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
Physical Humor
Physical Humor
Character/Situation Humor
Character/Situation Humor
Character/Situation Humor
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Character/Situation Humor
Character/Situation Humor
Character/Situation Humor
Humor based on language
Language play
Character/Situation Humor
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Humor based on language
Humor based on language
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Humor based on language
Humor based on language
Humor based on language
Nonfiction Ladder: Chronological
American Revolution
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US Civil War
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Scholastic
Instrumental voices
FSG
60s
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
More Nonfiction
More Nonfiction
More Nonfiction
More Nonfiction
More Nonfiction
HarperCollins
Aladdin
Norton
Viking
Mystery
Random House
Steampunk
Pinata
Mystery
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.
68
Candlewick
Tor/Starscape
New forms and formats
72
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
FSG
MOCK NEWBERY
Top Picks
Random House
84
Front Street
87
Dial
SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM OTHERS
Mock Printz
Penguin Putnam
Candlewick
Dutton
Cinco Puntos
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95
First second
Norton
Random House
Candlewick
FSG
Building strong readers
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