Hillbilly Elegy - Cleburne, Texas

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Jon Land

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Teresa Messineo

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Liela Meacham

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Randy Wayne White

Without Mercy

Jefferson Bass

The Sleepwalker

Chris Bohjalian

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Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

Delving into his own personal story and drawing on a wide array of sociological studies, Vance takes us deep into working class life in the Appalachian region. This demographic of our country has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, and Vance provides a searching and clear-eyed attempt to understand when and how “hillbillies” lost faith in any hope of upward mobility, and in opportunities to come.

From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appalachian town, that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class. Part memoir, part historical and social analysis, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is a fascinating consideration of class, culture, and the American dream.

Vance’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love.” They got married and moved north from Kentucky to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. Their grandchild (the author) graduated from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving upward mobility for their fami-ly. But Vance cautions that is only the short version. The slightly longer version is that his grandparents, aunt, uncle, and mother struggled to varying degrees with the demands of their new middle class life and they, and Vance himself, still carry around the demons of their chaotic family history.

Caldecott and Newbery Award Winners

These award winners are some of Susan’s favorites. Which are your favorites?

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Newbery Award - 1990 Available as an audio book, ebook, and in print.

“In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.”

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Newbery Award – 1977

Available as an audio book and in print.

“A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimi-nation which their children don't understand.”

The Three Pigs by David Wiesner Caldecott Award – 2002

“The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.”

Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes Caldecott Award – 2005

Available in Spanish and in English.

“What a night! The moon is full. Kitten is hungry and inquisitive and brave and fast and persistent and unlucky . . . then lucky! What a night!”

The 2017 Caldecott Medal winner is Radiant Child:

The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,

illustrated and written by Javaka Steptoe. This title

will soon be added to our library col-

lection. “Steptoe’s engaging art makes

Basquiat approachable for children

without his complexities,” said

Caldecott Medal Committee Chair

Rhonda K. Gould.

The 2017 Newbery winner is The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill. It is also a 2017-18 Bluebonnet Award Nominee. “This compassionate, hopeful novel invites children everywhere to harness their power, and ask important questions about what keeps us apart and what brings us together” said Newbery Med-al Committee Chair Thom Barthelmess.

The Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal are two of the most notable awards awarded annually the by the Association for Library Service to Chil-dren, a division of the American Library Associa-tion. These books are in special separate sections in our library. The Caldecott Medal Winners are housed on the display rounder in the children’s section. The Newbery Medal Winners and Newbery Honor books are shelved in the back corner of the children’s section in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. The Medal Winners are marked with gold medal seals. The awards committee also awards the Honor Medal to worthy runners-up marked with silver medal seals.

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal

“The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.”

“The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribu-tion to American literature for children.”

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal

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For more information,

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Cleburne Animal Services

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Cleburne Animal

Shelter first Thursday

each month.

$5 rabies and more.

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