August 15, 2012 
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read,” Scout said in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. “One does not love breathing.”
That riveting coming-of-age tale continues to breathe life into youth, as it is this season’s classic selection for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Young Readers Program.
And Chautauqua Boys’ and Girls’ Club instructor Anna Ertenberg will engage young readers in a discussion at 4:15 p.m. today in the Alumni Hall Garden Room.
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August 8, 2012 0 Comments
“I’m a slow writer,” two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Schmidt said about his approach to developing stories. “I want to be able to let the characters grow into real individuals.”
Schmidt’s Okay for Now is this week’s Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Young Readers Program selection, and Don Kimes, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution’s artistic director, will join the discussion at 4:15 p.m. today in the Alumni Hall Ballroom.
Okay for Now transforms minor character Doug Swieteck from Schmidt’s award-winning The Wednesday Wars into a compelling protagonist surrounded by heartache.
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July 18, 2012 0 Comments
Running water can be taken for granted in privileged societies, but not in a land where bullets fall more than rain.
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Young Readers program’s selection this week is Newbery Award-winning author Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. The book is based on the life narrative of Salva Dut, who went from being a child refugee in Sudan to becoming a living inspiration.
The novel, published in 2010, will be discussed at 4:15 p.m. today in the Alumni Hall Ballroom. Conservationists Jane Conroe and Deb Naybor, from the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, will educate the young readers on water, and show them how some women and children carry water in African nations.
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July 3, 2012 0 Comments
“I think the stars have all been swept up by the storm” are 12-year-old Lanesha’s resonating words in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ fictional narrative Ninth Ward.
Published in 2010, the book is the second CLSC Young Readers selection this season. The group will discuss it at 4:15 p.m. today in the Alumni Hall Garden Room. The local chapter of the American Red Cross will join the Young Readers to talk about hurricanes as natural disasters, and survival skills.
“I always wanted to write a children’s book,” Rhodes said about Ninth Ward. The story follows a gifted and thoughtful young girl, Lanesha, who must find a way to help her 82-year-old caretaker, Mama Yaya, survive Hurricane Katrina.
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June 24, 2012 0 Comments
It’s time to crack open a book, turn a page and witness a refreshing dawn for the 2012 CLSC Young Readers program.
Young Readers, entering its 19th year, is under the new leadership of Teresa Adams, assistant director of the Department of Education and Youth Services and director of Special Studies. The program is designed for children ages 10-14.
“We want to give them the overall experience of the characters in the book,” she said.
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August 24, 2011 Comments Off
As a child, the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell used to sneak down into her great-grandmother’s cellar, where it was “black as pitch.”
It was just like any old cellar — used to store jarred fruit preserves — except that this cellar had a secret that was hundreds of years old.
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August 17, 2011 Comments Off
In Flory’s world, squirrels are giant beasts and bats can be dangerous predators, but this little fairy has the magic and the heart to face any danger — even when she no longer can use her wings to fly away.
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August 10, 2011 Comments Off
Julian Carter-Li has the worst family in the world. His mother left him behind so that she could go to China and made him stay with his evil aunt and uncle who don’t even like him. And worst of all, Julian’s uncle is responsible for cutting down hundreds of redwood trees just so he can be rich and have chauffeurs drive him around in fancy cars.
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