Happy Teen Read Week!

Hey readergirlz!

We wish you all great reading as we celebrate YALSA's Teen Read Week! "Picture it @ your library" is this year's theme. In keeping with that, we recommend p*tag, the first YA poetry e-reader collection. With 31 poems inspired by 31 images, this work is a perfect fit for this year's TRW.


So check it out. Support a poet. And take a stab at writing to the images yourself.

Oh, and did you see the Teens' Top 10? What do you think?



Happy Teen Read Week!

Get ready for Teen Read Week!

It's almost here, readergirlz and readerguys! Next week, October 19-23, we'll have an entire week of FABULOUS LIVE CHATS with a cluster of Teens' Top Ten Choice Nominees and readergirlz divas!

See the full schedule on the poster below or the press release:



And don't forget to check out the rgz Teen Read Week trailer, with music by our friends at Freezepop!



All day on October 23rd, we'll be posting our Teen Read Week Tribute from bloggers and authors around the litosphere. Let the party begin!

Press Release: rgz and Teen Read Week, 2009

For more information contact:

Sara Easterly, Publicist for readergirlz

Sara Easterly & Friends

sara@saraeasterly.com

206-632-8588

READERGIRLZ URGES TEENS TO READ BEYOND REALITY

In Support of YALSA’s Teen Read Week, readergirlz hosts live author chats
with many Teens’ Top Ten Nominees for 2009

Sept. 22, 2009 (Seattle, Wash.) —Teen Read Week, a week-long celebration of literacy, is scheduled for Oct. 18-24, 2009, and will include live chats with top teen authors on readergirlz.com, the most popular online reading community for teen girls.

Since 1998, Teen Read Week has been run by the American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Service Association. This year’s theme is “Read Beyond Reality.” Teens are also visiting the YALSA website to vote for their favorite books from a list of nominees. Winners who’ve made the Teens’ Top Ten will be announced via a webcast during Teen Read Week.

In support of this tremendous literary initiative, the readergirlz divas will host nine young-adult authors—eight of whom are nominees for the Teens’ Top Ten—throughout Teen Read Week. By visiting http://readergirlz.blogspot.com, teens will be able to chat with these author stars, live, to ask burning questions about the authors’ books, find out about their daily lives, and learn about their writing process.

The week’s chats will culminate with an online gala celebration, where Sylvia Engdahl, a pioneer in young-adult science fiction, will be hosted and honored for her contributions to the literary landscape.

Like the monthly chats readergirlz is known for, the five-day series of candid online conversations with authors includes giveaways of signed books and swag from iHeartDaily.com. Promising to be a stellar week, the complete line-up is as follows:

• Monday, Oct. 19: Beyond Imagination with rgz diva Justina Chen Headley (NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL), Alyson Noël (EVERMORE) and Zoe Marriott (DAUGHTER OF THE FLAMES)
• Tuesday, Oct. 20: Beyond Hardship with rgz diva Lorie Ann Grover (HOLD ME TIGHT), Elizabeth Scott (LIVING DEAD GIRL) and Lynn Weingarten (WHEREVER NINA LIES)
• Wednesday, Oct. 21: Beyond Daily Life with rgz diva Holly Cupala (TELL ME A SECRET), Lisa McMann (WAKE) and Cynthia Leitich Smith (ETERNAL)
• Thursday, Oct. 22: Beyond Our World with rgz diva Melissa Walker (LOVESTRUCK SUMMER), Cassandra Clare (CITY OF ASHES) and Patrick Ness (THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO)
• Friday, Oct. 23: Into Our Beyond with rgz diva Dia Calhoun (AVIELLE OF RHIA) and pioneering YA sci-fi author Sylvia Engdahl (ENCHANTRESS FROM THE STARS)

It all happens at the rgz blog (http://readergirlz.blogspot.com) beginning at 6 p.m. Pacific Time (9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time), Oct. 19-23.

In conjunction with the author chats, readergirlz will be hosting a Teen Read Week Tribute. Anyone who loves YALSA's Teen Read Week is encouraged to let it out on their blog through a post or vlog, then send the link to readergirlz@gmail.com (subject line: entrant’s name, TRW Tribute). readergirlz will collect all contributions and post them at the rgz blog in a tribute that will run October 23.

Watch the rgz Teen Read Week trailer at rgz tv www.youtube.com/readergirlz.

About readergirlz

readergirlz is the foremost online book community for teen girls, led by five critically acclaimed YA authors—Dia Calhoun (Avielle of Rhia), Holly Cupala (Tell Me a Secret) Lorie Ann Grover (Hold Me Tight), Justina Chen Headley (North of Beautiful), and Melissa Walker (Lovestruck Summer). readergirlz is the recipient of a 2007 James Patterson PageTurner Award, and the 2009 National Book Foundation's Innovations in Reading Prize.

To promote teen literacy and leadership in girls, readergirlz features a different YA novel and corresponding community service project every month. Twice a year, they hold special literacy projects, including Operation Teen Book Drop which has donated 20,000 new YA books to hospitalized teens. For more information about readergirlz, please visit www.readergirlz.com and http://readergirlz.blogspot.com, or contact divas@readergirlz.com

Ó2009 readergirlz

Vote for YALSA's Teens' Top Ten!

Voting begins today for YALSA's Teens' Top Ten list!

Stop on by the official site now through September 18th to vote for your fave YA books, then tell us about your vote!

Winners will be announced during Teen Read Week, October 18-24...and just wait until you see what we have planned this year for Teen Read Week at readergirlz! Do you remember last year? Here's last year's trailer:



More news about Teen Read Week at readergirlz in our September newsletter!

YALSA's Teens' Top Ten

Looking for more summer reading, rgz? Be sure to check off all the books on YALSA's Teens' Top Ten! Here's the summary from their site:

"Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen can vote (at the website), online, anytime between Aug. 25 and Sept. 18; the winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week."

So give a hand to the nominating teens and the books nominated! And get to reading. We are planning our own Teen Read Week celebration with YALSA right now. More soon...

Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (9780152063962).
2008.

Cast, Kristin & P.C. Untamed. St. Martin's Griffin. (9780312379834). 2008.

Clare, Cassandra. City of Ashes. Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry.
(9781416914297). 2008.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic. (9780439023481). 2008.

Fukui , Isamu. Truancy. Tor Teen. (9780765317674). 2008.

Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book. HarperCollins. (9780060530921). 2008.

Green, John. Paper Towns. Penguin/Dutton. (978025478188). 2008.

Harris, Joanne. Runemarks. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. (9780375844447). 2008.

Hopkins, Ellen. Identical. Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry. (9781416950059).
2008.

Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Disney-Hyperion.
(9780786838189). 2008.

Marriott, Zoё. Daughter of the Flames. Candlewick Press. (9780763637491). 2009.

McMann, Lisa. Wake. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. (9781416953579). 2008.

Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. Megan Tingley/Little, Brown. (978316067928).
2008.

Moran, Katy. Bloodline. Candlewick Press. (9780763640835). 2009.

Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go. (Chaos Walking. Book 1). Candlewick
Press. (9780763639310). 2008.

Noёl, Alyson. Evermore. St. Martin's Griffin. (9780312532758). 2009.

Palmer, Robin. Geek Charming. Penguin/Puffin. (9780142411223 ). 2009.

Pierce, Tamora. Melting Stones. Scholastic/Scholastic Press. (9780545052641). 2008.

Scott, Elizabeth. Living Dead Girl. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. (9781416960591).
2008.

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Eternal. Candlewick Press. (9780763635732). 2009.

Smith, Sherri L. Flygirl. Penguin/G.P. Putnam's Sons. (9780399247095). 2009.

Weingarten, Lynn. Wherever Nina Lies. Scholastic/Point. (9780545066310). 2009.

Werlin, Nancy. Impossible. Penguin/Dial. (978080373001). 2008.

Yee, Lisa. Absolutely Maybe. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. (9780439838443). 2009.