North Carolina Young Adult Book Award

The following titles were nominated by North Carolina high school students for the 2012-2013 book award.  Check them out and read them from the library.  Voting will take place in March.  Access the website for more information about each book, the author and book trailers at the following link.
http://sallen1.wix.com/ncyabookaward2013hs#!

This Year's Nominations Are:

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green                   
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Shine by Lauren Myracle
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard

Last year's winner was Hush, Hush by Becca Brown.

YALSA Announces Top 10 Winners

Did your favorites win? How did you vote?

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Legend by Marie Lu

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Abandon by Meg Cabot

Library Book Club

We will be having our first meeting on Tuesday, September 11th in the media center after school.  The club is open to all grade levels.  We will be discussing which books we will be reading and what other types of activities we want to include at the meetings.

Banned Books Week: September 30-October 6

"Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.

 

 

Typically held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned. " (American Library Association)

A wide variety of books have been challenged or banned over time, some were adult books and some were children's books, lately many young adult books have been challenged.   There is a display of books in the media center that have been challenged, you might be surprised to see some of your favorites there, such as, Harry Potter, The Call of the Wild, The Outsiders, and The Hunger Games.

Voting Now Open!

Vote for Yalsa's Top Ten Teen Favorites for 2012
Voting is now taking place and will end on September 15th.

Click on the link below and pick your favorite 3 of the 25 books that have been nominated by other teens. 
Vote Here 

All votes will be compiled and the top 10 favorites will be announced during Teen Read Week, October 14-20.

All Good Children by Austen, C.
Ashes by Bick
Abandon by Cabet
Tempest by Cross
What Happened to Goodby by Dessen
Wither by DeStefano
Where She Went by Forman
Scarlet by Gaughen
Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Goodman
The Fault in Our Stars by Green
Page by Paige by Gulledge
Legend by Lu
Hourglass by McEntire
Cinder by Meyer
Shine by Myracle
A Monster Calls by Ness
This Dark Endeavor by Oppel
Across The Universe by Revis
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Riggs
Divergent by Roth
Between Shades of Gray by Sepetys
The Scorpio Races by Stiefvater
How to Save a Life by Zarr
All These Things I've Done by Zevin

Student Checkouts 2011-2012

Summer Listening - Free YA Audiobooks

Sync free YA Lit into your earphones. Starts Thursday June 14th and ends Wednesday August 22nd. Check in every week to download the titles available for that week.

Each week 2 new titles will be available, one modern title paired with a classic that has the same theme. The first set of books available are The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

Go to the site to register and to get more info on titles.
http://www.audiobooksync.com/

Text syncya to 25827 to get weekly reminders to download new titles.

Books to Film

Summit Entertainment who produced the Twilight series has announced that they are filming the Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card in New Orleans.  The release date for the movie is March 15, 2013.  The producers have set up an on set blog at this location http://endersgameblog.tumblr.com/

Summit is also producing The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.  There is no release date for the film yet but it stars Logan Lerman and Emma Watson.

See the link Movies-Based on the Book under Cool Links for more movies that have been based on books that you have read.  Also if you do a subject search in OPAC with the words "book to film" you will pull up a list of titles of books that we have in the library that were made into movies.

ALA Announces 2012 Awards

The American Library Association announced the top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults - including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards at its Midwinter Meeting in Dallas.

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults.

2012 Printz Winner
Where Things Come Back written by John Corey Whaley.

Printz Honor Books
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
The Returning by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences.

Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
The New Kids : Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Brooke Hauser
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Robopocalypse : a novel by Daniel H. Wilson
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt : A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston
The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo

For a complete list of all other winners go to http://www.ala.org/alsc/2012-alsc-book-and-media-award-winners.