Bookcast 3

This week's bookcast features a sea serpent, a dragon, high-tech graphics, a girl who can talk to ghosts, some mobsters, a jungle boy, and even some dancing weasels--in other words, something for everyone!

Letters About Literature Contest

Students! You can enter the 2008 Letters About Literature national writing about reading contest!

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with the South Carolina Center for the Book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. Deadline is December 14th, so you need to hurry!

For the main page, click here.

For a cool video about the contest, click here.

Quick links: Entry Coupon and Official Rules.

To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. There are three competition levels: Level I for children in grades 4 through 6; Level II for grades 7 and 8, and Level III, grades 9 - 12. Winners, announced in the spring of each year, receive cash awards at the national and state levels.

Bookcast 2

This week's bookcast brings you many new book selections, a trip to the library suggestion box, and some hot new library fashions!



Click PLAY to begin; click on Bookcast 2 (above left) to end. Enjoy!

Bookcast 1: A Thanksgiving Book Chat