November's new titles focus on gaming, and on "notable" lists of children's literature in social studies and in science

Professional Literature
Creating the Art of the Game, by Matthew Omernick. New Riders, 2004
T 385 .O44 2004
Audio for Games: Planning, Process, and Production, by Alexander Brandon. New Riders, 2005.
TK 7881.4 .B73 2005
Exploring Sound Design for Interactive Media, by Joseph Cancellaro. Thompson, 2006.
MT 723 .C37 2006
Beginning Math and Physics for Game Programmers, by Wendy Stahler. New Riders, 2004.
QA76.9 .M35 S73 2004
Children's Literature
Every spring the journal Social Education announces "Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People" published during the past year, and the National Science Teachers Association names "Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children K-12." Here's a small sample of new CIMC children's literature from these lists.
"Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People"
Be my neighbor, by Maya Ajmera & John D. Ivanko; with words of wisdom from Fred Rogers.
LTy HM 756 A36 2004
Dust to eat: drought and depression in the 1930s, by Michael L. Cooper.
LTy E 806 C63 2004
Kumak's fish: a tall tale from the far north, byMichael Bania.
LTy P Z3 .B232 Ku 2004
Miss Bridie chose a shovel, by Leslie Connor; illustrated by Mary Azarian.
LTy PZ3.C7634 Mi 2004
A fine St. Patrick's day, by Susan Wojciechowski; illustrated by Tom Curry.
LTy PZ3.W82 Fi 2004
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"Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12"
Linus Pauling: advancing science, advocating peace, by Naomi Pasachoff.
LTy QD 22 .P35 P37 2004
Lizards, by Dan Greenberg.
LTy QL 666 .L2 G736 2004
The burn journals, by Brent Runyon.
LTy HV 6546 R86 2004
Eliza and the dragonfly, by Susie Caldwell Rinehart; illustrated by Anisa Claire Hovemann.
LTy PZ3 .R482 El 2004
The temperate forest: a web of life, by Philip Johansson.
LTy QH 541.5 .F6 J626 2004
Feathered dinosaurs of China, byGregory Wenzel.
LTy QE 861.9 .C6 W46 2004