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August 20, 2008
In this Issue Jack Gantos on the Island How a Nintendo DS Can Get You Into Harvard Digital Youth Wired for Action - 2008 Technology Summit Report Beyond Product Placement - Just Buy the Whole Movie Saved by The Bell - Sixty Second Tech Tips David Levithan - Author, Editor, Documentarian ...
These are exciting times in teen and young adult literature. Just last week, Oprah Winfrey announced that she had added children’s and teen reading lists to her book club. Before you say “that’s the last thing we need, another list,” I encourage you to take a look at the suggested titles. There is not a stinker among ‘em, I promise you. Now if we could just get Oprah on board with a library card sign-up campaign … Dodie Ownes, Editor
In This Issue Jack Gantos on the Island Not Bermuda or Cuba – this is the Teen Second Life Eye4You Alliance island! Earlier this summer  teens created an avatar for author Jack Gantos as part of a contest and on July 24, he visited the Eye4You Alliance island to talk about what it is like being a writer and how some of his choices as a youth led up to him becoming an author. more » » »  How a Nintendo DS Can Get You Into Harvard It’s true – there really is a Kaplan SAT prep application that will appeal to gamers! Using the tagline, Play your way to a better score, entertainment publisher Aspyr Media will release futureU on October 23 for Mac, PC , and Nintendo DS platforms. more » » »  Digital Youth Wired for Action - 2008 Technology Summit Report Nearly 200 librarians, educators, and other professionals from across the country converged on ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, August 14, for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County’s (PLCMC) third annual technology summit, titled “Digital Youth: Wired for Action.” more » » »  Beyond Product Placement - Just Buy the Whole Movie If you caught the debut of The American Mall on MTV on August 11, you may have noticed a prominent presence by Sears -many of the scenes in the movie were shot in Sears locations and the characters are sporting apparel and using products from this granddaddy of U.S. retailing.In the background, extras can be seen carrying Sears shopping bags. No coincidence ... more » » »  Saved by The Bell - Sixty Second Tech Tips The frustration is over! Most school districts have had to block YouTube through Internet filters for various reasons. Most of us know there is a lot of good stuff on YouTube that would be valuable to students. The problem has been that none of that good stuff could be brought to school. That was before CubedLabs ... more » » »  Catching Up With … David Levithan David Levithan - Author, Editor, Documentarian ... When David Levithan isn’t penning great YA titles himself, he is discovering new talent and putting together great writing at PUSH (an imprint of Scholastic). We Are Quiet, We Are Loud: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America (July 2008) is the third Scholastic Art and Writing Awards anthology Levithan has put together since becoming the editor in 2001. more » » »  Teens Know Best Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. Little, Brown. August 2008. ISBN: 978-0-316-06792-8. Gr 9 and up. This title was a great way to end the saga and I thought Stephenie Meyer lived up to all the expectations of this long-awaited book. Meyer has the ability to make every character likable and easily understood. She also took a chance by taking a big important section of the book and telling it through a different character's eyes. more » » »  Baldini, Michelle and Lynn Biederman. Unraveling. Delacorte. July 2008. ISBN: 978-0-385-90521-3. Unraveling is about a teenager who makes a stupid decision, trading her virginity for popularity, that other more normal teenagers or smarter ones would have not have chosen. Most would have taken a different direction than Amanda the main character took.  So she made a stupid mistake - who cares? more » » »  Halpin, Brendan. Forever Changes.  FSG. September 2008. ISBN: 978-0-374-32436-0. Gr 7-12. From page one Brianna, afflicted with cystic fibrosis, seemed as if she was literally attempting to keel over dead. There was never one thought that she might live any longer than eighteen; every word in the book seemed chosen to communicate that SHE WOULD BE DEAD BEFORE THE LAST PAGE. more » » »  Media Mania: Book Tie-ins to High-Interest Movies, TV Shows, and More Star Wars Returns ... on Screens Both Big and Small With bold computer-generated animation, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG-13), an animated feature from Lucasfilm Animation, makes an epic-scale addition to the Star Wars oeuvre. The story - relayed in the same dazzling visual style - will continue in the fall, when an animated television series of the same name debuts on the Cartoon Network. more » » »  Mark Your Calendars Get Your Fangs On - Teen Read Week, October 12-18 Vampire fever couldn’t have returned at a better time. YALSA’s Teen Read Week’s Books with Bite program is taking hold in public libraries everywhere. Though the weeklong theme promotes a variety of books - from vampire stories to cooking to technology (byte) – it doesn’t hurt to ride on the coattails of Breaking Dawn.  more » » »  How We Read - Young Adult Literature Symposium 08, November 7-9 How We Read will take place in Nashville (TN) at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel. Funded in part by the William C. Morris Endowment, programs at the symposium will showcase a wide variety of topics within young adult literature and librarianship, including sessions on teen zines, books for LGBT teens, and teen readers’ advisory. more » » »  Digital Whirl Tech Trends & Teen Lives - the latest from the web The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Services "Email continues to be the most favorite mode for sharing links on the Internet followed by Facebook and Digg though it's a formidable lead." Facebook Is Not Only The World's Largest Social Network, It Is Also The Fastest Growing "According to figures compiled by comScore, Facebook's visitor growth is up 153 percent on an annual basis." Twitter: The hottest Web startup "What exactly is Twitter? And what does its exploding popularity say about the state of the tech industry? Inside the hottest Web startup." Opportunities Kids In Need Foundation: Teacher Grants Kids In Need Foundation (formerly SHOPA) Teacher Grants provide funds for classroom teachers who have innovative ideas but lack the budget to fund and sustain new programs. Projects may qualify for funding by making creative use of common teaching aids, through approaching the curriculum from an imaginative angle, or by integrating nontraditional concepts for the purpose of illustrating commonalities. more » » »
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