Book Bundlz website is a great place for book clubs to check out for all kinds of information. Here’s an article I wrote for them about 12 Great Books for Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. There are four categories of readers so look for the one matching your group.
Voting for The Young Reader’s Choice awards finished up last week, and results will soon be announced. Each year, the Pacific Northwest Library Association presents this award. Nominations are accepted from children, teachers, parents and librarians in the Pacific Northwest, which includes the U.S. states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington as well as [...]
Fans of Shannon Hale’s books (Goose Girl, Enna Burning, Book of a Thousand Days) will find a lot to like on her website, where she shares great information about her books and herself. Just like with a DVD, you can find deleted scenes from several of her titles and discussion guides. There are also quizzes [...]
Powell’s is one of my favorite bookstores, and I’m always checking out its staff recommendations when I’m looking for new books to read. I just received Powell’s monthly newsletter with a listing for the favorite books of 2007. Included is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. That one is definitely [...]
If you’ve ever been stuck for an idea of a book to recommend for your mother-daughter book club, you know how valuable it can be to get advice from someone who works with kids and books everyday. Web sites like this one and other book sites certainly provide good information, but being able to talk [...]
One of the moms in my mother-daughter book club said she recently put a book on hold at the library solely because it was on the computer’s search screen when she sat in front of it. She also discovered that a lot of other people had holds on the book too. “Somebody thought this book [...]
Today is the last day of school for my daughters and we look forward to reading lots of books in the months ahead just because we want to, not because we have to. Textbooks are put aside until September and the summer reading program at the library is signed up for. We’ll be on vacation [...]
