We are happy to announce that we have a published author on staff! Melinda Josiah Geaumont, a social worker at CJL, is the author of the recently released book, Becoming Auma. The staff helped Melinda celebrate her accomplishments with a book-signing event Wednesday afternoon. Congratulations, Melinda!
To learn more about Melinda’s book, visit her website http://www.becomingauma.com.
Author/illustrator Jan Brett visited with fans at a bookstore in South Portland last Friday (October 12, 2007). Some teachers from Sanford traveled to South Portland to listen to Jan speak and to get her new book, The Three Snow Bears. Mrs. Allis, Miss Kimball, and Miss Black can be seen in the photo above with Hedgie the Hedgehog. Hedgie is one of Jan Brett’s favorite characters.
This is Jan Brett’s new book. We hope to have it in the library soon.
Are you a Jan Brett fan? Which of her books is your favorite?
We have some new big books in the collection. They are perfect for shared reading!
Other additions include the fluency intervention big books (one per theme) and two curriculum-related big books: Graph It! for first grade and Life in the Rain Forest for second grade. Come check out the extra large versions today!
The Rigby PM Stars collection was purchased this summer. The books (Guided Reading Levels A-H) are currently being processed. Some of the new titles feature familiar characters:
Sally 
Nick, Kate, & James
Bingo 
Little Dinosaur
Baby Bear 
Little Chimp
The Rigby PM Plus Orange books (GRL I) 
and Rigby PM Gold Tales and Plays (GRL L-M)were also purchased. 
We have several new sets of multiple copies available. They include:
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Rules by Cynthia Lord (Maine author)
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Poppy by Avi
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan