Roar for Cavalcade of Authors Happy Children’s Book Week! And welcome to a Special Edition of Library Lions. This week we’re Roaring for the Cavalcade of Authors now in its 5th year! The Skinny Cavalcade of Authors yearly conference is dedicated to providing the secondary students of our region access toRead More →

Congratulations to these Cavalcade authors, recently recognized by the Young Adult Library Services Association: 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Janet Lee Carey, Dragonswood Kimberly Derting, The Pledge Maureen McQuerry, The Peculiars Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky Suzanne Selfors, The Sweetest Spell Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood andRead More →

Roar for Cavalcade of Authors Welcome to Library Lions interviews.This month we’re Raising a Roar for Cavalcade of Authors! It’s an honor to introduce librarian Michelle Lane, creator of Cavalcade! Michelle has been a librarian for 6 years. Here’s her school library “called The Cat’s Den” at Enterprise Middle SchoolRead More →

Janet Lee Carey says she has been writing “ever since I could hold a pencil between my stubby little fingers. But the longer answer is I began writing poetry in grade 8. That’s when I fell in love with the music of the language. Poetry and journal writing eventually ledRead More →