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Junior Library Guild...
Six recent and upcoming Orca titles have been picked up by the Junior Library Guild.
Last season's graphic novel Ramp Rats, along with Paralyzed, an Orca Sports novel by Jeff Rud, made the fall selections.
In Spring 2009 look for Riley Park, an Orca Soundings novel, as well as Absolute Pressure by Sigmund Brouwer and Slam Dunk by Kate Jaimet, both Orca Sports novels. Rounding out the six was Soccer Sabotage, the third graphic novel in the Graphic Guide Adventure series by Liam O'Donnell amd Mike Deas.
The JLG provides books to public and school libraries and offers 28 different reading levels from preschool
through high school, all with an emphasis on selecting only the best
and most worthwhile titles to engage young minds and foster a love of
books and reading.
Junior Library Guild
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YALSA Quick Picks...
The final list of titles selected for the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list was announced following the American Library Association Conference in Denver this week.
Two Orca Soundings titles made the list:
Pain and Wastings by Carrie Mac and Middle Row by Sylvia Olsen.
The Quick Picks list, presented annually at the ALA Midwinter
Meeting suggests books that teens, ages 12-18, will pick up on their
own and read for pleasure. It is geared to the teenager who, for
whatever reason, does not like to read.
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Sidney Taylor Book Award...
Gravity, a teen novel by Leanne Lieberman, has been named a "Notable Book of Jewish Content" in the teen category as part of the Sidney Taylor Book Awards from the Association of Jewish Librarians.
Kirkus said of the book: "Heartfelt - a must for Jewish and GLBT collections."
And the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books said: "A remarkably sensitive and credible portrait of a girl whose faith
collides with her sexuality, and who refuses to compromise either."
Gravity was also the winner of the Orca "So You Think You Can Write" novel contest. I guess she can!
Gravity, 9781554690497
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Spring Catalog...
The Spring 2009 catalog is now available. You can download the PDF here, or drop us a note and we will mail one ASAP.
Highlights for Spring:
- Soccer Sabotage - book 3 in the Graphic Guides Adventure Series;
- Dance Baby Dance - a new baby board book;
- Queen of Disguises - a new installment in the Dinah Galloway Mysteries by Melanie Jackson;
- New Orca Currents novels from Vicki Grant, Eric Walters, K.L. Denman and Christy Goertzen;
- Warden of Greyrock, book three in K.V. Johansen's Warlocks of Talverdin;
- and much more!
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Chocolate Lily Young Readers' choice...
A number of Orca titles have been nominated for British Columbia's Chocolate Lily Young Readers' Choice Awards.
They are:
Rebel's Tag (KL Denman), Shadows on the Train (Melanie Jackson), I, Bruno (Caroline Adderson), Lucky's Mountain (Dianne Maycock), Mechanimals (Chris Tougas), The Summer of the Marco Polo (Lynn Manuel and Kasia Charko) and Jeffrey and Sloth (Kari Lynn Winters and Ben Hodson).
The Chocolate Lily Book Awards Program was developed to encourage students to read some of the best fiction by BC authors and illustrators, and culminates with a gala event in June.
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ONIX ...
Orca can now provide an ONIX feed of our updated, clean bibliographic data. We would be more than happy to add you to our list for regular updates. Please contact melanie@orcabook.com to be added to the list or for more information.
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