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FYI,

NJ Center for the Book Announces the Creation of a Third E-Book Serial Written by NJ Authors/Illustrators for New Jersey Readers

Did you know that the NJ Center for the Book has commissioned a third e-book in the Jersey Trackers children’s online series comprised of chapters created by notable NJ authors and illustrators? All youth services library staff are invited to attend a virtual meeting of the NJ Center for the Book’s Executive Board as it announces the launch of the third online e-book serial The Jersey Trackers and the Missin' Mathematician on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 from 3:30 – 4:30 pm via Zoom. To obtain the Zoom link, please email Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Specialist, NJ State Library, ...@njstatelib.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">sraw...@njstatelib.org.

Authors/illustrators Wil Mara and Trinka Hakes Noble, board members of the NJ Center for the Book, co-creators and writing contributors for all the e-book serials, will introduce this latest e-book and read from their chapters. Author Wendy Mass, another contributor to the e-book serial, will also be on hand to read from the chapter she wrote and illustrator Doris Ettlinger will be there too! A few surprise e-book authors/illustrators may drop in as well.

Ms. Noble will also discuss how the idea for the e-book serial began and evolved into the series it is today.

All of the e-book serials feature a group of six curious, inventive and adventurous young readers as they travel around to NJ landmarks to solve a mystery (in the first e-book The Jersey Trackers and the Imagination Tree Mystery, or time travel to various points in history (the second e-book, The Jersey Trackers and The Greatest Mystery in All of History). The newest e-book has a STEM focus on mathematics.

Each of the engaging, short chapters in these e-book serials, penned by a different NJ author and/or illustrator (including Leeza Hernandez, Margie Palatini, Jim Murphy, Karen Romagna, and Danny & Kim Alderman, among others) provides young readers with online books that they can read to count toward their reading goal for the 2022 summer reading program or be used as part of a school curriculum. All readers have to do is go to the e-book tab on the NJ Center for the Book’s website to find and read them.

All the best,

Sharon Rawlins, MLS, she/her/hers

Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning

NJ State Library

185 West State St.

P.O. Box 520

Trenton, NJ 08625-0520

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609-278-2640 ext. 116

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