CSD presents:
BEST 2024: The Spring Edition
Thursday March 7, 2024, 9:30am-1:30 p.m.
Online Via Zoom*
Members: $25.00 Non-members: $37.50
Student/Retired/Unemployed/Friend: $12.50
Love talking about books? Join us for BEST 2024: The Spring Edition, a celebration of Children’s and Teen Fiction. Learn about the Black-Eyed Susan Award and participate, via Zoom, in a half day of small group discussions of some of the 2023-2024 Juvenile and Teen Fiction nominees. Wendy Shang, author of The Secret Battle of Evan Pao, will be our keynote speaker.
Program check-in begins at 9:25 a.m., and the program will start at 9:30 a.m. There will be two discussion groups, meeting twice, so that you can participate in both a Grades 3-5 and a Grades 6-12 discussion group. Contact Joe Farmarco or Noel Knepper for more info.
Reading Lists:
Group 1, Grades 3-5
Collier, Nicole D, Just Right Jillian
Connor, Leslie, Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?
Magoon, Kekla, Chester Keene Cracks the Code
McDunn, Gillian, Honestly Eliott
Yee, Lisa, Maizy Chen’s Last Chance
Group 2, Grades 6-12
Alexander, Kwame, The Door of No Return
Dee, Barbara, Violets Are Blue
Shang, Wendy Wan-Long, The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Standish, Ali, Yonder
Sepetys, Ruta, I Must Betray You
Please read all the titles for each group.
This program has been approved for 3.5 contact hours of continuing education.
Registration deadline is February 22nd, 2024.
*Zoom link will be sent on March 5, 2024, to registrants.