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Check out PA author Jen Bryant's newsletter Flying Tiding (a few lucky members took one of her titles home from our last meeting) Her book Kaleidescope Eyes won another award. The Chicago Public Library has named //Kaleidoscope Eyes// to its 2010 Best of the Best Books list. And it has also been named to the International Reading Association’s Teacher’s Choice list for 2010-2011. If you plan to be at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference or at IRA in Chicago, then please stop by the Random House Children's Books booth for a signed copy! Books you might like to check out:

PROFESSIONAL: __The Courage to Teach__ by Parker Palmer __The Death of Common Sense in Our Schools__ by Jim Grant __Readicide: How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it__ by Kelly Gallagher (Outstanding book that challenges testing mania and other anomalies that schools promote that hinder reading in students.) __Why Students Don't Like School__ by Daniel T. Willingham -Suggested by guest speaker, Dr. Wheaton at our 9-30-09 session

NON-FICTION FOR STUDENTS: Great Reads! __The Soloist__ by Steve Lopez. Steve will be at Mercyhurst College in the fall 2010 __Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen__ by Joe Drape (football) __A Year Without Made in China__ by Sara Bongiorni (female journalist spends a year without "made in China" products) __The Last American Man__ by Elizabeth Gilbert (non-fiction about a man who leaves his family to live in the wilderness) __Into the Wild__ by Jon Krakauer (wilderness survival, great movie and soundtrack) __Look Me In The Eye__ by John Elder Robison (account of living with Aspberger's Syndrome) __Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization__ by Hodding Carter (laugh out loud funny) __Nickel and Dimed__ by Barbara Ehrenreich (for journalism) __The Year of Living Biblically__ by A. J. Jacobs (man lives by the rules of the bible) __Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back__ by Claire and Mia Fontaine (for mature audiences - explicit drug use and language - unbelievable book about a daughter's drug use and a mother's love - cannot put down!)

JUST FOR FUN: __My Last Skirt__ by Linda Durant (civil war woman who spends her life as a man and fought in civil war) __Ms. Spitfire__ by ? about Anne Sullivan __The Book Thief__ by Markus Zusak (great fiction work for literature circles on the Holocaust) __Burned__ by Ellen Hopkins (free verse poetry about a girl's escape from her family's persecution - explicit) __Crank__ by Ellen Hopkins (free verse poetry about a girl's struggle with her addiction to crank - explicit)

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