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\"In the world of cards, each one has a special job to do. Big Card keeps important papers in order. Tiny Card can be exchanged for a prize in an arcade. Round Card hangs out in a glamorous boutique. But is any card as lucky as Little Card? He s going to school to become a birthday card in other words, to sing, play games, eat cake, and be happy all day long. \"But wait! \"On the day he s supposed to take his talents into the world, Long Card tells him there s been a mix-up and they need to trade jobs. How can Little Card bring his exuberance into a library, a quiet place of books and rules and hushing? Offbeat and utterly endearing, this tale of a little guy who gives it all he s got is complete with a sweet twist and a surprise ending.\"--Provided by publisher.

PurposeReaders articulate mood in deeply subjective ways, yet the underlying structure of users' understanding of the media they consume has important implications for retrieval and access. User articulations might at first seem too idiosyncratic, but organizing them meaningfully has considerable potential to provide a better searching experience for all involved. The current study develops mood categories inductively for fiction organization and retrieval in information systems.Design/methodology/approachThe authors developed and distributed an open-ended survey to 76 fiction readers to understand their preferences with regard to the affective elements in fiction. From the fiction reader responses, the research team identified 161 mood terms and used them for further categorization.FindingsThe inductive approach resulted in 30 categories, including angry, cozy, dark and nostalgic. Results include three overlapping mood families: Emotion, Tone/Narrative, and Atmosphere/Setting, which in turn relate to structures that connect reader-generated data with conceptual frameworks in previous studies.Originality/valueThe inherent complexity of “mood” should not dissuade researchers from carefully investigating users' preferences in this regard. Adding to the existing efforts of classifying moods conducted by experts, the current study presents mood terms provided by actual end-users when describing different moods in fiction. This study offers a useful roadmap for creating taxonomies for retrieval and description, as well as structures derived from user-provided terms that ultimately have the potential to improve user experience.

In autumn 2021, months after the vaccine had proven to be effective in combating the novel coronavirus outbreak and as the Delta variant was picking up speed, I found myself thinking about the catastrophic loss our nation had experienced and was continuing to endure. Mostly, though, my attention kept turning to the losses weathered by our nation’s children. I thought of the grieving families and of the children who suddenly found themselves orphans.The losses were indeed calamitous—an estimated two hundred thousand children in this country are now orphans because of the coronavirus. In fact, as of 2022, the pandemic alone was responsible for a little less than a tenth of all orphans under the age of 18.1 As new variants emerge and as both resistance to and lack of access to vaccines continue to be societal barriers, that number will likely grow.

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced its selections for the 2016 Reading List as well as the short lists and read-alikes. Established in 2007 by the CODES section of RUSA, The Reading List seeks to highlight outstanding genre fiction that merit special attention by general adult readers and the librarians who work with them.

[...]commences the Pygmalion adventure of the street cat evolving into a palace cat. [...]questions are raised and answered:

Refusing to be victims of imperialist agendas, Mean's characters defy stereotypes that surface repeatedly in contemporary literary and visual narratives. [...] these characters appear in stories in which Mean successfully destabilizes the power of the image, thereby upsetting one fundamental structure undergirding imperialist discourse.

The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story, by Wilborn Hampton (Candlewick Press, 1997); Witness To Our Times, by Flip Schulke (Cricket Books, 2003) ; The Beginning: Voyages Through Time, by Peter Ackroyd (DK, 2003); A Day that Changed America: The Alamo, by Shelley Tanaka with paintings by David Craig (Hyperion, 2003); Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, by Andrea Warren (Harper Trophy, 2002); Voyages Through Time: Escape from Earth, by Peter Akroyd (DK, 2003); An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, by Jim Murphy (Clarion, 2003); The Life and Death of Adolph Hitler, by James Cross Giblin (Clarion, 2002); Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: The Brown V. Board of Education Decision, edited by Joyce Carol Thomas (Jump at the Sky/ Hyperion, 2003); Wonders of the African World, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (Knopf, 1999); Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany, by Eleanor Ramrath Garner (Peachtree Press, 2003); The Hero's Trail: A Guide for a Heroic Life, by T. A. Barron (Philomel, 2002) ; Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People, compiled by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and Irene N. Watts (Tundra, 2003); We Were There, Too! America, by E. R. Frank (Atheneum, 2002); Things Change, by Patrick Jones (Walker, 2004); Someone Like You, by Sarah Dessen (Puffin, 2000); The Misfits, by James Howe (Aladdin, 2003); Dancing on the Edge, by Han Nolan (Puffin, 1999); Kissing the Rain, by Kevin Brooks (The Chicken House/ Scholastic, 2004); Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez (Simon Pulse, 2003); Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, edited by Michael Cart (Simon Pulse, 2003); Girl Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen (Vintage, 1994); Our Guys, by Bernard Lefkowitz (Vintage, 1998); Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger (Harper Tempest, 2003); 10th Grade: A Novel, by Joseph Weissberg (Random House, 2002); Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan (Knopf, 2003); Places I Never Meant to Be, edited by judy Blume (Aladdin, 1999); On the Fringe, edited by Donald R. Gallo (Dial, 2001); Toxic Love, by Linda Holeman (Tundra, 2003); Rainbow High, by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster, 2003); \"Hello, I lied,\" by M. E. Kerr (Harper Trophy, 1998); Slap Your Sides, by M. E., Kerr (Harper Trophy, 2003); Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam, by Susan O'Neill (Ballantine, 2001); The Pepperland Diary, by Mark Delaney (Peachtree, 2004); The New Rules of High School, by Blake Nelson (Viking, 2003); Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets, edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino (Viking, 1998); Prep, by Jake Cobum (Button, 2003); and If You Come Softly, by Jacqueline Woodson (Puffin, 2000). After Effects I am still smarting from the comments of a couple of English teachers who attended a workshop I conducted and said, \"You want our students to read such books instead of the classics?\" In reply, there are several interesting definitions of the word \"classic\" in Webster's Universal College Dictionary. [...]I am not overlooking the many excellent writers honored by ALAN for their bodies of works.