Farmingdale Library Teens

The long list for the National Book Award in the Young People’s Literature category was announced this morning. The list of 10 titles represent a range of genres: from fantasy, memoir and mystery, to nonfiction and science fiction Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory  (Viking/Penguin) Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick Press) Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Random House) Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic) Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Macmillan) Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster) John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Simon & Schuster) Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic) Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin) The list of finalists will be released October 15 and the winner will be announced at a November 19 ceremony in New York City.

If you're a teacher or parent with a child in grades 3rd-8th, enter them in the 7th annual Children's Poetry Contest for a chance to win: - A $1,000 scholarship for each winning student's classroom - A $250 gift certificate for pet products - A "by-line" in a nationally circulated magazine or online outlet Six students nationwide will win and we have made it as easy as possible to enter! Kids simply need to write a poem about a pet and the joys they bring, and post it online at PetsAddLife.org (mailed in entries are also accepted). The deadline to enter is January 31, 2015.