Farmingdale Library Teens

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

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.

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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 

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  

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 §                ...

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.