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| Announcing the Claudia Seaman Poetry Award |
| Happy February!
So how many snow days have you had this year? After last week's record snow in New York, we're wondering what it must be like to live somewhere where there are NO snow days! Here the schools have been closed at least 4 days already this year, and we know other parts of the country have been hit even harder. When the wind is howling and the snow is blowing, it's a great time to read.
Once again we are promoting the Claudia Seaman Poetry Award this year.
The award was established in 1983 in Poughkeepsie, New York, by the Seaman family in honor of their daughter and sister, Claudia, a young poet. With the help of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County and the Teenreads.com website, the award, a national competition open to all students in grades 9 through 12, is held each year to encourage, support, and promote young writers. With a $500 cash prize and publication of the winning poem in the literary journal HANGING LOOSE, it is hoped that the Claudia Ann Seaman Poetry Award will help keep interest in reading and writing poetry alive and well at the high school level.
The Claudia Ann Seaman Poetry Award is open to all high school students across the country. Each writer may submit two poems on any subject and in any form as long as their submission does not exceed 10 pages in length. The deadline for entering this annual contest is May 1, 2003.
For all you poets out there, get writing!
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Read about the Claudia Seaman Poetry Award here.
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| Cool New Books for February |
A remarkable boy lives through a dangerous and suspenseful summer, a British teenager enters her "Dark Phase," and a lonely little boy tries to make sense of the confusing world around him. These are some of the very interesting people and themes you'll encounter in the cool new books we've assembled for you this month.
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Read Cool New Books here.
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| Tell Us What You Think: DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison |
Your opinion matters to the publishers at HarperTempest. Each month they are going to share a not-yet-published title with us that they'd like to hear YOUR thoughts about. It's your chance to read an advanced reading copy of a book (known as an ARC) and tell them what YOU think! What could be more fun than a chance to preview a new book and then share your opinion? It's your chance to be a trendsetter!
This month's book is DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison, which is due in stores in March 2003. Aren't you just a bit curious what Nuddy-Pants are?
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Find out more about Tell Us What You Think here.
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| And The Winners Are.... |
2000 marked the debut of the Michael L. Printz Award, which was established to recognize a book that "exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature," according to the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association. The Award is named for Michael L. Printz, a former school librarian at Topeka West High School in Kansas. Throughout his career he was a respected colleague and teacher, and an active and dedicated member of YALSA. He passed away in 1996.
The Printz winner and up to four honor books (or runners up) are chosen annually by a committee of nine YALSA members. Read on to see what was chosen.
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Read more about the Michael L. Printze Award here.
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| WINTER by John Marsden |
WINTER by John Marsden
For twelve years Winter has been haunted by her past, her memories and her feelings. Now, at the age of sixteen, the time has come for her to act --- she must head back to her old home, where a pair of family tragedies forever changed her life. Reviewed by Ashley Hartlaub.
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Read a review of WINTER.
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| Word of Mouth --- Tell Us What You're Reading and Your Could Win a Book! |
This contest period, one teen reader will be randomly chosen to win a copy of NO BODY'S PERFECT by Kimberly Kirberger. (See official rules below.) To automatically enter to win, e-mail us your recommendations and ratings at: wordofmouth@teenreads.com.
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Post on Word of Mouth --- see rules here.
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Have a great month...and make some time each day to read something you enjoy!
--- Carol Fitzgerald for Teenreads.com
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