National Book Award Winners 2009 Announced

The 2009 National Book Award Winners were announced last evening!  The winner of in the Young People’s Literature category was Phillip Hoose for Claudette Colvin:  Twice Toward Justice, the story of a young Alabama teen who refused to give her up bus seat to a white woman on a segregated a few months before the Rosa Parks incident.

To see all the winners, please check out the complete list available at Amazon.  Read more about this outstanding book and author by visiting the School Library Journal article on last night’s awards ceremony!

Hoose’s ‘Claudette Colvin’ Wins National Book Award for Young People’s Literature – 11/18/2009 – School Library Journal via kwout

Our New Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees and Reading Bowl Pathfinder Page!

Creekview High School LibGuides – Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees and Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl 2009-10 – Home via kwout

We are kicking off Teen Read Week 2009 with a brand new research pathfinder for some of the most popular authors and books at The Unquiet Library!   Check out our new Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees and Reading Bowl research pathfinder page! I have created a landing “home” page with general resources and information as well as book widgets for the Georgia Peach Award nominees and the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl.

I am also in the process of adding tabs for each nominated author that will include:

• RSS feeds for each author’s blog (if available)
• RSS feeds for each authors’ Twitter account (if available)
• YouTube videos featuring the author and/or his or her works
• Websites related to the author and his/her books
• The “Books from Our Catalog” feature spotlighting some of the books by each author; there is also a link to the Destiny catalog so you can search on your own
• Other links of interest, such as interview with the author or official websites for a book or for a series by the author
• Book widgets with previews of the author’s books when available

This is a work in progress, so please check back often!

Creekview High School LibGuides – Geor

Vote in the ALA Teens’ Top Ten!

ALA | Teens’ Top Ten via kwout

The polls are now open!  It is time to cast your vote for your three favorite books in the ALA/YALSA Teens’  Top Teen!  Go to the YALSA Teens’ Top Ten page to review the “candidates” and to click on the link to cast your virtual vote!  You may vote from now until September 18.

Georgia Peach Book Winner and Honor Books Announced!

Yesterday at Kennesaw State University’s YA Literature Conference, members of the Peach Book Award Committee announced the results of statewide voting of over 5500 teen ballots.

The Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Winner is (drumroll, please!):

IMPULSE by Ellen Hopkins

The two Peach Book Award Honor Books are:

UGLIES by Scott Westerfeld
RIGHT BEHIND YOU by Gail Giles

Please visit the Georgia Media website, Peach Award page for all the resources you’ll need to encourage reading and voting on the next field of 20 nominees on which teens will vote between now and March 2010.   Go to

http://www.glma-inc.org/peachaward.htm or visit the library to see the new nominees!

Peach Book Award Voting Is Open!

Mrs. Fleet, Queen of the Peach Books, has organized the voting for this year’s Peach Book Award!  Come by the library to vote between now and March 13!!!  Even if you have not read all the Peach Books, you can still vote for any you have read.  Come cast your vote today!

2009-10 Peach Book Award Nominees Announced!

• 3 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
• Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
• Deadline by Chris Crutcher
• Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
• Getting the Girl by Susan Juby
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Impossible by Nancy Werlin
• Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
• Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs
• Ophelia by Lisa Klein
• Spud by John Van de Ruit
• Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman
• Wake by Lisa McMann
• Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Cybils Award for Poetry: Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye

I have been a big fan of Naomi Shihab Nye for several years now, and I promise you that her collection of poems, Honeybee, will not disappoint!  You can preview this book (which we have!) for free right here!

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2009 Cybils Winners!

Check out the winners in Young Adult Science/Fantasy fiction, Young Adult graphic novel, poetry, and Young Adult fiction—we have them all except Emiko, Superstar, and it is on order!

Cybils: The 2009 Cybils Winners via kwout

2009 Printz Award Winner: Jellicoe Road!

Congratulations to Melina Marchetta, author of the 2009 Printz Award winning book, Jellicoe Road! Yes, we have it in our library!!!

Jellicoe Road, By Melina Marchetta: HarperCollins Children’s Books via kwout

2009 ALA Youth Media Awards Live!

ALA | alayouthmediaawards via kwout

Mrs. Fleet and I are lucky enough to be following these live in Twitter and on the web!  Go to the “2009 Youth Media Award Announcements” to see the winners and honors book for this year’s awards, include cool slideshows from Slide featuring the nominees!  More details to follow in an additional post!