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Quick Picks For Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers is a book list created annually by the Young Adult Library Services Association The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association. YALSA is a national association of librarians, library workers and advocates whose mission is to expand the capacity of l .... The list identifies fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels that may encourage teenagers who dislike reading to read. Researchers, educators, librarians, parents, and teenagers have used the list to identify books reluctant young adult readers may enjoy. Criteria When selecting books for the Quick Picks list, the judges consider: * Physical appearance (e.g., the cover, print style, format, and artwork/illustrations) * Writing style For fiction novels, judges consider whether the book has: * High interest "hook" in first 10 pages * Well-defined characters * Sufficient plot to sustain interest * Plot line ...
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Young Adult Library Services Association
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association. YALSA is a national association of librarians, library workers and advocates whose mission is to expand the capacity of libraries to better serve teens. YALSA administers several awards and sponsors an annual Young Adult Literature Symposium, Teen Read Week, the third week of each October, and Teen Tech Week, the second week of each March. YALSA currently has over 5,200 members. YALSA aims to expand and strengthen library services for teens through advocacy, research, professional development and events. History The organization that is now referred to as the Young Adult Library Services Association began on June 24, 1957 and was called the Young Adult Services Division following a reorganization of the American Library Association. This reorganization resulted in the Association of Young People's Librarians being split into the Children's Library Associa ...
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Emily Carroll
Emily Carroll (born 1983) is a comics author from Ontario, Canada. Carroll started making comics in 2010, and her horror webcomic ''His Face All Red'' went viral around Halloween of 2010. Since then, Carroll has published two books of her own work, created comics for various comics anthologies, and provided illustrations for other works. Carroll has won several awards, including an Ignatz and two Eisners. Career Carroll is educated as an animator. She began drawing comics in 2010. Webcomics Carroll drew and published her first comic on her website in May 2010. Her third webcomic, ''His Face All Red'', was released on October 31, 2010, and soon went viral. Carroll has continued to publish short horror comics on her website. For her 2014 webcomic ''The Hole the Fox Did Make'', Carroll chose for a limited format to see how she could create unease in a limited space. Furthermore, she created this webcomic during breaks between other work, and the format facilitated drawing in "sm ...
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English-language Literary Awards
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ...
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American Library Association Awards
The American Library Association is a professional society for librarians and some other information service providers. Its awards program includes "Books, Print & Media Awards"; professional recognition within the library sciences; and scholarships, fellowships and grants. Some of the former are annual book awards with great public visibility. Book, print and media awards ;Key * Award: Name of the award or list * First: Year the honor was inaugurated (first awarded) :: Two years such as "1958 –1966" signify the honor has been discontinued and was last awarded in the latter year. * Type: one of * Admin.: ALA Division responsible for the award * Class: one of the following, if any ** Recommended lists ("Best of ...") = lists of multiple recommended works ** Youth Media Awards = honoring work(s) for children or young adults and/or their creators ** Libraries and librarianship = honoring work about libraries, etc. * Mo.: Month of announcement Grants and fellowships ALA ...
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Lists Of Books
This is a list of book lists (bibliographies) on Wikipedia, organized by various criteria. General lists * List of 18th-century British children's literature titles * List of 19th-century British children's literature titles * List of American children's books * List of Australian crime-related books and media * List of anonymously published works * List of autobiographies * Lists of banned books * List of books written by children or teenagers * List of book titles taken from literature * List of books by year of publication * List of children's books made into feature films * List of Christian novels * List of comic books * Lists of dictionaries * Lists of encyclopedias * List of fantasy novels * List of gay male teen novels * List of historical novels * List of Hollywood novels * List of light novels * List of novels based on comics * List of poetry collections * List of science fiction novels * List of unpublished books by notable authors Selective lists * ...
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Real One
Real One may refer to: Names * RealOne, former name of RealPlayer * Real1, pseudonym of Enzo Amore Music * Real Ones, Norwegian rock band *'' The Real One'' 1998 album by 2 Live Crew * "Real One" (Chanté Moore song) (2017) *"Real One", a song by Latto from ''777 777 may refer to: * 777 (number), a number * AD 777, a year of the Julian calendar * 777 BC, a year in the 8th century BC * Boeing 777, a commercial jet airliner :* Boeing 777X, the newer generation of the Boeing 777. Art and entertainment Alb ...
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Love And Pompoms
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment.''Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary'' (1998) Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self, or animals.Fromm, Erich; ''The Art of Loving'', H ...
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You Should See Me In A Crown (novel)
''You Should See Me in a Crown'' is a debut young adult novel by Leah Johnson, published by Scholastic in June 2020. The book was given a Stonewall Book honor, and TIME magazine named it one of the best 100 young adult books of all time. The novel follows Liz Lighty, who hatches a plan to leave the "small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town" she lives in because she feels "too black, too poor, too awkward" to live her best life there. Plot Liz Lighty longs to leave her hometown of Campbell, Indiana and makes plans to start a new life at the elite Pennington College, where she aims to join their world-renowned orchestra and study to become a doctor. Liz hopes to enroll at Pennington with the help of financial aid but when the aid suddenly becomes unavailable, she reluctantly decides to join a contest at her high school which awards scholarships to the prom king and queen. Even though Liz is afraid of being the center of attention, fears the possibility of being trolled on ...
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Punching The Air
''Punching the Air'' is a young adult novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam, published September 1, 2020 by Balzer + Bray. The book is a ''New York Times'' best seller and Junior Library Guild book. It has also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and the Walter Dean Myers Award. Background Zoboi and Salaam met at Hunter College in 1999, two years before Salaam was exonerated for allegedly assaulting and raping a woman in Manhattan's Central Park. Although ''Punching the Air'' is not based on Salaam's experience of racial profiling, “Amal’s character is inspired by him as an artist and as an incarcerated teen who had the support of his family, read lots of books, and made art to keep his mind free.” Zoboi and Salaam decided to write the novel in verse to mirror Amal's connection to poetry, as well as to incorporate the concept of hip-hop, which Salaam refers to as "a genre that was created by us for us. It is the language of th ...
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Danica Novgorodoff
Danica Novgorodoff is a graphic novelist, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York and Louisville, Kentucky. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, was named Sarabande Books’ 2016 writer in residence, and received a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature. Her art and writing have been published in MoMA, ''MoMA Magazine'', ''Best American Comics'', ''The Believer (magazine), The Believer'', ''Artforum'', Esquire (magazine), ''Esquire'', ''VQR'', Slate (magazine), ''Slate'', Orion (magazine), ''Orion'', ''Seneca Review'', ''Ecotone Journal'', ''The Arkansas International'', and others. Career Novgorodoff's first graphic novel, ''A Late Freeze'', was self-published in 2006 and won the Isotope Award for excellence in mini-comics, and her graphic novel, ''Refresh, Refresh'', was included in ''Best American Comics'' in 2011. Her book, ''The Undertaking of Lily Chen'', was published in March ...
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We Are Displaced
''We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World'' is a 2019 book by Malala Yousafzai. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in the US and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK. The book follows Yousafzai's own experience being displaced in Pakistan and later forced to move to England, and tells stories from nine other displaced people around the world. The book received positive critical reception and reached the top 10 in ''The New York Times'' bestseller list under the "Young Adult Hardcover" section. Background Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist. Born in Swat Valley in Pakistan on 12 July 1997, she was raised by parents Ziauddin Yousafzai and Tor Pekai Yousafzai alongside two younger brothers Khushal and Atal. At age 11, Malala Yousafzai began writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu, detailing her life in Pakistan under the growing influence of the Taliban. Following the blog, she was the subject of a ''New Yor ...
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Unpregnant
''Unpregnant'' is a 2020 American female buddy road comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg. The film is based upon the novel of the same name by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks. It stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira, with Alex MacNicoll, Breckin Meyer, Giancarlo Esposito, Sugar Lyn Beard, and Betty Who. The film follows a pregnant teenager Veronica (Richardson) who discovers that she cannot get an abortion in her home state of Missouri without her parents' permission and subsequently convinces her former friend Bailey (Ferreira) to take a road trip with her to Albuquerque so she can get one there. It was released on September 10, 2020, by HBO Max. Plot Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke takes a pregnancy test at school and is interrupted by her former best friend, Bailey Butler who sees that the test is positive. Initially, not knowing whose it is, Bailey offers to give a ride to a clinic where she can get an abortion if she needs one. Then, ...
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