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  • 3 weeks ago | klax-tv.com | Jen Arena |Jessica Gibson |Emma Smith |Jenn Ely

    BATON ROUGE, La. – More than 24,000 Louisiana K-12 students read in excess of 82,000 books during the last year to select the winners of the 2024-2025 Louisiana Readers’ Choice Awards. Participation in nearly all age group categories increased over last year, continuing an upward trend in readership over the past several years. Most significant was an 88 percent increase in voting among students in 6th through 8th grade.

  • 2 months ago | slj.com | Emma Smith |Shelley Diaz |Karen Jensen |Molly Beth

    . Jan. 2025. 32p. Tr $31.32. ISBN 9781669088622; pap. $9.99. ISBN 9781669088639. COPY ISBN Gr 3-5–A slim, kid-friendly volume on what it was like to be a child growing up on the infamous prison island. Smith takes readers on a tour of Alcatraz Island, focusing more on the families of the guards who lived there rather than on the inmates. In its heyday in the 1930s, there were approximately 60–90 families and 75–100 children living there.

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