Reader's Advisory - Sarah Dessen

• Teenage girls
• Teenage boy/girl relations
• Self-discovery
• Guilt
• Realistic fiction
  

READALIKES:
The boyfriend list: (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver) by E. Lockhart
Things Hoped For by Andrew Clements
This is all: the pillow book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers
Amazing Grace by Megan Shull
Girl of the Moment by Lizabeth Zindel

Thanksgiving Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Biscuit Is Thankful written by Alyssa Satin Capacilli, illustrated by Pat Schories (board book)
• Activity –If You're Happy and You Know It (action song from Songs for Wiggleworms)
• Flannelboard/Puppets - Turkey Hide and Seek (A fingerplay that I changed into a stick puppet rhyme. I found it at http://www.susanmdailey/fingerplays.html as of 19 May 2007.)
• Book #2 - Five Silly Turkeys by Salina Yoon (board book)
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• Activity - I'm a Little Turkey (action song to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot" that I found in a Mailbox magazine)
• Closing - Tambourines using "Kookaburra" from Where Is Thumbkin?: Action Songs for Every Month by Kimbo
• Craft – Glue feathers to turkey cut-out