CYA: Children & Young Adults

The packets from both Share Fair’s are now online and available for download.
I did not include the Call for Ideas from the Collaborative. Please drop me a note and I’ll e-mail the sheet to you. I will need to gather all ideas and suggestion for 2009 and 2010 SRP’s before the December 1st deadline.

Attention all librarians, teachers, bloggers, and teens!

Votin’ is our sacred American duty!

It’s time to encourage your teens to cast their vote for the Teens’ Top 10!
Sponsored by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) and the YA Galley Committee

The Teens’ Top 10 is the only book award list that is recommended and awarded solely by teens.

***Teens have been reading! 15 teen groups sifted through Advance Reader’s Copies/Galleys to find the best books for teens published in 2006 and 2007.
***This year, 25 titles made it through the laborious process and were nominated for the Teens’ Top 10. In order to be nominated, a book must be selected by 3 different teens from within these 15 groups.
***Now, we need teens from all over the United States to vote on the Top 10!

To do List:
For Librarian — Set up a voting station and inform your teens with the 5 W’s about Teens’ Top 10 voting. For more information about the Teens’ Top 10 (as well as promotion ideas), please visit the website:

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/
teenstopten/teenstopten.htm.

Get the information below into teens’ hands.
For Teens — Voting opens during Teen Read Week, October 14-20, 2007. We want to know which titles you think deserve the title of Teens’ Top 10. Twenty-five titles have been nominated by teens just like you as the best reads of 2006-2007. Read as many of the titles as you can before October 14, 2007. Teens should visit the website

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/
teenstopten/teenstopten.htm

to place their vote anytime during Teen Read Week. We look forward to seeing which books YOU think are the best of the best.

For bloggers — Get the word out about this important initiative

The YA Galley Committee will count all of these votes to come up with the official list of Teens’ Top 10 for 2007.

Without further ado, these are the 25 nominated titles for Teens’ Top 10 2007:

1. Firegirl by Tony Abbott
2. Clay by David Almond
3. Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
4. Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita
5. The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
6. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
7. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles
8. In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
9. The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
10. What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles
11. Hello, Groin by Beth Goobie
12. River Secrets by Shannon Hale
13. Shock Point by April Henry
14. Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
15. Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
16. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
17. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller
18. Prom Anonymous by Blake Nelson
19. Maximum Ride: School’s Out-Forever by James Patterson
20. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
21. Penelope Bailey Takes the Stage by Susanna Reich
22. All Hallows Eve (13 Stories) by Vivian Vande Velde
23. Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
24. The Unresolved by T.K. Welsh
25. Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog by Ysabeau S. Wilce

For more information about the Teens’ Top 10, please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/
teenstopten/teenstopten.htm

Lindsey C. Dunn
Young Adult Librarian
Eva Perry Library
http://zeesays.blogspot.com

[posted with permission --adrienne]

2007 Children’s and Young Adult Share Fair’s are over! Attendance was remarkable. Both days had consisted of a wonderful fellowship between the librarians. I hope everyone who attended was able to come away with idea or two for next year.

The 2008 Collaborative Library Summer Program manuals and Highsmith catalogs arrived just in time! Public libraries who attended were able to pick up their copy. System libraries were mailed or couriered October 1st. I will be mailing out the rest this month.

If you haven’t already, please fill out the 2008 Materials Order Form.

I will be ordering the materials that ODL will purchase by the December 1 deadline so you can have them by March 1st. I need all libraries to have the 2008 Materials Order Form submitted by November 16, 2006.

Since yours truly is still in the low end of the learning curve, the evaluations for both workshops are available via Survey Monkey; Children’s and Young Adult’s. Both surveys lead directly to the CEU mailing list. Fill out this survey to add your name to the mailing list if you forgot to pick up yours.

I will be uploading the Children’s and Young Adult’s packets on the CYA Wiki: CYApedia for download for those who were unable to attend. Notes are still being gathered from both days and will be uploaded as soon as possible.

Please fax, mail, call or e-mail the Hosting/Inquiry sheets (white sheets from the packet) by the end of October.

Don’t forget your homework! Send in your programming ideas for the 2009 SRP (music and the arts, Be Creative @ Your Library/Express Yourself @ Your Library) and slogan suggestions for 2010 SRP (Water).

I will post/e-mail information about the statewide movie license, gaming, children’s programming, spring SRP workshops, etc as I gather information.

Finally, I’m off on vacation next week. Take and send pictures of your Teen Read Week!

Thank you all so very much for attending and participating. I had a fun and I hope you did, too.