IRC Hours Update

The Instructional Resource Center will be closed:

• Wednesday, June 20th through Friday, June 30th.

and will reopen following regular summer hours:

• Monday, July 2nd.

Computers on the second floor may be used, but printing is not available from these computers when the IRC is closed. AU Library summer hours are posted on the library web page.

Juvenile Books

The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• Some dog!
  PZ7.C266 So 2007
• Anatole
  PZ7. T543 Al 2006
• Didn't do it: Did not did not do it
  PZ7.M8453 Did 2007
• When I met the wolf girls
  PZ7.N88 Wh 2007
• How to bake an American pie
  PZ8.3.W6976 Ho 2007
• The growing story
  PZ7.K875 Gr 2007
• I'll protect you from the jungle beasts
  PZ7.A3777 Ip 2006
• Pink refrigerator
  PZ7.E2815 Pin 2007
• I'm the biggest thing in the ocean
  PZ7.S549 Im 2007
• Delilah Darling is in the library
  PZ7.W68313 Del 2007
• Mrs. O'Leary's cow
  PZ8.3.H66 Mrs 2007
• Little Donkey and the birthday present
  PZ7.K9228 Lib 2007
• Orange pear apple bear
  PZ7.G77577 Ora 2007

Juvenile Books: Graphic Novels

The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• Stuck in the middle: seventeen comics from an unpleasant age
  PN6726.S78 2007
• The plain Janes
  PN6727.C378 P53 2007

Juvenile Books

The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• Explore Antarctica
  G863 .K35 2007
• The Atmosphere: planetary heat engine
  QC863.4 .V64 2007
• Guess what is growing?
  SF490.3 .P67 2007

Juvenile Books

The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• The Traitors' Gate
  PZ7.A953 Tqm 2007
• One whole and perfect day
  PZ7.C55365 On 2007
• Tall tales
  PZ7.D3316 Tal 2007
• Middle of somewhere
  PZ7.C3985 Mid 2007
• Am I right or am I right?
  PZ7.J7426 Am 2007
• The off season
  PZ7.M9416 Off 2007
• Duchessina, a novel of Catherine de Medici
  PZ7.M5685 Duc 2007

Juvenile Books

The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• Second fiddle, or How to tell a blackbird from a sausage
  PZ7.P23935 Se 2007
• Shining on: 11 star author's illuminating stories
  PZ5.S519556 2007
• Diary of a wimpy kid
  PZ7.K6232 Dia 2007
• Deep and dark and dangerous: a ghost story
  PZ7.H1256 Dee 2007

Juvenile Books

The following book has been added to the juvenile collection. It will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• Snow Baby: the Arctic childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's daring daughter
  CT275.K5934 2007
• The giant of Seville: a "tall" tale based on a true story
  GN69.22.B38 A53 2007

Juvenile Books

The following books have been added to the juvenile collection. They will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• My America
  PS3607.I4234 M95 2007
• Counting your way: number nursery rhymes
  PZ8.3.P558643 Cou 2007

Juvenile Books

The following book has been added to the juvenile collection. It will be initially placed in the new book shelves on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, and then located within the juvenile collection.

• Suho's white horse: a Mongolian legend
  PZ8.1.O84 Su 2006

IRC Hours Update

The Instructional Resource Center will be closed:

• Thursday, June 7th and
• Friday, June 8th

Regular summer IRC hours will resume on Monday, June 4th. Computers on the second floor may be used, but printing is not available from these computers when the IRC is closed.

Library summer hours are posted on the library web page.

2007 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards

The 2007 Boston Globe Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature were announced on June 4, 2007. Given in three catagories, fiction and poetry, picture book, and nonfiction, the awards have been presented since 1967 (Horn Book).

"A Boston slave at the dawn of the Revolutionary War, a nineteenth-century French-Canadian strongman, and a timeless pair of buddies are the subjects of the three books that captured the top honors when the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced on June 4, 2007" (The Horn Book, 6/47/07).

... and the winners are ...

• Fiction and Poetry: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
• Picture Book: Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
• Nonfiction: The Strongest Man in the World

Honor books were chosen for each category:

• Fiction and Poetry: Clementine and Rex Zero and the End of the World
• Picture Book: 365 Penguins and Wolves
• Nonfiction: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion and Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini

Catalog links are provided for titles currently part of the AU juvenile collection. Horn Book Magazine is part of the library journal collection and available through library database collections Academic Search Premier, Education Research Complete, and Literature Resource Center.

Tags: Horn Book Magazine, 2007 Boston Globe Horn Book Awards