{"id":5256,"date":"2012-02-23T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2012-02-23T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T07:00:45","slug":"young-readers-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/young-readers-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Counting in the Garden<\/a>
\nby Emily Hruby (Author) and Patrick Hruby (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Celebrate the joy of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables your garden as you count to twelve in this chunky board book<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> There are many wonderful things in my garden. I like to count them….
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Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Zita the Spacegirl<\/a>
\nby Ben Hatke (Author, llustrator)
\n192 pages<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> In this (graphic novel) comic book , Zita and Joseph discover a crater left by a meteroid, and inside the crater is a strange device…<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong>
\nZITA:<\/strong> It’s probably an old remote or something.
\nSOUND<\/strong> AS ZITA PUSHES THE BUTTON: TEK TEK TEK TEK
\nJOSEPH: <\/strong>I still don’t think…
\nSOUND:<\/strong> CRAKKA KRAKA
\nSOUND:<\/strong> THOOOM!
\n(Light comes out of the crater and then a creature grabs Joseph…)<\/p>\n

The 2011 Cybils<\/a> Graphic Novels Winner!<\/p>\n

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Austin SCBWI Regional Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thanks for a GREAT weekend at the Austin SCBWI Regional Conference<\/a><\/p>\n

Special thanks to RA Debbie Gonzales<\/a>!
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STEM Friday on February 24, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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STEM Friday is coming! (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

The STEM Friday Round-up<\/a> on February 24, 2012<\/p>\n

is at Rourke Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve reopened the STEM Friday<\/a> blog for my “early birds.”<\/a> If you need to add your link before the host is ready, add it to comments for the announcement for that day on the STEM Friday<\/a> blog. Thanks!
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Literary Link<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My January Quick Tips column: Hot Topics: Winter Weather with STEM<\/a> is at Booklist Online.
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\"Site<\/a> My NEW chapter book is Save the Best for Last, Abby<\/a> (All-Star Cheerleaders)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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