1. Teri S. Lesesne Sam houston state university Department of library science New Books for Every Age

2. So many books, so little time… Narrowing down to the ones you need/want: Award lists such as Newbery, Caldecott, King, Printz New awards such as Sibert, Belpre, Morris Walden Award Amazon lists Teens Top Ten Reviewing Journals Surveying the students

3. Teens top ten Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry) Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse) Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion) Gracelingby Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

4. Multiple stars five stars--WINTERGIRLS by Laurie Halse AndersonCHARLES AND EMMA by Deborah HeiligmanCLAUDETTE COLVIN by Phillip HooseWHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca SteadMARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD by Francisco StorkTALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIA by Shaun Tan

5. Multiple stars four stars--CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne CollinsIF I STAY by Gayle FormanTHE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE by Jacqueline KellyA SEASON OF GIFTS by Richard PeckHEROES OF THE VALLEY by Jonathan StroudTHE FROG SCIENTIST by Pamela Turner

6. But stars do not count Kids do!

7. What do kids say?

8. Building strong readers

9. What do kids prefer? Humor Nonfiction Mystery (tween and teen) New forms and formats

11. Humor Ladder Humor is developmental Physical humor Humor based on situation Humor based on character Humor based on language

12. Physical Humor

13. Physical Humor

14. Physical Humor

15. Character/Situation Humor

16. Character/Situation Humor

17. Character/Situation Humor

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20. Character/Situation Humor

21. Character/Situation Humor

22. Character/Situation Humor

23. Humor based on language

24. Language play

25. Character/Situation Humor

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27. Humor based on language

28. Humor based on language

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31. Humor based on language

32. Humor based on language

33. Humor based on language

34. Nonfiction Ladder: Chronological

35. American Revolution 35

36. US Civil War 36

37. Scholastic

38. Instrumental voices

39. FSG

40. 60s

41. March on Washington

42. Candlewick

43. HarperCollins

44. 6 word memoirs FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be Hank Green's memoir?)WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE.

45. More Nonfiction

46. More Nonfiction

47. More Nonfiction

55. More Nonfiction

56. More Nonfiction

57. More Nonfiction

58. HarperCollins

59. Aladdin

60. Norton

61. Viking

62. Mystery

63. Random House

64. Steampunk

65. Pinata

66. Mystery

67. Mystery

68. 68 There are many ways to describe Ms. Underdorf. She was brilliant and joyous, and she believed-probably correctly-that libraries contain the answers to everything, and that if you can’t find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably does not exist in this or any other parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged… And so the Amazing Armadillo.

69. Candlewick

70. Tor/Starscape

71. New forms and formats

72. 72

73. First second

74. Children of War

75. Memoir

76. Wordsong/Boyds Mills

77. "Brevity gets right to the point doesn't dawdle, dicker, or delay always short and sweet whenever there is something to do or say brevity comes in handy when you are subject to a chewing out a bout of the flu a pain in the neck or waiting in line for the loo in fact, this poem has gone on so long that its recital would no longer qualify as an example of its title" 77

78. The play’s the thing

79. Scholastic-Swan lake

80. Egmont

81. FSG

82. Mock Newbery Top Picks

83. Random House

84. 84

86. Front Street

87. 87

88. Dial

89. Some suggestions from others Mock Printz

90. Penguin Putnam

91. Candlewick

92. Dutton

93. CincoPuntos

94. 94

95. 95

96. First second

97. Norton

98. Random House

99. Candlewick

100. FSG

102. Building strong readers