The Bookcon Survey is now available!

Hi All,

As mentioned at the last High School Book Talk, Jackie and I will be attending Bookcon in New York in May. There we will have a huge group of publishers, authors and personalities to see. Guests include:

John Green; Paper Towns and the Fault in Our Stars

Marie Lu; Legend Series

Marissa Meyer: The Lunar Chronicles

Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor and Park, Fangirl

Jeff Smith: Bone series

Jenny Han: The Summer I Turned Pretty series, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Ellen Hopkins: Crank, Burned, Tricks

Leigh Bardugo: The Grisha Trilogy

Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries

Sarah Dessen: Saint Anything, etc.

Tom Angelberger: The Origami Yoda series

and the list goes on....

THERE ARE TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM!!! 

So, as promised, I've made a survey to get your input! Who should we see? Please help us decide!

https://rhodacrowell.typeform.com/to/RXS9EJ 

We'll post the results by Friday, May 22nd.

Thank you!!!!!!

Do You Know about SYNC??

Sponsored by AudioFile Magazine, SYNC offers free Young Adult & Classic audiobook downloads in the summer months to introduce the listening experience. 

FREE!! 

Teens and other readers of Young Adult Literature will have the opportunity to listen to bestselling titles and required reading classics this summer. Each week from now until August 15, 2013, SYNC will offer two free audiobook downloads.

Mermaids, monsters, and mistaken identities start the summer of free audiobook downloads from SYNC YA Literature Into Your Earphones off with a splash.

This Week’s Audiobooks:
Available to download free May 30 – June 5, 2013

Of Poseidon
By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
Published by AudioGO

Galen, prince of the Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl he’s heard can communicate with fish and after several encounters with her Galen becomes convinced Emma holds the key to his kingdom.

The Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Performed by a Full Cast
Published by AudioGO/ BBC Radio

A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, and bewitching love follow as the travelers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters.

I already downloaded Of Poseidon this morning! 

For the full list of titles available between now and August 21st, you can go here. 

Downloading is super easy once you install Overdrive Media Console on your computer.  To download titles check here each week! Enjoy!! 

May YA Book Display - Summer Skies Are On Their Way

Have you checked out the newest book display for teens in the youth room?

Here it is: Summer Skies Are On Their Way

 

What do you think? Are you going to get ready for summer by diving into any of these titles??

Discovering Your "Brand" of Fantasy

Some of you may know that I also blog for the national YALSA (Young Adult Library Service Association) blog, called the Hub. 

 

Today, I have a post on the Hub's blog called Discovering Your "Brand" of Fantasy. It's all about the various sub-genres within the larger Fantasy genre and how to better pick out books you might enjoy. I'm pretty proud of this post. I'd really love it if you'd all check it out. Hope you like it!!