Youth Services News

June 14, 2019

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Summer Meals

Summer meal sites are getting ready to feed kids who may be missing out on nutritious lunches while school is out (maybe your library is one such site!) In the next week you will receive a packet of flyers for the 2019 RI Summer Meals program. Please post and share these flyers in your library and community. A PDF of the flyer is included below if you need additional copies.For more information on the summer meals program, visit the summer meals tab on the Summer Reading Program LibGuide.

How to help families find summer meal sites in your community:

print and distribute the RI Summer Meals flyer
promote the RI Summer Meals program on your library's web site and social media
call 211 for locations
show families and teens how to download the RI Summer Meals app from the App Store

Nationwide, families can find summer meal sites by:

searching an address through the USDA meal site finder at www.fns.usda.gov/summerfoodrocks
texting “Summer Meals” to 97779
calling 1-866-348-6479

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RI Latino Books Month Winners Announced

Grades K-2: Turning Pages My Life Story by Sonia Sotomayor Illustrated by Lulu Delacre

Grades 3-5: Sci-Fu by Yehudi Mercado

Grades: 6-8: Al Capone Throws Me a Curve: A Tale of from Alcatraz by Gennifer Choldenko

Grades: 9-12: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

57 schools and public libraries participated, and 1,857 students in grades K-12 read at least 3 nominees and voted.

Two authors will be invited to the Rhode Island Children's Book and Author Festival at the Lincoln School in October.

Thank you to the Rhode Island Latino Arts for promoting Latino literature in partnership with the Pawtucket Public Library, Raising Readers, the Rhode Island Center for the Book, Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS) and RI school districts.

Thank you to everyone for participating and celebrating RI Latino Books Month Book Award Nominees. - Maria Cotto

For more information on RI Latino Books Month visit http://www.rilatinoarts.org/LatinoBooksMonth.html

2019 RI Latino Books Month Winner Annoucement.mp4

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Kids Reading Across RI

RIMSBA Committee Application Now Available.

Rhode Island Middle School Book Award Committee membership applications are now available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHP5p5-yD2yt0kObEI1NdDrpPP3wbxR9Gfyeii_eDRUAKUpg/viewform through June 21.

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June Mock Newbery Read-Along

Join the Mock Newbery Goodreads group read-along! Each month we'll pick a book published in 2019 to read and virtually discuss in preparation for creating our first 2020 reading list. June's book book is The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin.

Want to read ahead? Our July book is The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake. The first 2020 Mock Newbery reading list will be available July 22. Email your recommendations (or post to the Goodreads group) by July 19.

Not part of the Mock Newbery Goodreads group? Join now !