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Are you already making a list of what to pack for Chicago? May we suggest adding a few of your favorite young adult novels?

You'll need one--a new book for students, that is--to get into this year's Books and All That Jazz Bash, set for Friday, March 31, from 5-7 p.m., in McCormick Place Room S406 A/B. The annual event culls books from Conference sponsors, ASCD staff, members, and Conference attendees. This year, the books will support literacy initiatives at local Chicago Title I schools. 

What book will you bring to the Bash?

After the bash, ease back at one of Chicago's oldest jazz joints--the nearly one hundred years-old Green Mill Jazz Club. Once partially owned by one of Al Capone's henchman, this Prohibition-era club is located in Chicago's historic Uptown district, about 7.5 miles north of the Hilton Chicago, along Lakeshore Drive, just past the Marovitz (Waveland) golf course.

Listen to a recent Green Mill performance.

( Book pictured is The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes' young adult primer on Jazz, originally printed in 1955.)

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[John Brandt]

I'm bring some of the best of Maine's childrens authors: "Teacher Appreciation Day" is by my neighbor Lynn Plourde. The author of many delightful childrens' books, Lynn is married to Paul Knowles, superintendent of schools in Gardiner, Maine.

And the Book Bash would not be a success if you didn't get one of the simply greatest childrens' books of all time, "Blueberries for Sal," by the late Robert McCloskey. A Caldecott Medal winner twice, McCloskey was named a Living Legend in 2000 by the Library of Congress.

Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk!