GWAEA Media Book Talks

Book Talks - Intermediate Level Student Books - March 2010

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:02:01 -0500

Grant Wood AEA Media presents a series of podcasts entitled Book Talks. These podcasts introduce books and book sets that are available for use by area students and educators from the Grant Wood AEA Media Collections. Our presenter for Book Talks is Melva Starr, Media Specialist at Grant Wood Area Education Agency. In this podcast Melva talks about the following intermediate level student books:
"Sand Dollar Summer" by Kimberly Jones
"When I Crossed No-Bob" by Margaret McMullan
"The Cats In Krasinski Square" by Karen Hesse
"Leap Of Faith" by Kimberly Brubaker
"Stumptown Kid" by Carol Gorman
"Bird Lake Moon" by Kevin Henkes
"Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf" by Kevin Henkes
"Sweetgrass Basket" by Marlene Carvell
"Jimmy's Stars" by Mary Ann Rodman
"Code Talker" by Joseph Bruchac
"Six Innings: A Game In The Life" by James Preller
"Rules" by Cynthia Lord

Book Talks Iowa Children's Choice Award 2009-2010

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:51:21 -0500

Grant Wood AEA Media presents a series of podcasts entitled Book Talks. These podcasts introduce books and book sets that are available for use by area students and educators from the Grant Wood AEA Media Collections. Our presenter for Book Talks is Melva Starr, Media Specialist at Grant Wood Area Education Agency. In this podcast Melva talks about the following books from the Iowa Children's Choice Award list from 2009-2010:
"A Crooked Kind Of Perfect" by Linda Urban
"What I Call Life" by Jill Wolfson
"Snap: A Novel" by Alison McGhee
"Julia's Kitchen" by Brenda A. Ferber
"Way Down Deep" by Ruth White
"A Friendship For Today" by Patricia McKissack
"Being Teddy Roosevelt" by Claudia Mills
"Eleven" by Patricia Reilly Giff
"The Liberation Of Gabriel King" by K. L. Going
"Double Identity" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"Someone Named Eva" by Joan M. Wolf

Book Talks - Professional Library - March 2010

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:37:30 -0500

Grant Wood AEA Media presents a series of podcasts entitled Book Talks. These podcasts introduce books and book sets that are available for use by area students and educators from the Grant Wood AEA Media Collections. Our presenter for Book Talks is Melva Starr, Media Specialist at Grant Wood Area Education Agency. In this podcast Melva talks about the following Grant Wood AEA Professional Library books:
"Bite-Sized Marketing" by Nancy Dowd
"Copyright For Administrators" by Carol Simpson
"Focus Your Vision" with Dewitt Jones (DVD)
"2 Million Minutes" presented by Robert A. Compton (DVD)
"Catching Up Or Leading The Way" by Yong Zhao
"Inside, Outside And Online" by Chrystie Hill
"Doubling Student Performance" by Allan Odden
"Launching Learners In Science PreK-5" by Kerry C. Williams
"Power Tools For Adolescent Literacy" by Jan Rozelle and Carol Scearce

Book Talks 1-22-09

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:02:13 -0500

Grant Wood AEA Media presents a series of podcasts entitled Book Talks. These podcasts introduce books and book sets that are available for use by area students and educators from the Grant Wood AEA Media Collections. Our presenter for Book Talks is Melva Starr, Media Specialist at Grant Wood Area Education Agency. In this podcast Melva talks about the following books:
"Runner" by Carl Deuker
"Dairy Queen" by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
"Uprising" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"Singing Hands" by Delia Ray
"Edward's Eyes" by Patricia MacLachlan
"Little Klein" by Anne Ylvisaker
"The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty Birney
"Listening For Lions" by Gloria Whelan
"Hotel For Dogs" by Lois Duncan
"Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
"Raleigh's Page" by Alan W. Armstrong
"Paint The Wind" by Pam Muñoz Ryan