Book Divas
Young adult and college-age readers can discuss books, read chapter excerpts,
and interact with
favorite authors.
Grouchy Café: Favorite Teenage Angst Books
This teen reading message board has been around since 2002. The site's
abundance of advertising
may be distracting.
www.grouchy.com/angst/favorites.html
Hamilton Public Library Teen Online Book Club
This Ontario, Canada library offers a book discussion page intended for readers
aged eighteen and
younger
www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/LibraryServices/Teens/TeenSpaceTeenOnlineBookClub.htm
Pike's Peak Library District Teen Zone Message Board
This Colorado Springs site offers opportunity for teens to discuss books, music,
movies and
"everything else".
www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/mb/teenzone
Teen Read '06
Started on June 1, 2006, this teen reading blog is sponsored by the South
Central Library System in
Madison, Wisconsin. Twelve recent YA titles are posted and visitors to the
site can read reviews,
visit an author web site, or link to web sites pertaining to topics presented in
the books.
Teenreads.com
Brings teens info and features about their favorite authors, books, series and
characters. A part of
The Book Report Network, a group of websites founded in 1996, Teenreads'
features include literary
games and contests.
Teens' Top Ten Books (TTT) is part of YA Galley, a project of the Young Adult Library Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
YALSA's YA Galley Project facilitates access to advance copies of young adult books to national teen voting groups. Every two years, teen book groups in five school and public libraries around the country are selected for their experience in discussing books. The members of these teen groups evaluate books published from November to October and create a list of 44 nominations for the best new books for young adults. Teen voters across the country then cast ballots for their three favorites, thus creating that year's Teens' Top Ten booklist of the best new books for young adults.
YOU can help create this year's list of books chosen for teens by teens as the best reads of the year. It's fun, free, and easy. You don't even have to register your name.
1. First, find the list of teen-nominated titles at the TTT site above.
New nominations will be added through June. Read as many books on the list
as possible so you can make informed decisions about your favorite books when
you vote.
2. Encourage your friends to join you in TTT reading and voting. The
more teens who participate, the more accurately the winning list will reflect
the reading tastes of teens all over the country.
3. Vote online during Teen Read Week in October, when a ballot containing all
nominated titles will be available at the TTT web site above. Just click
its boxes to vote for your 3 favorite books.
4. Watch for the list of 10 winning books in November on the TTT web site
above.
Teen Read Week is an initiative of YALSA to encourage young adults to read for sheer pleasure as well as learning. Its goal is also to increase awareness of resources available in libraries. Teen Read Week's theme for 2005 was Get Real! @ your library. Some ways that you can implement this theme are:
1. Choose a Real Winner! Participate in Teens' Top Ten (TTT) described above.
2. Real Eating Check out our library's many cookbooks as well as books on health and nutrition.
3. Real Life Read one of our autobiographies or biographies about someone in the medical field.
4. Your Real Life Create a journal or scrapbook about YOU to be displayed in the library.
5. We Really Recommend... Write a review of a book you recommend and we'll post it to the library's web site and/or a display in the library. You are invited to booktalk it to our Library Club as well.
6. Get Reel Read a book which has been turned into a movie. Compare and contrast for a free bag of microwave popcorn!
7. Real or Not? Read about how lie detectors work. Investigate other ways in which real facts are distinguished from lies. Check out our books on actual criminal trials as well as our detective novels.
8. Get Real About...
a. ...Art Use a how-to book to help draw an
alternate illustration for a cover of one of your favorite books. We'll
display the original book along with your interpretation and let students vote
for their favorite.
b. ...Helping Your Community There are books in
our library which suggest many ways to volunteer as well as contact information.
c. ...Skincare and Makeup Explore our resources
on these topics. Maybe demonstrate what you've learned in a mini-workshop.
d. ...Cooking Contribute a
favorite recipe to a Med Tech cookbook which could be added to the library's
collection.
9. Get Real Spooked Read a book in the horror genre or a nonfiction book about ghosts, etc. Question what is real and what is fiction in the tales.
10. Freedom is for Real Just a few examples in our library are: books about our country's fights for freedom from its founding to the present, about the Women's Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, about slavery, about Texas independence, and biographies about those who have fought for freedom.
11. Real Reading Discover our awesome collection of realistic fiction. Seventeen titles in this genre have been nominated so far for Teens' Top Ten.