As the school year winds down and we start thinking of our summer plans, we often include a list of books to read. Kelly Dickinson’s booklist featured on YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) blog The Hub recommends some young adult thrillers for the coming months. Dickinson says the novels “take advantage of careful pacing to build suspense and hook readers from their opening lines.” The narrators of these stories are hiding secrets: “from other characters, from the reader, and from themselves.” You can check out the post for more details on her recommended reading:
Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn
Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn
The Devil You Know by Trish Doller
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Pointe by Brandy Colbert
Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) is in the middle of its 30 Days of Teen Programming! This celebration was designed to kick off the new Teen Programming Guidelines that YALSA hopes “will be a valuable tool for you…both as how-to guide and as an advocacy tool.”
Throughout the month on YALSAblog, you will see posts that relate to these ten guidelines. One post follows two teen services librarians as they begin to partner with their local drop-in center for homeless youth.
These posts will continue through the month, so you can check them out now, later, or daily!
Now that we’re finished with our AASL Recommended App posts for the year, it’s time for you to do your own exploring! YALSA has a great archive for you to use. The archive is a list of all the apps they have used as part of their App of the Week posts. With over 200 apps on the alphabetical list, from 1se (One Second Everyday) to Zombies, Run!, you’re sure to find something for you, your students, your coworkers, AND your users!
The great thing about a new year is the number of booklists that come out in the first few months! YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) is a division of ALA (American Library Association) and releases its Best Fiction for Young Adults list annually. This year, 58 titles were selected from 113 nominations. The recipients are books recommended for ages 12-18, and “meet the criteria of both quality literature and appeal to teens” (ALA press release). Here are the committee’s Top Ten books from the list:
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley, Elephant Rock Books, 2014.
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
The Gospel of Winter by Kiely Brendan, Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014.
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, Penguin Group (USA)/Dial Books, 2014.
Jackaby by William Ritter, Algonquin Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Noggin by John Corey Whaley, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books, 2014.
The Story of Owen Dragonslayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston, Carolrhoda LAB, 2014.
Vango by Timothee de Fombelle, Candlewick Press, 2014.
We Were Liars by e. lockhart, Delacorte Press, 2014.
The Young Elites by Marie Lu, Penguin Group (USA)/G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2014.
These are just ten of the 58 titles on the booklist – check out all 58 here!
Suicide has become a growing problem in the United States – Traci Glass of YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) says, “according to the National Alliance on Mental Health, approximately 2 million U.S. adolescents attempt suicide each year in the United States. . .” Glass wrote her piece, ‘Dealing with Suicide & Depression in Teen Literature‘ for YALSA’s blog, The Hub, in an effort to help teens and the adults in their lives approach a difficult topic.
. . .I thought I’d highlight my five favorite new books that deal with suicide – I think all of them treat it with respect and a thoughtful nature.” -Traci Glass, 1-23-2015
Glass provides these books as resources for teens with depression in the hopes that they will help adolescents better understand their thoughts and feelings, and feel more comfortable talking about them.
As the school year winds down and we start thinking of our summer plans, we often include a list of books to read. Kelly Dickinson’s booklist featured on YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) blog The Hub recommends some young adult thrillers for the coming months. Dickinson says the novels “take advantage of careful pacing to build suspense and hook readers from their opening lines.” The narrators of these stories are hiding secrets: “from other characters, from the reader, and from themselves.” You can check out the post for more details on her recommended reading:
