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Week in Review: December 17th

I’m way into reading the Morris Award and Nonfiction Award finalists, but I did tear myself away to catch up on news of interest to teen librarian and library workers.

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Books & Reading

Writer Nita Tyndall started an important discussion this week with her personal experience with being a queer girl looking to find herself reflected in young adult literature.
This Psychology Today article sheds some light on why many adult readers may be drawn to YA literature.
Andrea Sowers at Teen Services Underground shares a great way to provide passive readers’ advisory in the stacks with these RA booklets.
Eight books to get you hooked on historical fiction from the Penguin Teen tumblr.

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Week in Review: December 11th

Happy Friday! Hope everyone is finding some time for reading and relaxing during this busy, busy time of year. Here’s your weekly round-up of goings-ons, literary and otherwise.

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And speaking of comics, Dark Horse Comics will publish The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. Check out what editor Hope Nelson told The Mary Sue.
If you have any teen writers in your library involved or interested in social justice, you might want to point them towards the application for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Student Prize
Barnes and Noble posted a book list of 6 Chanukah Gifts for Teens.
Is anyone else obsessed with The Raven Cycle? If so you’ll want to check out these deleted scenes from The Dream Thieves.
Bustle shares it’s 30 Best YA Book Covers for the year – did they leave off your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
Margaret Atwood is jumping on the superhero bandwagon with an all ages trilogy of graphic novels out in Fall 2016
Books out this week!
Veronica Roth talks about her next book.

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Happy Friday, Hubbers! Can you believe it’s already December? Where did November go? I’m just amazed that Midwinter is a month away! Anyways, I have news on Star Wars (twice!) and a few best of 2015 lists to brighten your weekend. ICYMI, I’m here to compile all the other fun and interesting news here just for you! Here’s your Week in Review for Friday, December 4th.

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Books & Reading

OMG, you guys. Brian K. Vaughan has a new series out.
Goodreads revealed their 2015 Choice Awards.
Love Jessica Jones? Check out Annie Cardi’s suggestions for YA books about superheroes, trauma, and best friends.
Why pick just one when you can have dystopian-fantasy-romance-adventure? Angie Manfredi has a great round up of genre-blending YA in this School Library Journal article.
A great piece in the Guardian: Gender non-conformity: breaking the binary in teen fiction.

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Week in Review: November 20th

Hello! Congratulations, we’ve all made it to the end of another week, and looming on the horizon is the holiday season, and of course, end of the year best of books lists. Check out some highlights from this week in books and reading and resources on collection development.
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Books and Reading

Neal Shusterman’s Challenger Deep won the National Book Award for young people’s literature.

This shadow-themed book list would make a great idea for a book display!

Barnes & Noble’s blog shared books for fans of The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.

Books that can be windows and mirrors into Muslim life at Rich in Color.

Looking to help readers make sense of tragedies like terrorist attacks? Tips on making book recommendations on sensitive and difficult issues might help.

Diversity in YA has rounded up this week’s new releases featuring diverse characters or authors. Continue reading Week in Review: November 20th

Week in Review: November 13th

Good Morning. This week on the HUB we’ve been talking about the YA Services Symposium. If you missed going (like I did), check out the hashtag #yalsa15 for more tweets. Also #NaNoWriMo15 is still going strong – if you have teen writers, check in with how they’re doing. All kinds of YA authors are sharing their writing tips from Stephanie Perkins to Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Otherwise, sit back and see what else happened this week on twitter.

Book News:
Continuing her good deeds and her involvement with Scholastic, Taylor Swift donates 25,000 Scholastic books to New York City schools.

For Potterheads, did you notice these while re-reading or reading for the first time?

New York City challenges students to read a book a day! Jon Scieszka teams up to help.

Children’s author Jean Fritz is turning 100! Help her celebrate her birthday.

School Library Journal has a poll open for the top Must Have YA Books. Continue reading Week in Review: November 13th

Week in Review: November 6th

Happy Friday, Hubbers! With news on J.K. Rowling (twice!) and my secret boyfriend, Jon Stewart, this week is turning out to be just as exciting as Halloween (ha – just kidding!). ICYMI, I’m here to compile all the other fun and interesting news here just for you! Here’s your Week in Review for Friday, November 6th.

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Entertainment Weekly held their EW Fest this past week in NYC. Check out the full YA author panel discussion!
J.K. Rowling has written part of another children’s book; readers want the book to be finished now.
Melissa de la Cruz wrote a great blog piece on #StoriesForAll.
Did you all read Ryan North’s To Be or Not To Be? It’s Hamlet set as a Choose Your Own Adventure! Guess what’s next? Romeo And/Or Juliet!

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Week in Review: October 30th

Happy Halloween Hubbers! Here’s your week in review for October 30th!

Books and Reading

YALSA’s 2015 Teens’ Top Ten has been announced!
November is Native American History Month and to prepare SLJ put together a list of Teen Books by Native Writers to Trumpet Year Round.
NYT Bestselling author Marie Lu talks Diversity, Villains and The Young Elites.
Huffington Post has 5 exciting YA trends to look out for in 2016.
The Guardian put together a list of their 10 top haunted houses in fiction.
Buzzfeed shared a sneak peek into the new Harry Potter coloring book.

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Week in Review: October 22nd

We’ve still got a few more days of Teen Read Week left! Browse the #TRW15 hashtag on Twitter or Instagram to see what fun activities and events libraries had to celebrate reading for the fun of it.
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There’s been lots of buzz this week about the end of an icon, too: the ‘future’ of Back to the Future is now.

Check out the rest of the roundup of interesting and helpful links for those who work with teens in the library.

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School Library Journal rounded up a list of under the radar YA novels to “get away” with this week.

The Washington Post reports what we all know: kids need time to read at school. Nancie Atwell explains why: “All that quiet time reading stories chosen for me by an adult who loved me changed me forever. Now I had all these narratives inside me, all these people, and all this knowledge, not to mention a passion for books and the ability to read fast and with feeling.”

Gearing up for Halloween? Epic Reads has a list of 18 scary stories and Penguin Teen has some books that prove you should be scared of the dark. If zombies are more your thing, check out this post at Lit Reactor.

Amanda at Teen Librarian Toolbox rounds up the forthcoming LGBTQ titles for the rest of 2015.

The B&N Teen blog shares a list of YA romances between characters on opposite sides of the tracks. Continue reading Week in Review: October 22nd

Week in Review: October 16th

We made it through another week, happy Friday! Comic Con in New York was this week. Check out the hashtag #NYCC for more details of everything that went down. And if you missed it, here’s a quick roundup of news this week.

Books & Reading:
Censorship doesn’t just stop with Banned Books Week. John Green’s Looking for Alaska is yanked from school libraries in New Jersey (against the policy).
New YA books hitting the shelves this week.
Did you head the news that Shannon and Dean Hale are co-writing a Captain Marvel novel? With Black Widow: Forever Red and the TV show Supergirl could this be the start of female superheroes?
Epic Reads is revealing some pretty cool covers for next summer.
The finalists have been announced for the NBA for Young People’s Literature.
October is anti-bullying month. First Book has a list of books perfect for a display.
Baseball playoffs are upon us, check out an older post on baseball books. Continue reading Week in Review: October 16th

Week in Review: October 9th

Happy Friday, Hubbers! Wow, that new Twilight news – big surprise! And, I agree with @alli_librarian – that book is going to take up some shelf space, that’s for sure! Plus, Doctor Who, Taylor Swift (kind of), and, of course, I worked in a Bachelor/Bachelorette reference. ICYMI, I’m here to compile all the other fun and interesting news here just for you! Here’s your Week in Review for Friday, October 9th.

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I woke up Tuesday morning to news of this: ready for Beau & Edythe instead of Bella & Edward? Well, here it is: New Twilight News. I’ll buy it, but it doesn’t seem like Twilight is as popular as it once was in my library. Maybe this will invigorate new readers?
Quvenzhané Wallis signs four-book deal with Simon & Schuster
Interesting blog post I’ve seen floating around on Twitter: Stop telling teens that you don’t like them!
Her Bachelor/Bachelorette tweets are almost better than the show. And, she’s a great writer, too – Jennifer Weiner to Pen First Children’s Project at Aladdin
Ooh!! Can’t wait to read this! Zeroes: it sucks to be a teen, even with powers

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