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

Thu May 26 09:25:33 CDT 2016

I would be interested!

When are you thinking of doing it?

Fall or spring?

Mariela Siegert
School Librarian
Westfield Middle School
marris116 at gmail.com
@marris116

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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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