After the debut of my "read around" posters for sciences, our Drama teacher request to have some for music and drama. She's one of my "best" middle grade / YA readers and has read so many of the books on our core lists, including many of the sequels to the books. It's truly a fantastic … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Music and Drama
One of the fun things about chatting to students about what they want to read when a book is out and they "need it" is what aspect of the book appeals to them. Towards the end of the last school term I had a bunch of historical fiction books out on display following our G8 … Continue reading #DecDisplays – The spies we love
How lucky young people are today in their choices of memoirs. Today I'm celebrating that many of our students are able to see themselves, not just in fiction but in the stories that people are willing to share of their lives, their struggles, their memories and their triumphs. Originally I had a place-holder poster up … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Recent Memoirs
Well October sure is the month for national days with no less than 9 countries celebrating! If you missed the blog on the first - these only represent countries where our students are coming from - in case I'm missing out on any countries! Also, for some countries it may not be an #authentic voice … Continue reading #DecDisplays – October Celebrations
For September we have four countries to celebrate. How sad is it that all the books we have about Armenia are about the genocide? For further reading please refer to the GLLI blogs on Brazil, Mexico Armenia and Saudi Arabia. By Nadine Bailey – middle school teacher librarian, currently living and working in Dubai, formerly … Continue reading #DecDisplays – September Celebrations
Following on from Friday's post, here are 4 posters for Grade 8 / 13 year olds - the G8 protagonists poster, our G8 core collection selection, the same for Year 9 at Tanglin Trust School (thanks Katie Day) and Oberoi International School's OIS Reads! Middle Grade poster (thanks Sarah Ducharme). By Nadine Bailey – middle … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Grade 8 / 13 year olds
Following on from yesterday's post, here are 4 posters for our Grade 7 / 12 year olds - the G7 protagonists poster, our G7 core collection selection, the same for Year 8 at Tanglin Trust School (thanks Katie Day) and Oberoi International School's OIS Reads! Middle Grade poster (thanks Sarah Ducharme). By Nadine Bailey – … Continue reading #DecDisplay – Grade 7 / 12 year olds
Living up to the quote attributed to Edison "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." we librarians try to find ways that we can get books into the hands of our students that will be "the one(s)" that set up them up for reading success. Today features some of the … Continue reading #DecDisplay – Grade 6 / 11 year olds
These posters are in response to requests of so many in our middle grade community. As so often the case it's the result of a book to Netflix phenomenon - in this case Jenny Hahn's "The summer I turned pretty". At the moment two genres are trending in middle school - romance and murder mystery. … Continue reading #DecDisplays – a little romance
One of the best things about being a librarian is that the community is really good with sharing not only ideas, but also bits and pieces necessary to adapt the ideas to your own library. Thanks to librarian Kelsey Bogan I've started using Shelf Talkers for our "Core Library" displays. Using her template, I've adjusted … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Shelf Talkers
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 