Big news in YALSA this week! The 2017 Teen Read Week site was launched earlier this week with the theme “Unleash Your Story.” Library staff, afterschool providers, and educators should attempt to leverage this theme to encourage teens to write, share and tell their own stories as well as find stories, biographies, autobiographies, folktales, and more in their local library!
YALSA also announced the Teens’ Top Ten nominations today! The stars of the upcoming movie Everything, Everything announced the titles in a video you can see here! Teens across the country can vote on their favorite titles between Aug. 15 and Teen Read Week, which will be celebrated Oct. 8-14. The winners will be announced the week after. You can view an annotated list of nominees here (pdf).
Love young adult fiction? Get your reading lists ready!
YALSA has announced the 2016 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees, a list of 26 titles published in 2015. You can view a video and a list of the nominees, courtesy of the YALSA website. They are asking libraries to encourage teens to read the nominated books during the summer so they can be ready for the national Teens’ Top Ten vote, which will take place August 15 through Teen Read Week (October 9–15)
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YALSA has recently announced the titles of the 2015 Teens’ Top Ten. Teens all over the world voted as part of Teen Read Week. Altogether, more than 27,000 votes were cast for the 24 nominees.
Here’s the official 2015 Teens’ Top Ten titles:
“The Shadow Throne” by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic)
“I Become Shadow” by Joe Shine. (Soho Teen)
“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” by Jenny Han. (Simon & Schuster)
“My Life with the Walter Boys” by Ali Novak. (Sourcebooks)
“Heir of Fire” by Sarah J. Maas. (Bloomsbury)
“The Bane Chronicles” by Cassandra Clare. (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
“The Young Elites” by Marie Lu. (Penguin/G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
“The Kiss of Deception” by Mary E. Pearson. (Macmillan/ Henry Holt & Company)
“Since You’ve Been Gone” by Morgan Matson. (Simon & Schuster)
“The Geography of You and Me” by Jennifer E. Smith. (Hachette/Poppy)
Check out the video below featuring 2015 Teen Read Week™ spokesperson Bella Thorne announcing the winning titles:
YALSA has recently announced the titles of the 2015 Teens’ Top Ten. Teens all over the world voted as part of