Make Waves @ Your Library

Summer Reading for Tweens & Teens

San Anselmo Library

What to do:

1. Read as many books as you want

2. Fill out & return Teen Book Reviews

Each review returned earns you a raffle ticket for our summer raffle.

Grand Prize: iPod Nano!!!

More prizes from Barton's Bagels, Marin Coffee Roasters, Felice! Party Store, Michael Feldman drawing class (1)

Drawing August 4 @ 3 p.m.

winners will be notified by phone

Presented by the Ross Valley Rotary Club in memory of Surjit Singh

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Looking for ideas for good reads?  Check out these two sites:

Teen Reads

Printz Award

 

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have
special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles
are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex Awards were
first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award
in 2002.  

B o o k s  w i t h  B i t e  2008

and More

 

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YALSA's Teens' Top Ten

Where Teens Choose the Winners!

The 2009 Teens' Top Ten (what the teens think)

The vote is in! More than 11,000 teens voted on last year's winners. The 2009 Teens' Top Ten are:

• Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
• Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Young Adult Book Awards & Booklists

YALSA's Best Books for 2010 - what the librarians think.

2010 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
This list suggests items for recreational reading that have wide appeal to teens who, for whatever reason, do not like to read.

2010 Top Ten Quick Picks for Young Adult Readers

• Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon's Lexicon

• Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses

• Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea

• Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group

• Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou

• Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir

• Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me

• Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World

• Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times

• Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland