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CAPITOL CHOICES AGENDA for JULY 27, 2012

CAPITOL CHOICES AGENDA
Friday, July 27, 2012
Arlington Central Library Auditorium

9:30 – 12:30

This Month Only:  All titles will be discussed, regardless of the number of readers, to allow for discussion before the ballot is posted.

9:30    Announcements

9:40 Up To Seven

  • DiCamillo and McGhee. (Fucile, illustrator). Bink and Gollie: Two for One.
  • Dyckman. (Yaccarino, illustrator). Boy + Bot.
  • Gal. Day by Day.
  • Mack. Good News, Bad News.
  • Menotti. (Labat, illustrator). How Many Jelly Beans?: A Giant Book of Giant Numbers.
  • Reich. Hamsters Holding Hands.
  • Stead. A Home For Bird.
  • Yum. Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten!


10:15    Seven To Ten

  • Barnett. (Rex, illustrator). Chloe and the Lion.
  • *Burleigh. George Bellows: Painter with a Punch.
  • Carbone. (Carpenter, illustrator). Heroes of the Surf: A Rescue Story Based on True Events.
  • *Fern. (Kulikov, illustrator). Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World.
  • Gay. (Homel, illustrator). Summer in the City.
  • Joyce. (Bluhm, illustrator). The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessimore.
  • Singer. (Jones, illustrator).The Superheroes Employment Agency.
  • *Standiford. The Secret Tree.

10:55    Break

11:10 Ten To Fourteen   
         

  • Bausum. Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Rights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Final Hours.
  • Bell. Kepler’s Dream.
  • * Doyle. A Greyhound of a Girl.
  • * Feinstein. Mystery at the Olympics: Rush for the Gold.
  • * Levinson. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March.
  • Murphy and Blank. Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure.
  • Swain. Hope and Tears: Ellis Island Voices.

11:40    Fourteen And Up

  • Coates. The Wicked and the Just.
  • Hand. Radiant Days.
  • * Lampson. This One Time with Julia.
  • **Marchetta. Froi of the Exiles: The Lumatere Chronicles.
  • * Tregay. Love & Leftovers.
  • * Wein. Code Name Verity.

12:05 Audio

  • Baum. (Shields and Rudd, narrators). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
  • * Ibbotson. (West, narrator). One Dog and His Boy.
  • **Levine. (Whelan, narrator). The Lions of Little Rock.
  • Lin, G. (Lin, A., narrator). Dumpling Days.
  • **Silvey. (Cowlrick, narrator). Jasper Jones.   
  • * Sonnenblick. (Daniels, narrator). Curveball: The Year I Lost my Grip.
  • * Wein. (Christie, narrator). Code Name Verity.