[ISLMA-Share] Planning an author visit for next year?

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I forgot to add my e-mail address in the above message:

sschubbe at peotoneschools.org

Sheri Schubbe
Media Specialist
Peotone CUSD 207U
708-258-3236

Mrs. Schubbe is reading *The Naturals* by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.


On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Sheri Schubbe <sschubbe at peotoneschools.org>
wrote:

> I'd be interested if it works out in the lower price range for multiple
> visit days. Peotone Junior High School is south of Chicago about 35 miles;
> if you think he would travel an hour or so from your area, please keep me
> in mind.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sheri Schubbe
> Media Specialist
> Peotone CUSD 207U
> 708-258-3236
>
> Mrs. Schubbe is reading *The Naturals* by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> I am considering having Jordan Sonnenblick visit my school next year.
>> Here is the email I just received back from him. Would anyone in northern
>> Illinois be interested in sharing his visit?
>>
>> *Thank you so much for your interest in a visit, and for using my work
>> with so many of your students!*
>>
>> *On a typical visit day, I do three presentations, plus lunch with a
>> small group, plus book signing if you choose to sell my books to your
>> students ahead of time (which I hope you do).  The presentations can be all
>> assemblies, or a combination of assemblies and small-group writing
>> workshops of up to 50 students per session.  I like to have an hour with
>> each group, if possible — especially if we are doing a writing workshop.*
>>
>> *My assembly program in a school where Drums has been the students’ focus
>> is all about what I learned through becoming an author (because Drums was
>> my first book).  I start off my asking the kids to raise their hands if
>> they think it would be a good idea to be happy when they grow up.  Of
>> course, most of them do so.  Then I talk about how when I was in middle
>> school, I used to worry that I wouldn’t be a happy adult, because I was a
>> miserable kid: my parents were on their way to a divorce; I had undiagnosed
>> ADHD; I was unathletic and severely asthmatic; I was short and chubby, and
>> had huge glasses and braces.  I spend the rest of the assembly talking
>> about the secret of being a happy adult, which in my life has been finding
>> a way to use my talents to make someone else’s life better.  Basically, I
>> grew up, became a middle-school English teacher, and wrote Drums for a
>> student of mine whose little brother had cancer.  The presentation is funny
>> and interactive, because I ask lots of questions, and often joke around
>> with specific kids in the audience.  Generally, there is also time for Q&A
>> at the end.*
>>
>> *I charge $2,200 for the day, plus actual travel and hotel expenses.  I
>> live in Pennsylvania, so in your case that would involve flights and a car
>> rental at your end.  This means the trip would probably only be
>> cost-effective if we could find a few other Chicago-area schools that would
>> like me to visit them while I am out there.  If we can line up three or
>> more consecutive visit days, I generally find that the expenses drop to
>> around $425 or $450 per day, including flights.  I am all booked up for
>> September and October, and don’t like to book anything in the North that
>> involves flights in the winter because of potential cancellations, so
>> realistically, we would be looking at November or early spring in terms of
>> dates.*
>>
>> *If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.*
>>
>> *Thanks again -*
>>
>> *Jordan*
>>
>> *PS - I have a new book about an 8th-grade girl coming out on September
>> 27.  I am trying to remember to tell all the library media specialists who
>> contact me!  Here is the starred review that will appear in BOOKLIST next
>> week:*
>>
>> *«Falling over Sideways.*
>> *Sonnenblick, Jordan (Author)*
>> *Sep 2016. 272 p. Scholastic, hardcover, $17.99. (9780545863247).
>> Scholastic, e-book, $17.99. (9780545863261).*
>> *Claire feels left behind when her best ballet-school friends are
>> unexpectedly elevated to a higher class. She spends the first day of eighth
>> grade coping with menstrual cramps, a zit on her nose, and sniping
>> classmates. But the worst is yet to come: her father has a stroke, making
>> speech and movement difficult. After months of looking inward and trying to
>> carry on normally, Claire realizes she’s been avoiding the obvious: she has
>> a role to play in her father’s recovery. Although tentative at first, her
>> response enables her to get beyond paralysis, weather the next storm, and
>> move forward with her life. Sonnenblick has a knack for smart, droll,
>> first-person narration, and that’s as true here as in his earlier books
>> featuring male protagonists. He portrays a diverse group of middle-school
>> kids as interesting individuals, while creating a believable web of
>> relationships among them. From her driven-to-perfection older brother to a
>> vindictive teacher to a mean-girl classmate, the characters and their
>> dialogue are convincing and often entertaining. The book’s beginning sounds
>> so much like other, sunnier novels that readers, like Claire, will feel a
>> jolt when the first crisis comes. But they’ll stay with her every step of
>> the way.*
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrea Perrin
>> LRC Director
>> Woodland Middle School
>> Gurnee, Illinois
>> aperrin at dist50.net
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire -
>> William Butler Yeats *
>> *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_dy8wzZuE&feature=youtu.be
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_dy8wzZuE&feature=youtu.be>*
>>
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