 All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of things of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you are unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week and it is then posted to our website later for you to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our archives. Both the live show and the recordings, the archive recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please share with anyone, friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone who you think may be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. The Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska and we are the agency for all types of libraries. So you will find things on our show, excuse me, upcoming sessions or previous ones that are for public libraries, K-12, universities, corrections, museums, anything and everything. Really our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. All types of libraries, anything you think that may be interested in, services and programs you think they might want to try out, showing things that libraries are doing, demoing services, demoing in mini training sessions maybe of things. We do have guest speakers that come on sometimes from across the country to share things with us. And we also have library commission staff that do these sessions. And that's what we have this morning with us with me today is Sally Snyder, who is our coordinator of children and youth, sorry, children and young adult library services here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And she does our regular sessions on best children's books, best team books with other people, other librarians from across the state. But today we are talking about summer reading for next year. Are we ready? We're talking. Yes, because we know you guys may be going on, if you haven't already, I'll get you planned on that. So, some reading program 2019 is, the theme is, a universal story, space, other space, which is definitely awesome. And this one, and if you're going to talk about the theme, that it is because it is the anniversary of the landing on the moon. Was it? Was it? Right, so next year 2019 is the 50th anniversary of landing on the moon, and that is why they are coordinated to have a space themed summer reading for next year. I think that's awesome. A lot of great things going on, call any astronaut you know to come and be in some program at your library if you want to be asked for one, sure, sure, you can have an outfit anyway. Yeah. And you do mention that anything related to STEM, science, technology, engineering math is all that's just all together so well, which I think is great with everything. People are really, you know, that's a huge topic now for libraries in school, schools and libraries, makerspaces, but today Sally is going to share some titles and some books that these come across over the past year, every year, ever since you knew that this is the, one of my favorite things to do is to read and talk about what I've read, so yay. Just a quick summary before we get started, these are books that I have encountered either we have some publishers who send reading books to the library commission, so I can look through those for our different lists, and I look at library books and sometimes I buy books because I just have to have it, and I can't get it any other way anyway and I'm just going to do that, but these are the ones that I've encountered. There are many others that I haven't run across, so you might have a whole nice collection already in your library that you can start with for your theme for next year, and here's some new ones, relatively new ones, that you can think about adding to your collection as you go. I have them put in groups that are kind of loose, picture books and then novels for grades two to five or something like that, which I can never have broken down. The current list that I'm going to talk about today will be up on our web page with this recording, it's not, I think there's one at some conference which doesn't have everything I'm going to talk about today. So there'll be an updated list of new and more titles to it, yeah. So if you're taking notes, you don't have to write everything down, just jot down things that will help you remember which book was it because it'll have the list has the ordering information and things like that to make it easier for you to do. So we'll get started and see how far we get by one in the clock. Sure, and we might go over there. So we'll start with fiction picture books. And the first one I'm going to talk about is Life on Mars. A boy in a space suit is exploring Mars, and he has a gift in his hand in case he finds any lights there. The reader of this nurse sees the big creature hiding from the boy, but he never does see it. This gift is a box of chocolate cupcakes, and he's hoping he can share it with somebody or something, but he's disappointed in finding no lights, and he already just drops the gift box. And then he's walking back to find the spaceship, and he finds a flower, the first sign of light on the planet, and he's so excited. So he spots his spaceship, and he notices that the gift box is right by the ladder up to the spaceship, so he picks it up and finds back in, and he heads off back home again, and he opens up the box, doesn't chocolate cupcakes sounds good, but when he opens it, all that's in there are coins. Oh, somebody found it. Yeah, from that very point. Zelda wants to be the first chicken in space. She asks for help with her spaceship and the building of her rocket, but everyone else in the chicken yard is too busy. So she's doing the space all by herself, but she returned. Everyone wanted to know about her trip, and she realized it had been wonderful, but a little lonely. Perhaps we'll bring some friends next time, she says. And the story ends with an illustration of her spaceship like that, her writing in it, and she's pulling the trailer behind it. That's full of the friends, so she had a way to bring her friends. This is a blank caption and nonfiction, the alphabet part is told in rhyme. The capsule is important, it starts with a C, for example, and on each page, also with that little rhyme, there are two to three nonfiction paragraphs and smaller types that give more information about the capsule from last off, more data, energy, all those different things throughout there. This is perfect for summer, and the astronaut slash author. I was going to say this is our own, our very own Clayton Anderson. This is one I bought because I had to have it. Charlotte, one of many bunny siblings, is frustrated whenever she tries to experiment following the scientific method, the brothers and sisters get in the way or break her speakers and do other things. Her solution, a trip to the moon in a spaceship, resembles a carrot and was built by Charlotte. She finally has time to herself and she can concentrate on her experiments, but then something is wrong. She is lonely. She even misses being squished. She returns home to her family and uses her spaceship as her laboratory, a space of her home. And it does include a two page spread at the back of the book that explains the steps of the scientific method, and I'm so glad all of that is there to be included. Best friends Pine, a porcupine, and Booth, a bear, are in the forest when an egg falls on Booth's head. It must be from outer space. We have to return it, so Pine builds a spaceship, while Booth thinks about what they might name it. After training, they blast off, while actually they slide backwards down the hill and into a cave. Thinking they are in space, they begin to look to the egg's nest and encounter a space monster. Who turns out to be a space mommy, whose egg is finally hatched? An invitation to explore the universe, it starts with, there's a tiny little rocket that will take you to the stars. It only flies there once a year, but it zips you out past Mars. You will have to avoid a meteor and zoom past the planets in our solar system to return home. There is one foldout page at the back of the book that folds out. I think it folds out twice, and that could be damaged with these, but it's great. Well, of course there's a piece filling the space. That is true. He goes to space camp and he meets several other campers. This is the best part. One of them is named Sally. This is the best piece of catbook there. I'm prejudiced. They learn about the equipment and they build rockets, and then Pete Flynn and Sally get to go on a mission to the moon, where Pete uses a jetpack to zip over to Mars to take some pictures, and he has to hurry back when he can catch the trip back to Earth. Not realistic at all, but it's fun. I just have to say, we should have jetpacks on there. Yes, I am really excited about that. I was sure we were all going to have to. We were promised. We were. Where are they? But here's a solution. A boy is bored, and he builds his own jetpack after some traveling there. According to fly is tricky, and he knows his mom would want him to build one for his younger brother too. So he does. What a good boy. Then they explore all they can do in the places they can go. School and to visit Nanark, they got permission from their mom for a stone. Then by themselves, a boy visits the astronauts at the space station and helps repair it. Then a visit to an alien planet, because you can't go anywhere with a jetpack. Sure. An added bonus is the adverbs included at the end of each two page spread. Clear examples of how they are used. Words such as patiently, politely, silently, persistently, and boldly. This is just so cute. Little alien is not feeling well, and he has two throats, five ears, and three noses. So just think about that. His parents respond with several treatments for him. The aeus being the three lunar decongestants who come in with some weird equipment. Little aeus pet Marge Rover, a three-eyed eight-legged dog-like creature, cannot stand to see his owner suffer, so he puts on a show to make him smarter. All of this, after all of this, gets where the next lease comes from. The dog, Marge Rover. This is a good read-aloud choice. Dog and buddy live next door to each other, but they have different interests and hobbies. Dog's house is red, and he likes to read, and he likes biscuits. Bunny's house is blue. She likes art and cocoa. They see each other every morning, but they never say anything. One night, they are both outside, and all at once, a shooting star goes by. They are both thrilled and go home and think about it. Then they both go outside to share cocoa and biscuits and be friends. It's lovely and is all thanks to the shooting star. When Stanley's mom has to be gone overnight on a trip to work, Stanley goes outside and gets into a spaceship in the cardboard box and travels to Mars. A bit later, the spaceship returns and a being wearing a helmet goes into the house. He is not Stanley. He has a Martian, and Martians do not follow Earth's rules. When his mom returns the next day, the Martian travels to Mars again, and Stanley returns happy to see his mom. And you see with that colander, I think it is on his head. That is the Martian version of the sign. I do want to understand what we do. A question, and I did, does it. Some people did come in after we had started. I just want to let people know about the list that you're reading. That will be available afterwards. With all of the reporting that is posted this afternoon. The list of all the books that you said earlier about ordering information, and the list that we will post with this, the books are going to be out. Some were added since the presentation at conference in October. So those have little check marks by a long handout sheet. So there's a handout page where we have a previous one, but this list that she's working on now that has more titles to it will be available to you after we do the recording. That's posted. We'll have a link to it. Don't worry about trying to write down everything about the books. You'll have title, author, publisher information, ordering information, everything you need afterwards. You can write down any notes about which ones you might be more interested in or ideas you have about them. When we do the recording ready, I'll email everyone who attended this morning and you'll get an email letting you know when it is available and the document is up there for you. Great, thank you. Just made a bunch of people to come in after we've done our little intro. So Peter, younger brother of Peter Goldisch has decided to build a tower of blocks to the moon all by himself. He gets very high and when it gets dark he realizes he has no way to get down. In the morning, he ties the blankets together as a cushion and he glides back to Earth just as the tower falls. His parents encourage him to build again only smaller and safer this time. He delicious tells them he is terrific. And as far as I know, this is the first book about the brother of Peter all about him rather than first. So perhaps they're going to have a few more about him. The Korean legend is told on the first page they see a rabbit in the moon and make a wish. In this book several animals send wishes to the moon. There, a rabbit turns the wishes into stars. Rabbit finds one star left in the basket and he uses it for his wish. He blows it up like a balloon puts on a helmet and floats to Earth. There he meets the animal and has a wonderful time. Soon, he must return to the moon where again he brightens the sky with stars. One message he then brings up help each is a fun surprise from his new friends it's a telescope so he can look to Earth and see his friends waving back at him. Yes, there are more chickens who want to go to space. I see a theme here. My best friend and pig named Sam are going to travel in outer space. She invites some other animals but they all depart. Using a basket, some balloons and their imaginations, Zoe and Sam dodge an asteroid, a baseball, a comet, a kite and some alien attack ships, birds, which shoot them down. They had a great time and the other animals want to hear all about their adventure. It's a fun celebration of imagining and exploring. And Zoe and Sam have some other books about trips they've taken with them. Elmer is walking and enjoying all the seas of the world but each time someone else comes along they are too busy to stop and walk with Elmer. Her developments are rushing off somewhere and later in the book they are rushing back to go somewhere else. Finally, someone else joins Elmer to gaze at and appreciate the stars in the sky. That's a very nice, congeniable story. In this fantasy, a boy and his cat get up in the middle of the night to witness a blue moon. The boy says on the night of the blue moon anything can happen. And so they explore the very blue countryside and are able to go to the moon to its reflection on the lake. They have plans but since the earth is also blue they decide to return home. It's mystical and magical and you could also talk about another meaning of the term blue moon which is when you have two full moons in the same month. And speaking of interesting moon data here's a good night beautiful moon. This is from Netflix TV show Cuff and Rock but this is a book. Luna is so excited to see her first super moon tonight that she can't stop running around to tell everyone about it and that they should all meet at the furrow at moonrise. When moonrise comes Luna is asleep on the beach. Her family and friends look for her and find her just in time to see the super moon. So I looked this up because I've heard of the super moon before and what the PDF says it is a full moon or a new moon that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the moon reaches to earth in its elliptical orbit so that it's resolving in a slightly larger larger than normal. So it seems bigger but it really doesn't. That's what the science is. What do you mean? I love these books. There's two so far. This is clever fun. Omega and Yelfred are best friends of another planet called Ovar. Ovar. They have their ups and downs but remain best friends at the end of the book. The author compares their situations to one on earth stating either not like here on earth to the statement that teeth are long and tempers are short or just like here on earth after friendships can grow back for invented languages understandable and listeners may want to create some of their own moves after hearing their story and they have a different game that kids might want to recreate for themselves. The second book is about school. Omega is heard when Yelfred plays with QB at recess and eats lunch with him but when some other students begin sharing their yonch throw it. Omega jumps into the fray to help Yelfred and QB. Maybe it is okay to have more than one friend. This is so clever. An unidentified voice asks Darth Vader if he is scared of the midnight of a variety of monsters of children of one closing the book. It turns out that there may be something that Darth Vader is afraid of. Closing the book. Closing the book. It includes clever comments and remarks by Darth Vader. He's also kind of scared of kids and kids will love the power that book gives them to scare him. Yes, it is not a new idea to adults that listeners will love it. Picture book not good. I have a couple here. This is about Mae Jemisin and it's more of an inspiring story of her dreams and wishes and how she did achieve her goal of becoming an astronaut but there's not much about study or hard work or anything toward that. It's more of a homage to her. But I did want to mention something. A article about Mae Jemisin in the newspaper and in that she mentioned that when she was young she was inspired and encouraged by the presence and hard work of Lieutenant Sakura on Star Trek and she thought Lieutenant Sakura can help with the ship there. I can go into space too. So it's really important to remember representation. Representation matters. This is a nonfiction picture book designed to share the basics of the women who were the focus of the movie with the same name and it introduces them in the order they began to fit NASA. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden. Segregation is addressed along with the concept that at the time women were considered less able. The work of each of the women that each of the women undertook is briefly explained and their abilities and firsts are noted. There is a timeline and additional brief biographical information included at the back of the book. This is a great introduction to the space program and some of the STEM activities associated with it. Now we get into some beginning readers because Fly Guy. This is number 18 in the series. Fly Guy and Buzz enthusiastically make a movie about superheroes, Fly Guy and Buzz avoid. They encounter aliens who are trying to capture them. Fly Girl shows up to help Fly Guy and the secret hero for his damage. But watch for a sequel I think we need a sequel because there wasn't a bit of a cliffhanger in both of them. This is by Dan Gutman. If you can carry the rhythm the rapping gets a bit much for me because it is told completely in rap rhythm and that is not my strong suit. I'm not very good at that. Rappy is kidnapped by aliens of recess and he is taken to Mars to be the new king with Janet, the head kidnapper as queen. How are we going to get out of this and back to school before he gets into trouble? That was a tough one. I love this set. I bought a six paperback book series for 1065 or something for six books. The first one is C. Otto. The sixth one is the other one I'm going to talk about. Otto comes from another planet and he rides on a spaceship. And then the four books in the middle are about others like Gerard so he's not really about space. But six books for $1,000. That's a great deal. This is a very basic first reader. The sentences are reminiscent of Dick and Jane. I grew up reading Dick and Jane. Go, Otto, go. Go, go, go. Book one, Otto leads his parents on his home planet and travels through space on a spaceship. He runs out of fuel and falls to Earth in Africa. The sixth book, Otto misses his parents and he builds or repairs a spaceship. His friends on Earth are sad, but Otto takes off. Things go wrong right away. First he goes left, then right, then all over the place. Finally landing back in Africa to his friends' chairs. This book was the recipient of a Theodore Seuss Beidsel Honor Award in 2017. So just by those first and sixth books, very, very beginning readers. While you're at it, I would recommend this one. Also by David Pilgrim. This is the first book in a new series or what is proclaimed to be in a new series. And it is similar in that the sentences are pretty basic. This one, Zip, performs a magic trick. First from his dog, Chip, who claps, and then from his younger sibling, Bip, who proceeds to nap. Zip is unhappy that Zip is not enthralled with his magic. So he tries harder and harder and he creates a monster out of the hat. And then Zip has to save them both which is kind of funny. We have chickens. We have cows. This is simple text again for beginning readers. Things like space cows fly high. Space cows fly low. Cows with different colored space suits and helmets, both above a planet and above. Also the cows are in and out of space and there are different colors. You see the first two closer ones are both black and white but the guy in the background, he's green and white so they're not all the same. And that's pretty much all they do slow around, but that's fun. Lana asks her parents and older brothers to go with her to the moon. They are busy with yard work or playing so they say, you might go away or the moon is lonely. She goes to her room, prepares and goes to the moon by herself. Just when she decides the moon is lonely up walks the man in the moon, the woman in the moon and two moon boys. They have fun and adventures before Lana decides to return to Earth where she and her family make a moon purchase and her family did come through for her after. Some early chapter books. This is book four in the He'll Be Cracks, the case series. He'll Be is and she is a real life young girl who does have a blob of reporting and her father had been a reporter and he had helped her write the books. But she is very to the letter about reporting and numerous books. Do your research. Yes. A bright flash in the sky, a student has a town in an uproar, they all say an UFO was in him. Philly is looking for facts for her online newsletter and her sister who does her photography for her. She's encountering rumors and nothing substantial but they haven't given up yet. Then we have the five minute Star Wars stories. I put this in this category because there are short stories about Star Wars movies. So there are 11 snippets from seven various movies. The writing and artwork are fine and illustrations dominate the pages. But for your information a couple of times it does give away an important plot point or overall movie endings. So you might want to tell people that you can see the movie yet because they're going to find out something. Yeah. Along with that there are these strikes back the second of which has 12 snippets from eight various Star Wars movies including The Last Genre. And once again they're very similar and they will give away a few things into these stories. But for reminiscing about seeing the movies we'll be talking about. Some fiction titles. Oh speak you can Star Wars. Here we go again. Tom Engelbarger's Burgers has been the mighty Chewbacca. Pot is being held hostage so Chewbacca agrees to take a shipment of tucacats to an unknown planet where he and the companion forced on him made soon find themselves in deep trouble. The forest trees are soothing but there is a mist that causes fear for those who encounter it. And several different things want to eat them. So standard. Some is going to want to eat them. This is wonderfully written. It's set in 1969. It's told in the letters from Mamie Huston to astronaut Michael Collins. First about the upcoming one landing in July and then about the personal situation. She feels connected to him because he must stay by himself orbiting the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. Her teacher before school got out had everybody in her class write a letter to an astronaut. So all the boys wanted to write to Buzz because he has a great name. And all the girls wanted to write to Neil because he was hands. Michael Collins but she keeps writing to him just kind of talking about her situation. Mamie first feels left adrift and then actually is left alone at home when her mother leads her father and he leaves to catch up with her. Her older sister now lives in another town and 16-year-old Beth is always on with her boyfriend. But her best friend Buster lives next door and he is her steadying influence. The moonwalk and splashdown bring people together and maybe steadfastness is rewarded at being a celebrity walking. This author is great friend to talk with because we've gotten to have a Skype visit with her. Some of these library systems have a Skype visit with her for some of her activities. Check into that. This is said in England. Pressed, Pressed and Mel have been living in temporary housing since his grandfather who's memory of sleeping was taken to a home. This summer Pressed will live on a farm with a noisy, blind family. One evening he answers the door and he finds a funny looking kid in a kilt and maybe eat her goggles. He is an alien on a mission to Earth to find 10 things that make Earth worth saving. Otherwise it will be destroyed. Well, everyone else thinks the kids, Sputnik is a clever dog. The first things, Sputnik, the things that Sputnik thinks are worthwhile are completely different from Pressed's opinion. So every time Pressed says, well, what about this? He's like, well, that's not it. But he gets all excited about things that Pressed thinks is just, you know, happy, jerry day stuff. So it's a lot of fun. As Kirkus says, the overall themes of the characters are reflected in moments of sweetness, which is a nice thing for Pressed's. Cat romances. Okay, cat. Good cat. Chickas and cows. Don't worry dogs are coming. This is a full color graphic novel. There are four books so far in the series. This is book one. There is a huge energy crisis. So the plan is to build a solar power plant on the moon. We're training, building and starting at the power plant. What do you call? The world's best scientist calls the cat's tronauts. Waffles, blankets, pom-poms, and major mealtures. They work for CatSep, center for aeronautical technology and space underlying programs. That was part of working with them. There are some setbacks, but there's still a chance they can succeed. Book two is Race to Mars. It turns out that CatSep, the cat's tronauts are not the only cats in space. All the characters in this book are cats. There are three other organizations that have cat's tronauts. Everybody wants to get to Mars first. There are four ships headed for Mars. The Russians are ahead of everyone. We have a terrible crash in space. The other three all crash into each other and they have to scrap their spaceship to put together one that they can put together one. But they're going to need some help when they get to Mars and the only people who can help them are the Russians. But moving on, space station situation. The Hub above a telescope isn't a working right and they have to get up to the space station so they can work on the telescope. And the cats are hard after it. Cat's tronauts are hard after that. Then book four is Robot Rescue. Cat's tronaut has been with the astronauts through it all but now he's stranded on Jupiter's coldest moon after a mission gone wrong. And his best friend slash creator Blanket isn't going to leave him behind. He is going to get Cat's tronaut. Lucy has built her first rocket ship, photo type one in the backyard. Going in for supper, she has dismayed to hear the rocket blast off and realizes her beloved dog Leica is in space. The story is told ultimately from Lucy and Leica's point of view and this is a demonstration of Einstein's theory of relativity. It is also humorous, Leica's trip and inspirational Lucy's successes. And it all comes right in the end. It includes black and white illustrations. What happens is Leica has a trip of several weeks into a couple of months and then gets back to Earth. And during that time, Lucy has lived most of her life. She's an older woman who's had many achievements when the spaceship lands and the dog gets out just a couple three months older. And they're reunited. This is a great way to demonstrate that. Yeah, watch out. There's a black hole fallage at home. Stella Rodriguez is 11 and has followed home from Nassau by a small black hole. She went there to talk to Carl Sagan but he was not available. It is 1977 and she had a suggestion for this golden record he was going to send Larry as she names the black hole just wants to cuddle but in that attempt he ends up swallowing things. Her father recently passed away and through dealing with the black hole and her younger brother Cosmo, she also works through her grief for his death. Unusual infants, Stella and Cosmo are accidentally followed by the black holes for a while and have some strange adventures on the side. This is entertaining and philosophical. Poor Larry. This is set in England. Jamie is proud of his father who was on the International Space Station and will perform a first effort event on his state walk. Jamie visits a local observatory after his father had mentioned it to him. It's been close for years but while there he encounters a lady who's doing some other research and he plugs in his home because he's almost out of power. But then he finds a strange signal on his phone. It seems to him he's protecting him. Could it be true? And could this actually affect his dad's mission? Jamie accidentally hears his mom and dad talking and learns they are planning a separation after his dad's return from space. This makes Jamie angry because they haven't talked about it in time. But when the mission goes wrong Jamie does what he can to help and the aliens will come to him. This is a three book series by Stuart Gibbs called Moon Base Alpha. In the first book in 2012 he lives on the moon with his family and about 25 of the people. It sounds great but actually all children are confined to the building, never allowed outside on the moon. It's too dangerous and the food is so processed dried, compacted or transported to the moon that it all tastes awful. You can't tell what you're eating by taste. A favorite fellow who is not a fascist is Dr. Holtz. One day they find him outside the base dead. Believing his helmet was not attached correctly, the adults think it was an accident, but Dash does not. He is working in secret to discover what really happened. Dash is a likeable character and the mystery is well constructed and developed. In book two, spaced out, Dash will get some and his other people are still on the moon, still surviving when one day Nina the moon base commander disappears. No one can locate her and this leads to second mystery for Dash to tackle because he knows spacesuits only last so long so we go out on the moon and we only have this so much time and oxygen. So they're very concerned. Book three, how Dash was 13th birthday large sobered, was poisoned with sinin. He recovered but now everyone is a suspect because he and his family are so awful. They've been on the moon all this time. They spent almost a million dollars to be the first moon tourists and have treated everyone like servants and complained about all the discomfort on the moon. Nina the base commander asked Dash to help solve the mystery but now it looks like they will have to abandon the station and return to Earth. For some unknown reason the oxygen system is not functioning properly only down by one or two percent but that's something to be concerned about and I think it works. It's another fine mystery and a strong finish to this series. More full color graphic novel. Cleopatra, yeah that Cleopatra is preparing for her 15th birthday party but suddenly she is transported from Egypt to a different planet in the future. She is the one who will defeat the evil Octavian after plenty of training. Going to school is no picnic in her opinion because she's never had to do it before but she does have a lot to learn and quite agree it turns out it's her best class. Her first mission should have been just recovering some historical data from somewhere but Cleo's mission is much more dangerous. There are I think going to be at least five titles in the series. The fifth one comes out in next year early maybe February and this one Cleopatra retrieved a sword from her first mission but now a bold young thief has stolen it from her. It turns out he was hired by Octavian the evil commander directing the Serp's invasion that isn't consuming all planets one by one. It turns out the sword is a fake but Cleo will need the real one to fulfill her destiny. This one ends on a cliff so don't worry because book 3 is out. Cleo and her friends travel to the planet Hankosus to try to find one of the time tablets. Octavian is not far behind. This volume includes a surprisingly deal about Octavian's past. And oh yes the book 4 is out but I haven't gotten a hold of a copy of it. And book 5 will come out in March next year. It is July of 1947 Milo and his best friend did investigate the reported finding of a crashed flying disc near their home to New Mexico. They return later with three more friends and Milo goes inside the disc finding an intervallion but his friends pull back out and they have to run away before they're caught there by the military. Milo has began occasionally hearing a voice in his midst saying well I mean he feels they must try again to help the alien. It gets more complicated when the military takes the disc and everything from the side. Everything. A new twist, an uninjured alien real has followed Milo home. So now what is he doing? Kelvin Cosmo about 12 his younger sister Mila and his genius parents have just arrived on the collective science hub. Kelvin the star of another news school his fourth in the last five years. Everybody expects that he's a genius too because of his parents but right now he's pretty average. He keeps hoping it's going to kick in. But no one realizes is that super evil Eric Thelenheimer traveled with them to the space station. He is planning to rule the universe he is assigned to be a custodian for the station. Soon enough Eric takes control of Kelvin's dad's giant robot as step one of his plans. Unfortunately for him Kelvin and his school friends are in the lab and manage to hide inside the robot's foot. Can they boil his skin? Illustrations are in black and white and are included on almost every two page spread. And book two is called Crash Landing where yes once again you can see if they can overcome his most recent plan to take over the universe. Oh yes and there are things like the school dance to prepare for. There's still plenty of illustrations and typical middle school situations along with alien viewpoints and plans. Oscar is a bench warmer. He invariably executed an error the few times he played so the post keeps him on the bench. He is a positive influence on the team and everyone's on and making Oscar rate for each game. Then his elderly late neighbor gives him an old watch that thank you the same day the coach has to put into the game no choice. He uses the watch to stop time the total of 19 seconds for him to hit the home run and win the game against their obnoxious riders. But now when things are happening pterodactyl they're flying around just for 19 seconds. And a second stand is on the way to 19 seconds. Now Oscar has to fix the universe before we are all doomed. It's humorous, wacky and philosophic. Jameson 11 and fifth grade misses his father who is now on Mars. And Asteroid caused a huge change to several plans for it and now Earth is getting closer to the sun. A mission to get as many people as possible to Mars has been underway for several years. When a new family moves in across the street Jameson learns the mother died in an accident on Mars. And he meets Asteroid who is now in his classroom at school and finds her tough and prickly. They become friends though and soon Asteroid is helping Jameson try to fix his communicator device which apparently he sent messages to his dad. They couldn't have a conversation if he could send messages and then his dad would send messages. And second he wants to speak on board the next mission to Mars. Speak on board and go to Mars to see the stage. And then dogs will run. Leica's spaceship is traveling to another star system with humans and dogs on board. The goal is to colonize a habitable planet Earth is calling Stepping Stone. But when the four dogs wake up from their long sleep the humans are gone and the Leica is damaged. Working together the dogs prepare what they can at the ship and cut off the damaged sections. Things keep going wrong though and they are certain they will never complete their mission. Supporting each other, continuing to cry and keeping people alive are the cornerstones of this adventure. And someone in the book it does mention that these dogs were genetically altered so this is how the ability to do the things that they're doing. So I think that was to discourage you from trying to teach your own dogs how to fly a spaceship. Repair. I do like little stuff though. I boldly go where no dog has gone before it is as a recover. This is book one and so far a two book series there might be more. Elara 12 is from a remote farming planet very far from the bustling main planets of the sector so she is not well first in communicating or understanding the communication preferences of other beings. Now she is ready and excited to attend the seven system school of terraforming sciences and arts for STS. She encounters new friends a few bullies and finds that learning terraforming is trickier than she expected. Oh and maybe one of the professors is up to another. Book two Elara went home for the school break and now she is getting ready to go back to school. She has missed her friends since her home planet is so far away but on our way back to school she discovers that the STS has been closed and the classes are now being held on a ship that only robots have instructors. Everyone else is in line with the new machine but Elara is suspicious and keeps trying to find out what is really going on. She becomes alienated from her friends and realizes that she has to try a different approach. Finally there is more evidence of something wicked is happening but now can Elara and her friends save the school and the students? We hope so. Some nonfiction, four grades two to six or so. Good basic information includes Raven's journal which is one of the students. He notes facts and definitions of words like galaxy, gravity, planet each are a small instead on certain stages so it kind of brings together stuff that they discovered and helps solidify that. As it says on the front cover, walk on the moon while with the satellite gaze at common and discover why Keela was the planet anymore. I have issues with that. But who will go over it from what I hear? This is a full color graphic novel style nonfiction. A Groundhog in a Worm tells the history of our planet beginning with the Big Bang. It's a good start for readers interested in our Earth geology and some of the scientists who are featured occasionally in brief of science titles deep time comics. This book once had enormous numbers and gives the reader a sense of the size of the numbers using stars, our planet people and more. Returning the space off and this is a starting point for the concept of large numbers that lets readers begin to think about stars and how people estimate them because nobody eventually will know that this can also happen. This is a full color graphic novel style nonfiction. A brief look at some of the qualities of the planets in our solar system including the Sun and the Earth. Depends on what you see in my opinion that the information is good. The animals presented in court on the Sun and each planet as they travel past them that reinforces the facts that were wrong. The Kuiper Belt and its dwarf planets are mentioned especially too well which they mention here is smaller than Earth's moon which I didn't know before. This is a beautiful book. I have a full information about the Mars rover Curiosity in particular. Still running and that's great because on August 6, 2012 it touched down on the rocky surface of Mars and now she's ready to guide you through the journey and she they talk about how she would fill something some about previous rovers and how they would build and their functionality and the fact that she is still cruising looking and stuff is great. This is the book coming and I'm not getting a kickback but everybody needs this book. After a while I've got a few pages of basic information about being in space. The astronaut topic is right to the number one question they are asked which is how do you go to the bathroom in space? The illustrations, photos and text are used to answer it. Photos of the equipment not anybody actually using it Yes. Along with information on the maximum of dormancy garment, mag or diaper because when you go out on a space walk for 8 hours you can't say I'll be right back. I can't go back inside and go back out again. How they bathe? No, they don't have a shower to tell for a sponge bath approach. The dangers how they brush their teeth which is also interesting and the dangers of birthing or sparking all these states. It's not going to explore many things but there can be repercussions that you might not enjoy. This information full book is sure to be popular because it tells the things that kids so often want to know. A few teen titles starting with Fiction for Younger Teens When the booth came they offered peace and free events, technology and cures for every illness and we're going to be taken over anyway let's at least say yes. However the rich do nicely and everyone else loses their jobs because technology does it better. When Chloe, the brother and father move into Adam, the younger sister and mom's house, their dad ran off. Adam and Chloe fall in love. They discover a way to finally make some learning. The move do not have love and have a 50s TV sitcom slash teen movie view of what love is so Adam and Chloe provide a subscription televised view of their dates they're very chaste and they don't have pain for them but that's all. This is great until they can't stand each other anymore. Adam hates for his art class and his teacher enters him in a group sponsored art contest. Maybe that was the safest thing. It's unusual thought provoking, hopeless and hopeful try to find out who you are with an alien culture over set on your life and how you and your family can survive in the current way things are. Anderson provides a unique look at alien invasion and human survival but it's always had an unusual approach to stories. This follows. Alex Petrosky is 11 and he and his dog Carl sing and take the train to near Albuquerque, New Mexico to participate in a rocket launch event. Alex has been recording sounds on his golden icon which he intends to send in the space as an homage to the golden record in 1977. But he encounters some kind and helpful and some not so helpful people along the way. Sully it is revealed that his home situation is not good and his mother is unable to care for him. Goalability, hard caring, tough discoveries and helpful strangers abound. Alex says he loved him but some of the topics in the book are pretty interesting. His home situation is that his mother is mentally healthy to take care of him. This is the first book and one might be in three books. There's at least more than two. I have two books here. I know they're not done but they are. Liam is 13 and he and his friends have lived on Mars all their lives. The set is going to go supernova much earlier than expected and the colonists on Mars are preparing for a 150-year trip to a planet humans can live on. The final day on Mars, me and Stanley must conduct one more test before leaving the surface and joining everyone else on the transport ship. Then things go wrong. An explosion rocks the colony. Liam and Phoebe are worried about their parents and let's find a way to save them. There's lots of action and trouble in the second half of the first half. It's more about setting things up. It might seem a little slow but it's interesting because they're on Mars. The sequel is the Ocean Between Stars. Liam and Phoebe have already escaped the explosion and have been in a stasis for a decade long journey to the world planet Delphi where they hope to do that but the rest of the human refugees and the transport ship. They need to find help with their injured parents who they have in stasis as well. We have to let other people know the things that they discovered on Mars but Phoebe is carrying her own dark secret and one that finds her waking up secretly at various points in her journey changing their path a little bit from space. It is a secret that will decide the fate of the human race and many more besides and she's going to have to reveal it to her pretty soon whether he's ready or not and this will end on a obviously a quick thing or so. There's gotta be one more place to be mad. At age 16 is a time for the ceremony and the day of demand for Leia a first step before becoming named Eryth to the throne. After declaring her three challenges Leia must work toward accomplishing them while continuing to represent Alderaan in the apprentice legislature. She begins to discover that people are working to fight the envelope and she must be careful both with her challenge choices and with what she says. Dan's will enjoy her introduction to the rebellion and her approach to diplomacy. There are also a couple of hints of the force in her life but she is not aware of it. I really enjoyed it. I should have that look at him. Buddy Gray is a great author. It does a lot of Star Wars books. Young about Star Wars novels. This was a good one. Nicola Cross 13 has trouble making friends. She hasn't had an unusual life so far but it is about to get weird. Her brilliant father is kidnapped by a parent aliens and she is driven to a secret boarding school to keep her safe. The school provides an education for extremely intelligent humans and para-humans. They are part aliens and is protected from attack using numerous devices such as a swarm of bees. I will let you in if you don't mind. Yeah, Cuba is clever and it is not out of the question that there can be more types on the way and I'm pleased to announce that the unspeakable unknown will be out in January. So yeah, more times. So nonfiction for teens in the science comic series is this one about rockets. Full color graphic novel style nonfiction starting with architecture practices, architects, 400 BC in Italy to first use steam to blast a rocket. The readers learned the history of rockets and the principles under which they worked. Again, Anna won't explain the history but this one doesn't seem as cutesy to me maybe because I read it first and probably more likely the information involved. Well explained is advanced for me and I am not not my cup of tea. But it's really good about roundness and information. This was fascinating. Apollo 8's original mission was to orbit the Earth and test the lunar landing module as another step for landing on the moon. But Russia was planning to send a ship around the moon so with only four months to go we completely changed our mission. Now we would orbit the moon first. Training equipment all changed and was redirected to support the new mission and four months to get prepared for something completely different and surprising. This trip included Frank Mormon, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders and this trip around the moon was when we got the original Earthrise photo which many of us have seen. It's a fascinating book and it really sets the pace for what came later. A couple of fiction books for older readers. It is 2065 in April 17. It's finished with her studies and has now been sent for a three month visit with her formerly unknown distant cousin in Kansas as part of her final preparation for saying goodbye to Earth. She is one of a handful of team members heading to a new colony on Mars. Her cousin is old and has been sleeping in the dementia field. The history of her family and her friends are written in state from 1934 from 1919 and World War I. While space is on the back burner aside from her visit to the center for contact with her fellow travelers the stories of her past and hope she can learn how all of their stories ends before she goes on to Mars. I think it's appropriate to end with a parse. I'm told in memos, emails, video logs and transcripts of meetings, phone conversations and the actual reality TV show title, Waste of Space. The premise was to put ten teenagers in a spaceship circling the Earth. Except that they are really in a closed sound stage in their house in the desert. But they think they are in space. At least some of them. They all think that occurs in some of them. They start figuring out something, isn't that right? Great ratings until something goes wrong. All communication is severed and the teens have to figure out what's going on and what they should do. Chaz, the CEO of the cable channel is consistently offensive and includes. Interestingly it's just the time for us to be done. I do on the list to see that I have some older titles and series titles included that you might be interested in but I'm looking to talk about them today. I thought I'd go too long. I forgot to mention that yes, I read from the script because otherwise it would be recorded for three hours and the person would say, Sally, just go away now. As I just keep babbling. So this keeps me on track and tells me the things I think are important for you to know. And then move on to the next post. So are those words included? Not yet, but I'm just planning on doing that. The first list you'll get will just be the list of books and file that together. Awesome. All right. So that is our list of titles for summer reading next year. Not exhaustive list as you said. Sally's coming across. Anybody have any questions or thoughts or titles that you have that you might want to share? Oh, we do have a comment. Someone says, so many books to buy. Yeah. Sorry about that. Sometimes it is and I love these shows that Sally does as well. It's usually in the fall, as you mentioned, we have our annual state conference in October usually and Sally does a session on summer reading program titles specific to whatever the upcoming theme is and then a session on children's books and teen books. The children's one actually has been done and the team is coming up. But it's good timing for the team to be active and usually to the holidays. I get lots of ideas for books to buy for and the kids that I might be planning for. Want to see my notes? I can get a head start on the notes. Yeah. I love Sally's book lists. All right. So, yeah, I think that'll wrap it up for everybody. Thank you so much, Sally. This list will be Oh, that's what we have here. Does anyone have any success? Someone to say great list and this is a question. Speaking of Clay Anderson, has anyone had any success getting in contact with him for programming? You know anything about it? A little bit about that. It depends on I know some people contacted and there were some astronomical prices like $25,000. Another Scott's Children's at Southeast Library System apparently talked to somebody else because they said, well, we'll see what the schedule's like and what you might want and it's possible we could do some formal visits but we don't know for sure and we're not promising anything. So that's everything from maybe to Oh, we don't have that. Nobody can afford that. We'll give you a grant for excellence for that. I'm not saying it's not worth it. I'm just saying we don't have that much money. Well, hopefully if more people somebody explains to them what's going on that this is this theme for the kids that there might be some trying to help out his home state and do these things and not worry about them but all it can do is ask. Apparently he's getting hooked up. I'm not surprised but I'm sure he would just in general he has a very busy schedule. So let's just try and see and see what I don't know what a Skype we must I don't know if that makes any Skype or anything. Yeah, and I'll be able to use Zoom with the authors all the time. That makes it a lot easier when it comes to travel and all those other costs. So if that's something that you can do or suggest to him that might be an easier way to go but unfortunately we don't have any real good tips about what has been going on with it. That's all I've heard lately. It's heartening but don't give up. All right, so thank you. All right, thank you Radius for books. Absolutely. All right, so as we said this will be the this list will be on the website on our archives when we do post it this afternoon. We'll escape over there. So and I'm going to switch to our website here to show you this is the Library Commission's website and we do have our Encompass Live page off of here. You can also use your search engine. You can either search on our website or just use anywhere you like to use to look up Encompass Live and so far with the only thing called that on the internet. This is our main page where you will see here's our upcoming shows for December and going into January of next year but right underneath the list of upcoming sessions is our archives and this is a list of all of our archives. The recent ones are at the top of the list here. So this is last week's and the one for today will be right here at the top. As soon as I get the recording all processed and good to go it will be here and we'll be able to access it from there and along with that will be the link. As you can see in the link to recording the link to presentation, the link to recording the link to the slides that Sally has and another link, a third link to the handout page where we do keep all of these and we actually have, there is if you do search for handouts this is a page that we do have on the Library Commission's site that Sally uses to post all of her handouts for all of the various things she's done. So I was going to talk about what we've got here. We have the summary and it's in 2018 so here's so this is where things are done. Here's one she did the as I mentioned, we did the Best New Children's Books of 2018 was already done and the archive is very available for that. That was done in November. Best New Children's Books is coming up in January and here's Sally's session handout for conference and then also previous years. This is where she keeps all of her historical ones. We're looking for anything older, just your best new lists for teens and children over the years and whatever was the reading program for this year. So we're talking about getting some of those older ones to take them off because we need to know what the best best was. I don't know. We can look at it and see what we think is a, I don't know, but I think it goes all the way back to 2008 actually. See, that's what I did to children and teens all in one handout. Yeah, we split them up. Now there's just so many. So in our archive here on Encompass Live, you'll see that there is a search, you can search most recent 12 months or everything. This 2018, we're wrapping up this 10th year of Encompass Live. There is 10 years worth of archives here on our archive page. That's a lot, yes. And so you will find things that are old, historical. We are librarians, so we are an archivist, so we save everything as much as we can. So you'll see everything has a date bill on it. So you can tell if you go all the way back or you search for something and you find that it's old. Be aware of the date that things were public. We're originally broadcast because some things maybe the service might not exist anymore. Some links might be broken. It might be old outdated information, but it is still out there for historical purposes. Maybe they said to the WZA plan. I'm sure there was something in the past where we did. You can search for just recent sessions and just the most recent 12 months if you want to. I didn't want to end that tour. That's something new. We just added that kind of search separation in the last 6 months or so. Because it's gotten so huge in a really gigantic list of things. We do end up as live every week of the year, usually except for the week we have our state conference. So there's one, so you can 51 a year. Or when we have certain situations, randomly, where we've had technical difficulties, we actually the first session for December was actually canceled because we were as a state agency, we were closed because of the day morning for President Bush. That one was actually supposed to be our best new teen books of 2018 and it got rescheduled for January 2nd. So if you were interested in that one, it was originally in December due to the fact of us being closed for the day. It was scheduled for January 2nd. So if you're interested in some more titles for your teens, this is just general. This isn't specific to some ratings. We sent it for that one. We sent it more for any of our other sessions there. Also, we are on Facebook. If you're a big Facebook user, pop over there, give us a like. I post updates to sessions here. Here's one reminder to log into the show. When our recordings are available, I post on here. Here I close it when we reschedule the one that was for the teen books. So do give us a like over on Facebook if you want to keep up with things there. So that does wrap it up for today. Thank you. Thank you for sharing with us. And we'll see you next time on Encompass Live. Our next session is a textbook program is not for us. Reimagining failure into new possibilities. This is something interesting. Yes. A university of Nebraska tried to do a textbook reserve pilot project. And it didn't work out so well. And they're going to come and talk to us about that. Heidi and Tammy will be here from UNO to tell us what they did and how it wasn't exactly successful as they wanted to and what they're doing now. Not everything. You can learn from your failures just as much as your successes. So please do sign up for that one next week. Any other upcoming shows. All right. Thank you everyone. See you next time. Bye-bye.