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The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has awarded mini-grants to 15 libraries to start Día Family Book Clubs and incorporate Día literacy activities into their existing programs throughout the year.
The Silver Six By A.J. Lieberman Illustrated by Darren Rawlings Graphix (an imprint of Scholastic) $22.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-37097-4 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Ambition. It’s not a term I usually associate with children’s graphic novels. Your average everyday children’s comic is not particularly ambitious. There are so few of them out there that you can’t [...]
A Corner of White (Book 1 of The Colors of Madeleine), Jaclyn Moriarty Scholastic, April 2013 Reviewed from ARC and final ebook This is a doozy of a book. Clair talked about the difficulties summing up a complex book like The Raven Boys, but that would be a breeze compared to this one. It’s crowded [...]
Though there's time travel in Subway Love and a body transplant in Noggin, all of the featured titles here could loosely be labeled contemporary young adult fiction. While one teen attempts to escape from suburban atrophy in The Other Way Around, another finds her way out through dance in Warm Up. What's not to love about YA books?
Gaga keeps the dance tunes coming on Artpop; the Catching Fire Soundtrack captures the mood of the book and movie; and Battlefield 4 offers "an awesome military playing experience."
Readers reply to Nina Lindsay's question: What qualities make a book a good one for kids? A school librarian challenges major publishers to stop ghettoizing "diverse" and "multicultural" children's books.
Candlewick Press has launched E-Volt, a new young adult Tumblr page that the publisher will use to promote new ebooks and share deals.
Gas stations, fast food, and low-budget motels blur together with the coming Rapture in Mary Miller's debut novel, The Last Days of California. "Adult Books for Teens" blogger Angela Carstensen makes her final contribution to SLJTeen after speaking with the author, who was inspired by a newspaper article to write the book.
Multiple beheadings, one impaling, and an omnipresent necromancer—these are just three indications that director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 adventure/fantasy The Hobbit has taken a dark turn. The short novel has been expanded into what might amount to a nearly nine-hour-long trilogy—turning what seems a fireside yarn in print into an overlong saga on the screen.
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