Teens Top Ten!

Congrats to John Green and his famous mole for his book Paper Towns being named the favorite book for teens this year by the ALA and YALSA (although the list was voted on entirely by teens)! Awesome, indeed! The top ten list was announced last week, with some other fantastic books making up [...]

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Good news!

So much good news, it’s hard to decide which book jacket to showcase! Let’s go in order of pub date, shall we?
The genius librarians at YALSA have nominated Ellen Booraem’s The Unnameables to the 2010 Best Books for Young Adult list. Blog readers may recall that I sat in on the discussion of [...]

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I Hab a Cold

When I’m sneezing and achy and tired and coughing, it makes my head hurt to be at the computer all day, so I’m hoping to get some reading done instead. And besides the submissions I have to get to, there’s this whole wonderful list of YALSA’s best books for young adults, including Maureen Johnson’s Suite Scarlett. Whee!

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Even MORE great news for ZOE

It’s been nominated for the YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Teens’ Top Ten list, to be voted on in October.

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