Aldine 2010

TERI S. LESESNESAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY SCIENCE

New Books for Every Age

So many books, so little time…

Narrowing down to the ones you need/want:

Award lists such as Newbery, Caldecott, King, Printz

New awards such as Sibert, Belpre, Morris Walden Award

Amazon lists Teens Top Ten Reviewing Journals Surveying the students

Teens top ten

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)

Multiple stars

five stars--

WINTERGIRLS by Laurie Halse AndersonCHARLES AND EMMA by Deborah HeiligmanCLAUDETTE COLVIN by Phillip HooseWHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca SteadMARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD by Francisco StorkTALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIA by Shaun Tan

Multiple stars

four stars--

CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne CollinsIF I STAY by Gayle FormanTHE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE by Jacqueline KellyA SEASON OF GIFTS by Richard PeckHEROES OF THE VALLEY by Jonathan StroudTHE FROG SCIENTIST by Pamela Turner

But stars do not count

KIDS DO!

What do kids say?

Building strong readers

What do kids prefer?

Humor

Nonfiction

Mystery (tween and teen)

New forms and formats

Humor Ladder

Humor is developmental

Physical humor

Humor based on situation

Humor based on character

Humor based on language

Physical Humor

Character/Situation Humor

Language play

Character/Situation Humor

Nonfiction Ladder: Chronological

American Revolution

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US Civil War

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Scholastic

Instrumental voices

March on Washington

Candlewick

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.

YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.

GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be Hank Green's memoir?)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.

YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.

LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE.

More Nonfiction

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Viking

Mystery

Random House

Steampunk

Pinata

Mystery

There are many ways to describe Ms. Underdorf. She was brilliant and joyous, and she believed-probably

correctly-that libraries contain the answers to everything, and that if you can’t find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably does not exist in this or any other parallel universe now or ever to be known.

She was thoughtful and kind and always believed the best of

everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time.

And she was wonderfully unhinged… And so the Amazing Armadillo.

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Candlewick

Tor/Starscape

New forms and formats

First second

Children of War

Memoir

Wordsong/Boyds Mills

"Brevity gets right to the point doesn't dawdle, dicker, or delay always short and sweet whenever there is something to do or say brevity comes in handy when you are subject to a chewing out a bout of the flu a pain in the neck or waiting in line for the loo in fact, this poem has gone on so long that its recital would no longer qualify as an example of its title"

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The play’s the thing

Scholastic-Swan lake

Egmont

MOCK NEWBERY

Top Picks

Random House

Front Street

SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM OTHERS

Mock Printz

Penguin Putnam

Candlewick

Dutton

Cinco Puntos

First second

Norton

Random House

Candlewick

Building strong readers

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