School librarians like Stephanie Rosalia featured in the New York Times report, “The Future of Reading: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update,” have transformed into a multi-faceted information specialists who guide students through the flood of digital information that confronts them on a daily basis.

Check out Stephanie Rosalia, 21st Century Librarian, in the video below!

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Ever since we saw CNN’s coverage of the Ron Clark Academy kids’ performance of “You Can Vote However You Like,” we have been HUGE fans of them ever since — woo-hoo!

Well the Ron Clark Academy kids are back with another impressive performance called, “Dear Obama” that they will be performing in Washington, DC for the soon-to-be president of the United States — Barack Obama! So check out the video below and be moved and inspired by their gift and Oprah Winfrey’s gift to them!





Ron Clark Academy students wish President-Elect Obama well while expressing how his winning has been an inspiration to them. You can receive more information about The Ron Clark Academy by clicking the link http://www.ronclarkacademy.com

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High school – love it, hate it or just endure it!

Teens receive a lot of stick about their general behaviour but adolescent life has never been easy, especially in today’s society. Rumors and reputations often run rife in school, and it can all become too much to handle when there are already so many other fundamental issues to deal with, like sexual identity and development, romance, ethical pressures, and peer pressure – that’s just mentioning a few!

Sometimes, it can all add up to a pretty traumatic experience and, the sad reality is, that some girls (and guys) buckle under all that physiological pressure and end up taking their own life. continue reading

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We interrupt this blog to bring you this very important message!

G.R.I.T.S. Kidz Book Club meetings have been postponed for the past 3 weeks because of Hurricane Ike making landfall in the Galverston and Houston, TX area, Saturday, September 13, 2008. continue reading

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G.R.I.T.S. Kidz Book Club is BACK!

Well, we’re almost back. Actually, we took a year-long hiatus from the book club during the 2007-2008 school year when we learned there was going to be construction work done to the the library we host our club meetings. All construction work is done and our summer vacation is officially over. School is back in session, and we cannot wait to return to the library this school year to read, share, and celebrate great books with each other and with all of our online friends!

In the meantime, notice anything different about us? No?!

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Buzztone.com and GRITS Kidz Book Club invites you to check out Warner Brothers’ new hilarious movie . . .

Racing Stripes!

RACING STRIPES is a tale of a baby zebra named Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz), who is accidentally abandoned by a traveling circus during a rainstorm. Stripes is discovered by horse trainer Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood), who rescues Stripes and takes him home to live with him and his younger daughter Channing (Hayden Panettiere) on their farm.

Stripes and Channing dream of racing in the prestigious Kentucky Open. Believing if he could just get onto the track, Stripes knows he could leave all the other horses in the dust. What he doesn’t know is…he’s not exactly a horse. As he thrusts himself into a world of elite athletes, Stripes must prove he’s fast enough to run with the big horses if he is to land in the winner’s circle at the Kentucky Open. Some champions are born, not bred!

Lending their voices to this wonderful film are Snoop Dogg, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Harvey, Dustin Hoffman, Joshua Jackson, Wendie Mallick, Mandy Moore, Joe Pantoliano, David Spade.

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