Teen: Football Books

It's Superbowl Time, which means great food, fun commercials, and of course football. Here's a few books teens might enjoy.

Display at Otis Library

Football Fiction

Non-Fiction

In Honor of Father's Day

My favorite two dads from teen books (also turned into movies)

Mr. Weasley:


Mathew:  I couldn't find a video of them together, but this sums up their relationship nicely

    Who are your favorite father's in YA books?

Rock the Drop: Teen Literature Day

READERGIRLZ has created the most awesome event - Rock the Drop. It's an annual event that supports teen literature. 

Each year, authors, publisher, librarians, and bookish people leave out ARCs or books of teen interest. They  hope that teens will discover these great books. I've been participating at the library since the events starting in 2007.

Here's some history of the day from the Readergirlz site:

"In 2008 and 2009, readergirlz, Guys Lit Wire, and YALSA orchestrated publishers' donations of nearly 20,000 new young adult books to hospitalized teens across the country. 

For 2010, If I Can Read I Can Do Anything joined forces with these three organizations to drop over 10,000 new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American tribal lands. 

Each year, nationwide, librarians, hundreds of YA authors, and teens dropped YA books in their own communities to raise awareness for Operation TBD and Support Teen Literature Day.

Here are our logos and videos from former years. Enjoy!"

If you've never participated  join in this year - there's plenty of time. Lots of authors and publisher drop books all over the place. Every book dropped is part of the fun. I usually have 5 or so ARCs. I print out that year's label (this is last year's) and place it in the book. I put out the books as school's getting out so. Then I wait to see what happens and share about it via twitter.

Weighty Books

This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

I talk a little bit about it on my other blog.

Here I thought it would be good to talk about some books on weighty matter, not necessarily books about WEIGHT, but books that make your heart ache for the characters for what they're going through. These are books I think everything high school student NEEDS to read.

Wintergirls:
This one is about weight. It's so heartbreaking, honest, and sad. It's a haunting read. 

Falling For You: A new book by Lisa Schroeder - not a novel in verse, but a novel about a girl suffering. She writes her pain in poems. She helps to start a poetry revolution, writing about her step father and the new boy in her life. Sometimes his actions scare her. Review

Keep Holding On: Life is horrible. Parents fail  you. Teens are Cruel. Can HOPE be killed? I really like the new paperback cover! Review

13 Reasons Why: One girl leaves behind the story of the biggest decision of her life - to the 13 people who drove her over the edge.

What tough but important books are on your list?