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.

Teens' Top 10 2011

It's time to vote for the top 10 best novels for 2011.  The contest is sponsored by the American Library Association for Teens.  We  have a display of the books in the media center of the nominated titles.  You have probably read many of them.  Go to this site and you can vote for your top 3 picks.  The winners will be announced during Teen Read Week - October 16th-22nd.

Vote Here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teenstopten11

Nominations Are:

·         Bachorz, Pam. Drought.

·         Beam, Cris. I Am J.

·         Beaudoin, Sean. You Killed Wesley Payne.

·         Black, Holly and Justine Larbalestier. Zombies vs. Unicorns.

·         Card, Orson Scott. The Lost Gate.

·         Clare, Cassandra. The Clockwork Angel.

·         Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay.

·         Collins, Yvonne. Love, Inc.

·         Condie, Ally. Matched.

·         Cremer, Andrea. Nightshade.

·         Fitzpatrick, Becca. Crescendo.

·         Grant, Michael. Lies.

·         Hawkins, Rachel. Demonglass.

·         Hawkins, Rachel. Hex Hall.

·         Kagawa, Julie. The Iron King.

·         Lore, Pittacus. I Am Number Four.

·         Moore, Peter. Red Moon Rising.

·         Nelson, Jandy. The Sky is Everywhere.

·         Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall.

·         O’Neal, Ellis. The False Princess.

·         Patterson, James. Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel.

·         Pearce, Jackson. Sisters Red.

·         Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Blessed.

·         Westerfeld, Scott. Behemoth.

·         White, Kiersten. Paranormalcy.