This is from YAttitudes, issue 9, no 4: May 2010. Those libraries with active teen book clubs may be interested in applying for the YA Galley and your teens could participate in selecting YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten and get free books!

Your Teens Could Help Choose YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten

YALSA is accepting applications for the 2010-2012 round of YA Galley! YA Galley is an ongoing project in which publishers of young adult books provide free copies of their recent titles to teen book discussion groups in libraries. In exchange, teen readers evaluate books for the publishers.

Young adult book discussion group leaders who wish to be considered for YALSA’s YA Galley/Teens’ Top Ten project can learn more online at the Teens’ Top Ten website.  Applications are due June 1, 2010. The YA Galley committee will select 15 groups during the ALA’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. this June. Each selected group will serve a two-year term beginning in November 2010.

Beginning in August 2011, these select groups will nominate titles for the 2011 Teens’ Top Ten. Teens across the country will choose their favorite books of the year by voting on these nominations. Learn more at www.ala.org/teenstopten.

Apply for a 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium Stipend! YALSA will award two stipends, worth up to $1,000, for travel and registration costs at the 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 5-7, 2010.

Applications are due Jan. 4.

What? You expected turkey? So 17th century. New Moon opened last Friday. Some rushed to go see the movie this past weekend, some are waiting for a less packed theater. While others will wait for DVD. (I would argue that waiting to see Jacob sans shirt on a TV screen instead of a wide screen movie theater is just not right.)

No matter how you feel about the books or the movies, you’re going to see it. You know you are.

That’s not the true question though. The true question is: Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?

New Moon Jacob

By the second book I was deeply and madly in love with Jacob. Read Bartleville’s Public Library Blog post to see why. Team Edward fans can read a slightly dated EW post on the feud.

Still unsure? Take the quiz. Who needs nuance?

Program idea: New Moon Debate – have kids debate open mic style (spoken word, poetry, etc) on the side they choose. Teens can make buttons or bookmarks. Have a contest on the best bookmark. The winner get to have enough made to make available to patrons at the checkout desk.

PubYac and YALSA-BK had tons of great ideas. The celebration of the movies isn’t over. Eclipse will be released June 30, 2010.

See you at the theater.

We  already know how great our Oklahoma teens are, but…

LOOK WHAT OUR TEENS DID!

Top School:    # Pages:
Putnam City High School, Teacher Beth Duffy    68,180    $250 worth of books for school library

Top Library:
Bartlesville Public Library, Librarian Laura Pryce    53,094    $250 worth of books for public library

Top 10 Overall Students:
Lindsey Kilmer, Grade 12, Putnam City High School    22,874    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Erica Adams, Grade 7, Bartlesville Public Library    21,038    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Amy Broadway, Grade 10, McAlester Public Library    11,905    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Hailey Gill, Grade 10, Stillwater Public Library    10,053    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Sarah Lemser, Grade 9, Westmoore High School    10,041    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Sarah Follett, Grade 11, Lawton Public Library    9,948    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Jamiya Havis, Grade 7, Hefner Middle School    9,921    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Marukh Ali, Grade 10, Putnam City High School    9,747    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Emely Jacob, Grade 7, McAlester Public Library    8,440    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game
Rachel Isaac, Grade 9, Putnam City High School    8,150    2 tickets to OKC Thunder game

Top 3 Readers:
Lindsey Kilmer, Grade 12, Putnam City High School    22,874    Autographed OKC Thunder team picture
Erica Adams, Grade 7, Bartlesville Public Library    21,038    Autographed OKC Thunder team picture
Amy Broadway, Grade 10, McAlester Public Library    11,905    Autographed OKC Thunder team picture

Top School Reader:
Lindsey Kilmer, Putnam City High School    22,874    iPod Nano

Top Library Reader:
Erica Adams, Bartlesville Public Library    21,038    iPod Nano

Total By Participating Schools 220,650
Total By Participating Libraries 283,726

Grand Total Pages for Read Beyond Reality    504,376

You can read the NIE post.

Congratulations to the winners!

Thank you all for participating and making the program so great.

Laura Bush Foundation

The Laura Bush Foundation makes grants of up to $6,000 each to update, extend, and diversify the book collections of school libraries. All LBF grants are made to individual schools rather than to school districts, county systems, private organizations, foundations, or other entities. LBF gives selection preference to schools in which 90 percent or more of the students receive free or reduced lunches and are likely to have the fewest books at home.
Foundation funds are available only for library books and magazine/serial copies and subscriptions. The Laura Bush Foundation is unable to honor requests for staffing, shelving, furniture, equipment, software, videos, classroom book sets or any kind of book guides, tests, or exams. Only one application per school is allowed per year.
Libraries at public and private schools are eligible to apply.

The deadline to apply is Dec. 31, 2009.

The application can be found at:
http://www.laurabushfoundation.org/web2/index.html

YALSA sent this grant information:

Clorox Clean Up Grant

Clorox Clean-Up, a product of the Clorox Company, has announced that its new Power A Bright Future program will award five grants of $10,000 each to local kids’ programs in hopes of enriching the lives of youth across the United States.
The program invites individuals to nominate local nonprofit youth programs for a Power A Bright Future grant by submitting a photo and short essay about the project. A panel of children’s advocates will review all submissions and select fifty finalists. From December 7 to January 17, 2010, the public will have the opportunity to vote online for their favorite finalist’s program. The final five will be announced by the end of January. Each winner will receive a $10,000 grant to help the project grow.

For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/cloroxcleanup

Just a friendly reminder that we are at the end of Read Beyond Reality Teen Read Month. Those libraries who participated should begin preparing and sending the following to Adrienne Butler by November 5:

•    top ten readers and the number of pages each has read

•    total number of pages read by your participants

Read Beyond Reality Oklahoma Teen Read Month poster

•    number of teens who participated in your library.

Prizes:
Your library and individual readers
can win!
•    The school and public library whose readers in grades 6 through 12 log the most pages will each receive $250 worth of books courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. The librarians at the winning school and public library will select the prize book titles.
•    The 10 students participating through their school or public library who read the most pages will receive two premium tickets to an Oklahoma City Thunder basketball game.
•    The top three readers also will receive an autographed team picture.
•    The top school reader and top public library reader will each receive an iPod Nano.
•    Winners will be announced at nie.newsok.com.

Teen Read Month 2009 in October is fast approaching. If you are looking for programming or activity ideas, I have started a list on CYA: Wiki. Send your suggestions to me if you have an idea to share.

Download-able posters and bookmarks are coming very soon. An e-mail will be sent within the next few days with information about the event. Stay tuned….

YALSA Teens Top Ten

It’s time for your teens to vote for their favorite on YALSA’s Teen’s Top Ten! Teens pick 3 of the favorite books from this list. Looking at the list it’s hard to narrow it down to only three books. Voting ends September 18th.

Teen Spaces by Kimberly Bolan

Teen Spaces by Kimberly Bolan Cullin and  has created on online companion website for the 2nd edition of . The site includes public and school teen spaces and resource libraries. You can view pictures on the Flickr site.