Tristan Bancks | Australian Children's & Teen Author | Kids' & YA Books: How to Make a Book Trailer. Ford Street Publishing. 50 Essential Young Adult Novels. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein At the risk of stating the obvious, Young Adult fiction is hot right now. And I mean really hot. Suzanne Collins’ bestselling Hunger Games Trilogy has captured the imaginations of readers of all ages, male and female, and has been turned into a series of films that has ‘tweens and teens (and their parents) lining up for hours, just as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga before it and just as Veronica Roth’s Divergent series after.
And we can’t talk about blockbuster YA series without mentioning the masterpiece that started the current trend – Harry Potter. While the first book of J.K. Rowling’s series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, appealed to younger readers, as the series progressed, the characters and their audience grew up together. Part of Rowling’s genius was in having Harry’s, Hermione’s, and Ron’s experiences through puberty and adolescence mirror those of readers who were around the same age when it all began. Feed by M.T. Chirnside BookChat | Collins Booksellers Chirnside Park. Just So Stories | Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe. Top 101 2015 - Dymocks. Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books.
More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles. Over on NPR's pop culture blog, Monkey See, you can find one fan's thoughts on how the list shaped up, get our experts' take, and have the chance to share your own. A quick word about what's here, and what's not: Our panel of experts reviewed hundreds of the most popular nominations and tossed out those that didn't fit the survey's criteria (after — we assure you — much passionate, thoughtful, gleefully nerdy discussion).
You'll notice there are no young adult or horror books on this list, but sit tight, dear reader, we're saving those genres for summers yet to come. So, at last, here are your favorite science-fiction and fantasy novels. 1. The Good Reading Guide: book reviews of the best books. Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased.
A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I’m going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things. And I am biased, obviously and enormously: I’m an author, often an author of fiction. So I’m biased as a writer. And I’m here giving this talk tonight, under the auspices of the Reading Agency: a charity whose mission is to give everyone an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers.
And it’s that change, and that act of reading that I’m here to talk about tonight. It’s not one to one: you can’t say that a literate society has no criminality. More fantastic book-related films - World Book Day. Latest Book Trailers - World Book Day. 100 Notable Books of 2014. Photo The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. ALL OUR NAMES. By Dinaw Mengestu. (Knopf, $25.95.) With great sadness and much hard truth, Mengestu’s novel looks at a relationship of shared dependencies between a Midwestern social worker and a bereft African immigrant. ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING. By Evie Wyld. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE. AMERICAN INNOVATIONS. THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER: Stories. THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER. BARK: Stories. THE BLAZING WORLD. THE BONE CLOCKS. THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS. THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS. BOY, SNOW, BIRD. A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS. CAN’T AND WON’T.
THE COLD SONG. COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE. DEPT. THE DOG. EUPHORIA. EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU. F. FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHT. FAMILY LIFE. FOURTH OF JULY CREEK. A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING. I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT. THE LAUGHING MONSTERS. LENA FINKLE’S MAGIC BARREL. LILA. 10:04. 25 books every girl should read before she turns 25. Classic literature is full of famous books about angsty teenage boys learning who they are as men. But what about all the women? The books about women’s coming of age are not nearly as widely celebrated, but are they are JUST as significant and moving and important as all those books about boys. From young adult stories of adventure, to non-fiction graphic novels, these game-changing reads will shape how you think about being a woman — which let’s be real, is mega important. It’s time to dust off your library card and get ready to be empowered. 1.
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Allende spent seven years researching this novel, which she describes as a young woman’s search for self-knowledge. 2. Persepolis is a graphic novel that I first encountered in an Intro to Gender & Women’s Studies in college. 3. This book is classic for a reason. 4. This 1969 autobiography from Maya Angelou shows how a woman can stand strong despite societal and personal injustices. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Best Of 2014 Lists: Selected Titles. Happy 2015! Last year (yup) Geri Diorio posted a fantastic summary of the best young adult books lists from 2014 including Horn Book, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
My New Year’s resolution was to annotate a title selected from each list and/or category. No, I didn’t hit every single genre (sorry poetry). But it was great fun and I conclude that 2014 was definitely wonderful year for YA books! Here are my selections, listed alphabetically by author’s last name. From: Horn Book, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Nonfiction, Female Author The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia By Candace Fleming An examination of the Romanovs (Russia’s last imperial family), the country’s revolutions and political strife in the the years 1905-1917, and (in their own words) brutal accounts of what life was like for the common peasants of this time.
From: Kirkus, Realistic Fiction, Debut Female Author (Morris Finalist) Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley by E. Booklists. After The Hunger Games - what now? - Books & Reading | e-books - Monte Library at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College. Best YA/NA Science Fiction Books (22 books) Young Adult Science Fiction Books. Audience Picks: Top 100 'Killer Thrillers' The Winner: The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris beat out two other serial killer books -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Kiss the Girls by James Patterson -- for the No. 1 spot. hide caption toggle caption It's been a cliffhanger, but now the final page can be turned.
The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our "Killer Thrillers" poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code, Presumed Innocent to Pet Sematary. What these top 100 titles share, however, is that all of them are fast-moving tales of suspense and adventure.
And menace. Co-panelist, novelist and critic Patrick Anderson was more impressed with the overall quality of the choices: "The vast majority of these are very good books or classics ... Of course, there will be arguments about whether some of these books truly count as "thrillers. " 1. 11. 21. 31. 41. 51. 61. 71. 81. 91. 1. If you like The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
This readalike is in response to a patron's book-match request. If you would like personalized reading recommendations, fill out the book-match form and a librarian will email suggested titles to you. See our other Book Matches. Here are some other action/adventure books you may enjoy: The Bar Code Tattoo by Susan Weyn Things for Kayla progress from bad, as in being told her computer grades disqualify her from an art scholarship, to worse, when she refuses to accept an identification bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday.
(catalog description) Birthmarked by Caragh M. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day tobe a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. Feed by M. Gone by Michael Grant In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. Reading Time. Libguides book trailers. 22 Books You Should Read Now, Based On Your Childhood Favorites. GAFE@MLMC. Inside A Dog | "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx. February - Celebrate the Australian Year 2015. ERL Best teen fiction 2014.
Mystery must-reads - Teen. Home - Monte Library at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College. After The Hunger Games - what now? - Books & Reading | e-books - Monte Library at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College. Books into Film. Book Related days list. Multicultural and Indigenous Learning Resources, Cultural Diversity, Child Care Learning Resources, Early Learning Tools - Cultural Calendar. Reading Challenge 2015. Eastern Regional Libraries. Conference notes: Choices for English: ETANSW Conference 2014 Part I. 28th November 2014. Session F4.3. Presented by Deb McPherson and Helen Sykes.This is Part I. Part II is a separate post. These notes provide more information about the titles Deb and Helen introduced in their session at the 2014 ETANSW Conference.
The majority of these titles are fiction. While the focus is always on fiction, Deb and Helen always try to draw teachers' attention to any resource that will enhance their teaching. The annotated notes below are presented alphabetically. To help you navigate such a long list of titles, Deb and Helen have reproduced (and extended a little) the handout that they gave out during their session. An overview Each of the titles listed in this overview is annotated in the alphabetical listing below.
Some class set novels The First Voyage by Allan Baillie. Joyous and Moonbeam by Richard Yaxley. Loyal Creaturesby Morris Gleitzman. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier. Refuge by Jackie French. Some plays Fantasy. Books for English: ETANSW Conference 2014 Part II. 28th November 2014. Session F4.3Presented by Deb McPherson and Helen Sykes.This is Part II. Part I is a separate post.One Minute's Silence by David Metzenthen and Michael Camilleri. Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN 9781743316245. 48 pp. This is an impressive addition to the small group of Australian picture books about Gallipoli.
In between the two images, we have the familiar Remembrance Day call to one minute's silence - one minute in which to think about what happened. But can you imagine the fierce Anzacs and the fighting Turks quietly returning to their trenches after this one day of truce ... then firing at each other that afternoon, although they truly knew that the other men were not so much different after all. That recognition of common humanity by the soldiers on both sides is not new. The quality of Metzenthen's writing is evident from the quotations I've included here. Recommendation: This is confronting and provocative. Patient 12 by Kevin Summers. By Rick Riordan. Pureheart Reboot. Book suggestions HSC Area of Study: Discovery - Some related texts. The annotations below are for texts presented by Helen Sykes to three sessions at the Whitlam Library, on the 19th, 20th and 25th November 2014. Those who attended the sessions were given the following handout, which highlighted the types of text presented.
Note: In the handout that was given to teachers on the 19th and to students on the 20th, T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Journey of the Magi' was included in the list of related texts. While this is certainly an interesting exploration of the concept of discovery, it cannot be used as a related text as it is a prescribed text for HSC English. Choosing related texts Note:you cannot use as a related text any text that is prescribed for the HSC, even if it is prescribed for a course different from the one you are doing.
An Overview of the Texts This overview lists the texts under types. Some picture books Dragonquest by Allan Baillie and Wayne Harris. It's a Book by Lane Smith. Luke's Way of Looking by Nadia Wheatley and Matt Ottley. 'Mrs. Some poems. Summer of Monsters book review. Book review - Bellman and Black. Book review - The dark unwinding. ReadPlus. Goodreads. 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. The Carnival at Bray. By Jessie Ann Foley. Elephant Rock, $12.95 (97809895115597). Maggie has only recently moved to Ireland when tragedy strikes and her goal becomes seeing Nirvana perform in Rome. The Crossover. By Kwame Alexander. The Gospel of Winter. I’ll Give You the Sun. Jackaby. Noggin.
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim. Vango. We Were Liars. The Young Elites. 2015 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. CHICAGO —The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced its 2015 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers selection list. The list is presented annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. The Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list identifies titles aimed at encouraging reading among teens who dislike to read for any reason. The complete list of 67 titles and a series, drawn from 149 nominations, can be found at The Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers committee also selected a Top Ten list: Alender, Katie.
"Famous Last Words. " 2014. Scholastic, Inc. “I am so proud of the list our committee has put together for reluctant readers of all types,” said Chair, Jennifer Fairchild. For more than 50 years, YALSA has worked to build the capacity of libraries and library staff to engage, serve and empower teens. Images.
State library Victoria. State Library Victoria. LIW2015-Activity-Ideas.pdf. Readposter.pdf. Term 2 displays 2009 001. 17 Books To Read If You Liked "The Fault In Our Stars" 2014 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Top Ten. Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. Best Picture Books 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. The 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 02, 2014. Opening Round: November 03 - 08 Voting open to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below).
Semifinal Round: November 10 - 15 The top five write-in votes in each of the categories become official nominees, bringing the total to 20 nominees per category. Additional write-ins no longer accepted. Final Round: November 17 - 24 The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote! Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 17, 2013, and November 15, 2014, are eligible for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards.
We analyze statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on the site in 2014 to nominate 15 books in each category. Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart f In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.
Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell. The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. Best Historical Fiction 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. Best Mystery & Thriller 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. Best Poetry 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. Best Middle Grade & Children's 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. Best Graphic Novels & Comics 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards.
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. Best Young Adult Fiction 2014 — Goodreads Choice Awards. Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature. Trove - National Library of Australia. Library of Congress Authorities.