Feeling like your day is a never-ending quest to keep up with the latest book, music and movie releases? And who has the time? We do.

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We’ve gathered together a list of exciting media tie-ins for your patrons to enjoy. These are great titles inspired by this summer’s hottest blockbusters.

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New Releases

Our Picks this Week

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The Blacker the Berry: Poems
by Joyce Carol Thomas
(Library Binding)

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The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
by Kevin J. Hayes
(Hardcover)

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The Secret Scripture
by Sebastian Barry
(Hardcover)

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Stop in the Name of Pants!
by Louise Rennison
(Library Binding)

Week of June 30, 2008

This week’s featured titles, as selected by our Collection Development department.

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This month, we sit down with … Jon Scieszka

Read our interview with Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. He was recently named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in 2008. His new book, Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka will be released in October.

Guys Write for Guys Read by Jon Scieszka

BWI: How do you structure your outreach programs to get kids interested in why reading is important? Will your outreach programs extend to parents?

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

JS: The message gets to kids because it is a good message… and one they like to hear. The basic idea is to motivate kids to read by letting them read texts they enjoy reading. And parents are the first ones who have to get the message.

Browse our full collection of interviews with top authors such as Linda Buckley-Archer, Jenny Downham, Mark Teague, Melanie Watt, and many more.

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