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Mrs. Summerhays

 
  Search for and check out items from AEA's collection
  Free, copyright-friendly photos for education.
  More than 5,000,000 images, fonts & sounds. **
  Web-based software training and support - thousands of tech tutorials. **
  The encyclopedia you loved in print - now with electronic features. **
  A guide to magazines, an encyclopedia, dictionary and pictures. **
  [was United Streaming Video] Educational video library - 4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips and thousands of images. (See your media specialist to find out how to create a personal account.)
  Detailed weather information and maps. **
  Photos, sound, graphics and text spans 160 years of history. **
 A wealth of carefully chosen websites, categorized by grade-levels and curriculum.
  List of vendors suppling books and book series designed for guided reading.
  Download free MSWord templates for calendars - many styles, may add clipart if desired.
  Download free video, audio, images, music [royalty free] and professional development tools. See your teacher librarian for user and password info.

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Here is a list of ALA Awards 2010 winners:

  • John Newbery Medal
    • “When You Reach Me” written by Rebecca Stead
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal
    • “The Lion & the Mouse” illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney
  • Michael L. Printz Award
    • "Going Bovine" written by Libba Bray
  • Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award
    • "Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal" written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
  • Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award
    • “My People” illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr., written by Langston Hughes
  • Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
    • “The Rock and the River” written by Kekla Magoon
  • Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
    • Walter Dean Myers
  • Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award
    • “Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children’s Day/Book Day; Celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros,” illustrated by Rafael López
  • Pura Belpré (Author) Award
    • “Return to Sender” by written Julia Alvarez
  • Schneider Family Book Award
    • “Django” written and illustrated by Bonnie Christensen
    • “Anything but Typical” written by Nora Raleigh Baskin
    • Marcelo in the Real World,” written by Francisco X. Stork
  • William C. Morris Award
    • “Flash Burnout,” written by L.K. Madigan
  • Odyssey Award
    • “Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken” written by Kate DiCamillo and narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
    • “Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!,” written and illustrated by Geoffrey Hayes
  • Margaret A. Edwards Award
    • Jim Murphy
  • Robert F. Sibert Medal
    • “Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream,” written by Tanya Lee Stone
  • YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award
    • “Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith,” written by Deborah Heiligman
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal
    • “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!,” produced by Paul R. Gagne and Mo Willems of Weston Woods
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award
    • “A Faraway Island”, originally published in Swedish as “En ö i havet,” was written by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck