February 2013 McConnell Newsletter

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  Registration for the 2013 McConnell Conference is now open! Make sure to include the banquet and lunch session with McConnell featured authors Jack Gantos and Dan Yaccarino. There is plenty of room left to hear these great authors share their experiences. https://ci.uky.edu/lis/mcconnellconference

Friday March 1, 2013 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Banquet Dinner featuring Jack Gantos Saturday March 2, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Lunch Session featuring Dan Yaccarino

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March 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys http://bit.ly/OutofEasy2013 April 13 at 7:00 p.m.

McConnell Board Game Night http://bit.ly/ McConnellBoardGameNight2013 Please RSVP on our Facebook pages or using the form found here for these events so we know approximately how many are coming or if we need to reschedule. ~Thanks!

The McConnell Conference will take place on March 1-2, 2013. The conference is quickly approaching. There is still time to register at https:// ci.uky.edu/lis/mcconnell-conference.

Below is a sneak peek for the breakout sessions.

Geek Out with Graphic Novels How do you go about establishing graphic novels in your youth collection? This session will discuss how to train staff on selecting graphic novel and how to partner with local gaming and comic book stores to build your collection. As well, there will be an overview of the best graphic novels and comic series for preschool through young adult. This session will also provide suggestions for graphic novel themed programming (including Na-

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tional Gaming Day @ Your Library overview and Free Comic Book Day give away outline).

Celebrate the Art of the Picture Book!

With the75th anniversary of the Caldecott Medal right around the corner, this session will take a look at the various mediums that illustrators use to create all the magical, humorous, poignant and beautiful things in picture books. Anyone who works with or reviews picture books will find a whole new appreciation for the illustrators.

Roll up your sleeves and prepare to get messy. No previous artistic experience required, just your creative spirit.

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Why Each Hero Matters: YA Literature Heroes and the Young Adult Everyone needs a hero, especially a developing young adult. Thankfully, Young Adult Literature offers four main types of protagonists. Learning to identify these, and why each is essential to the developing young adult can be a key method to interesting the developing readers in what the library can offer.

A Book That Looks Like Me You have brown skin, brown eyes and black hair. You want a book about princesses and all you can find are pictures of blue-eyed, blond haired princesses. What do you do? This session will present some recent picture books featuring diverse races and cultures as well as some old favorites. You'll also learn of some resources to help you in choosing multicultural literature for children.

Young Adult Awards Panel Since 2000, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division of the American Library Association (ALA) has been honoring works of either fiction or nonfiction that exemplify the quality of Young Adult Literature with the Michael L. Printz Award. This award has the unique distension of being an international honor. In 2009, YALSA began awarding the William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award. This session will offer summaries of the Printz and William Morris Award winners for 2013. A question and answer session will follow. Participants can offer their opinions about the award winners and discuss what other books were considered award worthy.

Imagining Beyond the Skin I'm In: Creating Ethnic Authenticity in Children's and Young Adult Literature Librarian Edith Campbell and author Ashley Hope Pérez team up in this session to highlight key issues in writing and selecting books about ethnic authenticity. Pérez will discuss how she came to write about communities she wasn’t born into and some of the work that goes into the responsible treatment of diverse ethnic and cultural experiences in literature. She’ll also will talk about past work reviewing and selecting children’s books for inclusion in bilingual/Spanish-language collections. Campbell will highlight examples of outstanding books at all levels involving ethnicity without limiting treatment to color while developing stories that revolve around contemporary storylines. Specific titles will be shared as well, where more books can be found. The session will also include a set of “quick check” recommendations to help librarians and teachers make informed decisions about titles to include in their collections.

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Every month leading up to the 2013 McConnell Conference, the McConnell newsletter will feature a new book review from one of our 2013 featured presenters. These reviews will introduce you to our authors and some of their work. If you have any books from our 2013 presenters you would like us to review, please send suggestions to: mercedes.hopewell@gmail.com

“A writer’s job is to turn his worst experiences into money.” This is Jack Henry’s philosophy about life. He is trying to do everything in his power to create tragedy and suffering in his life. Jack Henry wants to be a writer but his father thinks he is nuts. This is the fifth book in the Jack Henry series. It follows Jack in a junior high school that use to be prison. Jack is just trying to pass shop class so he can have a summer to write his first novel. However, his shop teacher has other ideas. What is Jack to do? Fail shop class or dig up the dog coffin he made for his dog? No dog coffin no grade. No grade no summer vacation devoted to writing. Jack Henry experiences many twists and turns in this final installment of the Jack Henry series. The first in the series is Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue. Readers may want to start with that title. This book series is full of laughter and adventure. Children of all ages will love Jack and his crazy family. While this book is more than ten years old, it has a timeless quality. This book is recommended for ages nine and up.

Gantos, J. (1997). Jack's black book. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Read A-likes Gantos, J. (1998). Joey Pigza swallowed the key. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Kinney, J. (2007). Diary of a wimpy kid: Greg Heffley's journal. New York: Amulet Books.

Pinkwater, D. M., & Brown, C. (2012). Bushman lives!. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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“When am I getting my book back?”

“Never.”

This is the conversation one G.A. had with her best friend recently. Easy by Tammara Webber is a book we can’t stop talking about. This book was voted the second best Young Adult Fiction novel of 2012 by Goodreads. If you are looking for a book you can’t put down, read Easy by Tammara Webber. http://bit.ly/Easy2012

When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back.

Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.

When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.

Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night-but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.

2013 Caldecott Medal Winner One Cool Friend illustrated by Da-

vid Small and written by Toni Buzzeo Sleep Like a Tiger illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski written by Mary Honors Logue Creepy Carrots! illustrated by Peter Brown and written by Aaron Reynolds This is Not My Hat illustrated and written by Jon Klassen

Extra Yarn illustrated by Jon Klassen and written by Mac Barnett Green illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

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2013 Newbery Medal Winner The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Honors Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin Three Times Lucky by Shelia Turnage

2013 Printz Medal Winner In Darkness by Nick Lane

Honors Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Dodger by Terry Pratchett The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

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Scarlet: The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Available February 5, 2013 Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi Available February 5, 2013

Shards and Ashes stories from Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong, Veronica Roth, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Nancy Holder, Rachel Caine, and Carrie Ryan.

Available February 19, 2013

Requiem by Lauren Oliver Available March 5, 2013

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare Available March 19, 2013

The Elite by Kiera Cass Available April 23, 2013

Awaken by Meg Cabot Available July 7, 2013

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STUDENT SECTION Are you in LIS 614 or LIS 612 this Spring? Come use the McConnell Center! We can help you find books to use for your class.

Our Spring 2013 hours Monday & Wednesday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Tuesday & Thursday 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Or by appointment contact mercedes.hopewell@gmail.com

Are you a current UK-SLIS student registration is required of all who would you like to present a presenters. Please direct questions to poster at the 2013 McConnell stephanie.reynolds@uky.edu.

Conference? The 45th McConnell Conference will be at the Lexington Embassy Suites Hotel on March 1-2, 2013.

The deadline for sign ups is February 14, 2013.

Please note that the McConnell Conference is unable to absorb program costs. Equipment needs other than a screen are the responsibility of the presenter(s).

While presenters are encouraged to have handouts, printing services will not be provided by the McConnell Conference. Basic conference

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On the Blog: ARC Read & Review 2012! We have the following titles available for anyone who wants to read and review them for the McConnell Center blog at http:// youthlitmatters.wordpress.com/

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Prodigy: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu

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Dodger by Terry Pratchett

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Scarlet by Melissa Meyer

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The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd

New Books in the Center: Juvenile Fiction 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney

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Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

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A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L’Engle

In the Center: March 30 at 7:00 p.m.

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys April 20 at 7:00 p.m.

McConnell Board Game Night

Picture Books

Jinx by Sage Blackwoord Amelia Bedelia: Means Business

by Herman Parish

A vital gathering place for books and ideas, the McConnell Center is committed to identifying excellent literature for children and adolescents and to bringing this literature to the attention of those adults who have an academic, professional, career, or personal interest in connecting young readers with books.

We maintain two main, non-

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Perfectly Percy by Paul Schmid

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Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson

circulating collections: Our Current Collection includes all books sent to us for review by publishers during the current year.

The Permanent Collection is several collections of books maintained in the Center as a resource for students and librarians. It includes the Basic Collection, the Awardwinning Collection (Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, Morris, Pura Belpré, Sibert, and Orbis Pictus Awards), the Kentucky Collection (notable Kentucky authors and books about Kentucky), the Reference Collection, and the Periodical Collection.

Our Spring 2013 hours are: Monday & Wednesday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. and Tuesday & Thursday 12 p.m.

- 5 p.m.

Please visit our website for more information: https://ci.uky.edu/lis/mcconnellcenter

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