Happy Right to Read Week!

February 25 - March 1, 2013 is Right to Read Week


Right to Read Week is sponsored by the Ohio Council of the International Reading Association and is a celebration of reading. Benefits of reading:

• brings people together
• reduces stress & provides tranquility
• improves analytical thinking - makes you smarter!
• Increases vocabulary
• improves memory & writing skills
• expands your horizons

In an effort to recognize Right to Read Week, 43 OHS staff members participated (teachers, aides, counselors and library staff) by taking a picture of their shoes/feet with a favorite or most memorable book. "Guess who walked into a good book?"


March 1 is Read Across America Day

Best of 2012?

On Monday January 28, at 11 AM, the 2013 ALA Youth Media Awards will be announced. More than 1,300 onsite audience members and an unlimited number of virtual participants will join a webcast to hear the news first hand of who will win top honors among children’s and young adult authors and illustrators, as well as producers of children’s audio and video materials.  You can follow along in real-time by logging on to the ALA Youth Media Awards Facebook page, or via Twitter by following hashtag #ALAyma. For more information visit the ALA Youth Media Awards page. Among the 19 awards presented at Youth Media Awards program are the prestigious Caldecott Medal (75^th anniversary), which honors the illustrator of the year's most distinguished American picture book for children; Coretta Scott King Book Award for African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that communicate the African American experience; John Newbery Medal, honoring the author of the year's most outstanding contribution to children's literature; Michael L. Printz Award for the best book written for young adults.  Pura Belpré Award, honoring Latino writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for youth; and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, for both the author(s) and illustrator(s) of an outstanding book for beginning readers. 

In addition to the ALA Youth Media Awards, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) has also announced winners for Excellence in Nonfiction.

What were your favorite reads of 2012? I'd love to hear from you :-)

Some of my favorites included:

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• The Strength in What Remains
• The Paris Wife
• The Fault in Our Stars, 
• Ready Player One
• Room