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Bank of America Student Leader Program

Since its inception in 2005, the Bank of America Student Leaders® Program has recognized more than 2,000 exemplary high school juniors and seniors who have a passion for improving their communities.  The program helps students gain a greater understanding of how nonprofits create impact in the community and helps develop them as the next generation of community leaders through two components: ·         A summer eight-week paid internship with a nonprofit organization selected by the bank. This internship is designed to provide opportunities for the students to develop and apply leadership skills through hands-on work experience, while raising their awareness of community issues addressed by their Host Organization. ·         The week-long, all-expense paid Student Leaders Summit in Washington , D.C. from July 12-17, 2015. Conducted in partnership with the Close Up Foundation, the Summit introduces students to aspects of civic, social and business leadership and provides th

Best Book Lists

Publishers and websites have begun publishing their best of 2014 book lists. Here are some links to best books for teens for 2014. Kirkus Review School Library Journal New York Times Morris Award Finalists (Given to the best book by a debut author) YALSA Non-Fiction Award Amazon

2015 Golden Globe Nominations

MOTION PICTURES Best Drama   "Boyhood" "Foxcatcher" "The Imitation Game" " Selma " "The Theory of Everything" Best Comedy "Birdman" "The Grand Budapest Hotel" "Into the Woods" "Pride" " St. Vincent " Best Director Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Ava Duvernay, " Selma " David Fincher, "Gone Girl" Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman" Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" Best Actress in a Drama Jennifer Aniston, "Cake" Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything" Julianne Moore, "Still Alice " Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl" Reese Witherspoon, "Wild" Best Actor in a Drama Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher" Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game" Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler&quo

Morris Award Finalists Announced

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. Here are this year's finalists: The Carnival at Bray written by Jessie Ann Foley In 1993, the grunge movement is at its height and Maggie Lynch is living comfortably in Chicago , near Nanny Ei and Uncle Kevin, her musical guru. After her impulsive mother marries and moves the family to a tiny Irish village, Maggie struggles to adjust to the changing world around her.  The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim written by E.K. Johnston Owen is training to be a dragon slayer, a crucial job in a world where dragons bring death and destruction. With help from their friends and family, Owen and his bard Siobhan seek the source of a growing dragon threat. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces written by Isabel Quintero, Aspiring poet Gabi Hernandez is having a complicated senior year:

Star Wars:The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer

It comes out in theatres next December, but here's the first official teaser trailer for the new Star Wars movie!

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo stands for the National Novel Writing Month. Participants begins working towards writing a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month. There is one for for young writers:  NaNoWriMo . The site connects you to other young writers, read pep talks from authors, find links to writing resources, and more. If the task of writing that many pages seems daunting or you aren't a writer, librarians and readers in the past have done what they dub NaNoReMo, where they pledge to read 1500 pages for the month.

Daniel Radcliffe raps!

Wow. Did you guys know that Daniel Radcliffe can rap? Check this out!

Teens Top Ten Finalists Announced

Here are the top 10 titles as decided by teens across the country: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Splintered by A.G. Howard The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Monument 14: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne Earth Girl by Janet Edwards The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo The Eye of Minds by James Dashner 

National Book Award Finalists Announced

The National Book Award finalists for the Young People’s Literature category were announced October 15, whittled down to five from last month’s announcement of ten contenders from the longlist. The longlists and finalists were each chosen by a panel of five writers and literary experts. The winners will be announced on November 19. The five finalist titles are: Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights John Corey Whaley, Noggin Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming Eliot Schrefer, Threatened  

2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominees Announced

he Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) announced their nominations for the 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA) list.  BFYA is an annual list chosen by a committee of YALSA members, which seeks to present librarians and young adult readers with the best of young adult fiction published in America within the last sixteen months. The nominations for the 2015 BFYA list are as follows: §                   The Crossover   by Kwame Alexander §                   The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean  by David Almond §                   The Impossible Knife of Memory  by Laurie Halse Anderson §                   Don’t Look Back  by Jennifer Armentrout §                   Never Ending  by Martyn Bedford §                   Prisoner of Night and Fog  by Anne Blankman §                   Torn Away  by Jennifer Brown §                   Caminar   by Skila Brown §                   The Hit   by Melvin Burgess §                   The Tyrant’s Daughter   by