National Scholastic Writing Awards Winner!

Congratulations to Kelly Smith from Lancaster Catholic High School for her win in the National Scholastic Writing Awards. Kelly won an American Voices Award for her piece called "Room 323A". We couldn't be more proud! Way to go Kelly!!

Lifelong Literacy - PSA

While watching television this weekend I saw the new Lifelong Literacy Ads from the Literacy Council and the Ad Council. Below is my favorite of the series.

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Best Books for Teens 2008 are here!

Best Books for Young Adults 2008.

Which ones have you read?

Do you agree that they are the best?

E-mail us with your comments, or better yet, come in to a teen advisory board meeting and discuss the books with your peers. TAB meetings are in the HUB (second floor) of the Lancaster Public Library on every third Tuesday of every month at 4:30PM.

What do you want to do?

Women's History Month 2008

Hello All,
In honor of Women’s History Month (March), I created a teen readers’ advisory of non-fiction.
Please feel free to forward to your friends and teachers.

Social Science (Civil Rights, Feminism):

Women on war : an international anthology of women's writings from antiquity to the present / edited and with an introduction by Daniela Gioseffi. YA 303.66 WOM women’s writings on war and peace.

33 things every girl should know about women's history : from suffragettes to skirt lengths to the E.R.A. / edited by Tonya Bolden. YA 305.4 THI

Uses poems, essays, letters, photographs and more to present the actions and achievements of women in the United States, from its beginnings up through the twentieth century.

Ms. and the material girls : perceptions of women from the 1970s through the 1990s / Catherine Gourley. YA 305.40973 GOU

Prologue: The women's strike for equality, August 26, 1970 -- Who took the "r" out of "mrs."? -- Bionic women and real-life heroines -- From denial to indulgence : the body obsession -- The material world, or welcome to the 1980s -- Guerrilla girls and other militant females -- Epilogue the "game of life" -- Source notes.

Flappers and the new American woman : perceptions of women from 1918 through the 1920s / Catherine Gourley. YA 305.40973 GOU

Prologue: Armistice Day, November 11, 1918 -- Modern girls and the media -- Happy housewives and delicate women -- Morals and manners -- Beauty in the eye of the beholder -- The backlash against modern times -- Epilogue: Change and continuity and what comes next.

Rosie and Mrs. America : perceptions of women in the 1930s and 1940s / Catherine Gourley. YA 305.40973 GOU

Prologue: Inauguration Day, March 4, 1933 -- Ain't we got fun? : amusements and diversions in hard times -- Mrs. America goes to the movies -- Fashion's passions -- Bylines and headlines : women who write news, women who make news -- The many faces of Rosie -- Epilogue: Mrs. America goes home.

Women in pants : manly maidens, cowgirls, and other renegades / Catherine Smith & Cynthia Greig. YA 391.2 SMI

19th & 20th century history.

Music History:

Take-off! : American all-girl bands during WW II / Tonya Bolden. YA 784.48165 BOL

The band was on fire -- We played all the way up to New York -- What are we gonna do for a drummer? -- Outro -- Glossary -- Notes -- Selected sources -- Recommended reading -- Recommended listening -- Illustration and text credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Sports:

Let me play : the story of Title IX, the law that changed the future of girls in America / Karen Blumenthal. YA 796.082 BLU

Up until the 1970s, if you were a girl, you were told you shouldn't play team sports, or go to college. But, in 1972, Title IX changed that, by ensuring that girls have the same opportunities as boys to participate in sports and
classes. But that change did not come without a fight.

Chamique Holdsclaw : my story / Chamique Holdsclaw with Jennifer Frey. YA 796.323 HOLDSC HOL

basketball.

Poetry:

A poem of her own : voices of American women yesterday and today / edited by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. YA 811.008 POE

Literature:

Keeping secrets : the girlhood diaries of seven women writers / by Mary E. Lyons. YA 818.303 LYO

Biography:
Abigail Adams : a Revolutionary woman / Jacqueline Ching. YA B ADAMS ABIGAI CHING

Elizabeth Blackwell : with profiles of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Susan La Flesche Picotte / [writer, Lisa Klobuchar]. YA B BLACKW ELIZAB KLOBUC

the first woman to obtain an M.D. degree in the United States, with profiles of two prominent individuals, who are associated through the influences they had on one another, the successes they achieved, or the goals they worked toward. Includes recommended readings and web sites

Golda Meir : with profiles of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin / [writer, Lori Meek Schuldt]. YA B MEIR GOLDA SCHULD

A biography of Golda Meir, the Ukrainian-born fourth and only female prime minister of Israel.

Emily Dickinson : a biography / Milton Meltzer. YA B DICKIN EMILY MELTZE

Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.

Paula Danziger : voice of teen troubles / Jennifer Bond Reed. YA B DANZIG PAULA REED Examines this wonderful writer and explores her many facets.

My father's summers : a daughter's memoir / Kathi Appelt. YA B APPELT KAHTI APPELT A series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond.

Anne Frank : a hidden life / by Mirjam Pressler YA B FRANK ANNE PRESSL

Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.

Martha Graham : a dancer's life / by Russell Freedman. YA B GRAHAM MARTHA FREEDM

A photo-biography of the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who was born in Pittsburgh in 1895 and who became a leading figure in the world of modern dance.

Pocahontas / George Sullivan. YA B POCAHO SULLIV

Powhatan Native Americans.

Betsy Ross : the American flag and life in a young America / Ryan P. Randolph. YA B ROSS BETSY RANDOL




Websites:
Please visit the Library of Congress’s Women’s History Month Project:
http://www.loc.gov/topics/womenshistory/

Please visit the History Channel to watch videos on women’s history:
http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist/

World Book Wants Your Thoughts

We have so many great resources here at the library that we sometimes forget to tell people about them. One that I've always liked and suggested to kids is the World Book Encyclopedia. We have the hard copy version on the shelf and we also offer World Book Online for free through our Power Libraries Databases. All you need is a library card!

Right now, World Book is also asking for your opinions. As librarians we always have opinions on the types of things we buy for library use, but this time World Book wants to hear from the kids and parents who use the materials. Go ahead and email them at worldbookadvisors@worldbook.com . Tell them what you think!