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ABFFE’s Holiday Children's Book Art Auction ends December 3. Young adults prefer print books to ebooks, a new survey finds. World Book Night will add three YA titles to its 2014 event. The Department of Labor will fund $100 million in grants via its new Youth Career Connect program. The New York Times has announced its list of Notable Children’s Books of 2013.

Blink, the new YA imprint from HarperCollins, is offering free copies of books on their inaugural list to 10 teens who want to immerse themselves in a new read this holiday season.

Finding new and innovative ways to implement the Common Core was one of the hottest programming themes during the recent American Association of School Librarians conference. During the event, the nations' media specialists showed they have the will and the knowledge to lead the conversation on academic rigor.

Text Messages is a monthly podcast service that makes it easy to stay up to date with the latest titles and trends in young adult literature.

Authors Rebecca Fjelland Davis, Jill Kalz, Nancy Loewen, and Trisha Speed Shaskan helped the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, Minnesota celebrate its 29th anniversary on November 23 and 24 with signings and storytimes.

Why should we study primary source documents? These are artifacts created by the people who lived through the events and time periods under study. Providing students the opportunity to study primary sources can give rise to student inquiry and encourage them to speculate about each source, its creator, and the context in which it was produced. The Library of Congress has millions of primary source documents and tools for teachers and students to dig into, 24/7.

If you've been struggling to find the time and resources to start up a friends group for your school library, help has arrived. United for Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, has created a free toolkit geared toward school librarians for just this purpose, and it is now freely available at their website.

Each year ​SLJTeen​ rotates the responsibility for reviews by teens to one of the YA Galley Groups selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). In 2014, ​the Young Adult Advisory Councils (YAAC) from Johnson County Library, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, will be taking over teen reviews.

Three previously unreleased stories by the reclusive author were uploaded to private BitTorrent tracker What.cd, according to TorrentFreak. The authenticity of the stories, one previously held under lock and key at the Princeton University Library, has been confirmed by Salinger expert Kenneth Slawenski, reports BuzzFeed.