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It's under a month away! It's coming! Operation Teen Book Drop, 2015, also known as #rockthedrop. For right now keep an eye for that YA book, or several, you own and want to leave in a public place on Thursday, April 16th. We'll be celebrating YALSA's Support Teen Literature Day. Happy finders will be enriched by your beloved reads.
This year instead of a book plate, we are going with a bookmark by Little Willow. Placed in the book, all will know you are leaving a FREE gift. You can print your own bookmarks! Right-click on one of the images below, save the file, print as many as you want, and get ready to Rock the Drop on Thursday, April 16th!
News from Cynthia Leitich Smith about the launch of Skype Authors:
Skype Authors connects noted children's book authors to schools and book clubs while benefiting Camfed in 2011-2012.
Noted authors Suzanne Williams, Martha Brockenbrough, Dia Calhoun, Janet Lee Carey, Mary Casanova, Lorie Ann Grover, Joan Holub, Deb Lund, Claire Rudolf Murphy, Lisa L. Owens, and Trudi Trueit have launched Skype Authors, an author-visit-booking site that will aid schools, book clubs, and educational charities. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds from each visit will benefit Camfed, an organization that educates girls in Africa.
Learn more at
http://www.skypeauthors.com
'Twas the night before Rock the Drop
And all through the blogosphere
People put bookplates
In stories held dear...
Want to share your favorite stories with other readers? Give a book away tomorrow!
People love free stuff, and people who love to read love free books. Tomorrow, Thursday, April 14th, folks all over the world will be dropping the book(s) of their choice in a public spot - in a diner, on a seat in the subway, next to a school, on a park bench - with a lovely bookplate pasted inside to let the lucky reader-finder know that the book is all theirs, and that it's part of the Rock the Drop effort being put on by readergirlz and Figment.
For more information about Rock the Drop, please visit the readergirlz website and check out Rock the Drop Eve: A To-Do List by Kelly at Figment. Also watch Crissa-Jean Chappell drop books like they're hot. Then click below to download the bookplate.
February's theme at readergirlz is loyalty. When discussing this theme, these teens thought of their friends, their families, and their pets, among other things.
If you can't see the video above,
click here.What does loyalty mean to you? Leave a comment below and let us know!
Visit the readergirlzhttp://readergirlz.blogspot.comhttp://www.readergirlz.comFollow us on TwitterFriend us on FacebookView all posts related to readergirlz at Bildungsroman.
Welcome to November, readergirlz! Micol Ostow, our newest readergirlz diva, put it best: "The new month brings with it a new format for all of our amazing featured titles; with this new approach, we'll be able to spotlight more books than ever."
Come on over to
the readergirlz blog to discuss our first title:
BEFORE I FALL by Lauren Oliver. Before I Fall is, in my estimation, an absolutely amazing book. It explores the idea of time loops (one of my favorite concepts) with such depth of feeling and no-holds-barred realism that there's absolutely no way a reader can walk away from this book unchanged. It's a powerful book, to say the least. As I wrote in my article about
Time Loops: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver [is] an amazingly intriguing debut novel in which the main character, Samantha (Sam), is killed in an accident only 80 pages into the book - then wakes up in bed, unharmed, only to find that it's not the next day - instead, it's the same day, the morning of her last day. She relives the day, bewildered and disbelieving. That evening, tragedy strikes again. The day repeats again, and again, a few times over. Sam does different things each time, spending one day being more cautious, another throwing caution to the wind, still another being more appreciative. It's an amazing book, and I highly recommend it.
Like the novel The Time Traveler's Wife, Before I Fall has no overt sci-fi gadgets or gizmos or time machines. Neither of those books have wizened characters who assist the protagonists with magic or explain the rules of the game to them. Instead, Henry and Sam have to figure things out (or make things up) as they go along. However, while Henry has Clare to confide in, Sam tells no one; while Henry travels through time involuntarily, Sam keeps repeating the same day involuntarily.
Please go read the book. You won't be sorry.
This month's theme at readergirlz is Resilience. Micol asks: "How has resilience helped you in your life? Maybe like Sam, you've reached out to a friend even after a fight or fallout that seemed hopeless? Or maybe it's simply a case of pursuing your passion in the face of lousy odds, heavy competition, or the fear of rejection? Resilience is what keeps us moving forward!"
Share your thoughts. Learn more about the new format of readergirlz. Check out the November issue of readergirlz. Read my interview with Lauren Oliver. readergirlz on the web http://readergirlz.blogspot.com http://www.readergirlz.com Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook View all posts related to readergirlz at Bildungsroman.
rgz LIVE!Join us at
Twitter tonight, Wednesday, October 20th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with author
Laini Taylor. We'll be discussing her book
Lips Touch, which is being featured all month long at
readergirlz. Use the hashtag
#rgz to follow the conversation.
Need help tweeting and chatting? Click here for more info!Don't forget: Today is
National Love Your Body Day. Celebrate who you are!
From Lorie Ann Grover, co-founder of readergirlz:
Hey rgz,
As we get ready to celebrate Teen Read Week together, we also wanted to celebrate rgz upcoming new format.
This October is our last feature as you know it. So be sure to share the love with Laini in these remaining weeks.
So what's up? Well, how about the realization that we ALL read way more than one book a month, right? And the postergirlz pick such awesome recommends. How about this:
* the divas choose a theme a month
* you nominate songs for that theme, and Little Willow will build the playlist
* we'll have a community service spotlight for the theme
* the postergirlz'll nominate the very best YA books for the theme, new releases or old
* one book will be featured EVERY Monday
*squeeeeee* Our Author Liaison diva, Micol Ostow, will be outreaching to each weekly feature for a guest blog post and will invite them to hang with us in the comments. If the author is under deadline and can't make it over, we'll still have a post and be able to chat it up, share the love, leave questions, and so on.
The readergirlz website will continue to hang with a final issue, hence that playlist you all helped build. And the fabbity archives will remain available for your book clubs and libraries.
Feel free to spread the news and be ready for quick changing content of the very best in the children's lit industry. Of course we'll still have Cover Stories and Story Secrets and other posts of awesome that the divas bring to the table. The rgz SALON and Street Team will also continue with their posts, along with reports from our rgz HOSTS across the country.
You know we are always looking for great ways to further teen literacy and social service. Watch for this changeover on November 1. So, what do you think?
Enjoy Teen Read Week, and always, always, always: Read, Reflect, and Reach Out!
From Lorie Ann Grover, co-founder of readergirlz:
Hey rgz,
As we get ready to celebrate Teen Read Week together, we also wanted to celebrate rgz upcoming new format.
This October is our last feature as you know it. So be sure to share the love with Laini in these remaining weeks.
So what's up? Well, how about the realization that we ALL read way more than one book a month, right? And the postergirlz pick such awesome recommends. How about this:
* the divas choose a theme a month
* you nominate songs for that theme, and Little Willow will build the playlist
* we'll have a community service spotlight for the theme
* the postergirlz'll nominate the very best YA books for the theme, new releases or old
* one book will be featured EVERY Monday
*squeeeeee* Our Author Liaison diva, Micol Ostow, will be outreaching to each weekly feature for a guest blog post and will invite them to hang with us in the comments. If the author is under deadline and can't make it over, we'll still have a post and be able to chat it up, share the love, leave questions, and so on.
The readergirlz website will continue to hang with a final issue, hence that playlist you all helped build. And the fabbity archives will remain available for your book clubs and libraries.
Feel free to spread the news and be ready for quick changing content of the very best in the children's lit industry. Of course we'll still have Cover Stories and Story Secrets and other posts of awesome that the divas bring to the table. The rgz SALON and Street Team will also continue with their posts, along with reports from our rgz HOSTS across the country.
You know we are always looking for great ways to further teen literacy and social service. Watch for this changeover on November 1. So, what do you think?
Enjoy Teen Read Week, and always, always, always: Read, Reflect, and Reach Out!
As posted at Holly Cupala at at the readergirlz blog:
We've got the beat here at readergirlz! We're celebrating
YALSA's Teen Read Week 2010: Books with Beat all next week
at the readergirlz blog.We invite you to
tell us about your favorite books, chat with October
featured author, Laini Taylor, about love and goblins, and tell us who you'd love to see
featured on the readergirlz blog.
Want to find out more about YALSA's Teen Read Week? Check out
the wiki here, and contact your local library for events in your area!
Looking for a Book with Beat to read? More than 11,000 teens voted on the top ten reads in 2009. Check out the winners of the
Teens' Top Ten 2010, to be announced
October 18th at 11 a.m. Central!
The Beat Goes On... ...with readergirlz' awesome archive of
spotlighted YA authors here. There is something for everyone!
Then rock out to the official rgz playlist! Click here to listen.Learn more about readergirlz at
http://www.readergirlz.com
Halloween's just around the corner. Pick up
Lips Touch by Laini Taylor and you'll be treated to three supernatural short stories perfect for a dark and stormy night as well as glorious illustrations by
Jim Di Bartolo. Here's a little bit about each of the stories:
Goblin Fruit: In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take to tempt today's savvy girls?
Spicy Little Curses: A demon and the ambassador to Hell tussle over the soul of a beautiful English girl in India. Matters become complicated when she falls in love and decides to test her curse.
Hatchling: Six days before Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue. She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once.
To learn more about this month's featured book and the author, check out
the October 2010 issue of readergirlz. Then come on over to the
blog to talk about the books with other readers - and with the author herself!
rgz LIVE!Join us at
Twitter on
Wednesday, October 20th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with this month's featured author, Laini Taylor. Use the hashtag #rgz to follow the conversation. We'll post more detailed instructions the night of the chat.
Join the readergirlzreadergirlz is an online book group that's open to everyone - the only requirement is a love of reading!
Every month, we discuss a different book, ranging from realistic fiction to fantasy (like
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld), from historical fiction (such as
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson and
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller) to contemporary fiction (such as
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart). All of our spotlighted books celebrate gutsy girls.
Every issue of
readergirlz features additional information about the books we're discussing, exclusive interviews with and playlists created by the authors, and additional book recommendation. In addition to our annual events such as April's
Operation Teen Book Drop, we also include information about national or international outreach programs related to the book of the month in every issue. We hope to inspire readers to become active not only in book groups but also in their communities.
Browse through the archive of readergirlz selections.Read, Reflect, Reach OutWe decided to feature the NOW Workshops - specifically, Body heART - as this month's outreach program.
Body heART is, in their own words, "dedicated to bringing awareness to positive body image. In today's society there is an unrealistic standard of beauty and we intend to shatter that illusion...We believe all of us are walking works of ART that are meant to be celebrated and valued." As seen in
this video, their photo campaign features un-retouched images of girls and women of all shapes and sizes.
Also, every month, they
feature a different w
Last month, I posted an open invitation to the Hopewell Hotel, asking if anyone was interested in participating in a roundtable discussion of September's picks, Suite Scarlett and Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson. Before I knew it, I had a number of volunteers, ready and willing to talk about hotel life, New York City, Law & Order, and unicycling actors - not necessarily in that order.
Little Willow: Let's jump right in. What was your favorite part of Suite Scarlett?
Melissa Walker: Being introduced to the Martin family was sheer delight. I've never met characters whom I wanted to know in real life so quickly. I think my favorite parts were the intros to each of them -- I was so excited to hang out with them for a while!
Lindsay F: When Spencer punched Eric. Big brother to the rescue!
Marjolein: I loved that there was a big piece for theater,(I think Suite Scarlett itself would be a perfect story to turned into a play!) the long gone glory of the Hopewell and the mysterious Mrs.Amberson with her even more eccentric demands.
Little Willow: What was your favorite scene in Scarlett Fever?
SamanthaRowan: When Max muscles Dakota out of being Scarlett's lab partner. It's a good piece of foreshadowing and it reaches all of us on a deep level. We all remember the pressure of finding a lab partner or being picked for the dodge ball team.
Melissa Walker: I loved it when Scarlett met Lola for lunch and they finally talked openly about things with Chip. It felt so real and sisterly, especially for these two girls who love each other but don't always communicate well. Fantastic moment.
Lindsay F: When Scarlett pushed Max off his stool. ...I think I just may like violence in MJ's books.
Mariah: When Spencer got pelted with doughnuts!
Little Willow: Do you think Suite Scarlett warranted a sequel? Why or why not?
Micol Ostow: Definitely! Scarlett and her world are so colorful that I think there must be infinite sequels and stories to tell!
Mariah: Yes, because the characters could never stop giving wonderful stories and making messes of things!
SamanthaRowan: Yes. There were certainly enough story lines to follow. There's probably a logical sequel to Scarlett Fever too.
Melissa Walker: Yes, and I would very much like to follow the Martin siblings into middle age. Please, Maureen?
Lindsay F: I think Suite Scarlett was a good stand alone novel. However I think Scarlett will always be doing something worth writing about. I feel like Scarlett Fever was more of a cliff hanger than S.S.
Marjolein: Defininetly warrented a sequel, and I am still curious what is going to happen now that I finished reading Scarlett Fever.
Little Willow: Which of Scarlett's siblings did you like the most? Why?
Olivia Wood (elfarmy17): Oh, Spencer, definitely. He's the older brother I've always wanted. He has his own life, but he's okay with sharing parts of it with Scarlett. As she says (somewhere in a paragraph regarding Spencer's past girlfriends, I think), Spencer “always shared the stuff that mattered.” They're the epitome of what I think two siblings' relationship should be: separate people who do their own stuff, but still incredibly close.
Mariah: Spencer! He is one of the few male characters in a book, who is not the love interest, that I have fallen for! Without any egging on by the main character's feelings, I fell head over heels!
Little Willow: Spencer was my favorite Martin as well.
SamanthaRowan: Spencer. I can feel him with the most clarity. I still have a little trouble believing he's straight, though.
Melissa Walker: Oh, okay, I'm going with Spencer to
Join
readergirlz at
Twitter RIGHT NOW, Wednesday, September 22nd at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with this month's featured author, Maureen Johnson. Join in and use the hashtag #rgz to follow the conversation.
Need help tweeting and following the chat?
Click here!
Join
readergirlz at
Twitter TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 22nd at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with this month's featured author, Maureen Johnson. Join in and use the hashtag #rgz to follow the conversation. The chat will last for one hour. See you there!
Want to participate in next month's roundtable? We will be discussing
Tell Me a Secret by Holly Cupala, our August book pick for
readergirlz.
If you're interested, please leave a comment below with your email address so that I may send you an invite through Google Docs. This cool (and free) service lets you edit documents in real-time while collaborating with others. You will be able to tell us what you thought of the book by answering discussion questions, adding in questions of your own, and reading and responding to comments from other readers.
Check out previous roundtables to get a feel for how they work!
Join us at
Twitter TONIGHT, Wednesday, July 14th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with this month's featured author, Ally Carter. Add your tweets and use the hashtag #rgz to follow the conversation.
If you watched the premiere of
Covert Affairs on TV last night, if you miss
Alias, or if you wish you were a spy or you simply love stories dealing with espionage, you simply have to read
The Gallagher Girls books. Make sure that you read them in order:
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You-
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy-
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover-
Only the Good Spy YoungTo learn more about the series and its author, check out
the July 2010 issue of readergirlz.
Wondering what other books and authors we've featured?
Visit the readergirlz archive. readergirlz on the webBookmark our main stomping grounds:
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My secret is this: I write under the pen name Lila Castle.
- Daphne Grab
Note from Little Willow: The Star Shack by Lila Castle was released earlier this month. Check it out!
Related Posts:
Interview: Daphne Grab
Family: Daphne Grab
Hope: Daphne Grab
What Makes Daphne Grab Smile
Read my review of Alive and Well in Prague, New York.
Wanna hear a secret? Critically acclaimed YA authors are spilling their guts all this month at Bildungsroman. Bookmark the schedule of secrets and check back throughout the month.
Join us at
Twitter TONIGHT, Wednesday, June 16th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with this month's featured author, John Green. Join in and use the hashtag #rgz to follow the conversation.
New to Twitter chats?
Visit the readergirlz blog for further instruction.
Attention Nerdfighters! This month,
readergirlz are discussing
Paper Towns by
John Green. Here's a little taste of the plot:
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows.
After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues - and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Quentin sees of the girl he thought he knew.
Sound good? Pick the book from your local library or bookstore and give it a read, then join in our discussions all month long at
the readergirlz blog.
To learn more about the book and its author, check out
the June 2010 issue of readergirlz and
watch John's first vlog for readergirlz.
Download this month's
bookmark and
poster.
Join the readergirlzreadergirlz is an online book group that's open to everyone - the only requirement is a love of reading!
Every month, we discuss a different book, ranging from realistic fiction to fantasy (like
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld), from historical fiction (such as
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson and
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller) to contemporary fiction (such as
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart). All of our spotlighted books celebrate gutsy girls.
Every issue of
readergirlz features additional information about the books we're discussing, exclusive interviews with and playlists created by the authors, and additional book recommendation. In addition to our annual events such as April's
Operation Teen Book Drop, we also include information about national or international outreach programs related to the book of the month in every issue. We hope to inspire readers to become active not only in book groups but also in their communities.
Browse through the archive of readergirlz selections.postergirlz picksThe postergirlz, the readergirlz advisory council, recommended the following titles to read alongside this month's main pick:
Fiction13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
You Are Here by Jennifer E. Smith
How to Be Bad by Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mlynowski, and E. Lockhart
PoetryLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Non-FictionWalden by Henry David Thoreau
rgz LIVE!Join us at
Twitter on
Wednesday, June 16th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST for an hour-long chat with this month's featured author, John Green. Join in and use the hashtag #rgz to follow the conversation.
Author-in-ResidenceLisa Ann Sandell
Lisa Yee will be chatting live at
readergirlz tonight, Wednesday, May 19th at
6 PM PST/9 PM EST. The chat will last for an hour, and anyone may join in!
To learn more about Lisa Yee and her book Absolutely Maybe, check out
the May 2010 issue of
readergirlz and
a roundtable discussion of the book.
Join us at Twitter #rgz
TONIGHT, Monday, May 3rd at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST to chat with Elizabeth Scott, who just completed her
A-I-R residency and has become
a readergirlz diva. If you want to join the chat, simply come over to Twitter tonight and tweet away, using the hashtag
#rgz!
We'll chat with this month's featured author, Lisa Yee, on Wednesday, May 19th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST.
This is what happens when you sing in public in Hollywood while holding a camcorder.
There you have it. Me singing "Is This Hollywood?" by Lucy Woodward led to a random encounter in which strangers spoke of The Boxcar Children and The World According to Garp by John Irving, then gave a shoutout to readergirlz.
And yes, this sort of thing actually does happen to me all of the time. My life is a series of coincidences, filled with music, books, the recitation of lines, lyrics, and laughter.
If you can't see the video above, click here.
This month's
readergirlz book group pick,
Absolutely Maybe by
Lisa Yee, introduces us to a girl named Maybe - short for Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut - who was named after "two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara." After her mom's boyfriend does something inexcusable, Maybe heads to California to find her biological dad, who doesn't even know she exists.
Sound good? Pick the book from your local library or bookstore and give it a read, then join in our discussions all month long at
the readergirlz blog.
To learn more about the book and its author, check out
the May 2010 issue of readergirlz. Download this month's
bookmark and
poster.
rgzTVCheck out this interview with Lisa Yee, exclusive to rgzTV.See (and hear) what happens when you sing while walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (And by you, I mean me.)
Join the readergirlzreadergirlz is an online book group that's open to everyone - the only requirement is a love of reading!
Every month, we discuss a different book, ranging from realistic fiction to fantasy (such as
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld), from historical fiction (such as
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson and
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller) to contemporary fiction (such as
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart). All of our spotlighted books celebrate gutsy girls.
Every issue of
readergirlz features additional information about the books we're discussing, exclusive interviews with and playlists created by the authors, and additional book recommendation. In addition to our annual events such as April's
Operation Teen Book Drop, we also include information about national or international outreach programs related to the book of the month in every issue. We hope to inspire readers to become active not only in book groups but also in their communities.
Browse through the archive of readergirlz selections.postergirlz picksThe postergirlz, the readergirlz advisory council, recommended the following titles to read alongside this month's main pick:
FictionLooking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
Nothing But Ghosts by Beth Kephart
Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
Non-FictionGirlwise: How to be Confident, Capable, Cool and in Control by Julia DeVillers
rgz LIVE!Join us at Twitter #rgz
TONIGHT, Monday, May 3rd at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST to chat with Elizabeth Scott, who just completed her
A-I-R residency and has become
a readergirlz diva. If you want to join the chat, simply come over to Twitter tonight and tweet away, using the hashtag
It's time for
Operation Teen Book Drop 2010! We want YOU to leave a book in a public place
TODAY, Thursday, April 15th, 2010. Nationwide, librarians, authors, and teens will drop YA books in their own communities today to raise awareness for Operation TBD 2010 and Support Teen Literature Day. Participants can download bookplates to insert into the books they'll leave behind.
Click here to get the bookplates from the readergirlz website. You may also purchase books from the
TBD Wish Lists which will go directly to two tribal school libraries.
Click here to learn how to purchase books for students at Ojo Encino Day School and Alchesay High School.
Operation TBD is brought to you by readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and If I Can Read I Can Do Anything. These organizations will be dropping over 10,000 new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American tribal lands.
Everyone will join an online TBD Post-Op party tonight at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST that evening at
the readergirlz blog, where we also invite you to post a picture or video that shows how you rocked the drop. Example:
Check out Crissa-Jean Chappell's stealthy book drop.Are you participating? What books did you donate, and where did you drop them?
Click here to learn more about Operation TBD.Watch the trailer at YouTube.Read the press release.
Less than 24 hours until
Operation Teen Book Drop 2010! Are you ready? Have you decided which books you're going to drop and/or donate?
We want YOU to leave a book in a public place on April 15th. Nationwide, librarians, authors, and teens will drop YA books in their own communities on
Thursday, April 15th, 2010, to raise awareness for Operation TBD 2010 and Support Teen Literature Day. Participants can download bookplates to insert into the books they'll leave behind.
Click here to get the bookplates from the readergirlz website. You may also purchase books from the
TBD Wish Lists which will go directly to two tribal school libraries.
Click here to learn how to purchase books for students at Ojo Encino Day School and Alchesay High School.
Operation TBD is brought to you by readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and If I Can Read I Can Do Anything. These organizations will be dropping over 10,000 new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American tribal lands.
Everyone will join an online TBD Post-Op party on Thursday night at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST that evening at
the readergirlz blog, where we also invite you to post a picture or video that shows how you rocked the drop. Example:
Check out Crissa-Jean Chappell's stealthy book drop.Click here to learn more about Operation TBD.Watch the trailer at YouTube.Read the press release.
Join author Diane Duane at
the readergirlz blog tonight, Monday, April 12th to celebrate the release of her newest book, A Wizard of Mars. The chat will begin at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST and last for one hour.
I've been following the Young Wizards series for decades now, and I am looking forward to the release of A Wizard of Mars!
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