Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today, and then it is posted to our website for you to watch at your convenience. Excuse me, and I will show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. This would be similar to your state library in your states. So we provide services and resources to all types of libraries in the state, so you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries, public, academic, K-12 schools, corrections, museums, historical societies, archives, anything and everything. Really our only criteria that it's something to do with libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We have guest speakers that we bring in sometimes from across the country, across Nebraska and across the country, but we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on and do presentations for us as well. And that's what we have this morning with me today is Sally Snyder. Good morning, Sally. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. And she is here at the Library Commission. She is our coordinator of children and young adult library services. And annually, once a year, she comes on and does, I guess I'd call it kind of a series of shows on Best New Children's Books of 2022. That's what we're doing today. In January, there'll be a session on the Best New Teen Books of 2022. And next month in December, there will be her summer reading program session with some books that may be good for the theme for next year's summer reading program. So, but today we're talking about children's books. So, Sally, go ahead and show us what you've got for us today. Okay. Well, first I'm on the Library Commission homepage because I want to show you how to get to the handout page for today and for the future. So if you go into the search box and just type in handouts. You'll see that pop up thing. And then there's the top. So far it comes up on the top library commission handouts. So far, I'm the only one using this page and I've been using it for a while, as you can see. But anybody else might decide to put their things up here too and then we'll probably divide it by name or something. But for today, it says 2022 Encompass Live, Best New Children's Books of 2022. So just click on that. And there's a PDF you can print out or download as I suppose you can download it. I'll have this has the whole list of the titles I'll be talking about today. So I wanted to be sure you could find that and And it's great that all the previous ones are still up there as well. So I mean, as I said, Sally does this every year. So, What did I talk about kind of longer ago than you want to think. Yeah, you can look at a previous year's list to see. Right. So now we'll just pop up my, there we go. Where's my.  Perfect. Okay. Before I start going through the list I always have to do my feel I guess it is. And that is that the books I'm going to talk about are ones that I encountered during last year. And there's a few from late 2021 because they didn't get in on the list last year. And they're ones that have been sent to the library commission by the publishers for review. They're ones from the public library there's ones I bought because I want to talk about that book. But if your favorite book isn't on my list is probably because I just didn't happen to encounter it during the year. And I keep telling people you know I get more books read if I didn't like to sleep so much but really I do like sleep is fun. These are the ones. Oh, go ahead. Yeah, there are just so many books that are published that each year as I'm sure you all know there's no way for somebody to read all of them. I can't even read all of the ones that we get here as review copies and not every publisher sends us samples or anything just a lot of them do but not everybody. I think it started and oh my other thing is, yes I have a cheat sheet because if I don't pretty much stick to my script as I call it. I'll babble for way too long about one book that I particularly liked like night owls coming up pretty soon that's one of my favorites this year.  And so the books I'm talking about our suggestions to you.  Really nearly buy everything. And the other thing is you are of course going to consider your collection what you have now. You might have four books about night owls already and that if you should get this one. So it's I know it's up to you to decide what ones will go in your collection and not to me. So we'll just get started I always have a little trouble get all working went right away. Usually I have trouble. So we'll start with picture books and a fishing of all was left on the library store step. And so what attached says loves stories to the librarian Mr Hughes, and he said, you've come to the right place library fish spends time at the checkout counter. He goes to story time they move them around, and he's even on the book will be a sometimes, but one day, no one comes to the library not even Mr Hughes. He was too much snow. So she manages to jump out of the ball.  And she spent some time reading some of her favorite books and after a while. She here's a beep and a honk. She goes to the window and the book will be a while sort of read some stories to him. So through the window she I don't know how it works but she read some stories to the book will be also they can have a good day with each other, all alone. Thanks for the sun came up she jumped back into her bowl and she was ready for another day at the library. So now everybody. If you get a library fish, everyone's going to look to see if it jumps out of the bowl ever. I hope it doesn't because that's not prepared for those kind of questions. Yes. And see I had live anyway because I'm going to recommend suggest right now that I'm going to go over my time limit. That's not really a time limit. Also, I'll jump in actually right now and say someone did ask and I usually mentioned at the beginning, we mentioned about the gave you the link to the handouts. Sally slides with the book covers will also be available as well with the recording when the recording is posted to. So you'll have the the the list on our website on that handouts page is just the titles. Her slides are the book covers, and you will have links to both of those when the recording is posted. Thank you. That's a good point. Lou is a fire hydrant and knows his job is important. He's a toilet for dogs. He's proud of that. Sometimes though he gets this feeling like there is something more to him way down deep.  What you do every day is good and useful but you do. The reader may also have a bigger sense of purpose that may be needed from time to time just like Lou. He looks like such a happy fire hydrant. He does. There he is. Okay, settle down. A couple times a young else on this dream is to become a night to his family's great surprise. He was accepted tonight school. A number of nights have gone disappearing lately. He was smart and dedicated.  Or even using the smallest shield available. The class on trouble staying awake during the day. After two weeks the class all graduated with honors and he was assigned the perfect job. Night, night watch. It was not a problem for him to stay awake all night. And all was well until one night he heard a strange sound. It turned out to be a dragon who thought the owl looked tasty. He was scared but nights are brave and clever and he was sure he could find his way out of this predicament. It's an entertaining look at someone realizing their dream facing a challenge and hoping to succeed. It's humorous with wonderful illustrations. This is a delightful picture book for reading aloud. And the fact that he's so small will make the kids listening to the story feel like they too can be stronger than maybe they feel sometimes. This is just what it says. This is a book about trucks on top of other trucks. So one page, blue truck on red truck. Next page, red truck on blue truck. Another page, old truck on new truck.  It ends with a two page spread of the highways and all of the locations of each of these trucks they've talked about is marked somewhere. So you can find them on that page. So kids who love trucks, they're set. Clever rhyming text tells what some baby animals are called like piglet, fawn, cold. But each time one animal claims a name that more share, the text is, no way, no how, that can't be true. And so something like pup, there's more than one kind of pup or cub, etc. So following that can't be true is a two page spread where three or more animals also claim that name. So this is an introduction to the zaniness of English, and also animal names. Oh, this one's so fun. Sorry about the paper page.  There are comparisons between the hummingbird and the dinosaurs, including toes, the hummingbird's toes are just like tyrannosaurus rex. They both also have hollow bones and more is a fun and clever picture book and the things that the author talks about are real and true but at the back of the book it does say this book is a work of fiction because it's really simplified for the story. And so anyone who's doing research for that might have an argument with a picture or another, I'm not sure. Not really the purpose of this book to use it for serious research for writing like a paper would be interesting for a hummingbird. It's just really fun. The author prefers hiking and enjoying nature to practicing battle skills, which all the other Vikings are doing. When the Viking games begin, Leith worries that he may not be good enough to help its family do well. Then a final challenge is offered, and Leith may have it in the bag after all. So this book is about valuing others, especially if they are different from you, and remembering the value of nature and earthly wonders. Beautiful views. Beautiful rhymes. You know, so that's always fun. A boy finds a baby crow on the ground with two cats threatening it. He takes it home. His mom works at the bird rescue center so they can try and raise it you can't just raise a bird on your own is supposed to be go to the expert. Grandpa is skeptical but crowbar the crow proves to grandpa that he can use tools and he learns to say hello. That's enough though the crow leaves with a flock of crows. They thought this is stories based on the George family's real experience of raising a crow. And so Jean Craig had George and her son Luke and daughter twig, all contributed to this book. Nikki Giovanni has a celebration of libraries, where one can be as you go to the library you can be a cook, be a crook, be in love. Be quick and smart. It's a place to get books and experience all they have to offer, and the girls expression just says it all when you get to the library. That's that's how I always felt. I can get any book I want. The author's often given talk is now a book. She says, Well, in this book, the librarian says no you can't check out that book it's about girls tells the boy that should avoid only read books about boys. Should you read books about robots. Should a cat only read a book about a cat. No, everybody should read books about everybody whatever interests you to limit your reading only limits your knowledge, and it can stunt your heart. Okay, that was me. So I thought it was fun that she, because she said she's given this talk, a number of times when people ask her, why don't you write books about boys. She says, boys can read my books, nobody should stop them. Because it's about a girl. Maybe we could communicate better if we all read books about other people more. Anyway, this is a celebration of dads and all they do both big and small for their children, hikes, baking hugs, tokens and activism for equality. All are noted and celebrated illustrations show a variety of dads and children. One day the crew work hard every day, but one day a lock lost duckling wanders on to their work site. She was in the way and causing trouble and the trucks one are gone. Digger says she's looking for her mother. The other trucks said we are not mothers or babysitters we bill digger letter stay, but her mother did not come. Before long she was helping the trucks and they cared for her. Soon, the crew became a family. The wind caught her and blew her up until she began to fly. She flew south. But don't worry, eventually she came back with another duck, so they could raise their family with her family. Lots of fun about trucks and ducks. There would really rather stay home for life is safe and comfortable. His best friend rabbit loves to explore and try new things. She is not scared to go out and about.  They explore but bear always finds a safer way to do everything until the encounter a rickety footbridge and he refuses to cross it and he turns around and he goes home. Well rabbit falls through the bridge and she catches herself with her ears, but she can only hold on for so long. A bird flies to bear and tells him rabbit is in trouble and bear runs all the way through all those dangerous places and rescues rabbit. Both realize that sometimes it's okay to be scared might be the best thing for you. Millie is new to the school in the city and she misses the garden her family once had they grew delicious vegetables. The school has a flat roof. So soon enough her class gets permission and starts a garden on the roof of the school.  But eventually they do have a harvest so it's the joy of planting and watching things grow and sharing it together with the whole class on the roof of the school. Millie is excited for her first day of school. She is ready. Then she hears her mother say her tummy is getting too big. Her older sister says that she's on a diet to be ready for the school dance.  During recess at school one student tells another that she looks fat in that dress. And it doesn't sound like a compliment. At home, Zubi tells everyone she is on a diet since it seems that being large is not good. Her family apologizes and explains that sometimes people are mean to themselves, but that just hurts their family like they did that day to Zubi. Her name Zubi means loving and understanding and how you treat people is how you show them that you are beautiful. By being Zubi she will make the world a better place. This is a good reminder of how what we say affects others when even we think it's an offhand comment. Someone might be listening. This is five board books all put together into one hardback book. And that board books are bright brown baby, Count to Love, Pika You, Baby Boy You Are a Star and Hey Baby Girl. It's wonderful, beautiful illustrations by Brian Pinkney and written by Andrea Davis Pinkney. So it's a great collection. This is creepy. Well, kinda. This is book three of the creepy tales if you remember creepy carrots and creepy underwear. This time Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon by the gutter. It looks happy to see him. He wasn't doing well in school and the crayon wrote down the right answers. This is great. He had crayon intruded on his artwork, something he did well by himself. He felt creeped out. He tries to get rid of the crayon but it keeps showing back up. Finally he flushes it down the toilet. Will it return? Gladys the magic chicken should everyone should have a magic chicken. Many, many years ago a chicken called Gladys followed a shepherd boy and comforted him when he felt ugly. He wished to be beautiful. As he grew up he sheared sheep and did other chores and he became a strong handsome man. He credited the chicken for magic that made him handsome. The traveling merchant made a bargain with the man and left with the chicken. One wish at a time Gladys is credited with magic. Was it magic really or just happenstance? Gladys goes full circle and comes back to the former shepherd boy who was very sorry to have traded her away. It's silly fun with a bit of a lesson at the end. Everybody is going to go out and look for a magic chicken. It's from I see it's by Adam Rubin. The dragon loves tacos. Yes, thank you. Many of us know Bob Shea as a book writer and illustrator. This title is so clever because it's Shea Bob by Bob Shea. Bob the alligator has a brilliant idea. Invite birds to eat at his new restaurant, Shea Bob, which will be on his nose like you see there. And then he will eat them instead. It's foolproof. But soon they have built a little town around Shea Bob and more birds keep arriving to eat at the restaurant. Bob is beginning to have this doubts about his plan. He kind of got some friends now and doesn't want to eat them. Just very silly, but clever. Younger daughter River is excited as powwow day, even though she knows she cannot dance this time.  She does get tired, but what a wonderful day they had. And the traditions and courtesies are referred to at the back of the book, which will be very helpful for non-native people planning to attend their first powwow, because in general powwows are welcoming to everyone. It's the general concept. Abdul loves to tell stories about the people in his neighborhood, but when he writes them down in his notebook at school, his letters are shaky and wrong. He can't be a writer. Then an author, Mr. Muhammad visits their class. When Abdul hides under his table, Mr. Muhammad shows him his notebook, very scribbly and messy. And Abdul decides to write a mess, and then a less messy mess as he rewrites. And the concepts are, we all make mistakes. They help us learn. And what we want to do is work toward improvement. As Kirkus says, an honest portrayal of learning differences and a real treasure of a book for any child who has struggled to learn a skill. Based on the true story of the author's grandparents, during World War II, as we know now, Japanese-Americans were held in internment camps after Pearl Harbor was bombed. This story takes place at the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho. Tama worked at the camp library, and every day George would return the stack of books he had borrowed the day before. Tama was puzzled by this until she realized the attraction at the library was her, not the books. The author knows that falling in love was humans doing what humans do best, and Tama wrote in her journal, The Miracle is in All of Us. This is also based on a true story, a real event. It's a fictionalized account of a large truck towing something large and heavy, and it's all covered with tarps. The author focuses on a local solution to a major problem, the semi-causes, when the payload shifts and the truck slides off, some off the only road on the island, the only road from one side of the island to the other, and it's blocking traffic both ways, and it's going to take a while to get it moved. Now, how can Meg get to her swim meet? And Barry is already late for his ballet class. What are they going to do? Well, the author has the children solve the problem in the book. I don't know who solved it in real life, and this is sure to appeal to listeners and readers, because everybody on the island knows each other, so the people over on the one side, they're going to go use the other people's car, and those people are going to use their car so they can drive back the other way and get to where they need to be, and they'll trade cars back later. Pretty smart. Pretty smart, absolutely. I gave it all away. Now, we'll move on to beginning readers. This is book seven about Moe, and then this one, Moe and his parents are at the beach. As Moe and his father walk along the beach, a ball lands near them, and it is a volleyball, and Moe hits it back to the players. One of them is his friend Eve, and she invites them to join her team. Moe is the shortest and rarely gets to hit the ball, but the winning point is thanks to him. We'll hit Moe on the head and run over the net, and no one could return it, so hooray, Moe! VV and her class visit the aquarium. The marine biologist there answers their questions and then takes them to the lab to make their own swim bladders to learn how fish float higher and lower in the water. They have a swim bladder. There are instructions on how to swim, and how to swim. They have a swim bladder. They have a swim bladder. They have a swim bladder. They have a swim bladder. They have a swim bladder. They have a swim bladder. They have a swim bladder. There are instructions included in the back of the book, so you could have your kids try to make a swim bladder as well. If you want to. VV is enthusiastic in her study of science. I just noticed this morning that this is book number five in Hello Hedgehog, and I have book number six in the back under my continuing series. I should have put both of these back there. But Harry has just received a new battery operated race car in the mail and cannot wait to play with it. So I'm going to show it to Hedgehog, who asks for a turn to play with it. But Harry isn't really quite ready to share. And Hedgehog waits and waits and feeling bad. But finally Hedgehog gets a turn to. The three stories in this book are all about the new toy. Reina talks with her friend, Nora, about being free to call over their classes, wax museum event. But the day they pick their parts, Nora chooses Frida. Reina is devastated and she avoids Nora and doesn't stay with her at lunch. And she's just kind of broken hearted. She's just kind of broken hearted. She's just kind of broken hearted. She's just kind of broken hearted. After lunch they talk and discover it wasn't misunderstanding. Nora can be Frida and Reina can be Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa. And someone Reina and her abuela listen to all the time. So they work it out as it says. Here is fish again. It looks like the same fish, but there's no reference made to the previous book, Fish and Son. Fish swims to the surface looking for a friend when the long comes a little way. Fish jumps on her back as they rise. They will both have fun and they do. The first book here, Bippo and Beep. I couldn't find a hardback copy of this one. In the, as I looked at Barnes and Noble and Amazon, only the paperback. The first book is about jokes. The two robot friends are developing a sense of humor and can make fun of each other. The first book here, Bippo and Beep. I couldn't find a hardback copy of this one in the, the first book here, Bippo and Beep. I couldn't find a hardback copy of this one in the, the first book here, Bippo and Beep.  It is all told in dialogue with short sentences. These books will appeal to beginning readers. So the second book. Bippo is not feeling right. Something's wrong. His nose cannot smell anything. It must be broken. He sneezes and beep informs him. He has a cold. He is feeling good. He is feeling good. He is getting angry for not being able to, to feel bad. Yup. Now bee has a cold. These are the first two books. I don't know how many more they'll be, but robots and silly things are always fun for readers.  But the children blame Harry for all the bad deeds. Finally, Harry comes up with an idea to prove the culprit was the squirrel. Will it work? it says at the bottom is based on the character created by Jean Zion and Margaret Boygram that actually written by other people now. So some non-fiction picture books. This is wonderful and I was astounded by a four-year-old boy at the time he was four years old. Nadine dictated poems to his mother and 18 of them are now in this collection. A few other poems are by his sister and a few are by his class in preschool. This could start a poetry group at your library and the title refers to when he was asked well what do you do when you first get home from school and he said well first you take off your brave because you don't need it anymore you're at home.  I guess that's an awesome concept it's amazing yeah think of it that way. Machines are always popular with young children. This is told in rhyming text and is a good starting point for very basic concepts about simple and compound machines from a wedge to a mixer. As the book says at the end no matter the work big or small machine can help to do it all. And this is appropriate for where we are now in our lives with COVID-19. This is from the Let's Read and Find Out series. It has good basic information about disease and pandemics and it clarifies the difference between an outbreak and epidemic and a pandemic. It talks about bubonic plague or black death in the 1340s smallpox brought to north and south america by europeans and then COVID-19 and it also covers how diseases are spread and what can be done to reduce or stop the spreading so it's full of scientific and factual information that will that's written for young children to read themselves or be read too. Some early chapter books this is the second book about two small tola the first book was called two small tola. They live in Lagos Nigeria tola is the youngest of a loving family of three children and grandmommy. The first story involves the only oh sorry only the third story actually involves the three fine girls and the first story tola is myth that her older brother and sister grandmommy left them tasks to do and the only one working is tola after a mishap loses one of grandmommy's special earrings mojo and doppel work hard to separate the small stones from the rice they can't afford to buy rice it's already been separated you're hoping to find the hearing tola knows where it is and just in time she saves the day satisfying in the second story grandmommy is sick and the children must do the best they can but in the third story tola sees one at a time three fine girls and admires their clothing and shoes by happenstance at the end of the story tola is very happy and the three fine girls envy her and how happy she is frank is a tuxedo cat and he has it made until his humans come home with a box now usually boxes are fun but this one holds a puppy he does not follow the rules that puppy wakes frank up from his nap gets his nose wet and breathes hot breath on frank frank swatted him then his humming humans put him in jail for a while and forgot about him a little bit time to find a new home frank leaves the house and walks up the street finding a new just as good to better home is not easy then it rained then a garbage truck lost a bag and it made frank smelly should frank go home will he let him back in hope so cornbread is a mouse who likes to plan organize and get things done his best friend poppy is a mouse who enjoys adventure and activity for fun now cornbread has all the food he will need for the winter and poppy does not nothing is left to forge for where they live so they go up holler mountain to look for food there cornbread is afraid but he won't let poppy go alone he's a good friend they hide when they encounter now but it turns out he's a vegetarian and he knows someone who has extra food it is their old friend miss Ruthie who went up the mountain and was never heard from again and they all thought she'd been eaten oh he has plenty of extra food to share with poppy and it looks like poppy has learned her lesson but what did cornbread learn hmm this is a the second or third book about stick and stone it's a full color graphic novel with two stories in the first stick and stone encounter a nature girl who is finding things that start with each letter of the alphabet she picks up stone for our rock which they giggle that because that's not right and she picks up stick for tea if she says twig well no he's stick anyway they are trapped in a bucket with others until the nature girls give them back to nature and they are free in the second story they get in a sticky situation they are picked up by a person who wants to make s'mores stone is added to a ring of stones and stick gets a marshmallow stuck on his head how are they going to get out of this I hope they do this is the second book in the series that is a full color graphic novel dr. carbels president of the board of education devices a clever he thinks scam to fool the children into behaving and allow him to get rid of principal class and close the school the principal promised them a school trip to dizzy land if they read 5000 books aj is suspicious andrea calculates using her cell phone how they might be able to do it so they read and read and read and they did it elementary the lady the school was named for just happened in that morning to give a $10,000 check to the school just the amount they needed for the trip how convenient they had a crazy adventure at dizzy land full of silliness and humor and upon their return the kids must prove that they learned something did they oh yeah they too oh you would think this was I really like this one not just because of the title this is a standalone companion book to the year of billy miller and billy miller makes a wish sal thinks like a four-year-old since she is one and her viewpoint can get her into trouble really for her there was too much going on her new baby sister still does not have a name after a week no name how do I call her we call her the baby uncle jake is visiting and still calls her salamander which she hates but she hasn't told him that yet and her favorite new pair of underwear labeled poppy is missing and that's really breaking her heart because she had this got this set of seven new pair of underwear is with different flowers on them and she's been you know just opening the box and touching them and then putting them down away and now poppy is missing and she can't anywhere her father helps her look her mother helps her look well poppy does eventually turn up but not where you think then this is just trouble in life from a four-year-old point of view this is book two in the book buddies series the smallest of the book buddies and therefore the easiest to get lost marco polo does not get borrowed very often but today Seth borrows him to take along to his first sleep over that night marco polo must be brave as a household cat snitches him and hides him in the garage where he finds and befriends two other toys now they must all get back to their boys frequent black and white illustrations and an exciting adventure will draw in readers and they are intrepid this is a new series this is book one bessie lee is in first grade and she is the smallest in her class but she is loud and energetic her teacher announces that they will have a talent show in one week and now bessie lee must find out what her talent is she doesn't know what's my talent she's desperate for a talent her grandma had given her a magic book so maybe she can do some magic things do not go well when she accidentally makes their class hamster disappear fortunately the hamster is found and also fortunately bessie lee's older sister bailey who was kind of frustrated by her at times steps in to help her perform her magic trick at the talent show book two the teacher gave bessie lee the name of the new boy in class j for her secret valentine she is going to make him the best valentine ever i think even readers will cringe at her efforts seeing the potential outcome before bessie lee does at school disaster happens and she is crushed still her efforts at making an amazing valentine are acknowledged at home for older sister bailey helps her feel better and gives her some good advice and she patches things up with the new student this is the newest newest title in a set of 10 books about sadeek and his third grade class at school and this is the first time i've seen this series after a visit to a local pond sadeek and his friend carter are sad about the dead fish they saw there the teacher said it could have been pollution since there were several dead fish sadeek's father takes both of them to the aquarium where they learn more about ways to care for the environment at school they form the clean water crew to help spread the word about keeping the environment clean oh i hope there's more about plum this is the first book and so far the only book about plum plum is a member of the peacock and peacock ambassadors for the athinville's zoo plum is friendly perky and full of energy but on this particular day something strange is up the zookeepers are rounding up the peacocks and saying they are thieves items from wallets to cameras have been stolen from the zoo visitors and found in the peacock's favorite tree it turns out the ning bing from australia is plotting to take over being ambassador for the zoo and he plans to put all the peacocks in the defunct and dangerous monorail sending them to their demise what can plum do to save them this is a full color graphic novel excuse me rover parachutes down to a new planet her job is to explore to see what is there after searching for life i don't know and then searching for solid mineral material that's everywhere she searches for not life and not rocks and finds a buried metallic rover it is not functioning until rover pulls its solar panels into the sun written on its back is special planet explorer class k spec they explore together and find a giant rock person about to clobber them the hide in a cave which turns out to be full of other giant rock people rocky the first rock person becomes their friend and shows them the art he has made from rocks all in all it is a successful exploration of a new planet and rover and spec plan to continue their explorations together this is fun the rovers do their job and support each other and the shape there are shapes at the back of the book to encourage readers to design their own rover and the idea that creatures on another planet have their own way of doing things is also important to remember i love sir ladybug sorry yeah there's three books that came out this year about sir ladybug so hopefully there'll be even more than that they are full color graphic novels sir ladybug his herald pel roly polly beetle and his squire sterling snail are asked to save a caterpillar from being eaten by a chickadee he demonstrates to the chickadee that he is extremely capable with his sword the solution so ladybug's his tops at making a world famous life changing lemon cake thus saving the day and keeping his friends safe and he doesn't have to sort use a sword on anybody whoever and fun about friendship and finding another way besides fighting since supporting each other both to sir ladybug and the queen b it is laundry day when sir ladybug is summoned by the queen b so he takes a minute to get there the queen is a bully and believes her feelings are the only important ones she leaves puddles of honey around so bugs will get stuck in them and then she can laugh at them and put them in jail probably both she wants her ladybug to replace one of her knights and do whatever she says usually thinking he can get his side kicks pel and sterling out of jail later but not too much later sir ladybug is in jail with his friends for not agreeing to bully the others as a queen insisted don't worry she's going to get her come up and oh dear bookworms things are dire sir ladybug's book he checked out from the library is almost overdue he must return it by sunset but so many animals need his help he may be late after helping more than 23 and a half animals sir ladybug his squire sterling and pel are ready to go find the library last they heard it was by the pond it's inside a turtle shell so it moves the turtle but now there are three bookworms between them and the library what they want is the library book what's going to happen now and the bookworms point out that there are three of them and only one sir ladybug they don't care that he has a sword it could be it could be trouble fiction for craze two to two to five or so start with a graphic novel adaptation of the books booked by Kwame Alexander the art is in black and white and green as you know the story nick 12 loves soccer and really dislikes having to read his father's book of words though it does get him an incredible vocabulary trouble is coming and his mom and dad are separating at least for a while then nick has emergency surgery due to a ruptured appendix and he misses a notable soccer tournament as he recovers his school librarian sets him up with some wonderful books and he begins to not hate reading which is good so for um I put the the free verse book the first book from 2016 in the younger teens section of my lists but this one with the art he looks younger than that boy so I don't know I put it here so it can go either way where I know like when you say the grades these books are for or so it depends on the reading um level of your of the children that you're serving you never know who's somebody be higher lower um and age and year doesn't always you know in a hard line yeah thank you very much I usually say that at the beginning at the beginning and I forgot these are just general categories and so let them put them in your collection where they belong in your collection not just because I said this willow dean is 11 and she lives in a world different from our own she loves all animals especially especially the very unpopular screeches they have a bad smell and temper they have tusks and some have quills so that big thing there with the tusks that's probably a screecher the town is going to put a bounty on them thinking they are the cause of the missing humming bears which should have returned to their area as usual so there's the humming bear right there willow dean vows to find the real reason the humming bears did not return this year and she defends the screeches as having an unknown value to the world an environmental message here of course with an admirable main character and whimsical fantasy creatures mac Barnett is added again and that this is a full color graphic novel the moon is disappearing is it being eaten oh it is being eaten by space rats our only hope send the first cat in space to the moon to defeat the rats a robot designed to click toenails lows four thousand has stowed away on the rocket the cat lows and the queen of the moon work together to get to the dark side of the moon to face off against the rats needless to say they're going to have trouble getting there will the moon disappear are we all doomed will the cat eat pizza you have to read the book this is plucky and hilarious kids will love it of course because mac Barnett does that kind of thing this is a wonderful book the town used to be a wonderful place to live but after a fire destroyed the library it slowly fell into a place of want and need the mayor subtly shows fear and suspicion the townspeople hide behind closed doors the town orphanage is neglected by the town but the children and their two tear-cakers do the best they can one girl runs away because she's going to be turning 15 and meat willer and she does not want to take food away from the younger ones the ogres who lives on the edge of town rescues the girl the ogres grows wonderful vegetables and has been leaving boxes of food for the orphanage and others for a long time now all of a sudden she is a suspected of stealing children the orphans know better and they are ready to open the townspeople's eyes can they convince the town as to who is the villain and who is the helper and this title while i have it in that like we were saying the upper elementary range it's also good for middle school readers celeste 12 failed her swim class just before leaving with her younger brother oh one oh she's 12 her younger brother is 10 for a week at with their grandparents lake house a pair of cousins will be there too celeste felt that her swimming instructor was too unsympathetic to her she thought to herself since he seemed so annoyed with her she didn't trust him to catch her when she jumped in swimming is important to her family and a bit of history is included about swing swimming pool segregation the grandfather carefully helps her become more comfortable in the water celeste learns that she looks almost identical to her grandmother's sister ellie who died by drowning when she was young now it seems that ellie is haunting the house and haunting celeste lights that can't possibly light up too her family is convinced that she was downstairs in the kitchen when she had been upstairs in her room the whole time what is it that ellie wants this also was a full color graphic novel it said in indonesia jordan is still a member of the basketball team and she coaches them though an accident two years ago left her in a wheelchair one day on her way home she finds a white baby elephant hiding in the playground her mom is a vet so she takes the elephant home soon he is happy as one of the family the school's water polo team needs another player and this is something jordan can do soon she is feeling guilty about dividing her time and her energy between the two teams can this be resolved and what is marshmallow the elephant keeping secrets a rora 11 became best friends with frenchie livernois after they met at the bus stop on the first day of third grade in a small coastal town of may rora is impulsive and loud and then apologizes frenchie does not speak does not look at you but does subtly react to you if you know what to look for he's being mainstreamed in the local school now ready for sixth grade rora is shocked that she and frenchie will not be in the same classroom she has been his go-to person in school and it is now up to an assigned teacher to watch over him but one day a few weeks into the school year frenchie does not arrive at his class he is missing immediately the townspeople respond to the request for people to help with the search a rora and frenchie's mother gracia can barely hold together both main characters are neurodiverse and the author shows how people interact with them some with empathy and understanding and some with shortness and impatience this is a wonderful book to convey all of that this is a sequel to out of my mind this takes place now out of my mind came in out in march 2010 this book though it took longer is a year later in melody's life she wants to go to camp and has research camps that are designed to provide experiences for children with disabilities the green glades therapeutic recreational camp here comes melody her experiences are believable her apprehension as well as eagerness to go and to participate is also believable the reader learns more about melody and her feelings hopes and readiness for the future for the first time in her life melody has friends though it takes a little while for her camp mate to to really gel into friends at camp melody faces several new situations she is scared to get into the pool what if she sinks trinity her counselor is there for her she is assigned through melody for the whole time and then there's horses they are huge and how can melody write one no worries the camp has it all worked out in trinity writes with her some of the best things about this book are all the wonderful new experiences for melody and the safety of the camp in our new friends and there are no mean girls or bullies it may seem like a week of unbelievable opportunities but there are camps like this all around the country readers who wanted to know what happened next for melody after the first book will be surprised and happy for melody's first camp experience i have no idea she's planning on writing any more about her but i think she wrote she said she wrote this because people kept asking what happened next full color graphic novel again maggie is uncertain about her first year in middle school so she rolls her 20-sided dive to determine what what her decision about anything will be she's worried about making friends choosing the right after school club and there is a rumor about a monster on the school property she hasn't seen it yet but the one under that her anxiety and maybe some ocd are making each day at school uncomfortable her parents talk with her a few times about maybe some therapy would help her but she keeps insisting everything's fine her new friend claire is supported and encourages her to choose the after school club that appeals to her not the one her sisters chose and they support each other when the school bully picks on them finally maggie begins to see that using the die as a crutch and she needs to let go and maybe some therapy would help adjusting to middle school making a new friend and standing up to bullying help maggie and claire feel ready to succeed this this is told in free verse it's said in 1947 though with animal lovers that won't matter oriole her name is olivia but they call her oriole is 11 and she and her family came to the west to california from cuba and she really wants to return but she knows that they won't her family runs a veterinary clinic and works with animals from a nearby ranch where movies are sometimes shot oriole is having trouble expressing herself in english until she meets a new neighbor gabriella mistral an award-winning poet gabriella encourages her explains literary terms and shares her own poetry oriole gains confidence then one day an expected elephant arrives at the ranch and oriole makes a connection with her she learns that elephants communicate with what she thinks of as hums and oriole sings along an unusual worth with two calves one female and one male but soon the female camp calf dance disappears they search but they cannot find her anywhere it's a trick a dastardly plot is there anything oriole can do yes she organizes a protest and gets the word out so it's about um care of animals and animals rights and doing what you can and um enjoying poetry this is book one and a full graphic code full color graphic novel gabbie mindy and priya are best friends they would all love a pet but none of them can have one with the request of a neighbor for them to walk their her dog a business is discovered they take on more pets and soon they are spread too thin their business and their friendship is threatened they find a way to do what is right support each other and care for the animals maybe not just not quite as many as they took on before book two is out now mindy makes some space but i haven't seen it yet brie's mother died three years ago and her grief is still strong her mother used to create treasure hunts for her and they would laugh all over town brie still has two good friends and she lives with her father and grandmother but her father always seems to be working too busy for brie on her 12th birthday she is given a gift from her mother a box with three letters in it it is a final treasure hunt from her mother getting started is hard her dad cannot join them until later and elsa uncle julia's nana and her two friends start the journey with her there will be discoveries disappointments enjoy in store and after that touching book we get back to silliness always fun once upon a time tim is a peasant and the only thing he can do to change his life is to become a night fortunately the prince ruprecht and his royal advisor nerlim just advertised for night triumphs tim his friend belinda and the village idiot furkel were the only ones who volunteered all five of them go on a quest to rescue the lovely princess grace who has been snatched away by a horrible beast they encounter large blood thirsty butterfly of doom and other large insects in the forest of doom crossing the river of doom seems easy easy until it isn't next came the troll bridge over the chasm of doom that's right a troll bridge then finally the layer of the stinks will they prevail humorous silly and fun and complete with the occasional iq booster asides for words such as malodorous and dastardly tell what they mean and the and the authors when they're doing these iq boosters is now your parents will be really glad you're reading this book because you're learning so much and book two just recently came out the labyrinth of doom it continues the humor and silliness of the first book this time prince ruprecht is upset that the knights rescued princess grace and stole his glory now he has kidnapped her and hidden her in the center of the labyrinth of doom timbaland and furkel furkel and rover valiantly enter the maze to rescue the princess they encounter all kinds of monsters but chad the minotaur is a pleasant surprise readers looking for humor and adventure will find what they want here and this book also contains the occasional iq boosters and furkel who is his family have been village idiots for generations he's really a pretty smart guy but he has to pretend to be the village idiot so that's his place in life except he wants to be a knight um i'm just going to jump in here um for those again just um it is a little after 11 am central time and if you pay attention to our show especially our show is 10 to 11 am um but we did start a little late today letting letting everyone get connected and logged in um and as i think sally kind of mentioned a little bit at the beginning alluded to uh oftentimes regularly her shows like this to go a little long and that is perfectly fine with us um we don't mind it uh the will continue um we'll go through get through her entire list um looking at it might be another 20 minutes half an hour depending on how quickly things go not a problem though but if you only a lot of an hour for today's show no problem you you're welcome to take off um if you need to we're recording the whole show and the full thing will be available for you to watch later to watch anything you've missed um as well as the the list of all the titles on our website in the handouts and the slides will be available to you the recording um my goal uh with this being the day before our Thanksgiving holiday by the end of the today by the end of today um have the recording up and ready for everyone and i'll send um out that email to everyone who attended today's show and who registered for today's show to let you know the recording's ready so um feel free to say with us for the um the remainder of sally's list or if you do need to take off no problem go ahead and do that and you can watch the recording later thank you that's a great point excuse me max and josey have been friends since kindergarten now with fifth grade complete they will never see each other again josey leaves max and out saying only no matter what anyone tells you i'm real this is because josey has been pretending to be a whatnot pretending to be a child wealthy parents do not want their children to have unpleasant experiences in school so they hire the whatnot corporation to provide robots androids to pretend to be children in their child's class except in this class josey was also a human child from a poor family there to get a good education max is trying to find josey and josey is trying to find max but the whatnot corporation does not allow that here's another book that um is a full color graphic novel based on an earlier text um print story um the took originally was published in 2015 and this adaptation carries the story well it has a good batch of creepy in it and it's about a boy whose younger sister is kidnapped by a witch and he is trying to save his sister anthony anth 10 joblin loves to play spades a card game that has been in his neighborhood and his family for years he is sensitive about being short and winning the annual spades tournament with his best friend jamal has his partner will help him feel tall everything seems to be against him though his father is a gambler and an alcoholic and he does have some negative masculinity ideas the new girl surely is of interest to hint but she is a thread at the tournament jamal is keeping some secrets which may mess up their friendship and has a lot of heart and he wants to do the right thing sometimes it's hard peapot farm series book two stepping stones was the first book gen 12 that's nervous about starting sixth grade in a new school along with that both her step sister andy and she are starting a new weekend job at the neighbor's pumpkin patch working with the haunted hayride puzzling to jen is andy's new interest in boys specifically the nephew of the pumpkin patch owner eddie so there's some bullying at school and there's her negotiating other people's crushes and finding new friends and also a new job this is the sequel to green lantern legacy time ti fam is still learning about being a green lantern while trying to keep up with his schoolwork and helping out at the family store recently an arsonist has been setting more and more fires causing concern and fear in the city at one of the fires ti meets up with kid flash a girl who is happy to help him rescue people together with help from other green lanterns they plan to they plan a way to catch the arsonist it looks like there might be a few more books in this series as well this is book two to the islanders jake is back on the island for another summer and this time his dad eric is with him his mom had been deployed so jake and father go to spend time with honey jake's grandma and eric's mom this summer jake and his friends makin and levy get excited about finding blackbeard's treasure it could be on dewy's island it's jake also hopes his father won't get out more he is still recovering from the ied explosion that injured him there's plenty to do and lots going on again this summer on the island full color graphic novel based on true events the summer before sixth grade katie is excited to attend her first sleep away camp with her best friend kasey but katie is beginning to make new friends and kasey is quite negative about that katie hears buzzing noises in her head when she is anxious and that slowly grows during their get-togethers at their homeschool co-op the feelings are drawn as bees buzzing around her head and katie has a number of routines he does to reduce reduce her anxiety dealing with it and ocd is beginning to be too much for her fortunately her parents set up an appointment for her with a psychologist to help her find ways to deal with both of them her parents are very supportive of her this book was inspired by the author's childhood so it's about friendships ocd and being yourself this is a companion book to garlic and the vampire it's also a full color graphic novel hoping to help her friend the count which agnes is unable to brew a satisfactory vegetarian blood substitute for him the only thing to do is to send garlic to the magic market quite a distance from their farm garlic is nervous but the count will be along to keep her company new experiences and the hope that garlic has found the right vegetable blood root make this trip memorable the book of chidani has been in cameron's family for generations he used to love sitting by his mother as she read to him and his best friend zion and talked about the stories now both his parents are gone dead from an accident two years ago his grandma hid the book in the attic and locked the door but one night cameron zion and their new best friend alia go into the attic to get out the book before they realize that the book has transported them to the kingdom of kingdom of chidani it is real and exists in another dimension now they have the task to defeat the queen's sister amina and restore chidani to queen ramala amina is an expert in fighting using the chidani and art of dombe and cam is just starting to learn this book ends with part of the tasks done but more to be accomplished so it's a cliffhanger ending and i'm looking forward to learning to finding out more about cameron and his friends and chidani clementine is a very smart mouse who she her best friend is a chimpanzee she has been rescued from the lab when she was born along with another mouse and a lab technician put them in someone's mailbox when he was afraid he would be caught now clementine exhibits her intelligence by learning how to play chess with the former chess master of the house it looks like the only way to keep her in the other mouse from being returned to the lab is to have her play in a well-known chess tournament to prove she deserves to live the life she wants and somehow this book reminds me of the book flowers for elder non just because that was about a mouse who was very smart but this one she's born smart she knows latin she understands complicated things i can't understand but she can't communicate that to people but you know she thinks in in latin sometimes well oh stein dingler's clever title this contains 10 stories of spookiness and humor fans of his goosebumps series will find these stories satisfying and just a touch scary i could read them you know i'm a chicken so in one in one story a boy monroe finds a book that claims it will change his life and does it ever in another story paul has to put up with his older cousin's bullying but one day he finds what he thinks is his best payback ever scaring miller about his new really old car that is rumored to have a ghost in the back seat there are some lessons taught some weird events are left to the reader to explain and some things are just spooky this is book one of projected two loki has angered odin and been sent to earth midgard for one month to reform and prove he can be useful to asgard he is now a puny 11 year old boy and must write in a journal every day about his experiences if he lies the journal will answer that that is a lie and sometimes it will go on to tell the truth of what happened so he's not going to get able to sneak anything by this also thor is along as a young boy and continues to harass loki because he's bigger and stronger at first loki is just himself but not beautiful or powerful racking up more bad points then he starts trying and he continues to rack up more bad points instead of getting rid of them because he just doesn't know how to help or care that's never been in his wheelhouse before the last 10 minutes of the last day he's does something truly heroic will it be enough for odin black and white cartoon like sketches on every page add to the fun and i'm looking forward to book two because what's he going to do now often and his mom have just moved to town she enrolls him in the fourth grade even though it is almost summer vacation often has a good number of ploys to hide the fact that he cannot read the letters jiggle around and look like ants to him also he has plenty of ploys for being the new kid he and his mom have moved a lot and he knows how to lay low surprisingly the teacher mrs g does not complain about having another student and truly welcomes him birdie also welcomes him because now she will have a partner for class assignments there's an even number of students finally so she doesn't have to work with the teacher birdie guides him through the school day and talks a lot he is caught off guard by another student in the class t who he eventually realizes is also ability diverse so it's being ready to get help friendships no judging others and finding your place i would have grabbed this book immediately when if i was you know in fourth grade this is a graphic novel in blue and black with a touch of pink occasionally kate 12 has always been chubby but is becoming fed up with being bullied about it so it's about standing up for yourself body positivity and friendship this is a full color graphic novel and is a sequel to the first book katie the cat sitter katie continues to cat sit for her upstairs apartment neighbor madeline who has lots of cats who each have their own special skill like branky can injury surveillance electrical wire wiring disguises and more katie is ready to begin learning how to be a sidekick to madeline's mousetris persona but training is not happening madeline keeps watching cooking shows instead plus the mousetris is being framed by someone has a bad guy and katie wants madeline to find out who but she's not interested the public is over the moon for two new heroes the eastern screech and stainless steel who may really be bad guys and now they have their own tv show can katie the mousetris a couple of friends and a lot of cats save the day and the mousetris's reputation um this is a full color graphic novel and is another update of an older novel you can't remember when frances hobson bird dance novel the secret garden first came out oh that was one of my favorites i yeah when i was no what age but yes yeah well this is now um set in new york with the abandoned garden on the roof of the private home mary lenox is sent from california to new york to live with their uncle archie after her parents die when she encounters her cousin colin the reader learns he has a terrible panic attacks though colin believes his heart could give out at any moment and therefore he is hesitant to go anywhere or do anything mary keeps a discovery of the abandoned garden secret for a while but it isn't long before the word she her friend dicken and others are doing results in a slow revival of the garden as school library journal says this hits the essential plot points of the original but offers more inclusive representation with lgbt characters people of color and those dealing with mental health issues so it's brought in several other aspects i looked it up the original was published in 1911 thank you 1911 and i probably read it um i mean age myself in this 70s maybe i don't know i don't remember how old i was but i remember it really stuck with me i loved it yeah i read it as an adult i i think i was out of college by then just learn this one then to see see what it's like get it for myself good idea so a few non-fiction titles born in may of 1799 mary anning spent her life hunting fossils it was uh they were prevalent in the area where she lived with her family her father had done it before her was let me go back to my script it was her kate to an independent self-supporting life her skills developed while while working with her father who died when she was 11 the family was in debt so mary took her tools to the beach to hunt for fossils she sold them to visitors to collectors for their curiosity cabinets and to some some to geologists who examined them to try to learn about the animals who lived so long ago it was hard dangerous work and mary did not receive much recognition of her contributions to science the book uses a conversational tone and includes a number of sketches of the fossils that she found it also includes a timeline glossary a list of where to see her fossils source quotes a bibliography image credits and an index so very well supported non-fiction the author looks at the plague also called the great mortality of the middle ages it is still around today many of us know that the 1918 influenza pandemic a briefer look at a few other diseases such as cholera small parks and hiv and a chapter on COVID-19 the author also credits people of the time who wrote down their experiences even from the middle ages with the plague and other diseases and she encourages readers to now write about their experiences with COVID-19 so people in the future will better know what it was like and there's also an insert of a story by Karen Drivo from North Park Public Library who told about a family member who got all right yes I remember hearing about that yes one of our librarians here in Nebraska right each two page spread highlights one type of disaster earthquake hurricane tornado etc. snippets of information about the disaster are spread about alter alternating with small illustrations for each it's a wonderful book for browsing and if you want to go look and say well what really happens when a volcano takes explodes you'll probably find out here this has some scary stuff in it and I'm a chicken like I said okay it's a collection of 32 stories gathered from many tribes there are five sections of stories ghosts spirits witches monsters and the supernatural each section has a few not so scary one or two or more really scary stories the author a member of the Ponca nation notes in his introduction that he has not included any stories that some tribal cultures are not allowed to share you can offer this book to patrons with a clear conscience about that and kids who like scary whoa her story was written for adults and then 25 years later written again for children in 2020 now it has been translated to English with added illustrations living in Turin Italy Leah was born in 1931 the oldest of three girls she was so shy at school her voice could barely be heard Mussolini began putting restrictions on Italian Jews and at first Leah is not allowed to go to school so they created Jewish school for the children next Jews are not allowed to have jobs and later they are not allowed to go on vacation then Italy joins Germany in the war the family moves first to Milan and then to Rome for her father to find work finally things are looking even worse and Leah and her sisters are taken to a boarding school run by nuts she must never tell anyone they are Jewish and she has to get used to a big name there are hardships but also learning and fun this is a good choice for children to learn about World War two without some of the more dreadful truths at their age this is what happened to one girl and her family who all were fortunate to survive speaking of war this touches my heart jiva was 12 when war came to Ukraine she decided to keep a diary to read again many years later to remember what it was like but this is her experience in her own words when they are in fear for their lives not knowing ever when Obama hit their building the reader gets a sense of war she and her grandmother flee first to western Ukraine and then to Ireland this is not eloquent but it is real and hard heartfelt in the 12-year-old girl's language and i got this from Lincoln City Libraries Nebraska's asphalt fossil bed state park is just outside Roy on Nebraska and this book is about that it contains good scientific information and it has a bit of a mystery to it too a school library journal says Stevens provides fascinating insights into the techniques that scientists use to reconstruct the ancient past the writing is lively clear and sometimes conversational it contains black and white drawings and photos to add information and interest and i think it was uh the reading flows very nicely as she explains things that she does such a good job of explaining how they carbon dated things and such that anyone interested in not dinosaurs in this case but the older prehistoric animals will find this interesting yeah there's all sorts of animals that were that you know that are not dinosaurs that yeah from millions of years ago absolutely a picture book for older readers Maya Angelou's life is told in poetry by the author it's inspirational and it could raise interest in learning more about her life and her writings and um it's the art of course by brian caldier it's beautiful and that is my end of my presentation on your list you will see other titles when you wrap up i'm like more and more well there's a few other titles i'm just going to zip through them real quick because i did it at the end of the book put in some series books so there's some picture books little bat up all day all kids always want to stay up all night this is little batty wanted to stay up all day made a friend of a squirrel and jane yolin and mark teague do how does dinosaurs say goodbye i don't know what this means that's the last book in the series or if there'll be more maybe i'm reading more into the title than i need to a few beginning readers well ties travels i love these beginning reading books and this they're in the lab doing things safely and then this is about the winter wonderland and in this one you can see what he's imagining it's all done in crayon and so you know that he's imagining that but um he does get to see santa at the park early chapter books sydney and taylor this is like book three about them and this one they decided to go on an expedition to make some more friends which is why not and they do here's the other hedgehog book happy birthday hedgehog so i need to be more organized i guess but this is fun too because it's hedgehog's birthday and um the guinea pig friend whose name i've forgotten uh is disheartened because he got him the perfect present but as hedgehog's opening his packages someone else gave him that very same present and now he knows when he opens mine it's going to be a disappointment because it's the same thing and the infamous rat sells this is book what let me see i didn't write it down i think it's book five live in concert sorry and just this is the third george book it says right there george series by a nebraska author george is the ginger cat there on the cover and george and um another cat are at the bed at the same time they both have injury to their legs but if you look at the picture one cat has his right leg wrapped up and the other cat has its left leg wrapped up the other cat's name is well i don't know brigston sorry brigston well george ends up going to the library to be the library cat and brigston ends up going to the farm to be the farm cat and george is doing his best to adapt and still try to get back home and he finds out later that brigston was so so shocked to be on the farm that he wouldn't leave the house the whole time he was there just fun book three of max and the midnight this is probably the last book of that series and then mr wolf's class where school that's out early so the children could go home before the snow makes the travel dangerous but obdi and henry were laid out of the building and they missed their bus after mr wolf tries to drive them home they get stuck in a snow bank and they walk back to the school where they have some adventures to spend the night at the back of the book the author says he wrote this book so everyone could experience a snow day wherever they live because some people just don't get them so thank you again that's my complete list okay it's time so awesome all right go ahead and just leave that up there for now um yeah um all right so thank you so much sally this is great and i always like to have your sessions here a little before the holiday season um even though i know the team won't be until january um this time but uh get a lot of ideas for buying books for the children in my life that i might be getting gifts for um now great yeah and we do have just some comments coming saying great presentation thanks so much um looking forward to looking through the slides and and as well all right i am going to pull presenter control back to my screen well to my screen there we go all right so that will wrap it up for today's um end compass live show thank you so much sally for being with us again um as she showed earlier the um handout is on our handouts page nlc dot nebraska dot gov slash handouts as well of all of her previous presentations she has done for us and for our nebraska library association conference um youth services retreat retreats all sorts of things here she's looking for lists of books that sally has gone through check that out the show is being recorded and will be on our library link up a website in our archives if we go to our main page for encompass live these are upcoming shows and right underneath there is the link to our archive shows the most recent ones will be at the top as i said my goal is to get this up and ready for you all before the end of the day today so you have it before the holiday um the long weekend i will send an email to everyone who logged in live today's show and and everyone who registered for today's show to let you know when the recording is available there will be a link to the recording on our youtube channel as i mentioned a link to the handouts page so you can jump right to that and the presentation slides that sally used that have all of the uh 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Welcome to Psychic Medium, Toni Green. Here we grow again. Let's do this. Okay, so first and foremost, unfortunately I have to say this at the beginning of every show, but don't get scammed. Are people out there that wanna be me or pretend to be me? Why? Why? I will never reach out to you on any social media platform, asking you to get a reading, have a this, have a that. Nope, not me. Doesn't happen. Don't do it. The only way that you can get in contact with me for a private session is through my website, t-o-n-i-g dot i-n-f-o. Yep. All right, we're gonna start today by thanking everybody who's already in the chat, chatting with me and Heather Alohaj. I keep moving the camera, you guys. Rebecca. Hey Sally, welcome to the show. Nice to have you here, Mimi. Mimi, who does all the timestamps. Thank you Mimi for all the hard work that you put into the show. Jenna V is here, of course, of course, of course. Alohaj is with us today. So awesome. Okay, you guys, Katie's here. Okay, if I missed your name, just pop something in the chat so I can get your name and give you a shout out on saying hi to you. We're gonna get right into it today. If you have any questions you wanna connect with loved ones on the other side, please call in<PHONE_NUMBER>. Or you can put a question in the chat.  I don't know that that's a great thing. Yeah, but it's been a couple of days so here we go, right? Alrighty, let's see. Anne wants to know, my mom is Catherine. Oh, Anne, I'm so sorry. Her mom is Catherine, she died in jail. Do you know how she died? What she died from, I think, is what's being said here. Does she have any messages for me? Okay, Catherine, the message, okay, so Anne, I'm sorry. Your mom, Catherine, the first thing that I'm hearing is like, I'm hearing two things, influenza, congestive heart, influenza, congestive heart, influenza, congestive heart. So I think there were some heart issues already in play or if not, they came to her while she was in jail and then I hear influenza. So whatever happened with your mom, and I do think there were some other things that may never come out that were going on, but in any case, I'm really sorry that that happened to her and to you and the biggest message that she has for you right now is to, it's really weird. I'm hearing that song, that one song, you gotta keep them separated. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. She's saying it's okay for you to, and then I hear the song, you can go, yeah, on way, go, yeah, on way. Yeah, folks, I know I can't sing. So one thing I can't do. So I think what she's, the message that she's giving you and is it's okay to not be around people who you don't, that aren't the best for you, if that makes sense, love. If somebody's not good to you, they gotta go. They just, they have to go, don't keep them in your life. Okay, love, that's just not the way to do this. Okay, I'm gonna go to the first caller and then I'm gonna take the next question in the chat, 814, what's your name and where are you calling from? This is Amy and I'm calling from Pennsylvania. Hey, Amy, how can I help you today? And my question is, do you see my fun, Tristan getting a job that he applied for? Okay. It's just a part time, cashier job. Okay, I do feel like he's going to get, he is going to get a position. I don't know if it's going to be that exact one. I feel like there's, he should be put, I feel like, and I get it, but I feel like if he hasn't already put out more applications, that more should be put out. And can I please ask your son's age? He's 17. Okay, yeah. And I feel like wherever he's going to get hired, he should be, it's what they're showing me is so crazy. I don't even know if this is possible. I'm just gonna tell you what I'm getting for the sake of it. I keep seeing like a sporting goods store, which I know the sporting goods store, I'm seeing that exists here, but I don't know if it exists there. But at some point I think this might be where he or how he ends up as a part time position. So I would have him also, if he hasn't looked into that, I would have him also look into that and let me know how that turns out for him. Let me know if that like is something that works out. Maybe they just need somebody. Maybe it's a better fit for him. I don't know, but I feel like that's gonna be really a positive thing for him moving forward, if he can get into that place. Now I'm gonna tell you oddly enough, I don't know why this is all coming to me, but there's a sporting goods store in our area. And I didn't know this. The only reason I found out about this was because somebody that I know, knew somebody who worked there. And they helped with some of their college funding too. So if you were there as an employee. Oh, okay. Yeah, if you were there as an employee, they actually helped with some of your college funding for certain employees that were high school to college. And this is what I'm seeing. I don't know again that it's the exact same sporting goods store, but what I can tell you is there is a much, there might be a much better fit if he gets into something like that, just for all the reasons that that would be there. Okay, La? Excellent. I hope that was helpful for you. Thank you so much. You are so welcome. Yes, it is. Thank you so, so much. Absolutely my pleasure. Good luck to him in his endeavors. Okay. Thank you. You are welcome. Thank you for calling into the show. I'm going to go to the next question online. Rebecca is saying Sunday morning around 4 a.m. I heard my kitchen cabinet close. Who was visiting me early in the morning? Oh, Rebecca. Who doesn't visit us early in the morning, right? Oh my goodness. This past week has been crazy with all kinds of things. The first thing I hear is mom. So if it wasn't directly your mom, it's your mom's mom, somebody on your mom's side of the family, and somebody who was always, always, always, always in the kitchen, always in the kitchen. Like I would say this might even be a grandmom because grandmoms, you know, traditionally you took care of the home, but they were always in the kitchen, just always in the kitchen. So somebody on your mom's side of the family, either mom or grandmom, that was there. And the message for you, Rebecca, is, oh, you need to bake, bake a little more and keep things a little bit more organized. I don't even know if that makes sense, love. I hope it does. I really, I really hope it does. Yeah, Genevieve is commenting, 333. I was waking up, you know, there is something to that timeframe between 3 and 5 a.m. where those of us who are very sensitive to that energy, it comes in and it's just so, so around us and yeah, waking us up. I'm gonna go to 520520, what's your name? Where are you calling from? How are you? I'm good, Lisa. How can I help you today? Well, Lisa, I'm trying to, I'm just gonna say, no, no. You know, I'm just gonna say this for you and I understand how frustrating it can be, but what they really wanna say to you is sometimes rejection is protection. Sometimes something doesn't move further forward because we are supposed to be a working, I hear you're supposed to be working and more focused on yourself right now than somebody else. There's something within you or something about your life that you need to clean up. Man, this is not the message I wanna give right now. Oh, hey, babe. But I'm just gonna say it. I'm just gonna tell you what they're saying and you can do with it what you want, Lisa. And I apologize if this message doesn't make sense to you, but if it does, then it's helpful. And if it doesn't make sense, sit back, take some slow deep breaths and figure out what they're talking about. There's something in your life right now that you need to get a better perspective on or you need to fix or clean up or look into all this energy that you're trying to put someplace else, you're supposed to be trying to put into and on yourself. Okay, into and on yourself and I'm so sorry, sweetie. You're supposed to be putting that energy into and on yourself and you will then be able to move forward with the right person in the right way. I'm so sorry I got distracted. Somebody was just leaving. So what I'm going to tell you right now is the moment that you stop focusing all your energy in and on this person is the moment that you get the clarity that you need. Okay, there it is, I love spirit. Okay, whatever it is. Okay, and I'm going to say it like this and I know this is such a long roundabout message.  A lot of times when we're really trying to get somebody to want us, to like us, to love us or however you want to say that and maybe I'm making it sound a little bit more. Do you want you? Would you pick you?  We have healthy self-love, I get a no. I'm going to do another clearing. We want ourselves and we like ourselves and we love ourselves. All three of those, I can barely talk folks. Oh my goodness. Oh. Oh, my, my, my. Okay, there's a lot coming out with that. If anybody else is feeling that and is having an experience from that, please, please let me know in the chat. We're at about the 13 minute mark, 12 and a half minute mark with that clearing.  You start focusing all that on you is the moment everything's going to pop open and then you're going to look at this person and not even understand what you were thinking. The second thing I want to say is sweetie, sweet, beautiful, beautiful, amazing girl. Sometimes people, when we like them, they will let us like them because they like the attention even if they know it might not be going where you want it to go, they're not ready to give up that admiration and attention that you are giving them.  I'm not even going to finish that one. Pull all of your attention back, pull all of your energy back into you, focus only on you and your relationship with yourself because this person is, and if I have to be a little bit blunt about it, if this was the person you're supposed to be with, it would be happening differently. It would be happening and you would be there and it would be we're progressing in a healthy manner. And this is my favorite one and I've had to remind myself of this one a million gazillion times. If you have to ask a question about a relationship or work or anything else, we already know the answer, we just don't want to, we just don't want to, we wanna believe our heart over our head or our intuition. So we already know something's not right, we already know something's off and we do want clarity, but in your case, who cares why this person isn't where you are? Let that go, stop, stop. There can be a million people that are out there that want us, but we are so caught up in the one that's not giving us exactly what we want and we must win that prize. And it's like being at the carnival, playing that game where we're throwing the ball over and over or whatever it is to win like we spend like however much money to win like something they paid a quarter for, like stop, stop trying to win this prize, the game is rigged. They know the trick to the game, we might not know the trick to the game, but at some point we have to say, is this prize really worth everything I'm putting in? Is it even a prize? And most importantly, is it my prize? Is this my prize? Is this the prize I'm supposed to walk out with? Who are we? That was awesome, that was really good. I love that message for you, sweetie. I love it, how, does that make sense to you, sweetie?  He does those things, but active in my spiritual stuff and my own activities, but I'll certainly listen to your words and ponder them for sure. Okay, I wanna ask you a question and this is not only for you, some of the messages that came through, they're absolutely for you, but they're also for other people that might be listening, that might be in a similar situation, but what I'm gonna say to you, I'm gonna ask you a question and I really want you, you don't have to answer this question on air, but I do want you to really think about this. If you had a daughter and she was in your exact situation or a sister or somebody you really, really loved, your mom, whomever it is and she was in your exact situation and you had all the information you have, what would you guide her to do? Now, don't listen with that same heart that you have for yourself because when it comes to somebody else, we can remove the emotion and work a little bit more from logic and we can see it completely differently. So if you had somebody that you just adored and felt protective over and they were in your exact situation and this was their circumstance, the information you would give them might look a little bit differently than the answers that you are wanting to keep for yourself and there is nothing wrong with that. Listen, we have all been in situations or situationships or whatever we wanna call them maybe we stay past the expiration date, maybe we go a little bit longer into this relationship with hope, hope that it's going to have this outcome, okay? We ignore all evidence to what is because we want what might be and what your angels are or you know, what they're saying to you is look at it as though it's not your personal relationship and then make decisions based on that. Now, I'm going to tell you this, I've had to do this in my life where I've been in a situation with somebody that I just adored beyond all and if it wouldn't be anybody else, I would be telling them to do A, B and C but I went XYZ all the way, okay? I was like, nope, I'm going to double down on this.  We do it out of hope and if we're empathic and we're on a spiritual journey, we believe the other person is there with us and they're so, we see only the good and what the possible outcome that we want and the truth of the matter is and I'm just because somebody says they want to do A, B or C, somebody says this, that or the other thing, if you're not seeing and I don't care, I'm just going to say this, if you are not seeing the results that you should be seeing by this point in your situation, in your relationship or the results that you feel like you want in this relationship by this point in time, then reexamine it because sweet girl for you and anybody else in the world, do not invest time because time is the most amazing, beautiful thing that we have but it's the only thing we can never get back. It's the only thing we can never get the last year back. We can never get the last five minutes back. So do not invest time in junk stock and not that this person is junk. I am not saying that at all, but know that don't, the way they want to say this, I'm going to pull it back a little bit.  Even if everything else I said so far, you are set on an outcome. Okay, you are set on this one outcome, okay? And the longer we go down a road, the more set we have to be on that outcome because we don't want to be wrong. And there's this statement. It's easier to fool somebody than to convince them they've been fooled. It's easier to believe that something might come than to believe that it was never going to or that now it's not going to come. And I want you to do the, and not me. When I say I, it's not me. What I'm going to tell you right now is if this person was where you are and wanted what you want, you wouldn't be on the phone with me right now and you would be in a very happy place. And I am going to tell you this. I don't care why this person might not be ready for the commitment you want. Let me rephrase that. I don't know, I don't care why this person might not be ready for the commitment with you that you want. I don't care what else is going on in their life. This call is not about them, it's about you. But whatever that reason is, it exists. So you have to start to do what's best for you at this point. And sometimes we think I'm already this far in so I'm going to keep going, otherwise I have to start over or I might just be single. That's okay. I would rather be single and not confused. I would rather be single and happy.  Then I'm giggling because of a situation I'm very well aware of, then to do whatever. And sometimes we have to pull all of our energy back from someone so they can realize what they would be missing if we weren't there and then they can make the decision to come to this situation correct and stand up and be the person they need to be in this situation and stop lollygagging themselves around. Or we can move on, okay? So even maybe pulling your energy back and being all about you is more about them figuring out what they want. Now I am going to tell you, if we're giving all of our energy to somebody, male, female, I don't care. If we're giving all of our energy to somebody and they know they got it on lockdown with their, down, they don't have to do anything. They can just keep it like it is because that's what's comfortable for them. And what I'm going to tell you right now is if you really wanna see if this guy is going to come forward and give you what you want, pull all of your energy back. It's not a game. Either this is going to keep going like it is or you're going to move on. But if you pull all of your energy back, this person is going to have to look at what they want with you, how they want it and come forward correct. And don't let them come back to this same pattern, okay?  I'm going to let that sit there. I know that this is not what you want to hear. And I know people will tell me, well, this other reader or so on or so forth told me this. I'm going to tell you this. Maybe they did tell you that. And maybe that is one of the million possibilities in the world. I'm telling you right now, somebody up there is telling you in the nicest possible way. I'm not even using the strong verbiage they're using. It's time for you to get back into you and do what's best for you. And I am also the, ah, they will not let this go. I keep trying to say, this is going to be the last thing. This is going to be that. And they just, I'm like, nope, we're riding this pony all the way to the finish line. Even if it doesn't win the race, we're going to ride this pony all the way to the finish line.  And you also will be able to be clearer in your mind about where you want to be and what you want. You clearly for some time are not getting the results that you want doing it the way you're doing it. That is not what I thought I was going to say. Doing it the way you're doing it. So try it a different way. If for no other reason than to do an experiment to see if you can just get a different result. Okay, okay. I'm just, I'm cutting, I'm cutting it off. I'm like saying, nope, no more. My ears have stopped hearing your words. It doesn't come in my ears, it's in my head. But I'm just going to say, I hope that was helpful for you, love. I hope that is what you needed. And I know it's not what you, I always say this, I'm not the fluff and stuff reader as far as, I'm going to tell you what you want to hear.  I just tell people what they want to hear so they come back. No, I don't do that because it's not me and it's unethical. And I don't tell people what they want to hear, but I will tell you what you need to know. And what you need to know, Jesus, Moses and Mary, what you need to know right now is you need to pull your energy back and you need to move on a little bit and let this person catch up correctly. If they're going to catch up, if they can't catch up, you just leave them behind. You just need to leave them behind. Okay, you guys, I love each and every one of you. So stinking much, please remember it is your job to create the miracles in your life. So create the miracles you want for you. Thank you.