 All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Christa Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We're a webinar, we're a webcast, we're an online show, whatever you want to call us. We're here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. All the shows are recorded. However, if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. You can always go to our website that I'll show you at the end of the show. And see our archives of all of our shows going back to the beginning. We started in 2009. We have everything on our website. We do a picture of things here, presentations, mini-training sessions, interviews, demos, book reviews, basically anything library-related, we are happy to have it on the show. We do bring in guest speakers sometimes, and sometimes with Nebraska Library Commission staff on the show. And that is what we have today. We have actually one of our regular sessions. Our annual summer reading program session with Sally Snyder, who is next to me here, who is our Children and Coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services at the Nebraska Library Commission. And every year, before the summer reading program starts up, she comes on and gives us a nice big presentation of lots of titles that you can use in your summer reading program. And I'll give you a warning. This is for the people who are live, and I mentioned this before we started recording, but I also want you to watch the recording. This is an episode that does tend to run long. So if you are watching this in your recording, yes, typically our show is an hour-long show, but there is a very good chance that this one will run longer. We'll just go as long as it takes to get through Sally's entire list, just so that you're aware that this will potentially not be just our hour. So, I think that's it. We're good to go. I can hand over you Sally. Take it away. Thank you. The faster I talk, the more books I add to my list. Before we get started on the list, I want to go to this one. Yes. I just want to show you. Here's the Library Commission's main homepage. When you go to it, this is what you see. And up in the corner, there is a search box. So if you search handouts, a list hopefully will come up. Okay. Yeah. Nebraska Library Commission handouts. And there's this list. And I have been talking about archiving some of these older ones, like Beth Youth Books of 2008. We may not need that on there anymore. So if a few at the bottom disappear, we do still have them somewhere. So if you do for some reason need something that's disappeared, please email me and I can get it to you. But the reason I wanted to show you this is because this has, so far I'm the only one using this space. I'm the one that asks for it. I tell people, you can use it too, but they have other ways of doing things, and that's fine. So today, the list of books that I'll talk about is right here. There it is, a PDF form. So you can look through and see the author, title, information, including the cost and the ISBN, which I hope you find helpful. So if you don't happen to have it in your hand right now and you really want that as you listen, go ahead and get started on that. And I will start talking here in a minute, but I'm sure you can catch up, right? I'll just reduce that down a little bit. Just minimize that. There we go. Okay. So I pull out books that are at the time that I first start compiling this. Generally, they're newer books. They may have been too new to get on the Collaborative Summer Library Programs list that comes with the manual, or some of them might be on that list. So these are ones that I've encountered. A number of publishers send me review books every year, and I do seek out other titles from other publishers to try to be inclusive. And if I miss your favorite book, I'm so sorry, I just probably didn't run into it, or I ran out of time to read it. And so I will be reading from a list, my blurred list, because I've learned that if I don't stick to the script, we will be here till 3 o'clock. Everybody else will be left by them, I'm sure. But I have to, some people may enjoy talking all day about Jim's books, but yes. And so we'll start with fiction picture books. Howard P. Wickelbottom, Learns About Courage by Howard Binkow and Reverend Dana. Howard is afraid of almost everything, so he decides to stay in his room. A young bird outside his window is flying for the first time, and he tells Howard that if you're not afraid, you can't be brave. Howard decides to try being brave, and it works. It's didactic, but it will be helpful for children who are in that situation. Woosh and Chug by Sebastian Braun. Chug is an engine that works with heavy freight. He might be slow, but he is very careful. Woosh calls Chug's slow poke, and later in the day, he zooms right past him. But Woosh didn't notice the red track light that meant danger ahead, and he became trapped between the hole in the bridge ahead and the rock slide that came behind him. And what hard-working engine cleared the rock? See who guessed it. This is a simple good story for toddler time with Woosh thanking Chug on the last page. The Troublemaker by Lauren Castillo, a bored boy grabs his younger sister's toy bunny and sends it out to sea, prisoner of pirates. His mom is not happy with him. But after he returns the bunny, it goes missing again. And soon his toy raccoon and other things begin to disappear. Something is up. It isn't until the next morning that Moig discovers what has been going on. See that real raccoon there in the back behind the chimney? Yes. He has a culprit. He's been sent to everything. His empathy that night, missing his raccoon and realizing that his sister must have felt the same way about her bunny is a nice touch. Now you can't have good guys and heroes if you don't have bad guys, right? So Shifty McGifty and Slippery Slam by Tracy Kodoroy is a story about some bad guys. Look at those. They have the typical white and black striped shirts on. You know they're bad masks. Bad masks. This rhyming text tells of two dogs who plan a tea party for their friends and then they're going to rob them while their friends are at the party. One dog overhears their plan and all the party goers follow the thieves, confront them, and then offer a solution for their careers. Open the cafe. They're so good at baking. So yes, they're not going to be bad guys anymore, but it's great. Just watch them be slippery and slinky around the town. Motor dog by Kurt Cyrus. A boy, Flip, orders motor dog the perfect cat over the internet. Everything is great until motor dog spots scoop the cat. A dog is a dog after all. When motor dog abandons the chase to save Flip from a bad paw, Flip decides a dog with no extra features is just fine and names him ready and he tosses aside the contraption that you can see him wearing, the rest with the rockets and things on it. The final illustration is hilarious because the cat has found the contraption. Companion chip caring for others and the deviousness of cats, what are included? Because I have cats. Dinosaur Rescue by Penny Dale. A dinosaur train is moving down the tracks, but the engineer doesn't know a truck up ahead to step on the tracks. Call Dinosaur Rescue. Can they save the day? The front endpapers have 10 dinosaurs identified on them in the back and papers have 7 vehicles identified. This is sure to be popular with dinosaurs and rescue vehicles. How can you go wrong? Super Red Riding Hood by Gavia Dobby Hunt. Ruby's favorite color is red and when she puts on her red cape, she is super red riding hood. When her mother sends her out to pick some raspberries, she knows there is danger in the woods and at first when a wolf appears, she is a little afraid, but she uses her dodging skills to evade him and it turns out that he's hungry and Ruby shares the raspberries with him. Small Blue in the Deep Dark Night by John Davis. Small Blue wakes up and is frightened of all the potential bad things that are waiting for him in the dark like goblins or clacky skeletons. Big Brown tells her instead of goblins, isn't it just as likely to be a delightful doggy Saturday Night Unicycle Convention or another harmless thing unexpected? And then the thought that is so dark you don't know what's there. Well, I think it's done something scary when it can be something silly and fun. Small Blue takes the lesson to heart and I think listeners will do that too. Get Ready Weasels by Ellis Dolan. They actually spend each day plotting world domination. The evidence is right here in this book and as it says on the cover, megalomania has never been so furry. They have machinery and plenty of coffee. What could possibly stop them? Yes, and you flip the pages, all the pages look like this. There's different levels, people pushing buttons and turning dials and reading screens. It's great silliness. Silly and clever illustrations convey the extent to which the weasels have apparently gone and readers will really enjoy looking closely at their antics and will love the fact that their big plan isn't going to work because something's not played in. There's always something. Super Worm by Julia Donaldson. Rhyming text tells of the many things Super Worm does to help spend time with his friends. His friends are shocked when the wizard lizard sends his servant crow to bring Super Worm to him. The insects and other animals come caught in an amazing plan. They hope to save Super Worm. Another Red Riding Hood, this is a little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton-Helden. When the wolf tricks Roja into picking some flowers for the grandma, he sneaks off with a red cape to visit grandma. Can grandma and Roja save a wolf and save the day? The sprinkling of Spanish words are understood within the context of the story and the author has included a pronunciation guide and a translation of each in front of the book. Watch these pages for the three blind mice and a couple of tiny troublemakers, trickster elves. Oh yes, and this was a Pearl Bell Pre-Illustrator Honor Book for 2015. I'm good for stories. Whoops, that's too soon. When You Wander by Margarita Engel is a gentle look at search-and-rescue dogs who tell this dog tells the young child what the dog can smell in the air and on the ground and what the child should do if he or she gets lost. The dog running toward you with the bright orange sniffing school vest is happy to have found you, not running at you to bite you. The illustrations convey the non-threatening dog in a very positive light. This is good information with some facts for kids and parents at the back of the book and useful information for parents to share with their children. The Almost Fearless Hamilton Squid Lager by Timothy Vazzel-Aaron Graved by day, wielding swords and attacking fire-breathing fracking snapper or a dangerous bracklesmead, Hamilton scares easily at night. He takes refuge in his parent's bed. With the promise of a grasshopper wormcaped to eat in the morning and the recommendation to remember that monsters visit because they want to play, Hamilton tries to stay in his own mud that night. And what an adventure he has. It's silly and humorous with great need at words. This is full of fun. Cat-knacked by Lisa Hernandez, a curious cat curls up in a chair on the back of a pickup truck that is accidentally taken away from home. Fortunately, a girl rescues her and takes her to the pound for the owner's binder. Griming text with two two-word sentences then a five or six-word sentence, like found cat, surround cat, taken to the pound cat. Oh yes. I hope you're all already very familiar with John Jimmelman's books. This is the first one, Chickens to the Rescue. When everything's go wrong or extra health is needed, the chickens are there to take care of it. Though they look scattered, disorganized and frantic, they are good health. The clever ending will bring smiles and chuckles and a request for the other three books. Watch out in each title on the last page orcasts. Who will help next? And I really want to invite the chickens to my office because I think they could really help me there. I'm not as interested in having pigs to the rescue come to my office. This is also by John Jimmelman. While the chickens in the first group were quite helpful, the pigs in this sequel are overly helpful. Things might be better if they didn't get involved. Keep an eye on the littlest pig. He stands out in his own way. See him there on the cover? Then there's cows to the rescue. It's county fair day, but the trek won't start. Cows to the rescue. The cows step in several times and really help the family at the fair. Keep an eye on the young calf and the littlest pig. It continues the fun of the earliest books and the last one that I'm aware of is Duck to the Rescue. Ernie the Duck desperately wants his turn to save when help is needed. He keeps trying to help at each time it results in disaster. The little lamb finds a way for Ernie to be successful and the final illustration is a winner. And please keep running out of my office. Just send the chickens if you see them. Firefighter Hippo by Jonathan Linden. Little Hippo puts on his helmet ready to fight fires, but his fire truck keeps getting stuck in the mud wall or in the tall grass. Each time he needs help to get it out. Then lightning hits a tree and starts a fire in its branches. Will Little Hippo be able to save the day? A pattern of encountering different animals and needing help from them allows prediction guesses from the listeners. It's good for story time. Ernie the Brave War Horse by Elizabeth McLeod. This is a picture book for older readers saying grades 1 to 2, I mean 1 to 3 or 4. It tells of World War I. Ernie, so named for his longer than average years, was a brave police horse so he is one of the 18 horses and 4 officers of the Mounted Police in Canada selected for the 9th Battery Canadian Field Artillery. Bunny was written first by Bud and then after Bud was killed by his brother Tom. They faced gas attacks, artillery shellings, and lack of food among other things. This fictional book is based on a real story. Additional facts are included at the back of the book. And because it's about you, I think that's why they say it's slightly older age group. I'm Brave by Caden Jim McMullen. A fire truck is ready to go and talks with the reader, showing all his tools and equipment ready for emergency. When the word comes that a house is on fire, he is off. We see how he gets to and fights the fire with hoses and tools and plenty of exclamation points. Sure to be a popular title for the summer. I think if you set that one out, you're going to have to do it in three seconds. Bravo Chico Conta Bravo by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez. The youngest in the family with 12 mice children, Chico is always off doing something. The mice family watches a play in the Three Little Pigs and then recreates the production for their insect and mice friends. It is at the performance that Chico playing the son sees danger before anyone else does. Mrs. Conto, Chico's mother greatly values those who are my bingo and that is what saves the day. And just so you know, Libby Martinez is Pat Mora's god. Super hero and the barber of doom by John Rockwell. Rockwell realizes his superpowers are becoming stronger as his hair goes longer. His three friends are experiencing it too. They are doing everyday things like jumping rocks across the creek and jumping obstacles using their staples. Then one day, Rockwell is taken to the barber and he could barely manage to make his way back to headquarters. There he finds his friends have also had head haircuts and they all feel doomed. Can they luster any stream? A little girl in the neighborhood finds a way to help them get out of their slump and discover that they really can still be heroes. The artwork enhances the story and is a great feeling of empowerment for the listeners. Big bad bubble by Adam Rubin. You may not know this but when a bubble pops in our world it disappears from here but it reforms in a land where monsters live. They are very afraid of bubbles. Finally, one day a monster pops a bubble and finds it isn't dangerous at all. What a relief. But watch out for butterflies. Children, oh yes children will love the idea that scary monsters are so afraid of such a little super truck. I see Steven Savage. Most of the time he has a mild mannered garbage truck wearing glasses. But when a huge blizzard stops the city he becomes super truck powing the streets clear and digging out the city. The next day, no truck knows who or where he is. He's back collecting garbage with his glasses on. Larry gets lost in Alaska when he finds cues in Michael Mullen. Apparently Larry gets lost to lots of places and lots of you out there are probably familiar with Larry already. Larry needs a nap. He does. Here Larry and his human family are touring Alaska from a ship. As they prepare to board a plane to visit other parts of Alaska Larry follows a tasty smell and ends up in the wrong plane. When the plane lands he jumps off and begins to explore a number of adventures Larry has found in a dog sling. He owner rescues him and calls the number on his tag. It includes some non-fiction information about Alaska on almost every 2-h spray. Listeners will certainly want more books about Larry. I've found 16 titles so far but Larry hasn't visited the Gratsky yet that I could find. Red-knit cat girl to the rescue by Nakoa Stoop. Nakoa Stoop. That's harder than I thought. Red-knit cat girl and her forest friends are playing with newspaper when they find a lost polar bear cub floating on a piece of ice. They learn from the moon that they must take the cub way up north to rejoin his mother. They make a boat from newspaper and Red-knit cat girl and the bunny go with the cub. This is a gentle story with soothing illustrations even when they encounter a storm. A good story time choice and listeners will be pleased with the Joy Cooper Union and not a one of them will wonder how they ever got anywhere in a newspaper book. That's what adults think like me tonight. Naughty Kitty by Adam Storre. A little girl gets a new kitten instead of a puppy but he is very naughty. Listeners and readers will see the very naughty one, a tiger escaped from the zoo but the girl is amazed at the huge mess this kitten makes. The tiger scares away the neighbor's dog and the girl proclaims, Kitty you saved me and all is forgiven. There are more antics from the zoo that are noted on the final pages and the end papers of the book. So if you include that when you're reading the story the kitten will love it. Let's sing a lullaby with the brave cowboy by Jam Thomas. This is so fun. Each time the cowboy begins to sing to his two cows kids will love each huge eek he shouts as the cows are getting droopy eyed and sleepy but when the cowboy sees a huge shaggy grey wolf and waits for the cows to tell him what it really is they are scared and they yell eek no worries the wolf just wants to snuggle up and hear the lullaby some prediction with this each shape, what is each shape that he sees and what does the wolf really want it's clever fun and be ready for lots of loud eeks from the kids when you read it. Some picture book nonfiction titles one is Half Courage by Sherry Jane Miners this is from the Being the Best Me series a boy describes different ways he can be brave every day mostly in small ways including sometimes saying no to classmates. It includes a four page section for parents at the back of the book giving suggestions on ways to reinforce the ideas. Tuesday text me in by Luis Carlos Montowan and Brett Quitter Luis returned after being wounded in Iraq Tuesday is his service dog that helps him with his balance his nightmares, flashbacks and even reminds him to take his medicine this is a reassuring look at the effects of war on a person and the service dog who performs his duties before this is one of my favorite books at this batch on top of the moon beginning readers in early chapter books for those of you who don't know I used to separate out beginning readers but then early chapter books kind of everything's blending together I can't determine a lot so I just blended them all together too so you decide what it's fun well we all know that buzz boy and fly guy is a beginning reader this is by Ted Arnold this is fly guy number nine and this buzz has written a comic book and he reads it to fly guy and that the superheroes buzz boy and fly guy waiting to find their house have been moved by pirates to a dragon cave on a far away island in the overcome this situation the clincher at the end buzz asks want to read it again and fly guy says yes then we also have fly guy presents fire fighters also by Ted Arnold this is primarily nonfiction but fly guy and buzz visit a fire station and learn about equipment, the knowledge and skills that fire fighters have in use the illustrations are like this cover photos with an overlays of fly guy and or buzz it includes a list of safety tips for children at the back of the book similar nonfiction titles in this fly guy series are now dinosaurs sharks and states but this one's popular with expanding the others the princess in black by Shannon Hale and Dale Princess Magnolia Magnolia is exceedingly proper when Duchess Wingtower visits she was not invited unfortunately the castle is quite close to Monsterland and an emergency arises Magnolia must become the princess in black and save the day with some help from horse meanwhile the Duchess is snooping around her castle looking for secrets I think there'll be more books this is the first one I expect more in this series Captain Awesome to the rescue by Stan Kirby this is book one in this paperback series Eugene he is eight and he's in second grade has just moved to a new town he loves comic books especially super dude and Eugene has created his own costume to make himself Captain Awesome he makes a new friend at school Charlie Thomas Jones and soon Captain Awesome is on the job solving the disappearance of the class at Hamster Turtle in this series the superheroes soon there will be three solved everyday problems and issues through their imaginative super powers Captain Awesome vs. Nacho Cheese Man by Stan Kirby is both book two in this series and Nacho Cheese Man is Eugene's best friend Charlie but they have a disagreement and a misunderstanding when Eugene's new super dude comic is missing and so we can see them against each other Nacho Cheese Man always has a can of squirting cheese on hand as his weapon for justice in book three Sally Williams aka Super Sonic Sal will join the Sunnyview superhero squad and a little later on book 11 is Captain Awesome vs. Evil Baby Sitter where Eugene is not allowed to leave the property while the baby sitter is in charge how can he meet Charlie and Sally now all his plans for a great weekend are ruined and you can see Turbo the class hamster he's actually the super pet in that quote another favorite of mine is the series by Cindy Marco the series is called Kung Pao Chicken and the first book is called Let's Kick Cracking Gordon is second grade and his younger brother who's still in the age shell then they both accidentally fell into a bad and toxic sludge at their Uncle Crack's laboratory now Gordon is discovering his new super pals his tail feathers tingle when danger is near he has an extraordinarily loud SPAWP and he can create a large wind with his wings someone is selling blowing cookies that make the citizens feathers fall out Kung Pao Chicken is on the case with his sidekick Egg Drop who's his younger brother Vinny and the catchphrase is Let's Kick Cracking very soon Book 2 is bop bop boom there are some tough sides about being a super hero Gordon has to wash his super suit when his mom isn't looking and he has a pinchy leotard now his mom is making Gordon and Vinny join her to hear the world famous opera singer Honeycomb when Honeycomb is kidnapped during the performance Kung Pao Chicken and Egg Drop are on the case The Birdie Snatchers is Book 3 and it's about someone changing all of the people the people the chickens in town into zombies and Book 4 Heroes on the Side is about traveling they travel to New York City and there's a sidekick super con that Egg Drop wants to go to but it turns out the tingly beak and his bad eggs are behind everything making all kinds of trouble Ricky Ricotta's mighty robot by Dave Pilkey has been reissued with new artwork by Dan Santan and this is Book 1 Ricky is a small mouse and on the way to school each day a couple of bogeys pick on him but Dr. Stinky McNasty has just created a mighty robot and orders that robot to destroy the town the robot sees the frightened people and he refuses Dr. McNasty shocks the robot and Ricky saves them by kicking a soccer ball at the doctor now he's got us half a friend but Dr. McNasty was planning something more and Ricky and the robot have to face a giant lizard there are of course several football drama pages in each of these books and the series goes on to include titles that involve creatures from all the different planets in our solar system so each new book is about one more and they're listed there on the list but I didn't put them up here because we can't talk about all of every series Fiction for Grades 2 to 5 or 6 Sidekick by John David Anderson the city of Jessica has several superheroes to deal with the villains that pop up occasionally but one superhero the Titan hasn't been heard from since an epic battle six years ago now Drew, who's 13 has been teamed with him for sidekick training Drew is one of the secret group of six middle school students with special abilities his power supervision, super hearing and super smelling he wishes he could shoot laser beams out of his eyes or something a new super villain has his and his minions have arisen and things are turning bad it's full of action and humor the juxtaposition of fighting evil and dealing with the usual middle school issues and also his concern for his mentor and if he can get him out of his doldrums I guess a companion book to sidekicks is Minion also by John David Anderson Michael is 13 or 14 he's not sure he was adopted quote-unquote at age nine he can convince people to do what he wants if he looks them in the eye his father does care for him but also uses him to rob him that he can step on his experiments and his father's little boxes are purchased by the neighborhood mob boss Michael thinks he must be a bad guy because of the things he does but maybe he isn't really it's a good look at what makes a person bad and that there is very little that is actually black and white and I don't know if he's planning another companion book or not but I'd be interested if you know what those are okay I had to include a Nord on Yoda book to the rescue I mean it's to the rescue by Tom Engelberger this continues to students battle against fun time, not just video that is supposed to help them learn and be ready for tests but which is so lame it turns the students off from learning the group of friends working on this are surprised to find that at least some of the teachers also find it has been helpful now this book includes directions for folding Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker this is the book five book six another book of the series is out now Emperor Pickle-Tine writes the bus I have a copy but I haven't read it yet Joshua Dredd by Lou Vagan Joshua is in the sixth grade and he and his parents have moved him out often in order to hide the fact that they are super villains the Dredd duo Sophie the new girl is the daughter of superhero Captain Justice then Joshua becomes gifted with a Y with the power of spontaneous combustion to rescue his parents from an even worse people than they are book two is the nameless hero Joshua is looking forward to a lazy peaceful summer when he is invited to attend gifted and talented camp to learn more about developing and controlling his special skills once there he finds things are a bit different than he expected book three is titled the Domino sorry the Dominion Key by Lou Vagan I haven't gotten a hold of the copy so sorry but you could look for it if you need one Smash Trial by Fire by Chris A. Bolton this says right up there in the corner book one I like it when I know it Andrew Ryan is in fifth grade and he idolizes superhero the Defender one day Andrew is in the wrong place at the wrong time evil doer the madness has devised a machine to steal all of the Defender's powers but in the middle of the event there is an explosion and Andrew ends up with powers he has a limited time to learn how to use these powers and go to school and clean his room before the maggots comes for him this full color graphic novel is labeled book one so you know there will be more and it's wonderful if you'd like having hard cover graphic novels for younger readers get this one Flora and Ulysses by Kate de Camillo after a squirrel is run over by a runaway vacuum Flora a self-described natural born cynic applies CPR and revives him naming him Ulysses they are inseparable while her mother is working behind the scenes to try and get rid of the squirrel her parents have separated and Flora survives by reading the comic book she loves about the amazing incandesto which includes terrible things that happen to you she has studied every single issue so she can be ready for everything Ulysses finds he can type and write poetry and he can be a hero when needed it's quirky and great fun and many of you also know that Kate de Camillo has partnered with a collaborative summer library program this summer and has created a four page I think it is comic book of the great incandesto along with some sections in the back about summer reading it's keeping your reading up and you can download that from the collaborative summer library website which I should have planned ahead of time to show you but it's just cslpreads rbats.org probably thank you I'll add that to the links for the show and you can download it and give it to people they're encouraging for this summer you can print it and hand it out as much as you like winter sky by Patricia Riley Giff Saria is almost 12 and she worries about her father he's a firefighter so she rides her bike in the night to find where he's fighting a fire and make sure that he's alright he doesn't notice her best friend Douglas always goes with her but so she realizes someone in the neighborhood is starting fires it is for determination to solve this mystery in order to save her father and other firefighters threatens her whole world the adventures of Bean Boy by Lisa Hardwader Tugger learns about a contest to create a sidekick for the comic book hero H2O if he can win the scholarship prize and give it to his mother that will help her with being gone so much to either work or school all the time or be a simple character falling behind in his own schoolwork his best friend Noah supports him and the least likable girl in school seems to have it in for him Tugger cares for his younger brother and his willingness to look beyond Sam's bad temper shows he is a good kid who happens to love comic books and he does come up with a sidekick and his sidekick is Bean Boy and if you can see those of you who can see the illustration remember that you know what Bean's do to us and this this sidekick has super Bean power and that's how he flies oh and there's a sequel to it that I haven't read yet there's a sequel I'm so sorry Darling Mercy Dog of World War I by Allison Hart this part of the dog chronicle series this is book one and each book is about a different dog during a different time frame so you don't have to read them in any order a beloved family pet Darling is an unspecified breed of herding dog and they donate her to the British Army for World War I told from the dog's point of view she is trained to find wounded soldiers and lead rescue people to them while Darling is not involved in the war itself until about halfway through the book her training and her duty in the war will catch readers' interests and this isn't all that long of a book but it's very well put together because Zeta the Space Girl Zeta the Space Girl by Ben Hatke this is book one it's a full color graphic novel when Zeta's friend is abducted by aliens she jumps into the fray landing on a strange planet she is determined and fearless in her quest to find her friend because it's really her fault that he got grabbed she becomes a hero along the way she cares about all beings and ruins a new attitude to the planet there are great monsters, action and heart you can see that while there are monsters they're really not that scary book two is Legends of Zeta the Space Girl Zeta is a bit weary of all her appearances for fans but when an imprintotron robot takes on her persona and leaves with her manager she is hard pressed to get her life back and what will happen when the fake Zeta faces the invasion that's coming to a distant planet and the third and final book is the return of Zeta the Space Girl Zeta is being held captive on dungeon world and forced to work with many other slaves seeking one particular rock that hides a crystal Zeta's caring concern for all the captives appears to hold her back but in the end it brings extra effort needed to overthrow the dungeon world caring for others and working together is big in Zeta's opinion how to catch a bobble by Katherine Jeans we find Orton Birdie is 10 and Victorian London proud to be an apprentice to Alfred Buns the Boggler this life is much better than being a rag picture she was before her job now is to act as bait to lure the bobble out for Alfred to catch and kill Alfred lost one assistant to a bobble and he's determined to never have that happen again he is not the expected pool master he worries for Birdie's safety but this is the only way he knows how to catch and dispose of the deadly bobbles now something odd is about Orton's disappearing in Alfred and Birdie may be in more danger than usual this title has spookiness concern for Birdie's well-being the social divisions in London and the concept of considering other options for catching and killing dangerous bobbles Book 2 came out recently a plague of bobbles Birdie is living with Miss Ames missing her freedom and her friends knowing that she used to keep the world a bit safer now it seems the bobbles are concentrating in a specific area of London and Birdie is again needed to help and Book 3 is going to come out in the fall of this year titled The Last Boggler Togo by Kate Climo is part of the dog diaries series of books similar to the other series I talked about where each book stands on its own and is about a different dog told from Togo's point of view this fictional look at an historic event will bring an adventure in Animal Fantasy about the use of dog sleds in the past and the desperate trip to bring vaccine for the theory of Tino occasional black and white sketches add to the tale and in the back of the book are a couple of photographs of the actual Togo and his owner dog sleder and some information about them I think most of those in this series do that many of you are familiar with Lunch Lady I had to pull this this is book 2 but I had to pull this out because it's Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians of course we all know that it's by Jared J. Kosovsky Kosovsky sorry the school is setting up for a book fair in readathon in the librarian Mrs. Page is uncharacteristically grumpy it turns out she is part of the League of Librarians seeking world domination their secret black and white books they read the title and characters appear and attack Lunch Lady, Betty and the three kids Hector, Terence and Dee be able to defeat them this is silly fun with black and white and yellow graphic novel and I think kids will love the idea of the Lunch Lady and her assistant Betty who work in the kitchen at the school their secret lair is underneath the kitchen and they have all these kinds of things that just looks like a spatula but no it's also a secret weapon just like James Bond exactly and they not only keep the school safe but they go out and sport they grow up in the community too so there's Lunch Lady and the video game villain which is book 9 book 10 I've been told this is the last book but we're wondering if there might be another one this is book 10, Lunch Lady and the school white scuffle, criminals are on the land page, Lunch Lady and Betty cannot access their secret lair beneath the school cafeteria and kitchen because they've been fired the new superintendent, Dr. Van Grindheim we're just changing everything at the school could she be behind it all now the best thing about that book as the probably the series ending I love the fact that the League of Librarians come back and help Lunch Lady save the day so see we're not really bad and wouldn't there will be a better place if we open it the same offer is the also written the platypus police squad set of books it's two so far and he's the artist who did our t-shirts for this coming summer so I think you recognize platypus is that platypus pie? I don't know platypus pie platypus police squad the fraud who croaked by Jerry J Kosovsky enthusiastic looking written Zango joins the platypus police squad and is partnered with veteran detective Cory O'Malley Zango jumps in too soon several times and jeopardizes their investigation into illegal phishing one main plot issue is solved but the reader will find it goes deeper at the end of book two and one of the things I like about this series is that they don't have guns they use boomerangs as their defensive weapon and also to catch the bad guys so book two of platypus police squad is the ostrich conspiracy where this takes place at the theme park you can see there on the roller coaster and they're still trying to solve the deeper mystery of who's behind these phishings and we have to recognize Captain Underpants but this is great because the reissue of the original book the only thing that's changed is it is now in full color so the adventures of Captain Underpants by Dave Pilke it has the exact same text well I didn't sit and look at it pretty much seems the same and it also of course has the flip-a-rama and it has two pages of fun facts of the back of the book and also it has a 13 page the origin of Captain Underpants so if you need to replace yours here's your opportunity Nickel Bay Knit by Dean Pitchford the townspeople of Nickel Bay are still in the middle of hard times ever since the factory closed one bright spot is that every Christmas Nickel Bay Knit leaves $100 bills around town to give hope to the people Sam, who's 11 had a heart transplant at the age of four and that is also when his mom left his father Sam runs around with a couple in there shoplifting and things like that but this time Sam accidentally damaged their neighbor's house and he has to work to pay off the debt that's when he finds out that he Sam will stand in for Nickel Bay Knit this year he realistically portrays Sam's anger and his acting out and his growing respect for his neighbor, his father and himself and what a good feeling to help people who are in the middle of hard times All of Fame Bone Fame Bone by Michael Rex this is book one Evil Ward Org venomous drool is reassembling his body in order to take over the world in another dimension because they had before this book starts they had the people the barbarians had hacked him all apart and spread him across different dimensions Fame Bone well, yeah, you've got to talk about him reassemble Fame Bone is not considered old enough to be a warrior so his clan charges him with taking drool's big toe to the sorcerer who will send it in Fame Bone to a different dimension landing in the town dump he befriends Bill a victim of bully Duncan now Fame Bone must attend 3rd grade while being on alert for any sign of drool this is a graphic novel in orange, black, and white and kids will love the fact that Billy Bill has to teach Fame Bone how to do things like use the toilet because Fame Bone's never had that one yeah, don't do that and you know I'm not going to argue with Fame Bone about much he's a very good friend he really does like them book two is the egg of misery Fame Bone has sent an egg he must hatch and protect while it goes to help him guard the big toe of drool but some deception happened along the way and actually it's going to hatch out into a monster that's supposed to take care of Fame Bone and book three is the birthday party of dread the evil war drool is sending the pressure after Fame Bone in order to regain his big toe but his friend Bill accidentally received the mark and tended to show the monster his prey now Bill is the one that the monster is going to attack I think kids just love the idea well, when he goes to school they don't comment really on this advocate because they tell him like teachers that it's this native costume he's an exchange student from somewhere who's not and you can't really you know try to be all inclusive while you don't want to argue about what he's wearing in school Little Green Men at the Mercury Inn by Greg Guntich Smith Aiden is 12 and he helps his parents with their motel in Florida they drop quite a few visitors when NASA launches and hold launching parties to celebrate and his best friend will stop by to help too but Aiden soon soon learns that at least one outer space alien is hiding at the motel and he decides to help him or her to get home again the case of the time capsule bandit is book one in the Randy Rose Ninja Detective series by Octavia Spencer following the death of her mother Randy who is 12 and her father moved from Brooklyn to a small town in Tennessee Randy is a black belt in Taekwondo and she was also at the Jalonsi Detective in Brooklyn now she has new mystery to solve and a new friend to help her they must solve who stole the town's time capsule and why Randy is a good friend and inspires like behavior from her new acquaintances in Dear Creek it's well written with some occasional illustrations and some ninja tasks for the readers to try out at the back of the book now book two came out at the end of March is titled with his ties to history and heaven written Dinos are forever is book one of the adventures of Joe Schmo series by Greg Trine Joe is in fourth grade and she receives a cape in the mail and learns that she has now inherited her family's heritage of fighting crime it's all in the cape but she needs to learn how to use it Dr. Dasserly has perfected his reanimator laminator and now he is in control of dinosaur skeletons who will help him take over the city humorous and silly Joe and the sidekick Raymond the dog are ready for anything she's cut off a little to see how long her cape is it's too long so she cuts off the end of it and she makes a cape for her sidekick Raymond the dog he can run really fast in a circle and he pulls on the ground and that can be helpful in some situations there are four other titles so far in this series and I haven't read any of the other ones but again if you know that in Shifty Business Joe begins to discover that she can change her appearance so that's what she looks like she looks kind of like Frankenstein the green and the difference on the cover non-fictions for grades 2 to 5 or 6 or so starts with Stubby the war dog by Aaron Bileskow Stubby is a mixed bulldog stray and he connected with J. Robert Conroy while they were on the football field and they were getting ready to be shipped over to World War I they smuggled a dog on board he's not supposed to go but Stubby was more than a companion he warned the soldiers of gas and imminent attack he killed rats and trenches and he also captured a German soldier all by himself this true story tells of the war some of them fought it and one dog who didn't stay home it's illustrated with numerous photos that might be worrying both J. Robert Conroy and Stubby make it back from the war Sniffer Dogs by Nancy F. Castaldo describes a variety of duty Sniffer Dogs may be trained to perform such as fighting explosives drugs, lost people detection of medical issues to name a few there are lots of colorful and photos used to make this an appealing and informative book The Big Look of Superheroes by Bart King it's along the lines of the dangerous book for boys, etc one of the first things you'll find in this book is a disclaimer saying that the author is not responsible for any injury or anything due to the book so I'm not so much recommending that well you can put it out if you want to but take a look through it first and I really think this would be a great resource for the librarian to use for their summer program if you're going to have a section on Superheroes because there are things like on page 152 to 153 there's lists for kids to create their own superhero name and things like that so there's lots of different activities if you're not really feeling comfortable putting it on your shelf Bill the Wonder Boy by Mark Tyler Nobleman Bill Finger helped Bob King create the comic book character Batman but this fact was kept secret for many years brief explanations of how things were usually done at that time helped readers understand how Bill could have been left off the credits it includes large comic book format illustrations and occasional plays on words using Bill's last name with Finger it also includes a forward page author's note at the back of the book giving more details about Batman and Bill and Mark Tyler Nobleman has also written Boys of Steel a picture book biography of two teens Jerry Segal loved reading comic books and wrote them instead of being outside with other teens and Joe Schuster his friend also loved comic books and drew pictures every chance he had they tried to get their stories published but were not successful until Jerry had a new idea about someone from another planet who has superpowers on earth and they created Superman the three page afterward tells more of Jerry and Joe's struggles with PC comics because after they created Superman they sold all rights to him to a comic and as the book explained this happened a lot and that was kind of the way things went at that time on Mask which is the teen theme for this upcoming summer we have some fiction for younger readers hope I don't tear them away a long time yeah we started late we did it about five minutes late this is true and we're just thinking in the class those of you still holding it all this is fine I'll get super holist so if you do have to leave that's fine go ahead we're recording to the end and we can come back and watch what you miss later okay dangerous by Shannon Hale Maisie Brown is lucky to go to astronaut camp thanks to her knowledge of math she is missing her right hand but functions just fine with her artificial one while at camp she and four others are exposed to alien materials which end up being absorbed by their bodies they begin to develop superpowers and learn that they could be the only defense against an alien invasion but some of her companions are not handling the changes and I really expect there's going to be another book if you're sick of dystopia buy this book the summer I saved the world in 65 days by Michelle Weber-Perlitz Nina is 13 and it's the summer before her freshman year in high school she is inspired kind of by accident to try and experiment she noticed her neighbor lady who always had annuals out in her front yard she'd act her neighbor would go open her leg and she was sitting out there looking at these little pots of plants ready to be planted on her stool with her legs sticking out and she's all sad and she decides and she has to go back to the house so Nina decides she'll plant the flowers more sneakily at night she plants the flowers and the lady is so happy so she decides to perform one act of crime as a day so she leaves secretly and see if it has any effect on her neighborhood this is an upbeat book and though Nina faces a few problems it is a positive so you might want to add that to your collection the story of Owen Dragan Slater of Drone Time by E.K. Johnson in an alternate Canada alternated in that Dragan's exist and will eat people Chauvin 16 happened to be in the hall when new student Owen also in 11th grade was trying to find his English class Chauvin sees people as parts of musical scores whether opera, symphony or pop music Owen is training in the family business of Dragan Slater soon it is decided that Chauvin will be Owen's bard and this means attending training and Dragan Slater and there was a second book that just came out and I haven't seen that one yet Comfortable Intuitive by Gareth P. Jones in Victoria London Sam 2-14 can speak to ghosts and sometimes help them helps them though he tries not to let anyone know its ability his father is part owner of the Constable and True Fumal and Sam helps her there every day when the ghost clerk laps what is sent into the real world to find a missing ghost worker he learns that black rot a horrible substance that sucks in and prisons ghosts is spreading in London but no one listens there's lots of going on and readers will be fascinated it's a bit gruesome at times especially with Sam's no good Uncle Jack He's Girls and Secret Identities by Mike Jung Vincent and his two best friends live in Copper Plate City the home of Captain Stupendous the best superhero in the world the three friends have studied everything they could about Captain S including his most often used battling techniques when Pauly, Vincent's crush receives Captain S's powers as the prior recipient is dying the threesome offers to teacher all she needs to know to be successful just in time to face the mad scientist Professor Mayden Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan this contains three separate stories in graphic novel format each about a dog who helped his companion in war time boots located wounded soldiers in World War I Loki did more than lead a dog sled team on bringing down some Nazis in World War II Sheila sniffed out the Viet Cong before the US troops responded as part of the Scout Dog Patrol in Vietnam The Koch Society by Jeremy Krauss Alex Knight, 12 a junior member of the Koch Society Evil is ready for his first encounter with the Rangers of Justice who are good but during the battle Alex instinctively saves the lives of the junior member of the Rangers he is stunned by his behavior what happened he's a bad guy, what's he doing even hoping anybody his best friend gave is a tech genius inventing lots of high tech tools for super villains until he joins with Alex to work for good against all they have ever known that's the end of book one book two is villains rising the big battle is the end of book one with all the adult Rangers of Justice lost in the gloom from alternate universe the junior the junior members of the Koch Society and the Rangers have come together forming a kind of tentative partnership to try and rescue the adult Rangers and overcome the Koch in book three fall of heroes Alex and the other former junior Rangers and Koch members succeed in rescuing Lone Star and Lux from the gloom but though they've been rescued they currently have no superpowers they think it'll take them days or weeks to regain their powers a final showdown with the Koch Society will determine the fate of the city lots of action again to keep readers reading Chris Lynch has started another series this is the World War II series the first book is The Right Fight Roman Busek, pro ball player in the Eastern Shore Baseball League lists in the U.S. Army and becomes part of the tank team fighting the Nazis in Africa the Army's fighters told from Roman's point of view they're waiting along with the flurry of action his letters home to his fiancé are included as well book two is Dead in the Water Hank Bacallum joins the Navy just prior to Pearl Harbor and his younger brother is going to join the Army Air Corps the book follows Hank assigned as an airdale working to prep and move planes on the U.S. S. Yorktown while waiting for the planes to return he takes out his gloves and baseball to play catch with anyone willing to step in most often a former Negro Leaves player Bradford steps up to join him and he ruins a bit about the unfair treatment of African Americans in the service letters to and from his families are included and it ends with a clip hangar just letting us know what happened to the Yorktown during the war and the sunk book three alive and kicking the old brother of Hank is a gunner on a B-24 liberator a bomber plane stationed in England Hank has been reported as missing and Theo is certain he is alive Theo and his planes Google on bombing ones return fire at the fighter's planes attacking them and do their best to complete them missions and return to England not all planes make it back and I understand there's going to be one more book in this series Catgirl's Day Off by Kimberly Pauly Natalie Nung keeps her talent a secret so she won't be called Catgirl her two sisters have class A or B talents super achievers while she has a class D talent the ability to talk with cats but when Natalie and her friends are watching a video about the teen stars filming a new version of Paris Bueller it includes a spot with Easton West a famous celebrity gossip columnist and her cat and the cat yells out that that lady is not her owner and only Natalie of course can understand her soon the three are enmeshed in a mystery trying to find the real Easton and capture the fake it's funny dangerous and empathetic and I can't remember why the cat is pink but that happens read the book to find out Bathering Boy by Paul Pope this is a full-color graphic novel the son of a hero the boy 12 must follow the tradition take up this cloak and go rambling he ends up on an unknown planet and must fight monsters that threaten the city of the populace he slowly discovers his powers the t-shirt he wears and the power of the animal picture connected with that the battling boy are the Aurora West series the first book is called the rise of Aurora Aurora West also by Paul Pope and JT Petty I'm not sure when book 2 will come out Aurora has been training with her father science hero Haggard West she encounters a clue to her mother's long ago murder and follows it to discover and remember some things about her family's past that are unsettling black and bright art in the smaller than usual graphic novel as they do go out and fight bad guides and help people in the town the screening staircase by Jonathan Stroud is Lockwood and company book 1 in an alternate London malevolent ghosts have been increasing in number and only children and teens can see or hear them and force them to move on it is dangerous work after a bad experience they have left the country style and joined Anthony Lockwood's new agency in London they are given an extremely dangerous assignment that kills three operatives from another company solving the case and dispersing the ghost may be more than anyone can do creepy and scary includes humor and adventure with well written main characters and I forgot to mention that I am not a reader of scary things like this but I could get through this one even though it was scary it was I made it so book 2 the whispering skull is as creepy as the first book so when I tell you it's creepy you might say oh yes sure that's okay so who do you have to get out of your comfort zone that's right little the three teens who comprise Lockwood and company are now attempting to find the most foul item a mirror which has killed several people so far the spirit of the skull and the jar has begun to talk to Lucy to remind herself that it is evil and a liar will it help or hurt their investigation there's I think there's going to be at least one more book in this series the shadow hero by Jean-Lynn Yang Yang has reimagined and recreated a superhero who was first on the scene in the 1940s the green turtle was probably the first Asian-American superhero as explained in the back of the book and a sample of the original comic book is also included in the back of the book Yang gives the green turtle an origin story and we meet Ain't Chew 19 who initially resists his mother's urgence to become a superhero but following a tragedy over time becomes the green turtle it is some color in the art but mostly it's muted blues nonfiction for teens March book one by John Lewis and Andrew Aiden has black and white art and it's a graphic novel a memoir format for John Lewis and his experiences during the civil rights movement it's very powerful and March book two has just come out but I haven't gotten a hold of a copy yet and I believe there's going to be three books all together in this series Navy Seal Dogs by Mike Ridland has been adapted for younger readers from his book written for adults titled Trident Canine Warriors this tells some of his experiences as a Navy Seal but more about how he now trains dogs to accompany Navy Seals teens fiction for older teens Killer of Enemies by Joseph Ruschak Part Chewakawa Apache Lozen 17 is skilled in killing the giant genetically engineered monsters that roam the countryside she has extrasensory guests similar to her warrior woman ancestor and also carries her name now that the cloud has caused most machinery to quit the world is a different place her mother brother and sister are being killed by the four heads of Haven the former prison now being used to keep the monsters out and the slaves in Lozen can continue to survive she plans to eventually free her family The Reluctant Assassin by Owen Colfer is the first book in the series port 17 year old Chevron Savano an FBI agent is a London baby sitting at time travel pot that hasn't seen action in 10 years when everything goes crazy Riley 14 arrives with a dead scientist who was hiding in Victorian London in 1898 Riley is certain that Eric a killer for hire who basically owns him will be arriving at any moment even though the time travel pod has disintegrated and he's right, Eric shows up oh yeah Book 2, The Hanglands Revolution Chevy finds her modern world a completely different place from what it looked like when she left it she inhabits the Chevy from this reality continually getting her in trouble with her unusual remarks after the two Chevy's returned to 1899 and find Riley the Chevy we met in Book 1 is in control and she realized action is needed to prevent the future she saw lots of action, well developed main characters and the philosophy of why we should not time travel along with the awful state of London in 1899 stink, disease, current and more are included and there's going to be at least one more book I'm not sure, there'll be more in there if you love The Wizard of Oz do not read this book because Dorothy must die by Danielle Page Amy Gump has traveled from Kansas to Oz via tornado there she learned that Dorothy had returned after she went home she came back to Oz she's become a nasty selfish ruler and she must die recruited by the revolutionary order of the wicked Amy is trained and then sent to work in the palace as a maid waiting for her chance to do in Dorothy the second book just came out at the end of March it's titled The Wicked Will Rise I just received a review copy I haven't started yet so I don't know if there's going to be two books there's going to be more Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson is the first book in the Revenor series in a world where superpowered humans are not heroes but are dictators and bullies David, now 18, at age 10 saw his father killed by Steelheart the powerful ruler of New Calvary David has spent his time learning all he can about the ethics what regular humans call the superpowered beings now he has a chance to join the Revenors regular humans who are fighting back to be sure he can get Steelheart book 2 came out just this January I think Babylon Restored which is formerly Manhattan the reigning epic is Regalia and one of her subordinates, Epics is Firefight David and the Revenors traveled to Babylon to take them down and book 3 will come out later this year I don't think maybe they'll be more I'm not sure if they'll just be through and yay there are some other books later on further down on your list that are just new books in series that will work for summer but I won't take any more time today so thank you so much for listening and I hope you find some titles you can use yeah absolutely thank you very much Sally and everyone who stuck around quite a good people on, great and we all went like 10 minutes over from when we started so not problem at all do we have any questions? yeah if anybody does have any questions go ahead and type in nobody said anything during the show so I'm just listening very intently I'm sure that's just session and your best youth books one at the end of the year that I get a lot of ideas for I know this is for this one reading problem but I get ideas for books to buy for kids that I know, friends, kids relatives, kids and what not so I'm always taking notes and keeping track of it for which ones would be good for birthdays coming up for some children that I know all of these are great books yeah alright it doesn't look like anything urgent is coming in that's fine thank you very much Sally thank you everyone for attending the show is being recorded and will be available later today potentially depends on how long it takes to get everything processed so that will wrap it up for today's Encompass Live and over here I do have here's our website so that will wrap it up for today's Encompass Live when the recording is available it will be posted on our site here and right below our upcoming shows is the link to our archive Encompass Live sessions and you click there and you get the list of all of our shows the PowerPoint slides will be here as well you can see here from last week's we've put up the recording under a YouTube account these slides will be here for our slide share links to 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