 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. Yes, we are a webinar. You can call us that. We won't be too offended by it. But we cover anything that may be of interest to anyone in the library world. We do the show live on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you are unavailable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We post all of our recordings, all of our shows available on our website. So you can go back and watch anything you've missed before. We do a mixture of things here. Presentations, interviews, mini-training sessions, book reviews. Basically anything library related, we are happy to have it on the show. And we have guest speakers that sometimes come in, and we have the Encompass Library Commission staff that sometimes do sessions. And this morning we have the Library Commission. Sitting next to me is Sally Snyder in her... Mad scientist. Mad scientist Sally Snyder, who is our coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services here at the Library Commission. And she's here for her annual summer reading program session. Every year she comes on and gives us new titles to use in the summer reading program. Whatever theme is for each year. And before I hand it over to Sally, I do want to give a little notification, I guess, would be the word. Our show is officially an hour-long show, officially 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Central time. However, history has proven that Sally usually goes over that in her sessions, which is not a problem at all. We will keep going and recording and doing it as long as she goes. Just make sure to be aware. If you do need to leave at 11 or after the hour has forgotten, go right ahead. We'll keep recording. You'll be able to catch all the titles you missed at the end of the show. We'll come back later and watch the recording. There's just too much to fit into one hour. There's just too many good books out there to share. And there is a list of the books that I'll be talking about that you can download that will be added to the... Right. There's a PDF handout of all the titles that it will be linked to after the show on our website. You'll be able to get that in a PDF form. And these PowerPoint slides will be available too, if you want to have that, just to see all the book covers and whatnot that are available. So everything that's being mentioned today, you'll be able to get a hold of later. So I'll just hand over to you, Sally, and you can take it away. Take it away. Well, as she said, a book list for preschool through young adults. So I will work hard to get this done in an hour, but it's not going to happen because I have a few things after. I'm done with the books. I have a couple of extra things that I think are pretty exciting for Nebraska anyway. So we'll start with fiction picture books. There we go. Linda Ashman has written Rain. A little boy is happy and an older gentleman is grumpy when it begins to rain. And the boy gets to put on his frog hat and his raincoat and he and his mom go outside and the older gentleman goes outside. Eventually they encounter each other with a change of attitude on the older gentleman's part. It's cut paper illustrations that add to the story. And of course rain is a scientific thing because it's moisture coming from the sky. Bailey at the museum is by Harry Bliss. Bailey is excited to join the class for their trip to the Natural History Museum. But when he sees the dinosaur skeleton, he can't stop himself from fighting it a little bit. Vones, of course. He's got a nibble. The rest of the tour, Bailey has a new partner, one of the guards. Short sentences such as after lunch, Bailey learns all about the Stone Age. Are combined with speech bubbles that share what people are saying and we get to see what Bailey is thinking. This is the second or third book about Bailey and it's quite fun and kids will have a good time learning about museums. What goes up by Paula Bowles? The scientific principle of gravity gives the dragon Martin trouble. Martin wants to fly but his wings are too small and he can't get off the ground. He tries copying other animals and items but still no luck. The children of the town love him and join him in running and flapping his wings every day. Soon his wings begin to grow and to grow stronger. Beep and Baw by James Berks. Baw, a blue sheep who only says Baw, finds a lone athletic sock and takes it to his friend Beep, a robot who talks a lot. Here for adventure, Beep declares they must find the match to the sock and off they go through a somewhat bizarre landscape as you can see on the cover there. They meet up with various animals who each have their own ideas or opinions about the sock. The encounter with the chicken is particularly fun. When asked if the sock belongs to him, he says, the sky is falling. Someone after my own heart. But Beep and Baw miss the fact that chicken does have it right. This is perfect for this coming summer. Awesome Dawson by Chris Gall. Dawson collects junk and uses it to create new spectacular things. His motto is everything can be used again. But when he invents a robot to do his chores, something goes wrong and it is demolishing the town. How can Dawson stop it? Great fun looking at all the labeled items in Dawson's bedroom and in his workroom. And it's a perfect time to read the story and then pull out all the leftovers you have and have the kids make something out of all the junk. Build Dogs Build a Tall Tale by James Horvath. Science is involved in building construction and these dogs are on the job from tearing down the former building. The crane is in place. The ankles correct. Get the ball swinging now. Wreck dogs wreck to laying the foundation and constructing the new building. Lots of energy and equipment is included. The mischievians by William Joyce. A brother and sister send a note on the balloon asking for help since so many items have been disappearing from their home. Unexpectedly they are sucked down a tube and land in the laboratory. Dr. Zupri explains their problems are caused by mischievians. He shows them a book that gives information and an illustration of many different types of mischievians. Clever and fun and maybe the listeners of course can draw their own version of a mischievous after the story. Astronaut by Mark Kelly. Meteor is smaller than the other mice training for a mission in space but he is dedicated to the preparation. Meteor one of six mice selected for the trip enjoys floating in space. The other mice are all hanging onto the sides of the cage and Meteor has just kind of taken it easy. Then he finds a way to help the astronauts because he is so small he can fit in a tight place the astronauts can't reach. It's a fun look at space and the value of being small. And as it says inside the front cover I believe based on a partially true story. The afterward explains that astronaut Mark Kelly did go up in space with the cage of mice and one of them did just kind of float there. And all the rest were hanging onto the side and that kind of prompted a story to follow. Dinosauring by Deb Lund. Okay, not so technically correct about flying an airplane but great fun for the preschool to lower elementary crowd. Rhyming text uses created words such as dino goggles and dino plan. The third book, this is the third book about this colorful dinosaur crew and it will especially appeal to fans of the previous titles dino sailors and all aboard the dino train. If you want to go a little bit more technically correct planes fly by George Ella Lyon has simple rhyming text that tells of several types of planes flights. A quick look at instrumentation and a child's trip on a commercial airliner. An example of the text, some hold blobsters, race horses too, some hold the president, some hold you and that will be great for story time. As you would expect this is a reimagining of the three little pigs. It's called The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara. You may want to read both stories together to ensure the listeners are familiar with the original story but you're going to want to practice this one before you read it aloud to a group of kids. Because the aliens are named Bork, Gork and I say Nicol Wits, N-K-L-X-W-C-Y-Z. So we know work on your pronunciation and you'll be good to go. It's great fun. Pluto visits Earth by Steve Metzger. Pluto is Earth that he has been downgraded to a dwarf planet so he is on his way to Earth to tell those astronomers to reconsider. Okay, we've got a proponent for you there, Pluto. He asked some of the other planets for help but they all decline. When he reaches the Mount Bali Observatory, it is a small boy who helps him accept his new status. Clever illustrations add fun to the story with things like a spaceship piloted by a dog while a snowman tethered to the ship goes on a walk in space and you can look there and you can see a dog going after a bone on the cover there. Kids will enjoy finding these interesting things in the artwork too. The final page contains factual information about the discovery of Pluto and why his status changed. So yeah, we'll see what we decide about that. Oliver by Judith Russell has curiosity, experimenting and exploring all wrapped up in one book. He makes wings to try flying and I think he really does try flying because he has trouble. And then he explores down the bathtub drain and his fabricated cardboard box submarine to find out what's gurgling down there. And I think that happens really while he's imagining all that part while he's taking a bath. But it's great fun and he goes to a whole different land with some little penguins that help him get back to his bathtub. This is hilarious, Robot Zombie Frankenstein by Annette Simon. And I wish I had to take the book back yesterday because it was due at the library. Otherwise I'd read the whole thing to you right now so count yourself lucky. Two robots have different shapes and colors compete with each other starting with robot, robot. And then one zips away and comes back and says, Robot Zombie, because you can see he's got some zombie aspects there. And then the next one zooms away and comes back. Robot Zombie Frankenstein. And they go on through the book. It's very, if those are the only words, big color, as you can see on the cover here, big color illustrations. And they finally end with Robot Zombie Frankenstein pirate superhero in disguise outer space invader chef with pie. And the pie makes them friends. They share a piece of pie. A newer book by her, and that's Simon, Robot Burp Head Smarty Pants. Kids Love Body Noises. And this book is a competition this time about burping. Burp while reciting the numbers, burp while counting by tens. Throw in the alphabet and you have a competition. You can expect a lot of burps while you're reading this or after you're finished at story time. Be prepared. Be ready for that. Yes, as you well know I'm sure. Robomop by Sean Taylor. Robomop's job is to clean the bathroom in a basement. He does a good job every day, but he longs to see more of the world. He is not designed to go upstairs, so his world is very small. One day the inspector brings a new female looking biomorphic bell bot cleaner at a friend. But Robomop has taken upstairs and put in the trash can. Is there any hope for him? This is a fun upbeat story about having dreams and finding they have come true. You also have Robot Rompus by Sean Taylor. This book is my dream. There is a robot for every duty, every job in the household. Each robot has that particular job. That would be awesome. So you see the ones cleaning the dog. There's another robot there with the toothbrush. I don't know if it's for the dog or for you. But anyway, but there's a disagreement. Someone steps over the line and we have quite the robot Rompus. There is a hullabaloo before things settle down again. So there are some drawbacks to having a robot for every job apparently. Randy Riley's really big hit by Chris Van Dusen. Randy loves science and baseball. He is not very good at baseball since he is distracted by scientific thoughts while he's at bat. He's thinking trajectory and speed and then the ball goes by and he didn't swing. But when he discovers a flaming ball heading through space toward his town, he gets to calculating and constructing something to save the day. So you want Randy on your team actually. Some picture book nonfiction. Salamander Frog and Pollywog. What is an amphibian by Brian P. Cleary is part of a series called Animal Groups Are Categorical. And this is the only book I've seen from this series, but it does a good job of going through and talking about these particular animals and other animals and what is it that puts them together in this group called amphibian. And so you can learn about that. I love this book Bone by Bone by Sarah Levine. Using a question and answer format, this book asks the reader things like, what animal would you be if your finger bones grew so long that they reached your feet? Do you have a guess? I didn't know. I don't know. Good guess, but it's a bat. Because the finger bones on a bat are what's in their wings. And they ask, what would you be if you had no arm or leg bones? You'd be a snake. So each time they ask the question, they show an outline of a human. And then these whatever bones they're talking about are taken away or added in some cases. And then you guess and the next page shows you what that's. As you can see, it's a stylized drawing of the skeleton. But you get the idea of the skeleton makeup of all kinds of different animals and why they are that way. It's a good look at anatomy and about an important part of our bodies. Rocks and Minerals by Kathleen Weidner-Zollfeld is a National Geographic Kids book. It's a level two beginning reader introducing minerals and the three rock groups. It includes clear and excellent photographs as you'd expect. And it's a good start for young rock bands. So some beginning reader and early chapter books that match the theme. Fly Guy and the Frank and Fly by Ted Arnold is the 13th book in this series. It is Fly Guy as a mad scientist. I love it. One two page spread shows him wearing a lab coat and goggles with two beakers and two stripping liquid. He is creating Frank and Fly. It does turn out that he's just having a dream. Rabbit and Robot the Sleepover by C.C. Bell. We talk about them when the theme was the nighttime theme. But this works again because of Robot. Unlikely friends, Rabbit is hosting Robot for their first sleepover. Rabbit has written a list of things they will do and surprises Robot with it when he arrives. They have different tastes and likes which becomes evident as the evening moves on. Rabbit likes carrots and snow peas on his pizza. Robot likes nuts and bolts on his. Lots of fun and readers will enjoy the fact that they are able to work things out. I didn't see this series when it first came out and it's just so great for this coming summer. The first book in the series Franny K. Stein Mad Scientist by Jim Benton is titled Lunch Walks Among Us. Franny is different. She loves bats and spiders and keeping her room dark and spooky. She hates ponies and daisies and pink. She is a self-proclaimed mad scientist. She and her family have just moved and Franny is starting a new school, but the other kids are frightened of her. Franny agrees with her teacher to try and experiment to get the other kids to be her friends. It has a gentle message about being yourself that is combined with one or two illustrations on every two page spread. And kids will enjoy Franny's unique approach to life. The second book in the same series is titled Attack of the 50-Foot Cupid. The most fun thing, and this one's fun too, but the thing I liked best about this book is that her mother, who hasn't been very supportive, gets her a lab assistant and Franny's all excited until she finds out it's a mixed breed dog with some Labradorian. However, he really does want to assist her and he understands what's going on. So there are seven books altogether in this series. The last one, The Franny to Date, came out in 2007, but you can still buy them here and there on the Internet. So they might be in paperback. They might be a good addition to your collection for the summer. Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, Doggy Doodies. This is a book based on the series on PBS called Fetch with Ruff Ruffman. And this is the first book I've seen. I think there's a couple of others available. In this one, Ruff accidentally broke his toilet and he has to go. When he learns NASA builds toilets for space, he wants one of those, but the last one just went into space with the astronauts. Ruff is appalled when he discovers that the astronauts drink recycled pee. The kids will, or some of the kids will love that and some will hate it. This book is silly and fun, but it also has an experiment at the back of the book for readers to try filtering water with a two liter pot bottle and some drops and things. They do mention that the water that they will get from using this experiment is not as clean as the water on the spacecraft. Just so you're sure of that. Zig and Wiki in the Cow by Naju Spiegelman. This is the second book about Zig and Wiki. The first one was Zig and Wiki in Something Ate My Homework, which also includes some science facts about nature. Each book has that because you can see the cow is eating a couple of little guys. The reddish guy is Zig and Wiki is the kind of light yellow guy who's kind of square. And Wiki has like a computer screen on his face where he finds out facts about things and then they know what they're supposed to do. Okay, so Zig took a fly as a pet after their first visit to Earth, but the fly is sick and so they must return. They learned that a farm with cows is the best place for the fly, but they have a few unexpected adventures on the farm. And as I said, the story includes some science facts. And one of them when they get eaten, then you see an outline of a cow and you see the stomachs and where all they're going to go out there and where they're going to come out eventually. The kids will love that too. Okay, my wig is getting a little warm and itchy, so we'll go without it now. Fiction for grades two to five or six or so. The first book on this list is The Surprise Attack of Java the Puppet by Tom Engelberger. This is book four in the Origami Yoda series, and I'm so excited whenever a favorite series fits a theme because I can talk about that book again. It brings a gathering of students who plan to resist the principal's new approach to improving the school's test scores and in SIPID boring video called Fun Time. The book mentions the science fair and the chapter on page 37 is titled Scientific Evidence, which introduces Harvey's plan to measure the effects of Fun Time by charting his score and his cousin's score for the same video game. His cousin goes to a different school. They don't have Fun Time. His proposal is that his score is going to continue to go down while his cousins might go up. Then they report the evidence several times in the book until Harvey's father points out that the experiment is bad science with too small of a sample size. So you get these science things going in there. Along with the fact that, yes, at the back of the book, they show you how to fold a job as a puppet and some Ewoks. And Princess Leia is the next book. I can't remember. I forgot to check if it's out yet. It's coming. While Rebell is living with his great aunt when he begins to notice something strange, he can understand what insects are saying. He joins a flea circus and eventually goes on a mission to find his father since he disappeared in British Malaya. And he is also, while he's there, going to look for the mythical insect Goliathus Hercules. And by the way, he is apparently turning into that insect as well. Little bit of science fiction with our story. It is Racing the Moon by Alan Armstrong. It is 1947 and Alex, whose full name is Alexis, she's 11. And her older brother, Chuck, who's 17, are completely fascinated by the idea of rockets and trips into space, especially to Mars. Alex meets their new neighbor and soon the neighbor is mentoring the two of them for their interest in the space program. Chuck is irresponsible in his efforts to try new things, but he is slowly reigned in by others. It is highly improbable, but that won't stop readers interested in the time period. A little bit older Ivy and Bean book. Ivy and Bean, What's the Big Idea by Sophie Blackhall? This is number seven in the series. It's science fair time. The second grade class is going to join the school science fair with ideas to help alleviate global warming. Ivy and Bean are enthusiastic. They just can't come up with an idea. And I love that they have goggles and test tubes right there on the cover is fun. Cosmic by Frank Cattrell Boyce. Liam is 12 years old, but he is tall and he has some beard fuzz starting. He's frustrated because his height makes people think he is older and that he should know better. A series of circumstances put him on an experimental rocket with four children. He is supposed to be the responsible adult. Something has gone wrong and they are continuing out into space with no way to get home. Liam is recording the story to his parents on his cell phone. They think he is attending a gifted and talented week in the Lake District. It's humorous and at times touching. They do make it back home. Okay. I just have to tell you that because I worry. This is another series I didn't catch when it first came out. The popular clone is the first book. It's by M.E. Castle. And the series is called The Clone Chronicles. 12-year-old Fisher Boss is the son of two scientists who are sometimes overly busy with their projects. Fisher is regularly bullied by the Vikings, a trio of trouble. To save himself the trials of school, he creates a clone to suffer the abuse while he stays home with his inventing, his notes, his TV and video games. Imagine his surprise when his clone actually makes friends and seems to be becoming popular. It's interspersed with drawings of brainstorming ideas, inventions he is testing and diagrams of the school. The second book is Clone Word Bound. Two, he calls his clone two. Two is often Hollywood being discovered and Fisher is going on a class trip to Hollywood and he plans to bring two home. The family is in trouble since the government discovered that one centimeter of the HGH his mother invented is missing. That's what he used to create the clone and he didn't tell anybody. Two is not eager to come back home. And book three titled Game of Clones came out in February, so I haven't seen that one yet. The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis is a graphic novel story. Julian Calendar 11 is a short red-headed science geek. He is starting over at a different middle school and is determined to look dumb to keep from being bullied. But he keeps forgetting he's supposed to be dumb and answering questions. He answers questions. Super jock men in dangerous credit turn out to be science fans and soon they form the Secret Science Alliance, complete with a hideout and an invention notebook. But when Professor Stringer apparently steals their invention notebook and invents an item from it, the team is determined to get it back. This graphic novel encourages learning and science. And I looked around, but there isn't another follow-up book. This story is complete in itself, but you kind of feel like there should be another one. Nice to see they do more things. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library by Chris Grabbenstein. Mr. Lemoncello, the greatest inventor of games ever, is thrilled to share the new public library with the 12-year-old winning essay writers eager to spend their lock-in at the library. The children are given a puzzle to solve to win a special prize, and they slowly begin to form groups. Holograms, lasers, video communication, and crazy inventions abound in this book. Owen Foot, Mighty Scientist by Stephanie Green. Owen is in third grade, and he and his best friend Joseph once again are partners for the Science Fair. This year, Owen wants a top-notch idea in order to attract the attention of fourth-grade teacher Mr. Wozniak, because he really concentrates on science in his classroom. But something goes terribly wrong with their experiment, and they have to decide if there's anything they can do about it. Another series I didn't run into, you know, this is a theme going on here. George and the Big Bang by Lucy and Stephen Hawking is book three and the final book in the series. And it stands alone because I read it without reading the first two, and the story carries very well. George and his friend Annie have traveled via a portal to other parts of the solar system thanks to her dad, Eric, and his supercomputer, Cosmos. When Eric is accused of misuse of Cosmos and sent to the site of the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, on the border of Switzerland and France, the kids find out that a bomb has been placed there to take out both the LHC and the group of scientists. George and Annie have to find a warm hole to get there and hopefully defuse the bomb. Scientific explanations are interspersed within the text, and it fits very nicely within the story. The other titles are George's Secret Key to the Universe and George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt, if you want to check out the whole series. And yes, that is Stephen Hawking, the guy you're thinking of, and his daughter Lucy. Baby Mouse, Mad Scientist by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. Irrepressible daydreaming baby mouse must find a good idea for the science fair. During class, the scientific method is explained, and baby mouse becomes the unwitting subject of an experiment about her whiskers. She gets some water from the pond and puts a drop on the slide for her new microscope. That is how she meets the amoeba, Squish, who becomes her project. He eats cupcakes, and this is Squish's first appearance, because guess what? He gets his own book. Oh, these are both graphic novels. Squish, Super Amoeba, is the first book in the series, also by Jennifer L. and Matthew Holm. He may live in the pond, but he has a lot of the same troubles as kids. Elementary school assignments, bullies, mystifying school lunches, principal, planaria, Peggy, a constantly upbeat paramecium. There's a bit of science thrown in occasionally, and all of the creatures in his school are different types of microscopic life from the pond. So you meet a paramecium in the planaria, et cetera. And you can talk about that if the kids want to find out more about what is an amoeba or a paramecium. Brave New Pond is the second book in the series. There's five out so far, and I couldn't get a hold of the fourth book, but I've read the rest, and they continue the theme of really being about elementary school problems with different microorganisms. So you've got your hydra there, the power of the parasite. And book five is where he's addicted to his video game, which you can see there in the book. It's called Squish Game On, and these are all on the list, so you don't have to worry about jotting down all the titles. Another graphic novel, this is the first book in a new series, Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute, by Jarrett J. Krosokzak. Sorry, I didn't practice that ahead of time. I practiced the other one. Lunch Lady and her co-worker, Betty, secretly protect school students and staff, and on the side, they foil bank robberies. When the new substitute teacher behaves suspiciously, Lunch Lady is on the job. Students, Hector Terrance and D. are accidentally pulled into the case and add a touch of help as well. I mentioned this is book one, and this particular book will work well for next summer, 2015, because that theme is every hero has a story. So you can buy it for this summer, and if it lasts, I have it in paperback. I didn't check to see if it was available in hardback. It'll say on the list if it is. Brother from a Box by Evan Coolman is about a boy who gets home. He's an only child. He gets home from school, and his parents are still at work. And there's this crate that's been delivered. Well, what does any kid do when there's a crate? They open it up. Inside there is a robot. It's his robot brother. And at first, he speaks French until the boy keeps telling him, I don't speak French. He switches to English. It turns out that the boy's father and his brother, the boy's uncle, who lives in France, they have been developing these robots, and they each have one. And they find out that there are some unsavory characters trying to find out the technology that they've used for these robots. And they're not above kidnapping and worse. So there's some danger. Hide and Shriek by David Lubar is book one in a Monsterific Tale series. There are six expected. Jackie Clevis is a science teacher for K through sixth grade, and she's preparing for the upcoming science fair. She's a good teacher and always tells her students to be very careful with chemicals. However, she accidentally gets an unknown substance in her coffee, and she changes to Ms. Hyde, a horrible substitute teacher. She learns that when people are nice to her, she changes into a little girl. When they are upset or mean, she changes back into Ms. Hyde. She needs to find a way to become Jackie Clevis, the teacher again. And another book by David Lubar is Numbed. This is kind of a companion title to Punished. I haven't read Punished, but people tell me they're similar. In Numbed, the sixth grade class visits the Mobius Mathematics Museum. And when Logan and Benedict fall behind, a robot saps their math skills. Now they must go back for several days to pass a series of math challenges to retrieve their knowledge. Readers can try to solve the challenges as they read along, or they can just keep reading and find out the answer. But it's kind of a fun puzzle challenge too. Pie in the Sky by Wendy Moss, a fantasy filled with science as School Library Journal says, entertaining, unexpected, and irreverent, and yet packed with information about elemental physics and the contents of the universe. All on this fictional story. Joss is the seventh son of the supreme overlord of the universe, and his job is to deliver pies. Special pies, but he is still a delivery boy. When Earth disappears, it is up to Joss to rebuild it exactly as it was. And he has some help from a girl who lives on Earth, but happened to be in his space when Earth disappeared. And maybe she can help him a little bit. I love this title. Benjamin Franklin Stein Lives by Matthew McGelligan and Larry Tuxbury. I love all those mashups of your friends. It's a great mashup. And I'm sorry, I didn't write down the name of the boy. Boy and his mother live in an apartment house, and he's discovered this kind of behind a bookcase, this secret lab, so to speak. And one evening, there's this huge flash of what he thinks is lightning. It hits the lightning rod in the house, and it travels through the house down to the basement. And he goes down there and he finds this big, I don't want to call it, I can't remember what they call it. Anyway, Benjamin Franklin is in it. And he's been in suspended animation all this time, and this big bolt of lightning or whatever it was has reanimated him. And you can see, if you look at the picture, he has bolts on the side of his neck, and he needs a little battery pack that the boy embeds for him so he can stay charged up and walk around. And so we learned a lot about Benjamin Franklin while this is going on, but also they learned that someone is trying to take over the world and they're awakening the scientists who have been put in animation to try and pull them over to their side and defeat everybody else. So this is the first book. The second book is Benjamin Franklin Stein meets the Fright Brothers, which I couldn't get a copy of, but I did get ahold of the third one. Benjamin Franklin Stein meets Thomas Dedison, which is the last book in this series. It completes the story. And of course, Thomas has been pulled in by the evil. The evil guy turns out to be Napoleon. Oh, yeah. But don't worry. At the end, he regains himself and saves the day. As I've said before, every summer reading program theme, there is a magic treehouse book to line up with it. Monday with Imagineous by Mary Pope Osborn is the number 38 in the series. And this is the day that they spend with Leonardo da Vinci. And they do get a glimpse of his creativity, his inventions, some of his notebooks about all the things he was thinking of. As for the cover, since Leonardo wanted to fly so much and he used the wand of Dianthus to make it happen for a short time. So the cover doesn't really show what the story is about, but those are all great fun. This is a new series that I did get a hold of right away. Yay. But this is book two, book one with about zombies. This one is titled Making the Teen by Scott Savage. And the title of the series is Case File number 13. Another mysterious case is encountered by sixth grade friends Carter, Nick and Angelo. This time they team up with their girl rivals. They had been working against each other in the zombie story. They face a mad scientist with Frankenstein-like creations. There are bad odors, danger, and going back to save a friend in this story. I'm not sure how many books will be in this series, but we have two so far. The Stormmakers by Jennifer E. Smith, 12-year-old twins Ruby and Simon have moved to a farm in Wisconsin with their parents. Now, instead of doing everything together, Simon goes off on his own. But it isn't until Simon is ill and the weather is wild that Ruby meets a strange man who knows something special about Simon. He is the newest and youngest Stormmaker. This combined science and magic and another side story is that their father is working on an invention in the barn. And Ruby loves science and she's helping him, so that's all part of that. I've come to believe that there is a Geronimo Stilton book for everything. This is Mouse in Space by Geronimo Stilton as number 52 in the series. Geronimo, who is a bit of a frady cat, is secret agent 00G and he travels into space with agents 00K and 00B to thwart a villain intent on stealing a mountain of gold coins and taking over the city. And once again, it is told with many illustrations and a colorful emphasis on selected words to add appeal to young readers. A boy in his bar by Daniel H. Wilson. Code Lightfall is in sixth grade and he falls through a hole at the mound site when he and his class are on a field trip. He finds himself in the world of Meccos, for there are robots of all kinds. With two new robot friends, Code sets off to find his grandfather, who disappeared almost a year ago. And he is also trying to save Meccos from being destroyed. While on his quest, Code ruins a few things about being proactive and stepping up when he's needed. Some nonfiction for grades two to five or six. I'm going to take a quick drink. Thank you. Timeless Thomas by Jean Beretta is a quick look at some of the inventions of Thomas Edison coupled with how they have been adapted for today. So that's kind of fun to see that. Cartoon like art gives the reader an ever-smiling Edison and energetic contemporary kids. And there's not a peep in this book that Thomas might have had his bad days or been hard to work with sometimes, but that's okay. Sometimes you don't need to say that. Electric Band by Robert Byrd is a 2013 Boston Globe Horm Book Award winner for nonfiction. Byrd tells the life of Benjamin Franklin in two-page spreads that each address a particular time or issue in his life. So they investigate his scientific inventions and another two-page spread tells about electricity. Lively illustrations add to the text. The Mystery of Darwin's Frog by Marty Crump, a small frog discovered by Darwin, puzzled scientists before they discovered that the male frog swallows the tadpoles into his vocal sac to keep them there for two months until they emerge as frogs. The title also discusses a fungus that is now threatening the frog and efforts to save it from extinction, and this book does include an index. Becoming Ben Franklin by Russell Friedman, as you would expect, is an excellent book about Ben's life from, talks about his birth and when he was an apprentice to his brother, how he chafed under his brother's authority and so basically ran off to set up his own printing company in another city and goes through his love of science, his political career, and the different aspects that we've come to know have made up Ben Franklin. This series, You Wouldn't Want to be Sir Isaac Newton by Ian Graham, this one is just as fun and informative as all the others. I love this approach to nonfiction in that they have good information in there, but they also have snide comments and goofy illustrations to make it a little bit more fun. It makes it interesting to people, yeah. More appealing. This series, Chemistry, Getting a Big Reaction, this particular title was written by Dan Green as part of the Bachelors Science series, and I have read this book and I almost understood it. So close. I let chemistry scare me in high school and I ran away from it just to Spanish class, but this gives a good overview and an introduction to chemistry. It's divided into chapters by concepts such as basic states, bright sparks, early earthy resources, and so readers will have a taste of the wide field of chemistry and a beginning look at the elements involved. There is no chart in this book. There is a chart in another book. There are 10 titles that I know of so far in this series, Physics, Biology, Astronomy, and more. So take a look and see which ones you might want to add to your collection for this coming summer. They're so cute. You have to give those books a try. A History of Just About Everything by Elizabeth MacLeod, starting in 6 million BC and moving forward to 2011. This book includes lots of inventions and scientific discoveries. It does have an index. There's plenty of photos and topics and illustrations to catch readers' interest. It's definitely a browser's book where you flip through and see different things that they touch on. It does go in chronological orders, what I was trying to say. So you start at 6,000 BC and go up to 2011. I have several different books that are browser books on the list. But Mythbusters, a science fair book by Samantha Marvills. This is set up as a Mythbuster premise. The experiments either prove, disprove, or leave the statement still in question. And it has ideas from making your own magnet to observe colorful transformations from transpiration. It's the name of that section, but really that's about colored water and white flowers. You know we've all done that. That title though, boy, sounds impressive. Each experiment gives a list of items needed, plus a section that notes why the experiment did what it did. I like it that it explains it. There's lots of ideas to ponder or try, and it does include an index. And so if you have kids who have science fairs and looking for ideas or you just want to try some ideas in your library, this book is a good suggestion, or you can go with the Star Wars version. Star Wars Science Fair book, again by Samantha Marvills. This connects the experiments with the Star Wars movies. For example, Grow Your Own Crystals on page 79 connects with Luke, needing a new crystal for his new lightsaber. It lists again what is needed for the experiment, gives an idea of the cost, and of the level of expertise needed. In this book, Yoda reveals the secret why the experiment did what it did. And it does include photos from the movies and an index. The Case of the Vanishing Honey Bees, A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle is just that. The author talks about how beekeepers have come out, and these are mostly about the beekeepers who moved their bees from place to place throughout the year. They have come out and found their bees not just all dead, but all gone, disappeared, completely vanished. Excuse me. And they did some studying between the bees that are moved around and the bees who don't move around their natural lifestyle to discover a few things that were happening with the bees they were moving that could be contributing to this issue. So they did some things that made differences and have improved the bees' life cycle and lifestyle, if you want to see that. But they're not sure they quite captured everything that might have caused this issue. Fascinating look at scientists studying bees. 5,000 awesome facts about everything by National Geographic. Do you need to know more? This has scientific facts, history, lots of different things thrown in here. But it's a great browser book and again kids will find something for them. Whatever kid is looking will find something. We go to the National Geographic Almanac 2014, which again has lots of different things in it. This is divided into sections like Amazing Animals and Super Science. This collection has something again for everyone. It does include an index, so if you're looking for something in particular you can find out right away if this book covers it. Electrical Wizard, how Nicola Tesla lived up the world by Elizabeth Wouche. And this has a picture book look to it. It's about the size and shape of a picture book. But it talks about Tesla and about how he was studying science in his home country, which I should remember but I can't think of it right now. And how he came to the US hoping that he and Edison could be, if not partners, at least collaborators and bounce ideas on each other. But Edison wanted nothing to do with Nicola Tesla. So he went his own way and Tesla is the one who came up with the alternating current. So on the cover there we see him holding this big ball of light. He used to do demonstrations for crowds to earn money, where he learned how to handle the electricity, the alternating current electricity, so he didn't get injured. And Edison stayed with the direct current as we know. So I'm really glad that I found a book that hits Nicola Tesla pretty well because lots of books go Edison and then we don't hear anymore. And there are people who are on both sides of Tesla or Edison, like fans. Good point. Very strongly on one or the other. I looked up it says he's from Croatia. Croatia, thank you. I know it said in the book. Here's another science experiments theory series. There's a couple of books that I saw from this. Science Experiments That Surprise and Delight by Sherry Bell-Ray-Woldt and Science Experiments That Fizz and Bubble by Jody Wheeler-Toppin. Both of these are just what you would expect. They have good experiments that have cautions when to be careful, when to ask for help, how to do the experiment, and hopefully have a good result. So these are excellent science fair books for kids as well. Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled by Katherine Sinish talks about the discoveries of skin impressions found in fossils, dinosaur footprints and other things like feather impressions found in fossils as well. So we have skin impressions and we have feather impressions with skeletons. So we have ideas about what animals looked like that we didn't know before. So the fun thing about this book is that they take some artists' concepts from either like 1850s or 1901 and say, here's what we thought then that this particular animal looked like, like the iguanodon. And here's what we think now based on other things that we've discovered. And you can see what a big difference there is between the two. And then they also mention, we don't know everything yet. So we might, you know, there might be another book in 50 years to say, look at what they thought in 2014. Oh boy, were they wrong. Time for Kids has a science almanac. And it is, again, a browser's book with lots of different ideas. The thing about this is it's all science, which you might want to go that direction instead of the national geographic. It's completely up to you. But this is another great look at all kinds of things in the science field, things that kids might want to just thumb through and find out. Marsha Williams has written, hooray for inventors over 100 inventions with a graphic novel approach to nonfiction. This does include an index as well. And it has lots of energy and snippets of information. So kids will read this. And if they find somebody fascinating, they're going to have to go somewhere else to really get the whole story. But they've got a good start right here. Sparker reaction is the teen theme for this coming summer. And fiction for younger teens includes, again, another series I didn't see when it first came out. Nerds stands for National Espionage Rescue and Defense Society. And these books are by Michael Buckley. Book one is just titled Nerds. Jackson Jones is in the fifth grade. He is a football hero and one of the most popular kids at school. Then he has to get braces with head gear. His fall is epic. Now on the bottom of the heap, he is bored by school and he spends his time observing the teachers and the kids. When he discovers a secret lair in the school, he is asked to join five classmates whose apparent drawbacks are actually their strengths. And who would suspect a kid of anything anyway? His teammates are not happy. He used to bully them when he was popular. But they must work together to stop Dr. Jigsaw from reuniting the continents and causing mass destruction. It's fun with high-tech gadgets and gizmos, even from the braces in Jackson's mouth. The braces can extend themselves and reach out. Even his hands are tied. He can save him by reaching out and getting him out of his dilemma. Book two is titled M is for Mama's Boy. And the way it looks to me, I've only read book one. It looks like each book is about a different... focuses on a different main kid in the group. And book five is Attack of the Bullies. So I have all the titles listed on the handout that you can find later connected with this Encompass Live. Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities by Mike Young, or Jung. Vincent and his two best friends live in Copper Plate City, the home of Captain Stupendous, the best superhero in the world. This is another one that could be for next year as well. Exactly. That's exactly right. 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 offered a teacher all she needs to know to be successful. Just in time to face the mad scientist, Professor Mayhem. He's a bad one, that guy. And I think there's going to be more in this series, but I haven't found anything more about it yet. Gordon Corman has written The Hypnotists. Jack's opus is 12, and he has descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize how he can control other people's actions with sometimes frightening results. And there is a sentient institute where they're studying how people can do this, and that's the science part of this. While I'm not saying that hypnotism is science, I'm not saying it isn't. Just saying that's why the science aspect is included here. But Jackson has become concerned because the head of the sentient institute has plans for his abilities, and they're not good plans. The Cloak Society, Villains Rising by Jeremy Kratz. Oh wait, that's the second one. Just The Cloak Society by Jeremy Kratz is the first book in this series. Alex Knight is 12, and he is a junior member of The Cloak Society. They are evil. He is ready for his first encounter with the Rangers of Justice who are good. But during the battle, Alex instinctively saves the life of the junior member of the Rangers. He is stunned by his behavior and can't figure out how it happened. His best friend Gabe is a tech genius inventing lots of high-tech tools for the super villains, and there's your science aspect. Until he joins with Alex to work from good against all they have ever known. The second book, Villains Rising, also by Jeremy Kratz. The big battle at the end of book one left all the adult Rangers of Justice lost in the gloom in alternate universe. Alex, who has telekinesis, Kirby a shape shifter and gave the tech genius. From the first book are hiding out and they are joined by two other junior Rangers and one other former junior Cloak member. They are working together on a plan to rescue the adult Rangers and overcome Cloak who now rules all of the city. Book three, The Cloak Society, Fall of Heroes comes out in September. And again, this series will be great for this summer and next summer. This dark endeavor by Kenneth Opel, Victor Frankenstein as a teen, he's 15, and he has a twin brother Conrad who becomes very ill. Victor, his cousin Elizabeth, who he fancies, and his best friend Henry seek ingredients listed in a hidden book planning to save Conrad's life. The sequel, Such Wicked Intent came out in August of 2012. I didn't get my hands on a copy of that. But thinking of Frankenstein, or Victor Frankenstein as a 15-year-old was a good read. Revolution 19 by Greg Rosenbloom. Ever since the robots took over 20 years ago, some families have managed to live in small communities in the wild, hiding from the robots. Nick 17, Cass 15, and Kevin 13 have only known the forest in a small group of people. But when the robots finally attack them, it's like, however, their parents are captured. And they decide to walk to the nearest city to try and rescue their parents. They find that they know nothing about how people are living in the city. They're living under the rule of the robots, but they seem to be just having normal lives. The sequel came out in January, Fugitive X, but I haven't read it yet. Lenny Cyrus School Virus by Joe Schreiber. Lenny is 13, and he has loved Zoe, who's 14 since the third grade. Now he has discovered a way to win her affections. He shrinks himself and enters her bloodstream, intent on getting to her brain to change her mind at the source. He meets a number of anthropomorphic items in her bloodstream, including a virus named Astro, who's kind of helpful. On the outside is his best friend, Harlan, who tried to talk him out of this mission, but stands by ready to help, because Lenny took his cell phone with him and got shot so he can talk to her. It's lots of action and humor to keep the readers interested in alternating chapters. Tell the story from three viewpoints, Lenny, Zoe, and Harlan. And any of us who remember Fantastic Voyage, both the book and the movie, I didn't know where this idea possibly came from, but it's great fun. And speaking of Tesla, this is a start of a new series. The series is called The Accelerati Book One. This book's title is Tesla's Attic. It's by Neil Schusterman and Eric Elfman. 14-year-old Nick and his family have moved to Colorado Springs from Florida after the death of his mother in a house fire. Nick feels guilt for not rescuing his mother, who was right behind him as he ran out of the burning house. As Nick enters the attic in his new house, thinking it might be a good room for him, he is hit on the head by a toaster. The attic is full of weird old stuff, so the first thing he does is have a yard sale. Then, some strange things begin to happen. Nick and his new friends begin to realize Nick needs to reclaim the items and return them to the attic. Tesla had designed them and left them there. Oh, and by the way, there are some not so pleasant people who are also trying to get their hands on the items. So it's supposed to be a trilogy. I don't know if I said that. Some nonfiction for teens includes The American Dust Bowl by Don Brown. This is a graphic novel style of nonfiction, and it tells us about how The Dust Bowl came about, some of the terrible effects of The Dust Storms and how the land began to recover. They do have two photographs in the back of the book of The Dust Storm, full of Taking a City, one of them fairly recently in like 2011. The other one is some amazing pictures you've seen out recently, especially with the drought all over the country. Oh, good point, yes. And this is otherwise conveyed through the graphic novel artwork, but it's very well done. Oh, kids are going to love this. Zombie makers, True Stories of Nature's Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson. And it tells an animal, mostly bugs, in nature that inject other creatures who then no longer act in their own best interest. In effect, they are zombies. After each example is explained, the author includes a brief, the science behind the story that is described by scientists or university professors. It's fascinating and icky, and there are numerous photos as everyone would want. Benjamin Franklin by Kathleen Crowell is the book seven in her Giants of Science series. The conversational tone tells of the life of Benjamin Franklin, who considered science as calling. The author covers several of his inventions as well as his political career. His first invention, she said, is the power of electricity. The power of electricity changes the world, and Franklin was there to light the spark. I mean, that's perfect, how'd she know? And this also includes an index. Kathleen Crowell has also written lives of the scientists, and she's also written lives of the scientists, and she's also written lives of the scientists, and she's also written lives of the scientists, and she's also written lives of the scientists, which are brief biographies of 20 scientists, including Isaac Newton, Ivan Pavlov, George Washington Carver, Marie Currie, Albert Einstein, and has two to five pages for each chapter. It's a great starting place, and again, readers might want to find more detailed information somewhere else, but here's a good place to start. Bomb by Steve Schenken tells of the Manhattan Project and scientists from other nations who assisted. I had confessed during the summer reading program workshops that I started this book twice, just didn't get it read, and it's not that it's a bad book, it's a wonderful book, and several librarians told me that their boys in their libraries are all reading it and handing it to each other. As a matter of fact, in the following 2013 awards it received were Excellence in Nonfiction Award, the Newberry Honor Award, and the Cybert Honor, so it's a great book, and one of these days I really am going to read it. There's a lot of books to get through. There are a lot of them, and I'm sure it's very well written. I didn't kind of skim through it, but I didn't get it all done. The interesting thing is it also it doesn't just talk about the Manhattan Project, it talks about the espionage going on, people trying to steal our ideas, we're trying to steal other people's ideas, we're trying to sabotage the Germans who are also trying to build a bomb. I really recommend it even though I haven't read it, which I rarely do that. Any of the 27 books in the Scientists in the Field series will work for this summer, because these are wonderful, I haven't read a bad one yet. There are wonderful books about what scientists are doing and how they're studying their topic, whatever it might be. These are a few new ones that I've run across recently, so that's why they're on the list, but any of them you probably have some in your library already. Wild Horse Scientists by Kay Frydenborg is a look at scientists who study the horses on Assateague Island overseen by two different states, Maryland and Virginia. The preserve is divided and each state runs things a little bit differently in trying to keep a healthy population of the horses on their island. Stronger Than Steel by Bridget Hales the subtitle says it all, Spider Silk DNA and the quest for better bulletproof vests, sutures and parachute rope, because that's where we'll find it. Yeah, and that stuff is crazy strong. It is crazy strong. You see that little, you know, small spider, or not so small, some of them, and you wonder, the Taper Scientist by Simon Montgomery, this one received a starred review from Bookless and it is about studying tapers. I didn't read this one, I'm sorry. I read the horse one, though. I read this one, Eruption, Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Roosh. Good information on volcanoes and how the magma forms and how they do erupt. But it does focus on how modern scientists predict eruptions and how they've gathered information so that when a volcano starts to be doing certain things, they begin to get concerned. This is going to go. And early on in the, when they were doing this, well, not real early on, at one point they talked about a particular eruption they were sure was going to happen, but they were worried about evacuating all the people because they thought if we're wrong and the people come back, we'll never get them all to leave again. But it turns out they were right and it did erupt. And it has, of course, excellent photos as to all of these books and a very popular topic. And I know you already have 1200 volcano books in your collection, but this is a great addition if you have the space and funding for it. The Dolphins of Shark Bay by Pamela S. Turner is about a group of dolphins who frequent a bay in Australia and the scientists that have been studying them. And again, another great topic. Fiction for Older Teens We're moving along pretty good. I can't believe it. This, I better turn the page. Owen Colfer has a new series titled Morp, W-A-R-P which stands for something, and I still forgot to look up what it stands for. This is book one. The Reluctant Assassin is the title. Seventeen-year-old Chevron Savano an FBI agent is in London Oh, let me start over. Seventeen-year-old Chevron Savano, FBI agent, is in London babysitting a time travel pod that hasn't seen action in 10 years. Then things go crazy. Riley 14 arrives with a dead scientist who was hiding in Victoria, London, 1898. This is your ultimate witness protection program where they've been putting people in the past. Yeah, and actually that's what Morp stands for is an acronym for Witness Anonymous Relocation Program. So relocating them to the past. Perfect. Riley who is the 14-year-old coming from Victoria, London, he is certain that Garrick, a killer for hire who basically owns him, will be arriving at any moment because Garrick will not let something like time travel stop him from getting there. The time travel pod basically blew up when they arrived. So he's not sure how that guy is going to show up but he's sure he will. And he did. Excellent story of course by Owen Colfer. Erasing Time by C.J. Hill 18-year-old twins Taylor and Sheridan pulled into the future 400 years into the future and they discovered that they were pulled there accidentally because the people in that time were trying to get this well-known scientist who might help them handle some things that they're dealing with in their government right now. But they are an evil government and so Taylor and Sheridan have to find a way to keep them from using the time machine again because they're going to keep doing things until they get what they want. So they decide they have to escape beyond the city, the walled city and they have to trust Echo who was an interpreter. He's 18 and they don't know really if they can trust him but he's the one who's going to guide them there. The second book is Echo in Time and it was out in paperback in December but I haven't seen it yet. I didn't find a copy of it. Not A Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis is a dystopian novel. Lynn is 16 and she and her mother guard their pond. She's the only dependable source of water in the surrounding area. Mother has taught Lynn well kill those who would take the water even if they want to sip. But now smoke from a fire to the east of them herald a time of change loss and recovery if Lynn truly wants to survive. The first line in the book is Lynn was nine the first time she killed to defend the pond and they're talking about a man. She killed a man at nine years old who was so intent on them protecting the water. But Lynn goes through quite a bit of change during the course of the book. Can we use that book on a previous list? I think you'll remember it. Oh, I bet I talked about it in my best books of the year. I pulled it in here because of the change in the environment in there. The 100 by Cass Morgan. The last humans have been orbiting earth for many years in a space station type home. And on this place because they're so closely confined, breaking any kind of rule is a criminal activity. So even if you're home late if they catch you, you go to jail. Now the chancellor has decided that 100 teens being held in confinement, many of them age 17 when you turn 18 you get murdered, well killed by the government. They will be dropped to earth to hopefully survive and send back data to prove that the earth is livable again. This is shades of a penal colony crossed with Lord of the Flies. I missed it but I understand the CW series just premiered this week or so. I think I've done our second and third episode. So I haven't seen that yet but I'm going to have to try and catch it. It was a good book and I'm sure there will be more books to follow along with the series on TV. All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers. The summer after his absentee father was killed in a random shooting, Paul 16, works at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about the social contract from Elijah an elderly African-American man who really wants him to pick up on this whole idea and go with it. So Elijah not only talks with him about it but he'll talk with him a little bit and then he'll say think about that tonight and then we'll talk again tomorrow. And then other times he sends them to talk to somebody else. So he's really working on this and it's really kind of a book that's called expository material that is successful because it is dramatized by the characters. In between these times with Elijah the boy whose name I just spaced out. Paul, he's also mentoring a 17-year-old unwed mother who wants to get a basketball scholarship to go to college. So there's some of their interaction with his interactions with other people and it's really I don't think kids will pick it up and just read it this summer. Maybe they will but I see it more as something that teachers could use. But it is about the social contract and about social sciences. See how I made that work. Okay, we're going to move on a little bit now. Do we want to go to the other Sure, I can put you right onto the website. Okay, we're going to go to the website because for Nebraska librarians anyway, I'm very excited to show you whoa, we go to the search here and type in performers and the first thing that should come up is Nebraska library program performers database which just recently went live like last month. So here's the opening page and I'll just point out that over here it says library submit performers you would recommend. No one is going to go on our Nebraska performers database unless a librarian in Nebraska has seen their performance and recommends them. So if performers send me information I'm not putting them in unless somebody says these guys were great. So you could either browse all the entries so far which we had 10 before maybe we're up to like 15. It's slow but it's getting better. So you can search that way or you can search by keyword. I put in magician and nothing came up. It's because I'll explain that in a minute. But we do have one person who does magic on the list and I'll explain that in a minute. But first I'm going to put in science here because that's our theme. Type in science for keyword and go. And look, we have several. Edgerton Explorer Center, EGAD Science Mad Science of Iowa for those people who are in the western part or eastern, excuse me I don't know my direction, eastern part of the state, Mrs. Science who's out of Palmyra and so for some of them like from Mrs. Science I went to her webpage and pulled out this that says ages 3 to 103 so I marked her right away as 14 children and families. Some of them don't have those marked yet because we haven't gotten all the information. But there's a lot of information here and some of them don't have a description yet because we have to just go pull that information out. It's a manual process done by humans so there we go. But we're really excited to have this pulled together so that people can look at it and say well here's someone from Pella, Iowa that might work for me or here's someone from Omaha we're trying to get some more from other parts of the state. I know there are some exciting here's Hardington Public Library recommended the Edgerton Export Center out of Aurora so that's a little bit further away. This is great to have this database I know I see sometimes on our system mailing list people randomly will say hey we had this great presenter speaker come and do this or we're having someone come in and if anyone else would like to schedule them to also travel to other nearby libraries in the same day or nearby day but it's always so random you never know when something's going to come up on there someone's going to share something. And somebody had to work perfectly for you but you've already filled all your days with other things which is great you've got your schedule done. When I was in I think in Scott no Gary someone said are you going to do authors? I said oh I suppose we could. That's a possibility so send me suggestions, send me ideas we're going to expand it's a little bit right now this is the information that we have see here we have under Edgerton that the cost is $300 plus one-way mileage but shared mileage with two or more libraries that's the kind of information that you were just talking about. A lot of performers and the authors will say I'll cut you a deal if you can find a couple more locations for me to go to in that same day or day or two. So your town might have them in the morning and then the next town down the road might have them in the afternoon and then you're sharing the expenses of the mileage which is great. So I wanted to show this a little bit so people can see that it's up it's live you can do some searching now we do have I'll show you what happens I just typed in magic so I have oh maybe I should have done magician I think we have two people that talk about magic oh several most of them don't have much of them of a description yet so I think in the description part the word magician would have come up and that's then I would have found something when I was talking about magic so use the keywords but try several versions of the word magic magician clowns I don't know what would go with clowns we have one clown in there that I know of there's quite a few magicians and those are science oh they probably thought I still wanted the science that might be something that happens oh yeah we have things to to fix with it but anyway I just wanted to show you how to get here how to do a little searching what might come up and where to submit performers you would recommend so they're titled you get science or something if you have it you don't have to fill all this in because we will do some looking but if you have this information that saves us some time you hit submit and we do a little double checking and it'll go up on the web page so see some are bad now yeah separate now another one more quick thing and then we're really done I want to go to the cslp cslpreads.org this is the collaborative summer library program web page and it has lots of information okay so let's just check what are upcoming programs upcoming 2014 2015 every hero has a story unmasked and the adult team has escaped the ordinary so see I was right but the best thing about this page I'll go back to the beginning is right over here where it says create account if you haven't done this yet click on here create your account you have to come up with you have to put in some who you are but you're going to have to come up with a username and a password and verify those and fill in these other blanks and then register what that does is it lets you log in after you're accepted you can type in your username and your password anytime you want to and you get into some more things I'm just going to click back here again when you log in another line like this one shows up down here and there are things that you can use each person who comes to this page is accessible to them any public librarian in Nebraska can create an account school librarians can also create an account they'll just take a little longer because the person who handles these contacts me to make sure that you're either in a community that doesn't have a public library or you're partnering with your public library so that you're sharing together and nobody's having the program at the expense of the other place if that makes sense so CSLP reads .org and you can get to the CSLP webpage and you can learn about next year's program the year after that and what we're going to be voting on next week when I go to Balexy, Mississippi for our annual meeting and that's all I have for today and I didn't even ask if there were any questions no there weren't any questions throughout the show but there was Laura Haas from our Stanton Public Library did say she loved the hair mad scientist hair you're wearing it well I had to wear it okay well thank you very much Sally it's always great to have our annual check into what titles we need to get a hold of for the summer reading program so hopefully everyone got their info and will be prepared as you're mentioning throughout the show and if you notice she has written off a sheet here the handout is available in the show notes it's already been bookmarked it's on our website so you'll have access to that afterwards you have a full list of all the author's titles and all the descriptions from that that you can get and the PowerPoint slides will be up as well and links to all these web pages the CSLP page and the library former database that we have so that will wrap it up for today's show and I hope you'll join us next week when our topic is we've got pause to read at Carney Public Library many libraries have done this academic, public bring in therapy dogs into the library academic libraries do it a lot during finals week when students are stressed the most this is a particular program with Therapy Dogs Inc. in Carney Nebraska where it helps the children read with the dogs help improve their literacy skills and become more comfortable with reading so we'll have Christina Ross from Carney Public Library and Kimberly Williams who's from the vocal Therapy Dogs Inc. in Carney talk about how they run that program at their library unfortunately and I asked they're not going to bring any of the dogs none of the puppies will be here they'll just be a new presentation no, but that will still be good a puppy would have been better so I hope you'll join us next week for that if you are a Facebook user and Compass Live is on Facebook so please do go ahead there and 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