YOU can determine what the best YA book of the year was...

Looking for some summer reading?

Look no further!!!  Here are the 2012 Teens’ Top Ten Nominations, ten books from this will be picked by teens ALL OVER THE COUNTRY to represent the best of the best in YA fiction for 2012.  Voting opens in August so get started reading!

Nominations

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Do you remember how I said the new May books were all of the books we'd be getting in for the rest of the year?  Well I forgot about the pre-ordered/back-ordered books and a shipment of the last books (I mean it this time) is now in and ready to be checked out.

I'm incredibly excited about these, especially Bitterblue.  I've been waiting all year for this book to come out.  It's the sequel to Graceling.  Those of you disappointed by Fire, this is the book to make it all better.

Bitterblue

And The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom looks to be super cute and hilarious.  And the film rights have already been bought so expect to see a movie some time in the future!

The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

I know some of the 7th graders read Black Hole Sun for the Science Fiction component of their genre project.  If you liked it, you might want to check out the long awaited sequel, Invisible Sun.  I know, it has a truly terrible cover, apparently the illustrator didn't read the book or get the memo that the main character is sixteen.  SIXTEEN!  Instead, they've put some buff guy who looks about twenty-six on the cover.  

Invisible Sun

However, The Wicked & the Just has a pretty nice cover and a super juicy story to go with it.  If you like historical fiction with a twist than this is a book for you.

The Wicked & the Just

New books in library!

These will be the last new books for the year so come take a look and check them out while you still can!

There are some fantastic new graphic novels and YA stories.  And if you're looking for something action packed and full of adventure, make sure to take a look at I Am A SEAL Team Six Warrior, the true story of a Navy SEAL.

Poetry in the Library

As part of Poetry Month, Mrs. Julsonnet's Library Club of Superb Awesomeness worked on making book spine poetry.

It's a lot harder than you'd think!  However, they did a great job.  See for yourself:

Another activity was to construct a poem using every letter in the alphabet in sequential order.  This was very hard and made book spine poetry look like a piece of cake.  Here is my terrible attempt:

A boy called Dave eats figs, growing huge in just kiloseconds,
later, many nod, openly pointing, quite robust sarcasm too.
"Underfed? Very well," Xavier yelled zealously.

What about you?  Do you think you can write a poem from every letter of the alphabet?  Shel Silverstein did it.  Reply with your attempts, I'm dying to see how others do.

New books in the library for April!

We have quite the variety this month.  Everything from Wonder (said to be a contender for the 2012 Newbery Award!) to Pandemonium by Chris Wooding (the author of Malice!)

We have a some exciting new fantasy novels as well as fascinating stories in non-fiction.  Did you know that Sir Conan Doyle, the creator Sherlock Holmes, believed in fairies?  You might want to take a look at The Fairy Ring, or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World.

April is...

...National Poetry Month!!!!

And that means the return of the infamous poetry door.  (Also known as the closet which normally has the Glee READ poster on it.)  The poetry door will be up all month so make sure you stop by at least once and try your hand at crafting your very own poem.  It can be funny or sad, profound or inconsequential, rhyme or not.  Various student-created poems will be featured on this blog so come on by for your chance at Internet Immortality!

Also, make sure to take a look at the big library windows because throughout the month of April they will be transformed into a GIANT calendar.  Each day will feature a different poem.  As April is also National Humor Month and the 1st is April Fools Day, we have a particularly fitting example of literary greatness. 

BoB update!

Noooo!  I was so rooting for Drawing From Memory and it lost.  Chime lost too.

So the final battle is down to Between Shades of Gray, Life: An Exploded Diagram AND the zombie book which will be announced tomorrow.
 

Depending on who the zombie book is, I might have to root for Between Shades of Gray. 

What about you?



I wouldn't want to be in Jonathan Stroud's shoes.  His book took the big win last year and now he has to pick the champion this year.  Good luck!