1. What’s New? Teri S. Lesesne Sam Houston State University doctorl@shsu.edu

2. 2010 AWARDS FROM ALA

3. Honor books

4. Printz

5. Printz honor

6. Printz Honor

7. CS King Illustrator

8. CS King Illustrator Honors

9. New talent

10. Sibert (nonfiction)

11. Scott O’Dell

12. Beyond the winners How do we select books?

13. What do kids say?

14. Teens Top Ten Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry) Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse) Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion) Gracelingby Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

15. Paper Towns

16. Hunger Games

17. Identical

18. Graveyard Book

19. Disreputable History

20. Graceling

21. Multiple stars five stars--WINTERGIRLS by Laurie Halse AndersonCHARLES AND EMMA by Deborah HeiligmanCLAUDETTE COLVIN by Phillip HooseWHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca SteadMARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD by Francisco StorkTALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIA by Shaun Tan

22. Tales from Outer Suburbia

23. Claudette Colvin

24. Wintergirls

25. 25

26. Multiple stars four stars--CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne CollinsIF I STAY by Gayle FormanTHE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE by Jacqueline KellyA SEASON OF GIFTS by Richard PeckHEROES OF THE VALLEY by Jonathan StroudTHE FROG SCIENTIST by Pamela Turner

27. Heroes of the Valley

28. Season of Gifts

29. Catching Fire

30. If I Stay

31. Multiple stars three stars--THE DAY-GLO BROTHERS by Chris BartonTHE VAST FIELDS OF ORDINARY by Nick BurdALL THE BROKEN PIECES by Ann BurgASHLEY BRYAN: WORDS TO MY LIFE'S SONG by Ashely BryanFIRE by Kristin CashoreMISSION CONTROL, THIS IS APOLLO by Andrew ChaikinTHE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT by Kate DiCamilloTHE LOST CONSPIRACY by Frances HardingeNORTH OF BEAUTIFUL by Justina Chen HeadleyTHE COLOR OF EARTH by Kim Dong Hwa1968 by Michael KaufmanWHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON by Grace LinCARBON DIARIES 2015 by Saci LloydYEARS OF DUST by Albert MarrinA SAVAGE THUNDER by Jim MurphyRIOT by Walter Dean MyersBURN MY HEART by Beverly NaidooTHE DEMON'S LEXICON by Sarah Rees BrennanALMOST ASTRONAUTS by Tanya Lee StoneCREATURE OF THE NIGHT by Kate ThompsonWRITTEN IN BONE by Sally WalkerTHE ETERNAL SMILE by Gene Yang and Derek Kirk Kim

32. More than titles Guiding Readers

33. From Heinemann

35. Play

36. Empathy

37. Symphony

38. Story

40. Random House

41. Wordsong/Boyds Mills

42. "Brevity gets right to the point doesn't dawdle, dicker, or delay always short and sweet whenever there is something to do or say brevity comes in handy when you are subject to a chewing out a bout of the flu a pain in the neck or waiting in line for the loo in fact, this poem has gone on so long that its recital would no longer qualify as an example of its title" 38

43. Poetry that appeals

44. AUDIO

45. Audio

46. Add to the ladder

47. 43

48. Play Humor depends on play Word play is another variation And do not forget PLAYS in and of themselves

49. Humor is developmental

50. Humor Ladder

51. HarperCollins

52. Viking

53. Tor

54. Tor/Starscape

55. HarperCollins

56. Scholastic

57. Dial

58. Holt

59. Random House

60. Add to the ladder

61. More word play

62. The play’s the thing

63. Hamlet

64. Candlewick

65. The play’s the thing

66. 62

67. Never content?

68. Walker

70. Candlewick

71. Scholastic

72. Front Street

73. Divorce

74. Real beauty

75. Being “different”

76. Steampunk

77. 73

78. Symphony calls to mind Many voices or instruments blending into one

79. Scholastic-Swan lake

80. 76 Holt

81. 77

82. Candlewick

83. Egmont

84. Simon and Schuster

85. FSG

86. Story circle

87. Readers’ theater

88. 84

89. 85 There are many ways to describe Ms. Underdorf. She was brilliant and joyous, and she believed-probably correctly-that libraries contain the answers to everything, and that if you can’t find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably does not exist in this or any other parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged… And so the Amazing Armadillo.

90. Random House

91. Candlewick

92. HarperCollins

93. Dutton

94. 3 stories become 1

95. Same time, not POV

96. CincoPuntos

97. 93

98. World building

99. 95

100. Viking

101. Candlewick

102. HarperCollins

103. First second

104. Fairies in our world

105. Aladdin

107. Norton

109. Nonfiction Ladder

110. Physics for tweens

111. Biography

112. HarperCollins

113. 6 word memoirs FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be Hank Green's memoir?)WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE.

114. Build your own Select topic or theme Brainstorm list of books (4-5) Determine “order”

115. Possible themes Content areas: Math Science History Art PE Classic themes Love conquers all Power corrupts

116. History Ladder chronological

117. Scholastic

118. Voices of music

119. FSG

120. 1968

121. Candlewick

122. History alive

123. Audio Ladder

124. Easy listening

125. Newbery/Odyssey

126. More challenging

127. And more challenges

128. Building strong readers