Announcing the finalists for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

• The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking/ Penguin Group (USA))
• Girls Like Us by Gail Giles (Candlewick Press)

• Skink—No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House)

• Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion Books/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Threatened by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic Press)

• The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)

• 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)

• Noggin by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)

• Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic Press)

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA)

The winners will be selected in November - stay tuned!

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/64001-young-people-s-literature-longlist-announced-for-2014-national-book-award.html

October is National Book Month

Celebrate by participating in one or more of the following activities:

• Read together as a family.
• Encourage your children to send letters to their favorite author - you never know when they may get a response! 
• Read a bedtime story to your children.
• Swap books with friends - you may find a new 'favorite' author!
• Donate gently used books to your library. 

                                                                   

Twin Cities Book Festival - Saturday, Oct. 11
Children - Tweens - Teens


Check out the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday at the State Fair grounds, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The day will be filled with story times, activities and author visits. New this year is a tent for teenagers where they can meet some favorite authors, including Morgan Matson and Stephanie Perkins.


http://www.raintaxi.com/twin-cities-book-festival/authors/children-tween-teen-programs/#teentent