 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 online event. Yes we are a webinar and proud of it but we do it over almost 10 years now. So I think it's a successful format. So this is the Library Commission, the Nebraska Library Commission's weekly online event where we cover anything that may be of interest to libraries. Encompass live is broadcast live at 10 a.m. Central Time every Wednesday, every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Central Time but if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings that's fine. We do record the show every week so you can always go to our website and check out our recordings when it's convenient for you. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can see all those recordings. 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So be aware of that when you're looking at some of our recordings you may find some things that are old topics out of date information potentially but everything is dated so you'll know when it was actually presented at that time but we do keep everything on there for historical purposes of course. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Lives, book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos. Basically it's only criteria is it is something library related, something libraries are actually doing, some service or product we think could be of use to things they could be doing and this is for any type of library as well. We are the Nebraska Library Commission for the State Agency for all libraries in Nebraska so public, academic, school, special museums, correctional, anything. So we're pretty broad. So you may find some topics that the headlight titles may look a little weird but trust us, trust me, everything comes around the libraries in the end. That is our own legal here. We do have guest speakers that do come in from outside the library commission or outside the state even but we also have question staff do sessions and that's what we have today. Next to me is Sally Snyder who many of you may know. She is the children's coordinator for children and young adult library services here at the Nebraska Library Commission and she is going to take us through some books for next year's summer reading program, Library's Rock, which could have different interpretations. However, they do specify that this is Library Rock as in music. I do have one book that talks about rocks. Oh, that's okay. Somebody mentioned to me, I don't know. I have things about geology maybe. I'm like, well, they did say, they do actually say what the theme is and then give it a motto type thing but sometimes you can get creative with it. You can go any direction you want in your library. If you want to do geology, go for it. It's okay. There's no strict following a particular path. Yeah, nobody's going to come in. There's no summer reading program for police. They're not going to come in and shake their finger at you. Yes, and I'll warn you right now at the beginning of the show so you can plan. Normally, this episode does run long, longer than our allotted hour that we normally have the shows for but that's okay. We run and run the program ourselves, so the software ourselves. So we will go as long as it takes for Sally to get through all of her titles and if you guys do have any questions or anything you want to say, we will stick around for that as well. So the whole thing will be reported. So if you do have to leave at when it hits the top of the hour at 11, that's fine. If you only allotted that an hour in your time, we will record and keep things going until you're done. You can always come back later and watch the rest of the show that you missed. But I just want to give you a heads up that typically these ones do run all along. We have a lot of good books to talk about. Yeah, absolutely. All right, so I think I will then hand over to Sally. Thank you. Before I start on the list, and right now the list is not there. We just have the draft list from conference but later today we'll get the list I'm working from right now up on our webpage and you'll be able to see that under handouts. If you search handouts and click on the link you'll find the list. That will be up later today. These are books that I've run across either from books that publishers have sent to the library commission for you to look at and possibly review. I can't read all of them. It's not physically possible. Plus if I don't do other work I get in trouble. And then also things that people tell me about that I didn't run across. There's a couple of librarians who are very helpful and say, Sally, did you see this book? No, I didn't but now I know I can do that too. Plus I look at the library and they scoured the bookstores for titles too. But always there are favorite titles that I didn't run across. So if your favorite book isn't on my list, send me an email and I'll put it on the list for the summer reading program workshops that will be coming up Friday. January and beyond. So I like to include things that people are excited about because that means other librarians and kids and teens will be excited about them. I also read from a piece of paper because otherwise I will be still talking at three o'clock and nobody wants me to talk that long. So this kind of keeps me focused on the points I want to make and then we move on to the next book. So we're going to start with fiction picture books and the first one is called Noisy Night in Mac Barnett. So of course he's terrific. This is a book about the several floors in a building in the city and it starts on floor one and a boy asks what is going up above my head? And you can see him on his bed and you can see just a little bit of the floor above him. You can just see some legs there. So this is a kind of a guessing story as well as you know things are happening on each floor. That turns out the next floor has a man singing opera. Each scene shows that hint. Up it goes from one to another including a baby, a crow, a girl playing trumpet, cheerleaders, a couple dancing with music and more and at the top an old man who yells go to bed. It's fun and predicting what is above the current floor will keep the readers and listeners guessing. Okay, Pete the cat. Pete has been learning a new dance, the cool cat boogie. But whenever he hears music he just asks to dance but Grubby Toad tells him he is dancing wrong. Then Pete asks others one by one how do you dance? And they tell him so we have a ballerina there and we have the dad who dances differently but he tries their dances it's never right. Finally Wise Old Al helps Pete realize that the important thing is to be himself and dance however feels right. So he's happy again and there's a dance steps on the back end papers for others who want to learn Pete's dance. So you can dance around the room after he reads the story. The village of La Paz was full of singing all day long. Mothers, people in showers, dogs and fountains all sang in their own way. This made it hard to get things done. So the people fired the mayor. Don Pepe promised quiet when he was elected. Slowly over time all sounds were banned. Seven years later a rooster in his family came to town. He's saying Kiki Riki in the morning as roosters usually do but from then on it was a contest between the rooster and the mayor until finally the people of the village stood with the rooster and Don Pepe left town and others know carries the idea that as we grow we learn to temper our opinions but there are people who resist and sing out the truth which is a nice thing to remember. Captain Alfred is sailing home bringing some ducks his fiddle and a new egg close to hatching but a storm hits and everything is lost. On shore a woman waits hoping the egg hatches floating in the fiddle case named Alfred Fiddleduckland by the captain before he hatched. Alfred finds the fiddle in the water and he loves its sound. Will the duckling find shore and what waits there for him? And where is the captain? All to be answered. This is very clever. It's it's playing with words. It turns out to not actually be about a musical instrument but that's okay because the words inspire. An unnamed person asks questions like who is playing frizz b-e-e is in red and illustration shows a frizz be flying through the air with a b riding on it. Occasionally a girl asks have you seen my trumpet and p-e-t of the word because in red and she keeps receiving no for an answer until she finally sees her trumpet and that'll fit so it's kind of unusual looking at how words are formed what parts of words might need something else to be a good book to use with kids. Oh we have to go to a different page for this first I'll talk about it. After everyone is bed in bed the fruits climb out of the fruit bowl ready for fun. The banana is the DJ of all the fruits have their special way of dancing. It's silly fun but it can't miss me listen to it. You will soon have a room full of dancers and I've given you the url on the handout when you get the handout so we have to go flying because I have been escaped and then sit at the bottom of the area okay so here if you just go to the the url then again I've given to you there is kitchen disco and it has part of the book not the whole story in it it's skipped but we'll just play a little bit so you can hear hopefully here's some of the music so and it it tells the beginning of the story it skips the middle and then tells the end so not all the fruits are in the video but um they are all in the book I can hear from the current slide thank you so kitchen disco is a lot of fun and it's good just to read or if you have the the opportunity to play the music the kids will enjoy that too the babies have just arrived at daycare and no one is sure what they want to do at first when benny new to the group comes in the door he organizes them with drums and sticks and soon they are marching out the door and into the grocery next door don't worry the adults falling behind they grab items and eat them make a mess with toilet paper and then soon begin to droop they return to daycare just in time to fall asleep in a pile the teacher lets the babies explore while the sore over is a little overwhelmed rhyming text will pull listeners along with the babies and diaries illustrations are wonderful that's grimly has um his illustrations add humor and upbeat energy to this rendition of the familiar song animals included are the expected ones except what's in the bar the artist note reveals that he grew up on a century old nebraska farm and he did his share of chores so i think that that connection is also a fun thing to point out to kids and there are some photographs of you know older photographs of this family wow in the back too so that's cool plus you got to sing the song to of course is little wolf and his father went to the top of the hill for little war wolf's first time to howl his father demonstrated the proper technique then it was little wolf's turn the first time he was so happy and excited he howls oh i'm howl he was too excited as far versus okay now that was like really this is how you have to do it he demonstrates again but little wolf howl oh using a scat style approach father corrects him again but then the next time little wolf howls in a scat style howl his father joins in and he does that too it's great fun i think the kids will of course immediately start scat howling themselves the story everybody can give it a try and those give me vomiting if they want to then we have groovy joe groovy joe this first book is called ice cream and dinosaurs groovy joe has his guitar a tub of ice cream and a spoon what could be better he starts to sing when a little dinosaur knocks down knocks on the door knocks it down glaring he's holding a spoon joe says it's awesome to share we and then they repeat next with a big dinosaur and then a huge dinosaur but then the ice cream runs out what will joe do now and take note of the sunglasses wearing squirrel in many of the illustrations he's not mentioned in the story but he is there and once again we have somewhere to go for groovy joe here's this story and the next one is about groovy joe as well called dance party countdown and if you just go to groovy joe stories scholastic.com here here's the howl the top of the page looks and let me go down just a little bit and you get a song named groovy joe and here's the disco party countdown that then you can play too so like the other one so they want to play a little bit of disco party because that's um let's just hello i am eric loop author of groovy joe dance party countdown this is groovy joe we're about to have big fun groovy joe was totally fun he's a song singer tail wagging party of one and he sang this song disco party disco party disco party disco party knock knock one and one more dog is going to disco with you howl so that's just again fun and that's fun for us at you so that's the second button just dance party countdown and it says down on the song on the cover cover there yeah tell you where to go on the book too so as you saw and then one dog then two and then four dogs knock at the door and they all have instruments and they all dance and sing and have a great time and again you can go to that page and on the web and play the music for the kids too and then they're singing dancing to your polka dot pants because everybody loves polka dot pants and this is i think both two of the nuts up there you can see it says the nuts and the family are all nuts in the literal sense so this book starts with he's a love to sing and dance and he's a love to her polka dot pants she tries one after the other for dad her mom her brother but no one will join her they're all busy doing other things so what does she do she calls grandma and soon everyone is singing and dancing and again um you can play music for this one too yeah there's another i see in the front of this book to download free song and disco dance yeah that's nice a lot of people have that already yeah so when you get the hand out you'll have the link to that as well so i'll do any of these that have that kind of extra content available it's nice to have information for that right on the cover the rhythm of rain using onomatopoeia throughout is a wonderful reminder of nature in its own special rhythm following follow it up with some clapping clapping pencil clicking for other similar sounds to replicate the rain elmer is a well-known patchwork elephant but he was on a walk when rosy came along and she was humming a catchy tune when they parted elmer was humming it too soon everyone is humming the tune and it's beginning to drive them all crazy soon um well fortunately elmer had an idea to get rid of the tune and it worked a couple of clever incidents come at the end of the story which also makes us look and tell you how to get rid of earworms that's awesome music that those are a horrible a scourge right it can be terrible and this has an idea for you to give it a try and then just after they they work that out another animal i think it's the monkeys come on and say what was that tune again we really like that tune in about it i remember no one even remembers it because they didn't want to have it in their hands again this is beautifully done of course is by illustrated by james randison so this version takes place in new york during the harlem renaissance marie who is the claire of this version is not ready to join the music but after her dream where she had to take action she picks up a drum and begins to rap on it so she has been her dream is this in a way the standard nutcracker dream but she has to step forward and help out and i liked that idea in this book too this is an older book it's a call called a talk on her book and beginning with a trombone one after another a total of 10 instruments appear together on stage playing beautiful music and it also names the term from solo to non-net which is for non-net it's a classic and you might already have that in your mind you heard about this book a couple maybe a year or two ago when it first came out let's see came out in 2016 one day raj a young boy plunked on the keys of his family piano just enjoying the sounds his father signs and left the lessons and he learned so much but as he learns he enjoys less until one day he leaves the piano alone when his father is old and ill raj returns home and plays again for his father not a classical song but the one he made up playing from the heart dylan and his mom are on their way somewhere through busy streets in a subway station and dylan hears wonderful music in the station and wants to stop but his mom carries him along that night they hear the music again on the radio and note at the back of the book states that the violinist joshua bell had played in the subway station that day and only a few stopped to listen children were the most responsive but were almost always hurried away by an adult we need to let children hear and enjoy the music yeah i really loved this and i didn't really have to it sounds like based on a true story yeah reina accidentally damages her grandfather's big wayland and hangs on the wall in her mother's cafe he had played it in a mariachi band before he died so sorry she picks it up and hers off to try to find someone who can fix it but she finds much more instead it's a celebration of family culture and music and in spanish and english it was a winner of the new voices award by the envelope that's it's a team up in 2015 it's a lovely the beat bugs is a series on netflix tv i have not seen it but is based on songs made famous by the beatless so this is an early book so even if the kids at your library are not watching the show this book has a good message of moving to a new place being yourself making new friends finding welcome and acceptance and music if there is dance you know there is music hopefully a ballet class is surprised by the new student a full-grown alligator but the teacher in class proceed aside for buying a big alligator chow just in case they call her tanya her tail causes some problems so the teacher made her star in the original production of the legend of the swamp queen with her tail tied up to her neck everyone danced wonderfully but there was no tanya the next class or four weeks after then they received a mavin an invitation to a performance in the swamp tanya and her swamp friends performed the ballet so it's kind of a fun come around again some picture book nonfiction include tito puente mambo king it's told in english and Spanish a boy who loved to bang the pots and pans won his church's star of the future for four years in a row played stickball joined the navy attended the juliar school of music and grew up to leave his own band the art conveys his energy actions and enthusiasm for music and the drums or timpani i noted the back of the book gives some additional information and i just love this cover because i can just see him banging on those drums in the yard this is a picture book biography of blue yarn song conveying his love for music and of his family's struggles to make ends meet as a child he borrowed five dollars and bought a cornet from a pawn shop at age 11 after getting in trouble several times he was sent to the colored waves home for boys where he eventually learned to play the cornet at 14 who was released he worked hard during the day in the evening began his musical career learning from the prominent joe auger a band leader and this book is really about his love of music his hard life and his hard work to make music a memoir of the author's childhood her grandfather was a well-known mariachi musician in Mexico and once a year he would visit his grandchildren and their parents in dallas texas playing and singing music he encouraged them to sing through the bad times since singing gladdens the heart the author knows that this is a live from the famous song silly dolinda this is a let's read and find out science series book sounds all around it's been updated and has new illustrations starting with singing snapping fingers clapping and talking the box author explains how sounds sound waves and how our vocal chords work and how we hear it's good information for a musical summer also an excellent science choice for library collections and has a find out more section in the back would suggest an experiment so it's kind of a several things in one a picture book biography of melbert doretta liston born in 1926 in cansa city at the age of seven she joined the music class at school and chose the trombone for her instrument at eight the local radio station had her perform on the air after a move to california she joined the high school's music club and was soon the star player she went on the road at age 17 where she joined gerald wilson span and experienced the music music scene as well as prejudice she became a composer wrote arrangements and worked on recordings for many well-known bands melbert loved music wonderful brief story plan barcia escuelo loved sounds of all kinds he could play the piano by age 10 his family moved to mexico city and by age 14 he earned two free soaps for each 15-minute radio show on which he played the piano over his life he explored and blended sounds to share with everyone he loved finding new to him and unique instruments he became quite popular and he teaches named escuelo with the exclamation point known as the space age sound artist in the 50s and 60s he was extremely popular and i'm sure we've heard his sound and sounds in old movies from that time but you don't know that it was about the artists yeah i don't know that interesting some beginning readers this is one of several newer titers in the beginning reader format featuring mr cooper's class from the well-known early chapter book series aj and mr cooper's class cannot figure out what talent he has for the classroom's talent show his main rival andria is a no at all and has several talent she plans to display in the show including playing the flute aj is last on the schedule and still unsure what he can do but when it's his turn to stay at the front of the class explaining that he is not talented but he is funny and he doesn't know so he was success three connected stories are included in this beginning reader and the first henry is practicing his drums and dreaming of being a rock star when his mom asks him to stop since she has to work at home the second story henry takes his old drum outside and soon he and the neighbor kids are enjoying playing free steak and the third story after dinner henry looks for something quiet to do because his mom needs to finish her work but when she is done they both dance to music until bedtime henry and his mom are quiet but the neighborhood kids represent a variety of methods ethnicities and cultures and one of the five books in the pig in a wig series is called but the story needs is a bang and a claim with them sounds great in rhyming text the pig in a wig constructs state a stage for the band and soon animals teach with their own instrument not the sets making their individual sounds the simple story has plenty of onomatopoeia abrupt a gill and a new new new ten animals are playing well together and under the baton of the pig in the wig until a mouse appears with a very small tuba the elephant panics and pandemonium ensues all is well when the pig in the wind calms everyone welcomes the mouse and music again tells the elephant and piggy piggy is excited to show jerk gerald her new trumpet and for him to listen to her playing but the noises she makes cannot be called music gerald kindly tells her that the trumpet is loud shiny and she holds it well because he's looking for positive things to tell him when prompted for more gerald explains that they are friends and he will tell her the truth it is not music she counters with i am trying to speak elephant on the trumpet she wasn't trying to make this very funny some early chapter books tales from death of woe's drive number four eugenia lincoln and the unexpected package the tough no-nonsense eugenia lincoln it receives a package containing an accordion why who sent it she calls the company to return it but they say she must keep it and they will send it back to her if she tries to return it coincidentally a man stops by the house and one of his many skills is to teach people to play the accordion maybe lincoln her sister suggests that she learned a song eugenia is completely out of her normal element and finally she gives it a try because everyone needs some fun she actually likes it here we go here's our rock story jada jones this is book one in a new series about jada jones her best friend has moved away and now jada wants to avoid school then her teacher starts a new team project on rocks and minerals this is jada's favorite subject but one member of her team nix is all of jada's ideas and seems not to like her what can she do it's a good title about developing friendship and understanding and this one is all about rocks and minerals the illustrations are in black white and purple and there was one of most two page spreads fiction for grades approximately two to five or six or so because we all know everybody reads at their own level yes none of this isn't stone no anybody who's interested can read them this is the fourth book about the pender wicks and in this one the focus is on baddie who is now in fifth grade she loves to play piano and practice for her lessons but now a new talent has arisen her voice is amazing all of this is entwined with normal family issues and changes including baddie taking on the task of walking her neighbor's dog she is still grieving over the death of their own family's dog making this task a special card this is the first book of two so far mac mckenzie age 12 it's head over heels for xander lead singing for an up and coming new group called perfect storm when she gets to travel with the group because her mother was hired as their road trip manager she can barely breathe using a diary format with occasional graphic novel inserts along with some black and white drawings readers will discover along with mac that teen idols and road trips are not entirely the stuff of dreams twin girls are likely to jump on the bus with me book two a new up and coming brother duo or a book to travel with an open for perfect storm but due to some subterfusion misunderstandings there is soon a feud between the two group groups and mac may not be able to help diffuse the situation one of the interesting things in harrison page 290 the father of the troublemaker states he is sending her to grandma's pig farm in nebraska hey oh yeah what okay nothing wrong with that big barns it's true yeah for this is said in england and it's kind of these are real in some ways frank rancheska patelle's summer stinks her cat is missing her best friend is away in the school bully is stepping up this harassment effort when oddball outcast nick hunterbridge helps her in a right to his home she agrees it is an oasis for her colorful art by nick's father and beautiful haunting music that she just has to hear again or something that pulls her back to new scouts quietly snooping she finds a link with a connection in the basement to another world where a troll is playing the music it turns out that this troll is actually nick's mother because he looks different from bigger he has kind of a flat face and people say he smells and things because you know how teens and kids can be frank is told by told by a special agent that the leech wing must be closed or it will mean disaster for our world and she charges frank with the tats because she can go in the house that would mean nick would never see his mother or hear the beautiful and she would never hear the beautiful music again but she has to consider what she's been told about the danger to war so it's haunting music and also a fantasy about connections to other worlds girl versus boy band okay this is book one title the right track lark is 12 she's in seventh grade she is missing her dad and her former home in nashville since her mom divorced him and moved to la to start her own record company lark is a songwriter and plays a guitar to perfect her songs but is far too shy to perform in front of people best friend Mimi supports and encourages her then her mom finds up an up-and-coming british boy band later 15 years around and she brings them to live in the mansion that she can't really afford to prep them for start-up meanwhile lark lark's eighth grade crush teddy reese has asked her to play guitar for him when he sings at the school talent show can she do will she be able to step up on the stage book two is the high note lark is now right after christmas break the video of lark her best friend Mimi made has been a sensation on youtube and now she makes a second one to determine if lark will tell her mother about her music along with that in this book lark's crush teddy is now part of the the band because one guy left of that home again so she has that crush nearby all the time too things are shaky on another night yes watch out jay is in sixth grade he loves hockey and it all comes naturally to him since he's been playing for years something that does not come naturally to him is the saxophone the only instrument left on the table after the rest of his class took turns choosing the one they were going to play for the year he is convinced he will flunk music class there's no way around it the book has a good balance between hockey the saxophone and other sixth grade pursuits and jay lives in bobby or's hometown of perry sound ontario and he and his family died in the world bobby or things yeah it says a little afterward by him look yeah that's fun i didn't point that out a new book by patricia mclaughlin i have an advanced reviewers copy did you see up there silvie bloom was in the fourth grade her mom was an opera singer until she met the man who had become silvie's father in a wyoming cafe it is an idealic life mom sings to the cows the pigs and the chickens the love is obvious it was everywhere but when her mom hears from her former singing partner silvie worries that her mom will want to leave to be famous again it's a story of love being content and embracing life as as it is the back of the advanced readers copy states that the book is set in the brass case but the only state mentioned when i read it was wyoming so i have to look at a final copy of the book to see what it says on the back ahead there might be some changes to be made or they're still figuring out where it's going to be set so i'm really hoping it was in Nebraska but it's not clear at this time although 12 year old maru's parents are divorced they all live in the same town and she spends time with both of them now she must move from florida to chicago without the dad while her mother completes a two-year visiting professorship malu loves punk rock music like her dad making zines about fevers on her mind finding her place in a new city school and neighborhood helps malu realize that she is still herself and they're interspersed throughout the book are that some of the zines that she's made about were respond in large groups she is her mother is Hispanic and her father is white and she is really just happy being her son this is a full color graphic novel victoria and katie her younger sister attended boarding school thanks to scholarships katie is loud and vivacious and does not care what people think of her victoria is shy and quiet and very concerned what people think of both of them katie is a talented pianist while victoria is going to try out for the sovereignty in the background or underground if various trouble is about however little goes to his harmless nose excuse me that mali's father will soon have to take a child's life to give to mali to keep him alive who he will choose and what can be done about it are questions so it goes to us so there's this um horror I guess type sign it's not too creepy with touches of being yourself and trying to do that things come out just fine hamster this is book number four about hamster precess and it's another adapted fairytale as the author has been doing with the series this one is a play on jack and the mean stuff magic beans some goose strings who is a music playing hamster heart called a harpster and a giant very it is happy to rescue them all if she can manage it with some help from her best friend Wilbur and her battle quail monthly it's humorous and clever with a couple of unexpected turns and fractions do show up occasionally as here is this one this is the first book about stick cat that can tailor to kitties stick cat and his friend and neighbor pita who's a bit did see live high in an apartment building in the city they follow a routine of getting together after their people lead through a hole in the wall in the bathroom cabinets their usual day is not exciting but today is an exception they are listening to the piano tuner from the court from the store across the street when a cement truck hits a light bulb and vibrations cause the piano bit to fall on the tuner's arms traveling him so they are off to the rescue writing across the street in a paper pocket on the clothesline because they have always enjoyed listening to the piano tuner play music to check the piano sound this is one of their favorite combinations this is a wonderful book Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies he is the one who had taught him to play the blues and encouraged him Clayton takes his harmonica they call it a blues harp to the subway after his mother gets away his grandfather's things even his favorite guitar he had promised to Clayton he hopes to catch up with the men his grandfather played with called musnain but trouble arrives instead as some young hustlers hop the train and soon Clayton with his playing music with them adventure and a new understanding overtake him and soon enough he writes his way home with the help of his father Clayton's tan is called mouse which she hates by everyone since that is what her mom called her before she left to pursue her singing career when Clayton was seven Clayton has a lovely voice but is so shy she stands in the back of the baby choir and church she wants to join the youth choir with her two best friends but will have to audition in order to be accepted promises to God and to her friends are overwhelming correct times then a new choir director comes to the church would that make a difference her shyness is tangible and readers will empathize soon on fiction for upper elementary grades i love this book trombone shorty it's a 2016 called a clock honor book and a Coretta Scott King illustrator award winner growing up in New Orleans needs being surrounded by music this picture book out of my office he tells of Troy's love of music how he came to be called trombone shorty and his encounter with Bo Diddley after he played along with the band while in the crowd Bo called up to the stage and they played together he now has his own band and keeps an eye out for other young musicians this is also fine for younger listeners interested in music so so there's a picture of him up on stage with Bo Diddley and this kid looks about four years old and he has this trombone it's just crazy this is a completely different different topic a brief history of her life and love of music segregation and unfair practices are noticed and then in 1939 the chance to sing a song written by Abel Miracle a song about a lynching she sang it then left the stage everyone was silent until slowly the crowd stood in the park it became her song and the words of the song are included at the back of the book and how it sings about trees in the south have a strange fruit to remove and something hanging there a brief look at George Gershwin his love of music and creating the rhapsody and blues from the many sounds he hears around him mixing classical rake time jazz and blues together plus the sounds of the train as he's listening cuckoo clack and other things there's a quote from him at the beginning of the book i frequently hear music in the very heart of noise which is really fascinating so this is kind of again a more of an esoteric story about sounds and things but it's interesting and then we have of course the who is or who was series above this batch here i read what is rock and roll and it does it has basic information i'm writing several famous stars starting with Elvis and up to Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen etc there are plenty of illustrations as this series has most librarians are familiar with this series and so i have the ones that i received to review these are published last year or this year so they're the most you might have some in your collection already that there are musicians in right so take a look so this is the ones you have you might find to find other ones some teen titles and starting with fiction for younger teens told in tango poetry which is explained at the back of the book Garvey is not interested in sports at all his dad keeps trying to pique his interest in becoming an athlete and is not able to drop the topic Garvey knows he is not an athlete but he is not certain who he is he faces boys at school due to his weight and his operatives finally Garvey's best and only friend since first grade guides him to chorus at school where he finds his his place in the second friend his wonderful voices valued at his confidence grows now his dad's asked something in common with him that long last since many years ago he said no man so it wasn't really that he had to be an athlete it was just the only thing his father could think of to connect with him self-taught Sam Samantha age 12 and sixth grade can only think of drumming beats keeper awake at night she wants to try out for jazz band next year but she needs better equipment and some lessons and she has you money she makes a couple of bad choices and then hopes for the best rather than place the music right away which is pretty typical of teens yeah and adults at times yes and we all know that it would have been very just based the music in the first place but she does get a couple of breaks and she gets a person who teaches her how to play the drums another tough one sparrow is 14 and she has anxiety problems and depression she talks by flying with the birds and who lined when she is found on the edge of the roof at school everyone thinks she was going to commit suicide but she wasn't she was flying now she was a visitor therapist and she at first refuses to talk because to say i wasn't going to commit suicide the next evening what were you doing and she doesn't want to say i was flying with the birds because that just sounds pretty wacky but slowly she begins to share her thoughts when a chance comes to attend a music camp for four weeks of the summer sparrow goes though her anxiety is high away from home for four weeks doesn't know anyone she knows one girl they're kind of complete strangers her she has big anxiety about making friends it's always been hard for her but this time she stays with it and maybe things will get better this is a beautiful book echo starting in fairy tale and moving into the real world this is the story of a special harmonica and three of the people who played it said in different hard times the rise of hitler the depression in the us and in world war two readers will be caught up in each person's story and appreciate how the stories eventually interconnect and it's a 2016 new very honored magnolia 17 and ford 17 or two of the 10 lucky teams to be contestants on a new tv show spotlight the show is a combination of a reality show and a talent show the book starts with magnolia and her mother arriving at the hotel all will be held until the mansion is ready flashbacks tell of ford's dysfunctional family and how he ended up becoming legally separated from her magnolia wants to reinvent herself and this is her chance to do that magnolia discovers a lot about herself and her mother and ford while ford finds that changes crime and lying his truck this is great fun middle school when julie marx is short but do not call her that time she has met her mother she made her audition for and then be cast as a munchkin in the summer production of the wizard of Oz even though she cannot see her dance much at all plus she's a munchkin this is all because her younger brother was auditioning too but she finds a couple of role models one from the traveling professional cast and one is her elderly neighbor this summer may become a turning point for julie claire is in eighth grade and she's been harassed being harassed at her middle school she feels that she's not being taken seriously at home and of course her older brother matthew is perfect because everybody has a brother or sister who's a good one then on top of that she was having breakfast one morning with her beloved father when he suddenly falls over with a stroke and everything changes and he's slowly recovered he is okay but he can't communicate that that she finds that the only thing she can do for him is to play the saxophone and he tells her later how much that meant to him that she did that but she doesn't know that at the time very touching lily is a high school sophomore she has a songwriter but believes she could never perform her best friend isabel continues to encourage her one day in chemistry class she rightly writes some lyrics on the desk because other people have been reading from the desk the next day someone has written the next lines to the song so pretty soon it grows from reading notes from that to leaving notes and sharing favorite indie group names and songs lily cannot figure out who else is sitting in that desk and if he or she knows who she is it's a sweet romance for readers who are looking for something like with a bit of a twist singing and playing guitar and her traveling family span has been fine for bird bearer the challenges are on the way but she feels in as a lead singer one night for her dad the record promoter is in the audience and offers her a deal but to do now should she leave her family span behind go back into the shafts where she feels safe and secure there are two more books in the series road to you and the way back home which i haven't gotten over but so not there's only one nonfiction book so far that i've read across and this one i talked about past year this is a biography of pete seger who was a lifelong activist and advocate for the poor and as the book says on page three though he came from financial privilege he identified with those who had to make a living he fought for the oppressed and poor all this life and he of course made music for his life if anybody has any other any other um titles of nonfiction for team for this is for the younger position right yeah it's just all teams yeah um let me know let us know yeah more titles in there you do that's right i didn't have any what's that it's a fiction for some boulder readers this is a wonderful book it's told in free verse blade is almost a team and he is the son of a famous rock star his father is now more famous for his crazy axeball drunk for on drugs his older sister is still supportive of their father but not laid not anymore on the day of his high school graduation when he was ready to address the students and parents his father created a spectacle by running a motorcycle into the stand that he means his sister reveals that blade was adopted and in no time he has honestly taken his birth mother his mother is in vana she's from the u.s but she's working there to help people blade has much to sort through the death of his adopted mother when he was 10 his father's behaviors his girlfriend he cheated on him and he has nightmares that just felt like the so look at the cathartic moments in the main character slide and what it reveals this true self and it is amazing and it looks thick but because it's in free verse it very quickly right zach is 16 and he has let go from his band but luckily he was soon taken on by a better band and they go on a road trip for the summer performing in montana while roaming in that area the music goes well but the band called that habit has personal problems jealousy self-importance things like that zach is the youngest in the band and he really in some ways has the most common sense and responsibility but this is an experience for him for that summer that he knows will help him move his music his drumming and i just finished this book last night set in reading england charlie short for charlotte charlie broome 16 states under the radar at school she and her best friend melissa are in year 11 a former student from their school lolly is now in a famous band called firing lights can be asked charlie to come to a show and fold behind the scenes for their block since she did such a good job for a local band from there everything changes charlie is at first a god and then begins to see how fame affects people's lives and she is not unaffected by leeds here gable which is the one that every girl who loves the band is going crazy for it and then she begins to receive notes from people telling her that she shouldn't be with the band she's in the background but they still find out and when i finished a look at that well this this was a i guess this was a no-king ending but i i read the reviews then and it says it spoke one of a proposed trilogy so more could happen who knew that's why you the ending is probably a little like it was not an ending or yes but you think gosh i really wish she had something something else and you can't tell you know yeah and they're supposed to be more folks that will get to this something else yes and i just have a couple more i'm calling them titles that were published earlier so i don't know if i didn't put sins in here except you know i don't want there's a philharmonicist dress which many of you might be familiar with which is great fun because it's all about different people who are going to play in the philharmonic but this is about them getting ready so we see people in the bathtub we see people in their underwear brushing their teeth we see people putting getting dressed and picking up their instruments and going to down riding the the train or the taxi down to where they're going to play seeing what it takes to do the do the show yes so that's kind of fun and then there is of course element parts which many people know of and have and that part of how they connect with each other is through listening to each other's music on the bus ride to school so music playing an important part in getting them together and guess what look down hey it's not even quite 11 so wow how'd you do that i don't know i stayed mostly with my script and i think how i did that congratulations all right so um this is people saying you did it sally good job um so anybody have any questions thoughts any um other titles you want to share that you know that's more that you might be using um actually let's say that back up so that's okay um at your libraries um let us know type in the question section if you did um we did just have some comments from the show saying everybody loves pvsp which is absolutely great yeah i like ruby drove john too he's pretty fun and i see this one and um is by the author of pvcat yes yes and that's who was in that video with yeah so that's kind of cool so as we said um this will be an actual let's get to the commission's home page yeah um the handout with um all the blurs right there'll be soon yeah yeah so if it's handouts and it pops up down below and just hit enter and just go to its top thing that has to start by it the rest of library commission handouts these are all my handouts so far so anybody else can use it so right here is the the draft list which is not complete so we'll add one that says encompass live hence workshops right that'll have my most recent updated list which is probably stand except for if people send any more titles for right and we do have a couple there actually a couple other ppcat titles it looks like um yeah uh list from scripner public library ppcat and his four groovy buttons and ppcat rocking in my school shoes right rocking in my school shoes so there's other ones in a lot of these you know title series sort of things are right ongoing series um that you can look into yeah um so there's some more for you well get on that i bet the library has those titles like i said be everyone was beat all right so that we posted up there um um i think yeah i will have a link to this page in the show recording as well so i usually do every year when sally does this session um and her as you can see here new children's and team books sessions we link back to this as well so you can get a copy of the listing as well pretty soon we'll have the ones with the words as we call right which i haven't done yet but it'll have it's only november two more days oh i just know that the legend of rock paper scissors oh yeah i drew day waltz and adam rex so there's another one that you can get um yes all right so um there'll be some more titles that maybe will be added to your list some percent of these sales um and as we did mention there is um a summer reading program her first session workshop is friday um here in lincoln um i looked it up that's through the south of the library system our registration is closed for that one i guess they have already according to the website so i don't know that there's a chance to get down but you'll have other ones yes that are there's one that scheduled in the second half of january is that under yet or probably not um once involved with the vote no that one's in hastings the january one's in hastings i don't think it's yeah we don't have it on our website yeah but this is where it would and we'd like to yeah probably the twenty friday the 26th i would guess that's yes so these are the in-person workshops that she goes around the state doing of um it's not just this this is an all day like the one on friday is a like ten a.m. to three p.m. taking um in all day sessions and um yeah so this is yeah this is what is happening so you see um yeah ten a.m. to three thirty um dave marsh there's other speakers and presentations involved with um things you could use to do um next year's summer reading program this is so you can get a head start well if you get you know you can do your we're already working on it so we're already yeah planning hiring so now this is just the one for this so i'll take library system one that's this friday and in linkedin the other ones may have different potentially different presenters sell those to all of them i like to she does her thing at all but depending on who gets booked as far as extra presenters and um sessions it might be something from their area that's right been working with music for a long time so look for those um coming being announced coming to them in january well yes some will be in march often there's two or three in march i know the one in january is just getting organized so that's why it's not up there yet so then they're going to have um the central plains is going to have that one and then one in march that's in broken bow i believe and i haven't we've been talking about the western library system but we were we're talking about a couple of different ideas so to be to get three reverse library system because i think uh america is no longer there in the process of looking forward to right we'll see we'll get one schedule with them yeah and then we'll get um we do have some questions about the um workshops um one of those are recorded at all um those are just in person those are in person they're not recorded those are in person workshops yeah and they aren't always on fridays this one just happens to be um they're often on friday yeah and sometimes some of the presentation's information is made available depending on what people use um and someone has a request wondering how something somewhere like o'neill and what your application size we'll see what you know but usually the system director works out a location they ask me can you get there and most of the time i can yeah but if i'm coming back from sydney or a lot so somewhere in there we'll take all those uh we work out there when things are scheduled together it's nice all right so that will wrap it up for today's show i think unless anybody has any other things you want to mention um don't you type n compass live in there i'm going to show you where our there it is uh you can type it in on our website um and it will get to there or if you even just google us um type into your search engine of choice um and go ahead and enter so far we are the only thing called that it still works so um you will come up with us right at the top of your search results for i think you look it up there um so that wraps up today's show um it will be added here is our archives these are upcoming shows and our archives are listed right underneath that and it brings you to a new page where we have all of our recordings as i said going back to the very first one which was in january 2009 we're all here um the most recent ones are on top so sally's will be right here at the top here maybe by tomorrow depending on how things work we get things updated and processed and this is the one from last week we'll have links to recording we'll have links to her presentation and a link to the handouts page where she posts those and um and in the handouts you have the URLs for those um the groovy joe and so that'll all be within those even the singing dance and your polka dot panty yeah so those will be in those hands kitchen disco kitchen disco yeah so that will be all included there everyone who intended this morning and who pre-registered for today's show will get an email from me when we announce it to everyone i'm letting you know the recording is ready so it's out there so that will be for the shoot show we'll hope you join us next week on our topic is barilla story time um but rebecca mcquirkendale who's the assistant library director and creative director at britain a public library here in nebraska um also our um president elect for the braska nla the braska library association um she'll be with us next week uh talking about real story time um this is uh doing uh story time things and and uh well she has on here tips tricks rhymes other things um that she has for doing story times in your libraries so if you and she's asking actually asking for input from people before they attend if you have any sort of um anything that you would like to teach to other librarians rhymes um puppet shows whatever it is that you do um you can submit instructions to rebecca or even the video if you're really no question in that um she has her email there um this is her personal email have booty at gmail.com and she will share that as well um next week when she does her presentation so please do sign up for that one and any of our other shows that you see here on the schedule and that show is already starting into january we're finalizing some descriptions and whatnot right now so you'll see more shows coming up here um as we get them worked out also if you are a big facebook user and come to slives on facebook pop over there and give us a like um we post to reminders you know i don't want to log in of like here's a reminder to log in for today's show um about libraries rock i love the book yeah um and when our recordings are available i post on here there we go the recordings so um any new shows that are added so please do if you are big on facebook give us a like and you'll get notified over there about things going on on the show other than that that wraps up for today's show thank you very much samu thank you for sharing your book titles with us again this year i love having you on to do this um it's a good timing too it's it's perfect timing of course to put something on your summer reading but it's also good people signing for people who are pretentious still doing christmas shopping and this is what i use it for so i have some notes for myself for things that may be getting person needs is a nice wonder um and thank you everyone for attending um and we'll join us next week on any local slides see you next time bye