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Our Picks this Week
The Runaway Dolls—The Doll People Series, Book 3
by Ann Martin
(Hardcover)
The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
by David Macaulay
(Hardcover)
A Most Wanted Man
by John Le Carre
(Hardcover)
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
by James McPherson
(Hardcover)
Week of October 6, 2008
This week’s featured titles, as selected by our Collection Development department.
- A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre (Hardcover)
- Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession by Anne Rice (Hardcover)
- Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure! by Giles Andreae (Hardcover)
- Devil’s Brood by Sharon Kay Penman (Hardcover)
- La Dieta del Gordo (Text in Spanish) by Raul De Molina (Paperback)
- Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook by Paula Deen (Hardcover)
- The Runaway Dolls—The Doll People Series, Book 3 by Ann Martin (Hardcover)
- The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay (Hardcover)
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Hardcover)
- Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by James McPherson (Hardcover)
- You Just Can’t Get Enough—Gossip Girl: The Carlyles #2 by Cecily Von Ziegesar (Paperback)
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Read our interview with 2008 Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz, author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, Bearskinner, and The Hero Schliemann.
Laura Amy Schlitz is the media specialist and in-house storyteller extraordinaire at Baltimore’s Park School. Schlitz, who oversees the second through fifth-grade section of a library with 70,000 titles, initially wrote Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! 12 years ago as a series of monologues for the school’s fifth graders to perform. Since then, the story has become ingrained in the school’s curriculum.
BWI: What was your reaction to the news that Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! had won the Newbery Medal?
LAS: I was thunderstruck, wonderstruck, and deliriously happy.
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