In Episode 63, Call Number with American Libraries looks at outdoor-related activities with conversations about bugs, beach reads, and outdoor learning. 

First, ALA Editions Senior Acquisitions Editor Rachel Chance speaks with Erin Rothenbuehler and Sean Duffy from Ohio County (W.V.) Public Library about a series of programs the library offers on bugs, most notably the Brood Ten cicadas. Next American Libraries Associate Editor Sallyann Price talks with Susan Maguire, Senior Editor, Collection Management and Library Outreach, at Booklist, and host of the Shelf Care podcast, about this summer’s best beach reads. Finally, American Libraries Senior Editor and Call Number host Phil Morehart speaks with Denni Grassel, director of Delmont (Penn.) Library, about Delmont's new outdoor learning center.

Episode 63: Getting Outdoors

This episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast is all about Summer Scares! The reading program, a collaboration between Booklist, the Horror Writers Association, United for Libraries, Book Riot, and NoveList, announced their title picks in February. Host Susan Maguire sat down with the folks behind Summer Scares to talk about the books they want you to read this summer, different levels of scariness, and the importance of snacks for patron engagement.

Here’s what we talked about:

This Thing between Us, by Gus Moreno
Such Sharp Teeth, by Rachel Harrison
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams
All these Bodies, by Kendare Blake
Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
#MurderTrending, by Gretchen McNeil
Chain Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Dead Flip, by Sara Farizan
Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero
LibraryReads
What Kind of Mother, by Clay McLeod Chapman
2024 Summer Scares Programming Guide
Horror Writers Association 
The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel
Ophie’s Ghost, by Justina Ireland
My Aunt is a Monster, by Reimena Yee
The Labyrinth of Lost and Found, by Jordan Lees (The Whisperwicks #1)
Don’t miss these webinars, featuring the Summer Scares Authors:
Summer Scares Adult 
Summer Scares YA
Summer Scares Middel Grade

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Summer Scares 2024

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Summer Scares 2024

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