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Info to Go
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sneak Peek Book Reviews
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Summer Reads
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By signing up for an online CSLP account, youth services staff have access to resources not included in the CSLP manuals.
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Ongoing Training
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If you work in a Florida library, you are eligible to enroll in more than 350 self-paced courses offered through WebJunction, Florida. Have a WebJunction account but can't remember the password? Try
(case sensitive), and you'll be prompted to reset your password.
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2014 Celebration Weeks and
Promotional Events
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Info to Go:
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 CSLP Teen Video Challenge Reminder: The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP), working with member states, has been soliciting amateur videos produced by teenagers, to serve as the official CSLP sanctioned summer reading teen videos. The purpose of the teen video contest is to give teens the opportunity to make videos that encourage the use of public libraries, and to promote reading all summer long. Teens who create a video promoting summer reading at the public library, including their interpretation of the 2014 CSLP teen slogan, "Spark a Reaction," can win $275, and a $125 award for their library. Videos can be created individually or as a team. The winning video from Florida will become one of the official Teen Public Service Announcements for the National 2014 CSLP Summer Reading Program. The deadline for entries is February 14, 2014. For more information, including applications and media release forms, visit the CSLP website, or contact Jana Fine. 2014 FLYP Allotment Reminder: Just a short reminder that February 28, 2014 is the last date to send in a Highsmith-Upstart catalog order. No orders will be taken after February 28, 2014. If you have questions, please contact Jana Fine.  WANTED: FLYP Workshop Pictures:For those of you who attended a FLYP workshop this fall and took pictures, please share them with Jana Fine. YouTube:  Miss any Chat With Jana webinars? You can watch them on the Bureau of Library Development YouTube channel. Facebook  Like us on Facebook . Twitter:  FLYP is tweeting. Are you following us?
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
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It's the 2014 WrestleMania Reading Challenge 
YALSA is joining with WWE and We Give Books, to launch a totally new and improved WrestleMania Reading Challenge for 2014. Register today so young children, tweens and teens can read for a chance to win great prizes from WWE and We Give Books. Youth patrons can check back on the site to read with their favorite Reading Tag Team Partner and enter to win a trip to WrestleMania XXX in New Orleans.
AAAS Science NetLinks
Afterschool Resources offers informal, often hands on, science activities. Each one includes a facilitator page, as well as online and printable pages for kids.
Science NetLinks is a project of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts and hands on activities, and all of it is free! Science NetLinks provides K-12 teachers, students and families with quality resources for teaching and learning science.
All of these resources are Internet based and free to everyone. Lessons and activities can be printed or used online. Many of the interactives, e-sheets and tools work great on an interactive white board or in a computer lab. All of the resources are designed to be delivered in a variety of formats and classroom settings.
Match Wits with Free Online Games Based on Ezra Jack Keats' Books 
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation has put together a series of free online games based on books by Ezra Jack Keats. Shoot some ball, make a hat, play a counting game or navigate a puzzle.
Check out the menu on the left side of the webpage - especially the "Mini Grants." The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation offers $500 mini grants annually to promote literacy to young children. The deadline for submitting the application is March 15, 2014.
It's Time to Listen to a Life | Essay Contest 
Created to encourage inter-generational conversation, the Legacy Project's "Listening to a Life" essay contest is looking for entrants ages 8-18 to interview a grandparent or grand-friend, 50 years or older, about the key hopes and goals in their lives, and how those goals were, or will be, achieved. To enter, the young person is required to submit a 300-word essay based on their interview. The 14th annual Listen to a Life Contest runs until March 28, 2014. This national contest is run by the Legacy Project, a big picture learning project, and the nonprofit Generations United in Washington, DC.
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50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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The Civil Rights Movement shaped 20th century culture and laws of the United States. The former slave states of the South, in particular, were battlegrounds in the fight to end discrimination against African-Americans. Florida and its citizens were prominent in that struggle.
The actual process of school desegregation continued into the early 70s. At the same time, political protests and a gradual change in laws, led to the integration of buses, stores, theaters, beaches and other public places.
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Florida Memory's online classroom introduces major themes, events and individuals in the history of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida, using primary sources from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.
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Sneak Peek Book Reviews by
Ellen Knoud, Charlotte County Library System and Arlen Bensen, Sarasota County Library System
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 Arnold, Elena. Burning. (2013). New York: Delacorte Press.
Ben is a recent high school graduate going to California from Nevada on a full scholarship. He is leaving behind a younger brother, Mom and Dad. The rest of the family is moving out of state as a result of the whole town closing from a mine company pullout. Lala is a teenage gypsy girl who is visiting Ben's town for a week of fortune telling by the side of the road while a music festival is going on. A chance meeting changes everything for both of them. Lala has to confront her fears about being different from her traditional gypsy family and Ben has never been drawn to anyone like Lala in his life. A beautiful story of young love and loss.
Ellen Knoud
Mid-County Regional Library
Charlotte County Library System
Nazarian, Sonia. Enrique's Journey: the true story of a boy who determined to reunite with his mother. (2007). New York: Random House.
Imagine the entire population of Sarasota County trying to cross the border from Mexico to the United States, or riding on top of a freight train through Mexico. This is close to the number of children and teens from Central America trying to enter the U.S. each year. The numbers are staggering and difficult to truly feel. Each year undocumented aliens in the U.S. send 40 times the annual spending of the Sarasota County government back to Central America. 
Ms. Nazario explores and documents the journey of one young man from Honduras who was separated from his mother at five-years-old and is reunited with her at 17. She follows and confirms the story, both before and after, Enrique reaches the U.S. The book is drawn from a Pulitzer Prize winning series of newspaper articles Ms. Nazario published in the L.A. Times in 2002. This YA version is adapted from the NY Times bestselling adult version of the novel. Even with excellent adapting, the details and experiences are bleak and disturbing enough that some parents of younger teens may wish to engage in some discussion of the content with their teen readers. Far beyond the complex matter of U.S. immigration policy and economic opportunity, this story touches on the deeper truth of the vital human importance of family and a mother's love.
Arlen Bensen
Library Professional,
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