December 21st, is the first day of winter. Reading some great winter reads, will help
stave off the chill. Here are some great
picks.
Young Adult
Frozen
Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston
DB084361 (audio)
More than a century after a
catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth
with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to
embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.
After the Snow
S.D. Crockett
DB075997 (audio)
Fifteen-year-old Willo and his
family are "stragglers," independent homesteaders who reject the
repressive government that seized control after a new ice age brought an era of
scarcity. When his family vanishes from their home, Willo sets out to find--or
avenge—them.
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the
Iditarod
Gary Paulsen
DB043280 (audio)
Paulsen and his team of dogs
endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and
hallucinations in the relentless push to go on.
Shadow & Bone (Book 1)
Leigh Bardugo
DB075094 (audio)
After exhibiting new-found
powers during an attack on her convoy, Alina Starkov is taken from her post as
a lowly assistant cartographer--and away from her only friend, Mal--to become
the protégée of the mysterious and deadly Darkling. Some violence. For junior
and senior high and older readers. 2012
Grades K-3
Blizzard
John Rocco
BR021045 (Braille)
After a massive blizzard, a
boy becomes a hero when he manages to walk to the local store and bring
supplies back to his neighborhood, which has been snowed in for days.
PRINT/BRAILLE.
Snowflake Bentley
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
DBC08707 (download audio)
BR012032 (Print/Braille)
A biography of a self-taught
scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study
their unique formations.
Upcoming Events
Maryland
Regional Braille Challenge
Braille is an important key to literacy! It allows for the
enjoyment of reading, leads to school success, and opens the doors to future
employment. Each year in February, students who read braille in grade Pre-K
through grade 12 are invited to participate in the Maryland Regional Braille
Challenge reading and writing contests. Parents are invited to participate in
workshops about current topics related to visual impairment, the Expanded Core
Curriculum (ECC) and education, while students are taking the tests. Teachers
and school staff are invited to assist with test proctoring and scoring and
helping to facilitate the day.
Students whose test scores qualify for the National
Braille Challenge will be invited to compete at the annual
competition which is held at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, CA each
June.
Save the Date: the 2020 Maryland Braille Challenge will be
held on Saturday, February 8, 2020
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Enoch Pratt
Library Poetry Contest
Maryland poets, this FREE contest is for YOU! If you are a Maryland resident age 18 and
older and enjoy writing, submit your work to the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Rules are listed below.
Paid or volunteer staff of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and
Little Patuxent Review and their immediate families are not eligible, nor are
previous Pratt Library Poetry Contest first-place winners.
Please send only one original poem, on any theme and in
any form, for consideration.
Your entry must be unpublished, either in print or on the
Web, including personal blogs, Facebook, or Twitter. It cannot be currently
under review for possible publication.
Your entry must not exceed 100 lines.
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Poetry Contest, Fiction Department
Pratt Library, 400 Cathedral St.
Baltimore, MD 21201-4484.
Entries received after Sunday, March 1, 2020, will be
disqualified.
Please submit your name, address, phone number, and a
brief biography on a separate page. Please do not put your name, address, phone
number, or biography on the entry itself. Our judges will see only the poem.
Confirmation of receipt and comments on your entry will
not be provided, nor will your entry be returned to you. These rules are also
available on the contest page, where an announcement of the winner will be posted
in mid-April: www.prattlibrary.org/poetrycontest
The winning poem will be published in Little Patuxent
Review, enlarged for display in a Central Library window and celebrated at a
public reading at the Library.
