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=EXCITING NEWS AND LINKS!!=

On January 23, 2012 YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) announced the 2012 award winners for the Michael L. Printz, the William C. Morris, the Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, the Alex Award and others. Look at our reading selections page for a list of the titles. Thanks to our café sales, we were able to order many of the award winners! Look for them on our new arrivals shelves soon.

BHS Alum, Jessica Emmanuel Spotswood (you know about her from a previous post) has some exciting things going on. You can see the cover to her novel (and enter a contest to win a book from Penguin) at Jess's blog spot

You can also pre-order her book from amazon.com! Let's help make her a star! Order it soon! ==== click the logo to go directly to Jess's book!==== =June 9, 2011: New releases that should be a fun, summer read:= = = = = =Be on the lookout for a new book next February that was written by BHS alum, Jessica Shea Spotswood!=
 * //Beauty Queens// by Libba Bray (Printz Award winner for //Going Bovine// and author of //A Great and Terrible Beauty)// came out on May 24. With a cover photo that looks like Barbie wearing an ammo sash - could be an interesting read!
 * Janet Evanovich's newest Stephanie Plum novel, //Smokin' Seventeen//, will be released on June 21, 2011
 * Another release on June 21 is Alexander McCall Smith's //The Dog Who Came in From the Cold: A Corduroy Mansions Novel// (the second book //Corduroy Mansions// series//.).//
 * The third book in Maggie Stiefvater's series that started with //Shiver// and //Linger// will be released on July 12.
 * Earlier this year, one of the juniors tuned me in to //The Book of Awesome// by Neil Pasricha - Fun read! Now Pasricha has published //The Book of (Even More) Awesome -// More fun for our summer reading

That's right! One of our own is on her way to becoming the next big author of young adult fiction! We knew her here as Jess Emmanuel, but look for her book //Born Wicked// to be published in February of 2012! It is the first of a planned series and is already set to be translated and published in multiple countries! If you'd like to read more about Jess and her work as an author, go to jessicaspotwood.com.