If you read YA/teen books, please consider becoming a part of the Flume wiki discussion. We have over 50 nominated titles for the 2014 Flume Award (and more, I hope, on the way), and we need readers for these books. Please visit http://flumeaward.wikispaces.com/ and sign up to join the wiki. Once you are a member, you can add to the discussion of the nominated titles.  We are especially looking for readers and feedback for those titles without comments on the discussion pages, but if you want to add to an active discussion page, we welcome those comments, too.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your support of the Flume Award!

Ann

Now that 2013 is here, I’m sure you are all thinking about this year’s summer reading program.  If you would like to get some tips to help you plan your  “Beneath the Surface” teen summer reading program, you can register for an hour-long webinar on the CSLP website.

You must be logged into CSLP as a member before accessing the webinar information and registration.  If you are not yet a member, it’s easy to sign up.  Go to http://www.cslpreads.org/  and check out the summer reading webinars.

Ann

The Flume Committee is looking for people to read and comment on the nominated titles for the 2014 Flume Award.  Nominations are coming in (until January 25, 2013) and we need input from the library community so that we can choose 10 titles for the nomination list this spring.

If you are willing to read YA books and comment on them, please join the Flume wiki at http://flumeaward.wikispaces.com/home.  Once you have become a wiki member (it’s easy to sign up), you can add your comments to the discussion pages.  We only have a few nominated titles so far, but it’s not too early to start reading and discussing the books.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks for your support of the Flume Award.

The Flume Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2014 Flume Award.  We welcome suggestions from teens in grades 9-12 of fiction and nonfiction books with teen appeal, with publication dates from 2010-2012. The nomination deadline is January 25, 2013.

To nominate a book, teens can complete an online form at the YALS website. Librarians will also find print nomination forms on this page, which can be sent to Ann Hoey* by the deadline.

If you have any questions, please contact Ann Hoey.

*Send print nomination forms to:

Ann Hoey
Youth Services Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
20 Park Street
Concord, NH 03301

Van Stop: New Hampshire State Library

We’re so glad you’re celebrating with us this week!  Here are some ways that you can participate:

• Visit www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten to find out who this year’s Teens’ Top Ten winners are!
• Encourage your teen patrons to vote online to choose next year’s Teen Read Week theme: www.surveymonkey.com/s/TRWtheme13
• On October 17, join the conversation about teen reading and young adult literature!  We’re encouraging people of all ages to Tweet their YA lit reading recommendations, thoughts and ideas on YA lit and more via the hashtag #TRW12 any time on Oct. 17.  To get all of the details, please visit: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2012/10/08/join-the-conversation-about-teen-reading/.
• Visit www.ala.org/teenread to share what you’re doing for TRW, or Tweet about it with the hashtag #TRW12

Thanks for all that you do to bring libraries and teens together around reading, and have a wonderful Teen Read Week!

-Letty Smith, YALS President

Welcome to the new YALS webpage! Please update your bookmarks and links to our new url, yals.nhlibrarians.org.