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We review “When Everything Feels Like the Movies” by debut and winner of the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature author, Raziel Reed. Interview with “The National” available on YouTube
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We review “When Everything Feels Like the Movies” by debut and winner of the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature author, Raziel Reed. Interview with “The National” available on YouTube
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Our indi reviews:
Cathie Sue – “The Last Dragonslayer” and the Chronicles of Khazam by Jasper Fforde
Karl – “Zami, A New Spelling of My Name” by Audre Lorde
Adrienne – “Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” movie
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“Seraphina” by Rachel Hartman
“Love and Other Perishable Items” by Laura Buzo
“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” by Emily M. Danforth
“After the Snow” by S. D. Crockett
“Wonder Show” by Hannah Barnaby
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“The Difference Between You and Me” by Madeleine George
All recommendations are on the CYA Podcast Pinterest board
Cathie Sue
Emily
Jenny
Karl
Adrienne
Upcoming books:
“Frederick Douglass for Kids” by Nancy I. Sanders
6 Picture Books
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I Am J by Cris Beam
Roll Call Question: What is the best and worst parts of summer reading?
Topic: I hope you know this means war: YA Lit & the WSJ article
A Darkness too Visible” by Meghan Cox Gurdon
“Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood” by Sherman Alexie
“The Dangers of Dark Teen Lit” NPR Tell Me More:
Hosted by Michel Martin. Guests:
Meghan Cox Gurdon, Patricia McCormick, Christopher John Farley and Candice Mack
“Young Adult Fiction Takes Off”
Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti onWBUR Radio Boston
Guests:
Robin Brenner, teen librarian, Brookline Public Library
Lauren MacLeod, literary agent specializing in Y.A., Strothman Agency
Recommendations
Karl
Gender-neutral pronouns – Wikipedia – Use a non-gender pronoun in an email
Les (Leslie) Feinberg
Emily
How the States Got Their Shapes – History Channel
Jenny
PFLAG
Stacked – guest reviewer Paul Stenis for The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
All Clear by Connie Willis
Adrienne
So You Think You Can Dance – update
Game of Thrones – June 12, 2011 episode
Mine! by Shutta Crum
Upcoming Books:
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy by Crystal Allen
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and It’s Legacy by Albert Martin
6 Picture Books
If Rocks Could Sing by Leslie McGuirk
Press Here by Herve Tullet
Perfect Square by Michael Hall
A Suitcase Surprise For Mommy by Cat Cora
This Plus That : Life’s Little Equations by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Shout! Shout It Out! by Denise Fleming
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Lauren Oliver – Author website
Lauren Oliver: News, Thoughts and Miscellany – Author blog, on MySpace, on Facebook, on Twitter
Grooveshark Playlist of the book
Groundhog Day – 1993 film, Wikipedia entry
Trevor Project – website
It Gets Better – YouTube Channel
Topic
MTV’s If You Really Knew Me
Listener’s Choice – vote for our December book
Recommendations
Karl
Heathers 1989 film – Wikipedia entry
Tales from the Madmen Underground by John Barnes – School Library Journal Review
Recommendations Page – All recommendations on one page, just for you
Cathie Sue
Correction: Teen Gay Lit Topic – Ellen Whittlinger and Lambda Award
Wittlinger, Ellen. “Too Gay or Not Gay Enough?” The Horn Book Magazine July/August (2010): 146-149. Print.
Emily
Supernatural
Adrienne
In Treatment – HBO, 3rd season begins October 25 & 26, 2010, and it’s only two shows a week not five.
Upcoming Books
Zombies vs Unicorns by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
Extraordinary Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Author website
Topic
Gay Teen Literature
Extended Topic Resources
Last Words
“Bull-E 2010 – The new world of online cruelty” by Emily Bazelon, Slate.com. A series of articles on bullying and Phoebe Prince.
Will by Maria Boyd
Recommendations
Emily
Forever Young Adult blog
@4everYA on Twitter
@librainiac on Twitter
Cathie Sue
Horning, Kathleen T. From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books. New York: Collins, 2010. Print.
Pitt, Brad, Edward Norton, Carter H. Bonham, David Fincher, and Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club. Burbank, CA: 20th Century Fox, 2002.
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic “fight clubs”, an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1996. Print
The rise of a terrorist organization led by a waiter who enjoys spitting in people’s soup. He starts a fighting club, where men bash each other, and the club quickly gains in popularity. It becomes the springboard for a movement devoted to destruction for destruction’s sake.
Adrienne
Grooveshark You listen to the music you want to hear streaming on your computer. You can create playlists and share them with friends.