September 2012
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What book universe would you choose to live in,...
Maybe we shouldn’t draw a line between young adult and adult books in our minds,...
– Why “YA”? An Exploration of “Young Adult.” | The Hub (via sdiaz101)
YA: Your Athenaeum: What's New: Across the... →
yourathenaeum:
New to the Athenaeum’s YA corner is the Across the Universe series by Beth Revis. From Revis’s website:
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awake on a new…
We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.
– T. S. Eliot, who was born 124 years ago today, on idea Incubation, inhibition, and the mystical quality of creativity (via explore-blog)
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Teen Writer's Workshop with Rosemary Clement-Moore...
Get here!
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We've got mariachis!
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us tonight at SPL. We’ve got a mariachi trio in the lobby and crafts in the storytime room!
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Teen Writer's Workshop with Rosemary...
Just a reminder that next week is the teen writer workshop with the fabulous Dallas-based author Rosemary Clement-Moore, author of the amazing Texas Gothic and The Splendor Falls. The workshop will include three separate hour-long sessions on September 24th-26th. You don’t have to come to all of them but you probably should!
See you there!
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SPL Teen Book Club!
What we need from you:
Suggestions for books you would want to read.
A name for this club! Help us think of a name!
And for you to sign up starting September 20th
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Win a signed copy of UNDER THE NEVER SKY! →
yaflash:
At my long-form blog. Just comment to be entered to win! You don’t have to follow me or any of that nonsense. I JUST LIKE SPREADING BOOKLOVE.
Back to School? →
ourtimeorg:
Here are 9 apps that will help you survive!
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history,...
– Lois Lowry, from her Newberry Award acceptance speech. (via amandaonwriting)
First official image of MORTAL INSTRUMENTS cast
cassandraclare:
First official image of the TMI cast all together. Are they not adorable?
tmisource:
Aurum Producciones has shared the first official image of the the main cast of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES.
What do you think of our gorgeous cast, Shadowhunters?
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YA: Your Athenaeum: What's New: Starters by Lissa... →
yourathenaeum:
Currently on the New YA Bookshelf is the body-swapping scifi debut from Lissa Price, Starters. From the LA Times:
In this clever and creepy tale with faint echoes of “The Stepford Wives” and “The Hunger Games,” 16-year-old Callie Woodland is desperate. She and her 7-year-old brother,…