Last Friday at the NLA/NSLA/MPLA conference in La Vista, NE, I attended Sandy Wallick’s session on tips to a fun story time. She reminded those of us at her session about the Flannel Friday website that lists flannel board (and other) ideas for sharing. Take a look for links to lots of ideas!
Here are the links from Sandy’s handout: Flannel Friday: on the
web, & on
PInterest.
I just finished reading
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman. Wow! This is the sequel to
Unwind, and a third book in the series will be published sometime in the future. Connor (the Akron AWOL) is now in charge of the Graveyard, the old airplane dumping spot in the Arizona desert where many runaways are hiding. A new character, Cam, is the first “human” successfully rewound from unwound teen body parts, a new age Frankenstein. Is he human, does he have a soul? What are his creators’ intentions for the future? This title in the series has lots of action and things to think about, carries the story along in a satisfactory way, and leaves more to wonder about as we look ahead to book three.
As was mentioned by a participant at the NLA/NSLA/MPLA conference, there also is an ebook of a transitional story between
Unwind and
UnWholly. It is titled
UnStrung – I haven’t read it yet.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free, via the Regional Library Systems, to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
