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Has anyone had any success reading choose your own adventure books aloud? I need something for 4th and 5th grade and I remember I loved these as a child. Do you think they would be interested?

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Google Book Search

Students are beginning to use this site heavily. It's great for PDFs of complete books no longer under copyright like Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party. However, I'm questioning the ethics of students using books listed as "previews" on the sit

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Morning News

I am a new media specialist at an elementary school and I was wondering if anyone that does the morning news has any tips for me or maybe a script that you might follow.... Thanks!!

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Twilight @ the library

Hello All, very curious about how you are using Twilight (including the film) to promote the book, and in general, encourage greater enthusiasm for the library. For example, we are thinking about having a Twilight poster giveaway, among other things

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Doctoral opportunities

From the JESSE listserv: Fellowships Now Available for Doctoral Study: Information in Society With grant support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recr

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COOL CSI

I am considering creating a 4th grade unit on forensics using the Cool CSI series (interest level 3-6/ reading level 4) from Abdo Publishing. Has anyone else worked with this series/topic before? Any suggestions?

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books strong in SETTING

Hello! One of the 9th grade English teachers approached me and asked me to put together a list of books for her STRONG IN SETTING. I feel like I could take any book off the Reading Olympics list and give her that, but wanted some highly qualified o

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