.
THE WORLD IS AN OPEN BOOK
Valerie Worth
A book is
The world
Made small:
So that even
Indoors on a
Rainy day
You can travel
Around it
Twice each way.
And never
Get wet
At all.
BOOKS TO THE CEILING
Arnold Lobel
Books to the ceiling, books to the sky.
My piles of books are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
WHAT IF.
Isabel Joshlin Glaser
What if.
You opened a book
About dinosaurs
And one stumbled out
And another and another
And more and more pour
Until the whole place
Is bumbling and rumbling
And groaning and moaning
And snoring and roaring
And dinosauring?
What if.
You tried to push them
Back inside
But they kept tromping
Off the pages instead?
Would you close the covers?
ONE DAY IN SUMMER
Aileen Fisher
On a day in summer
where the path made a crook
a boy leaned on a boulder
and opened a book.
He didn't hear the cricket
on the meadow's floor,
he didn't hear the fledglings
begging "More, more more."
He didn't feel the shadow
sliding down the tree,
he didn't see the closeness
of a bumblebee.
He didn't see the rabbit
or smell the yelolow clover.
he wasn't even hungry
till the book was over.
>
>
> At 12:23 PM 10/15/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Here are the poems that everybody sent. (And some I found myself.)
I had
a
> >blast - the kids had a blast! The 5th & 6th graders enjoyed
reading them
> >aloud to their classes. I pasted them on foam board and let the
kids
"pick
> >a card, any card." Then I'd read the poem aloud, or the
lucky kid would.
> >Thanks again to everyone.
> >-Jendy
> >
> >Library Lovers wrote:
> >
> > > At 12:17 PM 10/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >Thank you to everyone who sent book poems! I had a
blast reading -
and
> > > >being read to - in a large elementary school last week.
(Wearing a
hat
> > > >that looked like an open book!)
> > > >-Jendy Murphy
> > >
> > > Did you share with the list ? I'm sorry I missed
> > > the complied list would you please share again!
> > >
> > > Stephanie Stokes
> > > FRIENDS & FOUNDATIONS of California Libraries
> > >
> > > P.S. Please include instructions of the *hat*
> > > or a picture!
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From: M Cinnella/Gulf Beaches Library <cinnelm@tblc.org>
To: Pubyac Listserv <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper: Jewish Folktales
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:40:01 CDT
Hi everyone. I have a stumper and I'm hoping someone can help me out.
A
patron is looking for children's books by an author she claims is named
Jason Aaronson (she's not sure of the correct spelling of his last name).
She said he writes Jewish folktales and one of the books he's written is
titled THE MAGIC POMEGRANATE AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES. She also said
she saw a list of his books in the back of a ROAD TO READING series book.
I can't find a children's author by the name of Jason Aaronson (have
looked in A TO ZOO, BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S CATALOG).
I know some other authors have told THE MAGIC POMEGRANATE and there are
several who also have put together collections of Jewish folktales.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks!
--
Maggie Cinnella
Youth Services Librarian
Gulf Beaches Public Library
200 Municipal Drive
Madeira Beach, Florida 33708
727-391-2828 x202 (phone)
727-399-2840 (fax)
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From: "Joy S. Wong" <jwong@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Books about cliques for Kindergartners
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:40:16 CDT
A patron has a child in Kindergarten who cannot play with some of the
other children because they have clubs. Children in the club
refuse to play with outsiders. Can you suggest any books that could be
read to this child?
Please reply directly to jwong@tln.lib.mi.us
Joy Wong
Blair Memorial Library
Clawson, MI 48017
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From: "G Gallagher" <gglibrarian@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Coraline question
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:40:24 CDT
I know that there's been lots of discussion lately about Neil Gaiman's
Coraline, but I don't remember there being any discussion about the intended
audience.
I'd really like to know where libraries are placing it- juvenile or young
adult? I appologize if this has already been covered.
Please respond to me off-list.
Thanks!
Genevieve
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From: hunzigel@hhpl.on.ca (Lisa
Hunziger)
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper - lying
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:40:31 CDT
Hello.
We have a patron looking for a book for her 9 year old to read, about
lying. She is looking for a non-fiction book for the child to read on
his own. Our patron looked at "Telling the Truth", from the
"Exploring
Emotions" series, but did not think it would do the job. If anyone
has
any titles (and the mother is interested in videos as well), please
email me off-list. Thank you so much.
Lisa Hunziger
Halton Hills Public Libraries
hunzigel@hhpl.on.ca
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From: "G Gallagher" <gglibrarian@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Thanks- parts of speech
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:40:39 CDT
Ruth Heller's books are exactly what my patron was looking for.
Thanks to everyone!
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From: "Tina Martin" <tmartin@ahml.info>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper Rainforest Picture Book
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A patron is looking for a picture book she remembers that is about =
rainforest ecology. The phrase "in one munute" is repeated throughout.
=
After the phrase some statistics about trees and rainforest resources are =
given.
We have used the usual resources in trying to track this down but have so =
far been unsuccessful. It is not The Great Kapok Tree. Please reply to me
=
and I will share the answer with the group. Thank you for your time.
Tina Martin
Public Services Specialist, Kids' World
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
500 N. Dunton
Arlington Heights, Il. 60004-5966
847-506-2622
tmartin@ahml.info
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From: Jennifer Parker <jmpwel@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Books about traffic signs
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:40:55 CDT
HelloEveryone,
I just had a mother come in looking for books about what the traffic lights
mean. She has a little boy (about 2) who loves the traffic lights and she
wants a bookthat talks about what eachcolor means. My mind is blank can
anyone help?
TIA
Jennifer
jmpwel@yahoo.com
or
jparker@ocln.org
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From: Marnie Colton <mcolton@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org, dellis@epfl.net
Subject: Stumper: Halloween Poem
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:41:03 CDT
A patron is looking for a book she read a few years ago at her school
library (she is thirteen now). It is a Halloween poem that begins with a
line like "Once was John with no skin on" or "There was John with
no
skin on." It's about a boy who has no skin, only a skeleton. She says it
is a single volume, not a poem in an anthology, and the cover has a
graveyard, haunted house, and skeletons on it. Based on her age, I'm
guessing that it was written before 2000.
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks,
--
Marnie Colton, Children's Librarian
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Hampden Branch
3641 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 410-396-6043 or 410-396-6058
E-Mail: mcolton@epfl.net
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From: "Lori Fritz" <lfritz@mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us>
To: <PUBYAC@PRAIRIENET.ORG>
Subject: stumper - girl, fire , ghost
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:41:11 CDT
Here's hoping someone out there can identify this one. It's a little
convoluted, so bear with me.
A seventh grader came in today looking for a book she read in 5th grade.
She remember bits and pieces of the plot. A girl accidentally sets
her
house on fire on her birthday and dies in the fire. Later, the ghost of
the girl who died in the fire haunts another girl who is living with her
grandparents. I know I have read this one, but can't come up with a
title or author!
Many thanks to anyone who can offer suggestions!
Lori
Lori H. Fritz
Branch Manager
Groves Branch Library
Lubbock, TX
(806)767-3733
lfritz@mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: OIF Plans Lawyer Institutes
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:41:20 CDT
OIF Plans Lawyer Institutes
Librarians and attorneys who are interested in receiving special
training in order to defend intellectual freedom concerns are invited to
participate in Lawyers for Libraries, a series of institutes planned
around the country in 2003-2004 by ALA's OIF.
The programs, geared for attorneys who are to be accompanied by
librarians, are designed to create a pool of attorneys available for
libraries dealing with legal challenges. Institute topics will include
libraries as a public forum for reception and exchange of ideas and
speech; Internet access and filtering, including the impact of the
Children's Internet Protect Act and resulting litigation; and the
history, present, and future of privacy and confidentiality,
particularly in light of the USA Patriot Act and other efforts to
rescind patron privacy.
A similar series of programs were hosted by OIF in 1997 and 1998 in the
Chicago area.
For more information, contact Jonathan Kelley at 1-800-545-2433, ext.
4226, or jkelley@ala.org.
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From: Christina Tribe <christina_tribe@telus.net>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: advanced books for younger kids
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Hi Pubyaccers--
I know this topic was covered recently, but can I find the posting now
that I need it? of course not! I work in a law library, so my kidlit
experience/ resources are very limited...
One of my lawyers is looking for harder/ more advanced books for her
"bright and precocious" eight yr. old daughter. They have
already read
all Harry Potters (daughter wants to be Hermione & marry Harry when she
grows up) and also all Anne of Green Gables ("but mom, green hair is
cool"). The daughter loves acting out scenes in the books and will
adopt the style of speaking in each book ("oh whatever will I do if I
don't get seated next to my bosom friend on the first day of second
grade!").
Mom thinks the daughter is not quite ready for books that deal with more
scary/ serious issues, such as the Narnia series. Mom would also like
to move away from such strong female characters (although I see
absolutely nothing wrong with strong female characters!!)
So far, I've come up with Laura Ingalls Wilder books, Mary Poppins,
Roald Dahl & the usual
what-to-read-while-waiting-for-Harry-Potter-#5.... and am anxiously
awaiting more hilarious anecdotes about her daughter's reading habits!
Any suggestions?!
thanks in advance
Christina
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From: "Jesse Lewis" <lewisj@pbclibrary.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: stumper: shipwreck on the moon
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:52:14 CDT
Please forgive cross-postings.
Hi there! A patron just came in looking for a book that she remembers
in tremendous detail, all except the author or title (of course). The
story goes like this--a group of aliens shipwrecks on the moon. The
aliens don't have a physical form, they're more like "spirits".
They go
to Earth, leaving behind a teenaged girl "in stasis". On Earth,
the
aliens go into monkeys' bodies (so that they have a physical form with
which to move stuff), and ultimately the monkeys evolve into human life.
Much later, humans go to the moon and create a space station. A
teenaged boy wins a prize with some other teens to go to the moon
station. On the moon, the boy meets the girl who has just woken up from
her stasis, and he helps her fix the ship (since she can't move stuff in
her spirit-like form). She finally gets to go outside the ship, and
when she walks outside, it looks like a tornado and somebody gets
killed.
Any ideas? She thinks it's a Juvi/YA book and she read it a few years
ago. She also said she originally checked it out at a library in
Lawton, OK, in case there's anyone from that library around.
Thanks,
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From: "Williams, Sally" <WilliamsS@ci.mount-dora.fl.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Death and dying booklists
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:52:21 CDT
I imagine that my earlier thanks to this board is lost, but I want to =
tell all of you how much I appreciate your lists, links, etc., =
concerning death and dying.
This is a wonderful group--truly. You are awesome.
Sally williams
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From: Karin Grossmann <karingrossmann@monarch.net>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Teacher loans
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:52:30 CDT
Patti,
I work in a small public library in BC, Canada. We do not give teachers
an extended loan period either, our loan period is 3 weeks, the
exception being videos as the loan period is only 3 days. We also have
a limit of 3 books per subject (for non-fiction only) for each patron,
this avoids one patron wiping out an entire section. Unfortunately our
school system had its budget slashed and the libraries have been hit
very hard. I feel we will be picking up the slack!
Karin
Kitimat Public Library
karingrossmann@monarch.net
Marilyn Wagoner wrote:
>Patti,
>
>We do not extend the loan period for teachers or have
>any special arrangements for teachers either.
>Sometimes I've thought that this could be a nice way
>of cementing the school-public library connection.
>However, we have had teachers who have assumed that we
>would extend their privledges and have abused our
>policies. We had one teacher who took every Zoobook
>in our collection, about 40 of them for use in her
>classroom over the course of the year. She was
>shocked when her fines exceeded $100.00. We agreed to
>negotiate her fine if she returned the books. We are
>still missing some. Our loan period is 3 weeks, a
>fairly substantial time to use the book. Patrons may
>also renew over the phone or in person. Our video loan
>period is 7 days for entertainment videos and 3 weeks
>for instructional videos. The fines for overdue
>videos are $1.00 per day per video.
>I hope this helps in your decision.
>
>Marilyn
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>Marilyn Wagoner
>Children's Manager
>Albert Wisner Public Library
>2 Colonial Avenue
>Warwick, NY 10990
>mwagoner@rcls.org
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