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The Debut: Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
In her first novel, Carol Rifka Brunt tells a story of love and loss, sibling rivalry, secrets, and jealousy. June Elbus is 14 when she finds out that her uncle Finn, the one person in the world who...
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The YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium Hones in on Social Reading and...
Some 500 librarians gathered in St. Louis from November 4–6 for YALSA’s Young Adult Literature Symposium to enjoy a choice of 18 sessions, with four special events, including lunch with authors...
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Best Adult Books 4 Teens 2012
More Bests Best Books 2012 Bringing together the best reading of the year among 17 book reviewers resulted in a wonderfully varied group of titles that combines excellence and appeal to young adults....
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The Debut: R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot
It’s Nevada, 1869, and 15-year-old Jim and his injured horse, Promise, are struggling to make it across the 40-Mile Desert. They’re rescued by Mutt, Golgotha’s Native American deputy, who encourages...
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Adult Books 4 Teens | April 2013
Fiction BEAUMAN , Ned. The Teleportation Accident. 357p. Bloomsbury. Feb. 2013. Tr $25. ISBN 978-1-62040-022-7. LC 2012038374. Adult/High School–Beauman’s deliriously complex, tremendously funny second...
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The Debut: Kimberly McCreight, ‘Reconstructing Amelia’
On October 24, Kate, a hard-working attorney and single mother, is called away in the middle of a crucial meeting to pick up her 15 year-old daughter at her fancy private school in Brooklyn. Amelia has...
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MacMillan Fall Kids | Preview Peek
While the rest of us are busy booking our summer getaways, publishers are focusing on their fall lists. On the afternoon of May 16, a large group of librarians and book reviewers gathered at New York...
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Random House Fall Kids | Preview Peek
Early on the morning of May 23 in the Louis L’Amour Room of the Random House building on Broadway in New York City, there was a magical gathering of librarians, reviewers, and publishers. Attendees...
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The Debut: SLJ Talks to Katja Millay About ‘The Sea of Tranquility’
The Sea of Tranquility is a novel about two teens who are suffering. Nastya was attacked and lost the use of her hand. Being a piano prodigy who based her identity upon her musical ability, she is...
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Debut Author and Filmmaker Hannah Weyer Talks About ‘On the Come Up’
AnnMarie is about to start eighth grade when the reader first meets her, selling homemade ice pops so she can buy school clothes. Her mother is on welfare and disability, but AnnMarie is just happy...
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SLJ Best Books 2011 Adult Books 4 Teens
In This Article Picture Books Fiction Nonfiction The “Adult Books 4 Teens” blog is designed to replace the “Adult Books for High School Students” print column. It launched on the School Library...
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The Debut: SLJ Chats with Mary Miller, author of ‘The Last Days of California’
In Mary Miller’s debut novel, The Last Days of California (coming from Liveright in January 2014), 15-year-old Jess and her family are on a road trip, driving from Montgomery, Alabama, to California to...
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On Top of His Game: SLJ Interviews Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner Markus Zusak
The photographer asked Zusak to write a sentence on his daughter’s chalkboard.He wrote something he remembered her saying.All photos by James Horan. While many of us fell in love with Markus Zusak’s...
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Best Adult Books 4 Teens | Curriculum Tie-In Edition
Each year, School Library Journal releases their annual “Best Adult Books 4 Teens” list in early December. That list, which is available in print and online, includes titles reviewed in the blog during...
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Gaming the Teenage Brain: Q&A With Social Scientist Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg is a distinguished university professor of psychology at Temple University and author of Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence (HMH, 2014). Angela...
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