High School Battle of the Books

This year will be the first year that Ashley High and the other high schools in the county will be participating in a Battle of the Books competition.  If you are interested in participating, look over the list of titles that we will be reading and if you have time before we come back to school start reading a few of the titles.  We will have our first meeting on Monday September 19th.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade

The Virginian by Owen Wister Stung by Bethany Wiggins

Stung by Bethany Wiggins

Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Noggin by John Corey Whaley

 

SYNC : Free Audiobooks Throughout the Summer

Download audiobooks for free and listen to a good book over the summer. Each week starting May 5th, two free audiobooks will become available online for you to download.  Once you download the books they are yours to keep for forever. 

To begin, go to the Sync page register and you will either get a text or email each Thursday to remind you that you have 2 free books to download.  Each week's titles will be available to download for 7 days and then they will change the pair to two new titles. Anyone over 13 can download books - students, teachers or parents.



YALSA's Teens Top Ten

YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) has announced their Teens' Top Ten nominations list. Titles have been nominated by teens around the country.  Watch the video posted on the left to see the titles nominated or read the list to find out more about each title. 


Voting will start on August 15th and continue through the beginning of October 15th.  An online ballot will become available in August on the Teens' Top Ten page.  Voting is open to all teens between the ages of 12 - 18.

North Carolina Young Adult Book Awards

The winner of this year's NCYABA was announced in April.  Eleanor & Park was chosen as the favorite book from the list of nominations by high school students from around the state.


The new list of nominated titles for the 2016 - 2017 school year have just been announced.  Start your reading of them this summer.  Voting on your favorites will take place in March of 2017.  For more information and to view trailers for the books go to the North Carolina School Library Media Association's Young Adult Book Award page. 

ALA Book Awards for Young Adults Announced in January

To see a complete listing of all awards and watch a live broadcast of the event got to: http://www.ilovelibraries.org/booklovers/youth-media-awards

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

Bone Gap, written by Laura Ruby, is the 2016 Printz Award winner. The book is published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Two Printz Honor Books also were named: Out of Darkness, by Ashley Hope Pérez and published by Carolrhoda Lab™, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group; and The Ghosts of Heaven, by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.

Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults:

David Levithan is the 2016 Edwards Award winner. His books include: The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love is the Higher Law, How They Met, and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, all published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens:

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, written by Becky Albertalli, is the 2016 Morris Award winner.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults:

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War, written by Steve Sheinkin, is the 2016 Excellence winner.

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

All Involved, by Ryan Gattis, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, published by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Bones & All, by Camille DeAngelis, published by St. Martin’s Press.

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, by David Wong, published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press.

Girl at War, by Sara Nović, published by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Half the World, by Joe Abercrombie, published by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company.

Humans of New York: Stories, by Brandon Stanton, published by St. Martin’s Press.

Sacred Heart, by Liz Suburbia, published by Fantagraphics Books Inc.

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, by Keija Parssinen, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.