maggie-stiefvater: Greetings, Tumblr. I have an advanced review copy of The Dream Thieves to give away. Reblog this cover and I shall pick a random winner from the reblogs at 9:30 pm EST tonight (June 5). (it’s international). I hate the feeling of noticing there are fewer and fewer pages and that this book you’ve been reading is almost certainly going to end on a cliffhanger. And that happened to me this week with The Raven Boys.
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maggie-stiefvater:

Greetings, Tumblr. I have an advanced review copy of The Dream Thieves to give away.

Reblog this cover and I shall pick a random winner from the reblogs at 9:30 pm EST tonight (June 5). (it’s international).

I hate the feeling of noticing there are fewer and fewer pages and that this book you’ve been reading is almost certainly going to end on a cliffhanger. And that happened to me this week with The Raven Boys.

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schoollibraryjournal: “Top 10 Circulated Books of 2013: 5-6th Grade” 10. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz; illustrated by Stephen Gammell 9. The Cloud Searchers (Amulet, Book 3) by Kazu Kibuishi 8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney Read the rest of Travis Jonker’s list here. (Via 100 Scope Notes) Going to sell our #srp / #summer reading program / #whatevs to the fifth and sixth graders this Thursday. I’m so excited! I’m so scared!
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schoollibraryjournal:

“Top 10 Circulated Books of 2013: 5-6th Grade”

10. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz; illustrated by Stephen Gammell

9. The Cloud Searchers (Amulet, Book 3) by Kazu Kibuishi

8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney

Read the rest of Travis Jonker’s list here.

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Going to sell our #srp / #summer reading program / #whatevs to the fifth and sixth graders this Thursday. I’m so excited! I’m so scared!

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latefees:

thecardiganlibrarian:

Going to visit a couple of fifth and sixth grade classrooms in a couple of weeks to get kids excited about our SRP. I’ll be meeting them (maybe 20 at a time) during their library time. So far, working once a week through the winter and with no school year programming (yet!), I’ve only met one or…

Trivia warm ups always go well when we work with a public librarian. It gets the kids talking, worked up (not always good), and excited. Instead of just trivia, you could ask them what they’re reading, or for book recommendations. Little incentive prizes help. The librarian who comes to us usually just gives out pens to those who answer a question / give a book recommendation. 

Great encouragement, thanks! I’ve come up with a few trivia questions, ask kids for their recs, and I think I’ll bring Pop Rocks as prizes. I’ll also chat up the prizes kids can earn by reading, and do a few quick book talks – I’m thinking a couple summer romances like Sarah Dessen, a couple Hunger Games readalikes, and a couple “coming to the big screen” books, like Ender’s Game, maybe?

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themugglelibrarian: carrieryan: I have a new eOriginal short story set in the Forest of Hands and Teeth World coming out on May 14, 2013!  Similar to Hare Moon, this short story, What Once We Feared, will only be available in digital formats and you can get it anywhere ebooks are sold: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books a Million | Google [I’ll add more links as they become available - some sites don’t have a way to pre-order digital works] What Once We Feared is a 7,000 word story set right at the moment the Return (aka zombie apocalypse) hits and follows a group of teens trying to survive. SO excited for this!! Can we talk about the phenomenon of electronic-only low-priced, short-form promotional tie-ins to YA novels? Is there an analog equivalent? How do we feel about this as a trend? How do we handle these in our collection development?
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themugglelibrarian:

carrieryan:

I have a new eOriginal short story set in the Forest of Hands and Teeth World coming out on May 14, 2013!  Similar to Hare Moon, this short story, What Once We Feared, will only be available in digital formats and you can get it anywhere ebooks are sold: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books a Million | Google [I’ll add more links as they become available - some sites don’t have a way to pre-order digital works]

What Once We Feared is a 7,000 word story set right at the moment the Return (aka zombie apocalypse) hits and follows a group of teens trying to survive.

SO excited for this!!

Can we talk about the phenomenon of electronic-only low-priced, short-form promotional tie-ins to YA novels? Is there an analog equivalent? How do we feel about this as a trend? How do we handle these in our collection development?

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I think the young adult books that spoke to you when you were 11 and pre-pubescent (awful word; we now call it tween, which is possibly more awful) form your adult tastes. For me it was Madeline L’ Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time with a side of Walter Farley’s The Black Stallion. It was a direct path from here into fantasy, sci-fi, adventure stories and animals.

Give me some Call It Courage about a cannibal island or Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. Also The Yearling. A Separate Peace. Charlotte’s Web. The Phantom Tollbooth. And now I’m re-reading these things.

Why do this, when there are so much great new books to discover? 1) I have kids and they are just getting into the American Y.A. canon, and 2) I believe T.S. Eliot when he said in Little Gidding (which I learned is a place, and not as I had thought, a little girl), “We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time.
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themugglelibrarian: movieweb: Graceling Adaptation Lands at Reliance Entertainment India-based Reliance Entertainment has acquired as a film franchise starter the rights to Kristin Cashore’s bestselling, award winning young adult fantasy trilogy Graceling in partnership with Kintop Pictures. Producer Deepak Nayar (Paranoia, Bend It Like Beckham, Buena Vista Social Club) will oversee the project for Reliance and Kintop Pictures and will produce alongside Tabrez Noorani (Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi) of Tamasha Talkies and Leigh Ann Burton for Blu-Sky Media. British screenwriter Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus: 2012, St. Trinian’s 1, 2 & 3) has signed on to write the script. Graceling is the first installment of a trilogy, which also includes The New York Times bestsellers Fire and Bitterblue. These New York Times bestselling books have won numerous awards, including the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature, the SIBA Book Award/YA, Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. The first installment of the trilogy, Graceling, published by Harcourt Children’s Books, tells the story of the vulnerable yet strong Katsa, a smart, beautiful young woman who lives in a world where select people born with an extreme skill — called a Grace — are feared and exploited. Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. As the king’s niece, she is forced to execute his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Katsa must learn to decipher the true nature of her Grace … and how to put it to good use. Here’s what producer Deepak Nayar had to say in a statement. “We are very excited about a potential franchise with a strong and original female lead. Graceling offers an original storyline that we haven’t seen before that combines elements of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones.” Reliance Entertainment and Kintop Pictures, as partners, are currently producing Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters. Kristin Cashore is represented by Julie Kane-Ritsch of The Gotham Group and Faye Bender of the Faye Bender Literary Agency. Piers Ashworth is represented by Resolution. Graceling is represented by Julia Scott of Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP. [MovieWeb] As is always the case when a book I cherish gets optioned for a movie, I’m not sure whether to be excited or nervous. I’m going for both emotions, at the moment. No surprises here.
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themugglelibrarian:

movieweb:

Graceling Adaptation Lands at Reliance Entertainment

India-based Reliance Entertainment has acquired as a film franchise starter the rights to Kristin Cashore’s bestselling, award winning young adult fantasy trilogy Graceling in partnership with Kintop Pictures.

Producer Deepak Nayar (Paranoia, Bend It Like Beckham, Buena Vista Social Club) will oversee the project for Reliance and Kintop Pictures and will produce alongside Tabrez Noorani (Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi) of Tamasha Talkies and Leigh Ann Burton for Blu-Sky Media.

British screenwriter Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus: 2012, St. Trinian’s 1, 2 & 3) has signed on to write the script. Graceling is the first installment of a trilogy, which also includes The New York Times bestsellers Fire and Bitterblue. These New York Times bestselling books have won numerous awards, including the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature, the SIBA Book Award/YA, Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

The first installment of the trilogy, Graceling, published by Harcourt Children’s Books, tells the story of the vulnerable yet strong Katsa, a smart, beautiful young woman who lives in a world where select people born with an extreme skill — called a Grace — are feared and exploited. Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. As the king’s niece, she is forced to execute his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Katsa must learn to decipher the true nature of her Grace … and how to put it to good use.

Here’s what producer Deepak Nayar had to say in a statement.

“We are very excited about a potential franchise with a strong and original female lead. Graceling offers an original storyline that we haven’t seen before that combines elements of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones.”

Reliance Entertainment and Kintop Pictures, as partners, are currently producing Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters.

Kristin Cashore is represented by Julie Kane-Ritsch of The Gotham Group and Faye Bender of the Faye Bender Literary Agency. Piers Ashworth is represented by Resolution. Graceling is represented by Julia Scott of Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP.

[MovieWeb]

As is always the case when a book I cherish gets optioned for a movie, I’m not sure whether to be excited or nervous. I’m going for both emotions, at the moment.

No surprises here.

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The Crown of Embers, Rae Carson (2012)

You didn’t know I read The Girl of Fire and Thorns, but I did. It was just while I was dying. I read it lying on my side curled in the fetal position about two weeks into morning sickness, and since I couldn’t write a review in that position, it goes unchronicled.

Scenario: Continuing a few months from where The Girl of Fire and Thorns left off, here Elisa’s position as queen in Joya d’Arena is far from secure. Fleeing the pressure to remarry and hoping to finally fulfill the destiny promised by her Godstone, Elisa sets off on a quest across the desert once more.

Pros:

  • Semi-Catholic religious elements! Though it gets weirder here in Book #2, the inclusion of religion here is refreshing. It may just be because I personally am a person of faith, but I’m always on the lookout for protagonists whose choices are informed by belief — I don’t remember finding many (non-hokey) ones when I was a teen.
  • There’s something a little Narnian about the places Elisa passes through on her quest, and in my book, that’s always a good thing.
  • Elisa is such a different protagonist, low in confidence, but strategically brilliant. There have been a lot of Katniss/Katsa types recently, and while I’m grateful for the trend in strong female leads, I feel like Elisa better reflects the insecurity of many teens, while giving them hope that they, too, can be heroes.

Cons:

  • Apparently I am not the only one to get the Treasure Troll vibes.
  • Parts of this (vs. #1) read as sort of a poor man’s Kristin Cashore. Which, when it comes to reader’s advisory, could be a good thing, but I’m not sure it really plays to Carson’s strengths in Fire and Thorns.

Bottom Line: This was pretty distinctly a Middle Book, but I’ll eagerly read #3 to see what happens to the queen, her love and her imperiled kingdom. As noted above, it’s a good fit for Cashore fans, and I’ve also heard there’s some good overlap for Tamora Pierce fans — though I haven’t read any of her myself.

deweyscloset:

laurenthelibrarian:

I asked my library’s nerdfighter club to design bookends for the YA section. Are these not the best things ever? I can’t wait to put them on display tomorrow.

I LOVE this idea and stealing it for my library.

Filing away for our to-be-formed Young Adult Advisory Board.

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