Teens’ Top Ten Books announced as part of Teen Read Week
Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations were posted on...Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes: Scholarship deadline is April 30
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is available to students age 18 and younger who have organized and led a service activity that has clearly benefited other people. The service activity must have been initiated and motivated primarily by the student and cannot have been an assignment for school or work. Additionally, the student must demonstrate a positive spirit and high moral purpose. To be considered, each applicant must be nominated by an adult who has solid knowledge of the service activity and is not a relative.
April is National Poetry Month
We are reaching the end of National Poetry Month. Have you taken time to learn more about the great American poets? Some of our favorites include e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Walt Whitman.
To learn more about these great poets, plus many more, visit Great American Poets.
April is National School Library Month
April is School Library Month, sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of ALA. Every April school librarians create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student’s educational career.
