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What’s Sally Reading?
No Flying No Tights: A Graphic Novel Review Website —
No Flying No Tights is a wonderful resource for librarians looking for information, explanations, and lists of graphic novels, comics, manga, and anime (but not about superheroes!) including a “Comics 101” section on the web page. Librarians unfamiliar with anime will appreciate the web page’s staff picks for “Must Have: Anime for the Uninitiated.” It will give you a good place to start.
The 2014 One Book for Nebraska Kids is Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen. The Library Commission has a book club kit librarians can borrow. If it is out when you would like it, we have plenty of other book club kits of previous One Book for Nebraska Kids and One Book for Nebraska Teens. Take a look at the web page for book club kits, or the web page to look at previous One Book for Nebraska Kids or Teens titles.
Here is my book talk about Lawn Boy:
(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.)