What’s Sally Reading?

Free Books! How can that be bad? Enter to win a set of the Teen Top Ten nominees from YALSA. They will be giving away ten sets of books. Go here to download the entry form. You can see the list of 25 nominees here , maybe you already have them all. 🙂 Applications are due on August 1. Your teens can vote online for their favorite titles between August 22 and September 16. You can also look at the ongoing nominee list (to date) for Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA) (as of 6-14-11). You are welcome to nominate a title you and/or your teens believe should be considered for this list. Go here for the form. The ongoing nominee list (to date) for the 2012 Great Graphic Novels for Teens was also recently posted on the YALSA website.  You are also welcome to nominate a title you and/or your teens believe should be considered for this list. The nomination form (with specific criteria) can be found here. More information about the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list can be found here . I recently finished reading Mercy by Rebecca Lim. She calls herself Mercy, though she remembers nothing about her life. All she knows is that she wakes up in someone else’s body, stays there for a time (days or weeks, it is never the same) and then moves on, remembering very little of what happened before. This time she is in Carmen (probably 16), a member of a high school choir group – St. Joseph’s Girls’ School. The choir is staying in another town for two weeks, before a concert. Carmen is staying in the room of a girl who disappeared two years ago. The parents have given up and are trying to return to “normal.” Her twin brother, Ryan (about 18), is certain she is still alive. For the first time Mercy sees she can do something, make a difference; soon Ryan and Carmen are working together to find Lauren. While Carmen is meek, Mercy is fearless, and also has some powers she doesn’t really understand, making some changes in Carmen’s life. This is the beginning of a new series with great appeal to teen readers.