THE HUNGER GAMES TRAILER!!!!!

NO NEED FOR COMMENTARY: MARCH 23. PERIOD THE END!

Stages on Pages

Attended The Dolphin Bookshop Stages on Pages event this afternoon with Rick Leidenfrost-Wilson. Great to meet authors who have written about the arts in YA fiction. Bought all the books and am looking forward to reading them. One of the authors turned me onto a cool website netgalley.com where you can download ARC's ( Advanced Reader Copies) of books not yet published. How cool is THAT!

Field Trip to meet Conor Grennan



Conor Grennan



If you hang with me or have asked for a book recommendation in the past 6 months, you know I will recommend Little Princes by Conor Grennan. I LOVE this book, thus I LOVE the author. The Book Addicts Anonymous book club of the Wheatley School, affectionately known as BAA, will be taking a field trip to hear Conor Grennan tell his story THIS  THURSDAY! And guess what? I am unable to attend.! BOOOOO HOOOO. I follow him on FB and he seems just as wonderful in real life as he does in the pages of his book. Anyhow, our terrific book club  read this book as our first selection of the year, and the feedback is unanimous- everyone is moved and impressed by the book. Here is a video that explains it in a nutshell. Donna Rosenblum, the wonderful librarian at Floral Park Memorial High School invited our group to hear Conor speak at her school. I am sure it will be wonderful. The good news is, I will be able to finally meet Conor in May at the LISMA dinner for librarians. And May is not too far away,, right?

Event at The Dolphin Booskshop tomorrow night

The Dolphin Bookshop


299 Main Street

Port Washington, NY 11050

516-767-2650

www.thedolphinbookshop.com

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH

5:30 PM TO 9 PM

THE DOLPHIN BOOKSHOP

FEATURED AUTHORS INCLUDE:

Matt Blackstone A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie

Christopher Grant Teenie

Michael Northrop Trapped

Gae Polisner The Pull of Gravity

Lena Roy Edges

Nova Ren Suma Imaginary Girls

Arlaina Tibensky And Then Things Fall Apart

Meet The Newest Authors in TEEN FICTION

And find out what it takes to be a writer in today’s world

This is a free Event! Refreshments and live music by MARK KLEIN

20% discount for purchasing two or more books

Falling Apart and Picking

Up The Pieces...Why We Write

Hanging with New Authors of Teen Fiction

The Help: A field trip

Before even the first official meeting of the Wheatley book club, we had our first field trip. Off to Roosevelt field for a viewing of the movie, The Help. A dozen students met at 11:30 am, Caitlyn with cream cheese in her handbag ( don't ask!) and celebrating the birthday of James ( HBDAY!) to screen the movie of the book many had loved. Our assessment is , it delivered as a movie, but was lacking so much of the depth that the book delivered. We discussed racism in the south as portrayed in the movie, as well as how racism still exists today- on Long Island, Hispanic immigrants often suffer from the hate and ignorance of their fellow men. After the movie, off to lunch at Nordstroms Cafe, a hidden gem that Nicole turned us onto. We left each other at 4PM  and vowed to do it again!

The US Open starts Monday.

Reluctant readers?

From the New York Times, a discussion about reluctant readers ( mostly boys) and how to reach them. Video interview with our heroes, James Patterson and Rick Riorden.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/what-about-the-reluctant-reader/