From: Anastasia Suen <asuen_at_asuen.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:15:18 -0500

Come up to the top floor for the Nonfiction Book Blast at ALA!

Saturday June 23, 2012 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Anaheim Convention Center Rm 304AB Sponsored by ALSC

Start school with new booktalks and activities for this year’s hottest nonfiction books. Twelve authors will booktalk their new 2012 nonfiction books for elementary school, middle school, and high school readers. Find out the story behind each book and take home booktalks and activities for your library. Moderated by Booklist Quick Tips for Schools & Libraries columnist Anastasia Suen.

*ALA 2012 panel and their new books*

Marc Aronson : Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies, Candlewick

Larry Dane Brimner : Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, Boyds Mills Press

Marina Budhos : Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, Clarion

Tom Greve : What Lies Beneath? Exploring the Subterranean Fury of Plate Tectonics, Rourke

Deborah Hopkinson : Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, Scholastic

Kathleen Krull : Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought) updated, Harcourt

Loreen Leedy : Seeing Symmetry, Holiday House

Susan Goldman Rubin : Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein, Charlesbridge

Seymour Simon : Butterflies, HarperCollins

Susan Stockdale : Fabulous Fishes, Peachtree Publishers

Anastasia Suen : A Girl’s Guide to Volleyball, Capstone Press

Ginger Wadsworth : First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low, Clari on

Author interviews and handouts at http://nonfictionbookblast.wordpress.com/

Follow us at http://twitter.com/NFBookBlast Add this program to your ALA schedule at http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/nod e/327

Best, Anastasia

Anastasia Suen * Author, Consultant, Teacher * http://www.asuen.com/ http://twitter.com/asuen1 * http://asuen.wordpress.com/
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