‎"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steven Jobs, Stanford commencement address, 2005.

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Melissa Singleton Josef is an MLIS K-12 certified teacher librarian and author of The Suburban Barnyard as well as an environmental education resource blog called The Green Room. She is passionate about education and information literacy in all of its evolving formats as well as good old traditional love of reading. She is eclectic in her interests from science to art and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with an undergraduate BAAS degree majoring in English/Business and Technical Writing and minoring in Fine Arts. She has traveled throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and Europe and speaks both French and Japanese. She is currently in search of a full-time teaching position and spends her time writing novels, children's books, blogging, job searching, and substitute teaching PT in all teaching positions K-12.

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

World Book Night

I am so excited -- I just got news that I was selected as a book giver for World Book Night! I am not entirely certain what book I will be giving away or where I will be giving it away, but it will most likely be a coffee shop in downtown Wayne, PA. World Book Night is an annual event that is held in the US, Ireland, and the UK on the same date in an effort to spread the love of reading and books within our communities by giving away quality paperback books.  On April 23rd and I will be hanging out at my location with a box of books and giving them out FOR FREE as I join in on this wonderful effort to promote literacy within our community. For more information check out www.worldbooknight.org/.
The Books Being Featured this Year Include:
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
    Wintergirls
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    Friday Night Lights
    Kindred
    Ender's Game
    Little Bee
    The Hunger Games
    Blood Work
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    Because of Winn Dixie
    Zeitoun
    Peace Like a River
    A Reliable Wife
    Q is for Quarry
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    The Kite Runner
    The Stand
    The Poisonwood Bible
    The History of Love
    The Namesake
    The Things They Carried
    Bel Canto
    My Sister's Keeper
    Housekeeping
    The Lovely Bones
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Just Kids
    The Glass Castle
    The Book Thief
     
 
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