Awards Announced Monday!
The ALA Book and Media Awards will be announced Monday morning. You can join this event by going
here and clicking on
webcast in the second paragraph. I plan to attend via webcast unless too many people log on before me. I better get to work early on Monday. Oh wait, they are in Seattle so that is two time zones earlier than here. Maybe I will be all right.
I must tell you about Lindsey Tomsu’s youth series fiction
blog, (clever title!). Lindsey has given a presentation at the 2012 ELS & SELS Youth Services Retreat and on NCompass Live (visit the
archives and click on November 7, 2012: “Nancy Drew & Friends”). She has been collecting vintage series books for children and teens and shares lots of information about them. Thank you, Lindsey!
The Raft by S. A. Bodeen is tough to read but compelling. Robie (15) is a passenger on the delivery plane to the Midway Atoll where she lives with her parents when a storm causes them to crash. Now she is trying to survive in a life raft. Parts of the story are grim as she must deal with death in different situations. This book will be a popular choice with teens due to the survival aspect along with the specific knowledge Robie has from living on Midway, such as the danger of disease from fish living on the edge of the islands. Bodeen is the author of the 2012 Golden Sower Young Adult winner,
The Compound.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free, via the Regional Library Systems, to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
