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Setting Life to a Soundtrack | New YA Novels
The power of music in people’s lives is not to be underestimated, as the authors of the following three young adult novels deftly show. Many titles for this audience seek to tackle the challenges and...
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LOC Literacy Awards; New Follett Chairman; Harry and Hermione? | News Bites
Library of Congress Literacy Awards The Library of Congress has announced that it is accepting applications for its 2014 Literacy Awards, administered by the Library’s Center for the Book....
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Capstone Adds YA Imprint; Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced | News Bites
Capstone adds YA “Switch Press” Imprint Capstone Young Readers is set to launch its fifth imprint, Switch Press, in August, as reported by Publishers Weekly. Switch Press will release young adult...
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Separating a City—and Families
Next month marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, perhaps the most memorable symbol of the Iron Curtain and Soviet communism. Construction of the wall began on August 13, 1961, and...
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Chris Russell On Boy Bands, YA Lit, and “Songs About a Girl”
Photo by Chris Russell In Chris Russell’s debut YA novel, Songs About a Girl (Flatiron), British teenager Charlie finds herself in the inner circle of the world’s biggest boy band, caught between boy...
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