Teen Read Week!

Teen Read Week 2009 will be celebrated Oct. 18-24! Here are some suggestions for great books for young adults! For even more suggestions goto http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfm.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

Runemarks by Joanne Harris

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

National Book Award Nominees!

October 15th the National Book Foundation announced this years finalists. The winners will be announced November 19th. Check them out and see what you think!

Fiction

Home by Marilynne Robinson

The End by Salvatore Scibona

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

NonFiction

The Suicide index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer

Young People's Literature

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

Poetry

Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart

Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty

Creatures of a Day by Reginald Gibbons

Without Saying by Richard Howard

Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

To find out more about this organization and information about past winners go to http://www.nationalbook.org/