Hi All!
Here’s the collection of our Top 5 favourite links this week:
1) The Goodreads Choice Awards winners have been announced! ROOM won for Best Fiction, Christopher Moore’s Bite Me won Best Humor, and Lauren Oliver’s Before I Fall won Best YA Fiction. See the full list of winners here.
2) Michael Christie, author of The Beggar’s Garden, guest-edited The Afterword this week. Here’s his latest article on Reading and Exercise.
3) Do you have a story or a poem about someone that is changing the world? Are you in Grade 4 to 12? If so, enter the Book Week 2011 Writing Contest!
4) ALA announced its’ list of the 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults. HC has 11 titles on the list, including: Arthur Slade’s The Hunchback Assignments, Kenneth Oppel’s Half Brother, Allan Stratton’s Borderline, Heidi Ayarbe’s Compromised, Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder, Beth Kephart’s The Heart is Not a Size, Chris Lynch’s Hothouse: A Novel, Walter Dean Myers’ Lockdown, Lauren Oliver’s Before I Fall, Lynne Rae Perkins’ As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, and Megan Whalen Turner’s A Conspiracy of Kings. Whew, congrats all! (see the full list here)
5) And finally, a wonderful book trailer for Andrew Shaffer’s Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, featuring KITTEHS! Watch it here.
Enjoy!
- Shannon
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