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FINAL DAY TO VOTE FOR THE GEORGIA PEACH BOOK AWARD!!!
Please remember that today is the last day to vote for the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers. Voting is done online only at http://www.georgiapeachaward.org/teens-vote-your-favorite-peach-book-voting-ends-midnight-friday-march-15
The voting page will shut down at midnight tonight, so be sure to encourage all of your readers to go online. The winner and two honor books will be revealed at the Kennesaw State University Literature Conference Thursday, March 21st.
GA Peach Book Award for Teen Readers….correction!
Apparently, in my haste to announce the new GA Peach nominees, I left one book off the list. Please add I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga to the list. The corrected list is below. I apologize for any confusion. The list is also now posted at www.georgiapeachaward.org (where you can also apply to be a Peach committee member). Happy reading to you all!!
The 2013-14 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers list is:
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
Every Day by David Levithan
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
Grave Mercy by R. L. LaFevers
The Hunt by Andrew Xia Fukuda
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Leverage by Joshua Cohen
My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Mary K. Donovan
Media Specialist, Mill Creek High School
2012-13 Chair, GA Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
Mary_Kay_Donovan@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Nominees for the 2013-14 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers are…
The 20 Nominees for the 2013-14 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers (Grades 9 – 12) have been selected!
Drumroll please . . .
The 2013-14 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers list is:
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
Every Day by David Levithan
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
Grave Mercy by R. L. LaFevers
The Hunt by Andrew Xia Fukuda
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Leverage by Joshua Cohen
My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Please remember that voting for the 2012-13 Georgia Peach Book Award continues online through March 15. The winner and 2 honor books will be announced in March at the Kennesaw State University’s Annual Conference on Literature for Children and Young Adults (I will post here the following day).
Also, if you are interested in serving on the Georgia Peach Book Award committee, the online application is now available at
http://www.georgiapeachaward.org/reading-committee
Have a great weekend!
Mary K. Donovan
Media Specialist
Mill Creek High School
GALILEO Resources for Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are a few resources in GALILEO to help you find the stories of women throughout history.
Middle and high school students can start by looking for a woman in the Discover GALILEO search box. Try finding Susan B. Anthony, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Sally Ride, Coretta Scott King, Sonia Sotomayor, Jane Goodall, and others. For some major events in women’s history, look for women’s rights, women suffrage, women work*, feminism, or other topics of interest. For literary criticism, type in the title of a book or author names with the term literary criticism; for example, emily dickinson literary criticism or to kill a mockingbird literary criticism.
Tip: If you are getting a lot of book reviews in the results, use Limit by Type to remove reviews (click Show More to see all types, click Check all, then uncheck Reviews). You can also use Limit by Type to only see magazine and news articles (they have an easier reading level), primary source documents, or multimedia (choose Videos, Audio, or Non-Print Resources).
Next, explore Encyclopædia Britannica‘s spotlight on women, the Encyclopædia Britannica Profiles 300 Women Who Changed the World. There, students will find an illustrated timeline of women throughout history along with articles, essays, speeches, video clips, and learning activities.
For speeches, letters, and other primary source documents, search for women in Annals of American History to see a letter from Horace Greeley on women’s rights or a declaration of rights for women from Susan B. Anthony.
A quick search of SIRS Discoverer (elementary and middle school) will bring back news and magazine articles, images, and more. SIRS Discoverer also includes a spotlight for Women’s History Month, so click the Spotlight of the Month feature at the bottom of the SIRS Discover home page to investigate this (scroll to the bottom of the Spotlight page to see archives).
NoveList and NoveList K-8 offer book recommendations for all ages. Here is a tip to find fiction books by women. Go the Advanced Search, leave the search box blank (or type in a topic of your choice), and choose Female in the Author’s Gender field to see a list of books.
Want to meet important women in Georgia? Take a look at the Women of Distinction in Georgia feature in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. Your students can read about interesting women like Mary Musgrove, Hazel Raines, Rosalyn Carter, Alice Walker, and many more fascinating women. Students can also see Famous Georgia Women in GeorgiaInfo.
Please Contact Us if you have questions or comments or if you need to report problems.
Courtney McGough
GALILEO Support Services
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
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Express Links for Databases Mentioned in this Post:
Encyclopædia Britannica School Edition: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zebs
Encyclopædia Britannica High School: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zehs
Compton’s by Britannica (for middle school): http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zebm
Britannica Elementary: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zebk
Annals of American History: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zeba
SIRS Discoverer: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zssd
New Georgia Encyclopedia: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=ngen
GeorgiaInfo: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gnfo
NoveList: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zknl
NoveList K-8: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zkne
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Announcing the 2013 Annual GALILEO Staff Awards for Best Use of GALILEO Resources in a Georgia Student Media Festival Project
The GALILEO staff will present two awards for the best use of GALILEO resources in a project submitted to the 2013 Georgia Student Media Festival: group project (classroom teacher) and individual (student). In addition to fame and glory, the awards provide a technology-oriented incentive such as a mini HD video camcorder. The award winners are selected as part of the festival judging process based on the number of GALILEO resources used and cited.
Help with Project Ideas
• Example projects are available in the GALILEO Scrapbook
• Standards-Aligned Lesson Plan “Where I’m From in GALILEO” lesson plan (see example in GALILEO Scrapbook)
• Standards-aligned activity “Create Your Own Story in GALILEO“
Here is a handout if you would like to share this information with teachers.
If you have questions or comments, please Contact Us.
GALILEO Staff
GALILEO Support Services
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
