Seattle, Day 3, Part 1

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I had a meeting this morning with school librarians representing every state in the United States. The meeting is called the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) Affiliate Assembly and there are two representatives from each state library association.

QUESTION: Two representatives from each state is like which part of Congress, the House of Representatives or the Senate?

After the meeting, which lasted two hours, by the way, my daughter and I walked around the exhibit hall we didn’t get to visit yesterday. But we didn’t even go down half of the aisles before we were so bogged down with “stuff” that we had to come back to our hotel room to make a drop!

Here’s some of the more than 3 dozen Advance Reading Copies (ARCs) of new books that are going to be coming out this spring and summer that I picked up:
• Five Ancestors Book 4: The Crane by Jeff Stone;
• a new novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted;
• a new book by Walter Dean Myers about a boy coming-of-age in 1920s Harlem, Harlem Summer;
• Masquerade, the second book in the Blue Bloods (vampire) series by Melissa de la Cruz;
• an upcoming New York Times book, Hurricane Force Winds: In the Path of America’s Deadliest Storms;
• a new graphic novel by the author of Boy Proof, Cecil Castellucci, The Plain Janes;
• the first book in a new series by Mates and Dates and Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise author Cathy Hopkins, Zodiac Girls;
• Sharon Flake’s upcoming book, The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street;
• I LOVED the title of this humorous-looking book: Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman

And we still have more than half of one exhibit hall still to go!

Stay tuned …

Ms McDaniel

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