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Banned Books Week: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Freedom to Read

September 30−October 6, 2012

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Teens Top Ten Reading Lists


YALSA's Book Awards & Booklists

2012 ALA Teen Book Award Winners

Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:

Award Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Honor Book:  Why we broke up by Daniel Handler

Honor Book:  The Returning by Christine Hinwood

Honor Book:  Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Honor Book:  The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

YALSA Award for excellence in non-fiction for young adults:

Award Winner:  The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin

Award Finalist:  Sugar Changed the World: A True Story of Magic, spice, Slavery, Freedom & Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
Award Finalist: Bootleg, Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition  by Karen Blumenthal
Award Finalist:  Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy
Award Finalist:  Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan goldman Rubin

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

Award Winner:  Where Things Come Back  by John Corey Whaley

Coretta Scott King Award for an African American author of outstanding books for children and young adults:
Winner: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Honor Book:  Hurricane Dancers: The First Carribean Pirate Shipwreck by Mararita Engle

Stonewall Award for English-language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experience:
Winner:  Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
Honor Book:  a + e 4ever by Llike Merey
Honor Book:  Money Boy by Paul Yee
Honor Book:  Pink by Lili Wilkinson
Honor Book:  with or withou you by Brian Farrey

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:
Winner (ages 9-13): close to famous by Joan Bauer
Winner (ages 14-18):  The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

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 Brive Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Brooke Hauser
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Ready Palyer 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

8th Grade Holocaust Reading List

Holocaust Bibliogaphy : An annotated list of selected fiction and non-fiction titles in the Mt. Everett Library collection.

8th Grade Holocaust Bibliography

Book Review - The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is the first of a three-book series about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a post-apocalyptic world called Panem. Katniss lives with her mother and sister in District 12, one of the thirteen districts the government has divided North America into. Every year, as a punishment for the previous rebellions of the districts, the government holds a televised event called the Hunger Games, in which two participants from each district must fight against each other to the death. When Katniss’s sister is called to be one of the District 12 fighters, Katniss takes her place to protect her. In doing so, Katniss enters into a dangerous world in which there is no turning back.
The Hunger Games is a terrific novel. I strongly recommend it to science fiction lovers, as well as anyone who is looking for something new and exciting. I couldn’t put it down, and hope that others will enjoy it as much as I did.

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