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Fans of Gina Damico’s titles Croak and Scorch don’t have much longer to wait for the final title in the series, Rogue, due on shelves soon. To keep readers’ baited, Damico has just announced her 2013 Rogue Blog Tour. You’ll need strong powers of observation to keep up with her on this tour, and you’ll need to know all the letters of the English alphabet, too.
Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate, eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one. Houghton Harcourt is giving five lucky SLJTeen readers a chance to find out who Cia can trust, and win the ultimate Testing prize pack.
We all know about the summer reading slide. This summer, 180 students from two Buffalo (NY) suburban school districts spent four weeks with grad students working on their reading and writing skills, hoping to reverse that effect.
Filmmaker Hannah Weyer based her novel on a true story and uses an authentic “urban vernacular” to keep it real. Teen readers will be rooting for her young protagonist from start to finish. Adult Books 4 Teens blogger Angela Carstensen speaks with the author about On the Come Up and the real teen that inspired the book.
SLJ says about Brother, Brother—“This prince-and-pauper tale will have readers poised to learn the truth with Brother, rooting for him. This uplifting underdog story will draw thoughtful readers with its well-wrought characters and themes of family secrets, romance, and virtue.”—and now, five lucky SLJTeen readers can win a copy.
Teens review something old (Marc Anthony’s return to his salsa roots), something new (rising star Selena Gomez), and something that just might scare the bejeezus out of you (The Walking Dead: 400 Days).
Don’t procrastinate: get your plans in place now for Teen Read Week, October 13-19, brought to you by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). This year’s theme, Seek the Unknown, has a world of possibilities for libraries and teens to explore.
April Shroeder shares some advice on how to create unique and successful author visits for teens. Jay Asher and Ransom Riggs are some of the recent writers who have been hosted at the newly minted Gum Spring library, part of the Loudon County (VA) Public Library.
Back in the fall of 2010, SLJTeen reported on one librarian’s dream to build a library at the Jambo Jipya Academy in Mwtapa, Kenya with the assistance of the organization Reason2Smile. The fundraising is almost complete and Jambo Jipya is hoping to expand and purchase the land adjacent to the school to become the future home of the school library. Donna Rosenblum brings us up to date on her quest to build that library.
Our friends from Chronicle want to put ARCs in your hands! For a limited time, SLJTeen readers are able to request ARCs of two forthcoming titles of interest to teen and middle grade readers, The Clockwork Scarab and The Templeton Twins Make a Scene.
Bookmarked’s leader, Elizabeth Kahn, is up to her elbows in boxes, furniture, and books as she prepares to open a new library in her school’s new location, but she still found the time to write a review of Laurie Halse Anderson’s much anticipated The Impossible Knife of Memory, and promises it “will not disappoint her legion of fans.”
What happens when you let two YA authors interview each other? The result is hilarious, especially when it’s Aprilynne Pike and James Dashner
Teens from Floral Park (NY) Memorial High School review Sara Bareilles’ s and the Goo Goo Dolls’s latest albums, and the new NCAA Football 14 video game.
“What did you do this summer?” We’ve come up with 10 methods to use when answering that question which will allow your students to share the richness of their summer experiences. These activities just might help teachers and classmates to better know, understand and appreciate each other, as well.
Adapted from the first book of Cassandra Clare’s wildly popular YA fantasy series, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones bursts into theaters on August 21, 2013. Movie viewers will clamor to read or revisit the original work; when they’ve exhausted the series, be ready with more titles featuring demon-slayers and monster-hunters.
A charismatic cult leader demands absolute loyalty from his chosen. Lyla has always obeyed, but begins questioning everything she’s been told after she meets Cody, one of the unchosen. Are the warnings about the oncoming apocalypse true? Thirty lucky winners will find out when a galley of Gated lands in their mailboxes.
Do we control our own path or does fate determine our destiny? From Ruta Sepetys’s Out of the Easy to Bridget Zinn’s Poison, the following new mysteries selected by Junior Library Guild editors will give teen readers something to think about.
Dodie Ownes, editor of SLJTeen couldn’t keep quiet about Printz honoree A. S. King’s latest title, Reality Boy, and reviews it alongside teen-approved This is How I Find Her by Sara Polsky.
The Big Brain Club is now offering its how-to manual for student publishing programs to any schools interested in participating. The manual provides a blueprint for the program, making it easy to get organized and up and running quickly, especially key with the new school year just weeks away.
MTV recently surveyed its core audience, the Millennials, in order to better understand the younger subset of that group, ages 13-17, as they age into the older group, ages 18-24. And while the results may not be surprising, MTV’s deft interpretation of the responses divides the Millennials into two distinct archetypes as represented by the two biggest names in fiction over the past 15 years—Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen.
