YA+Books

DSC Young Adult Books: Books, Books, and More Books!
Need purchase suggestions for your library collection or Literacy classroom library? Get great ideas from this workshop for young adult books that you must have in your collection! Hear book talks for the latest in YA fiction and learn what’s new in young adult lit that can’t be missed. Discover what new titles you MUST have to start out the fall, receive annotated bibliographies for using fiction across the curriculum, and learn about titles that you may have missed. Promotional ideas will be discussed to help encourage reluctant readers. Will include a discussion/comparison of electronic readers including the Nook & Kindle and information about the new Arkansas Teen Book Award. (ADE Criteria: Content, Instructional strategies, Advocacy/leadership)

This session will provide participants with the following: 1. booktalks of new titles 2. updated annotated bibliographies 3. promotional and book club ideas 4. Arkansas Teen Book Award info

Upon completion of the session participants will: 1. Create Shelfari/Good Reads account. 2. Create a Titlewave account to share titles. 3. Participants will gain insight into new YA titles. 4. Participants will be able to identify books for purchase for their library/classroom collection. 5. Participants will develop a list of upcoming sequels. 6. Participants will be provided with annotated booklists. 7. Participants will discover new methods of promoting books.
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Booktrailers:
Who is Jenna Fox? [] Paper Towns [] Wake, Fade, and Gone [] (trailer is for Wake, the first in the series) Wintergirls [] //All We Know of Heaven// [] Impossible [] Graceling [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7jwHLDpxFM] Gone by Michael Grant [] Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5BC3hKlon8] Skinned [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4TwsgUD80] Link to over 100 book trailers: [] Northwest High School, Naomi Bates's Trailers [] The Graveyard [] Wondrous Strange and Darklight [] Darkest Powers Trilogy [] Eternal [] The Forest of Hands and Teeth [] The Dead Tossed Waves [] The Demon King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEtfteO-9dU Vampire Academy author speaks about series [] Press release for Finnikin of the Rock [] Incarceron by Catherine Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3N9QyolxGY & review by Teen Reads at http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/9780803733961.asp Numbers by Rachel Ward http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/9780803733961.asp Sarah Dessen talks about Along for the Ride [] Maggie Stiefvater trailer for Shiver [] Free Download of new novella by Stephenie Meyer http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/tsslobt_pr.pdf The Tear Collector [] After by Amy Efaw [] Liar [] Fire by Kristen Cashore []

Promotions: Arkansas Teen Book Award: http://arkansasteenaward.wikispaces.com/ Speeddating Books: [] Book Bling: [] My Shelfari [] Goodreads []