Teen Direct 
May 2015

Dates to Remember  


May 5th
Community Service Roundtable

May 7th
Long Island Library Conference

May 11th
Special Needs Services Roundtable

May 14th
Galley Group

May 15th
Battle Titles Released to the Public

May 28 & 29
BEA

June 2nd
Heads of Children

June 3rd
Heads of YA

June 25th - 30th
ALA San Francisco

August 1st
Battle of the Books

August 3rd
Battle of the Books Finals


May Reads

  

Here are some new YA titles that are coming out this month!

 

     

The Heir
by Kiera Cass
May 5th

 

 

Saint Anything

 by Sarah Dessen

May 5th

 

 

Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
May 12th


 

P.S. I Still Love You

by Jenny Han

 

Authors Unlimited
 


It was a sunny yet cool day on Saturday, April 25th when we were lucky enough to have eight authors travel out to St. Joseph's College in Patchogue for Authors Unlimited. Here they shared their thoughts on the writing process, how they come up with their ideas (some hear voices), where they are going next, and what super power they would rather have! There was a major debate on the panel on whether flying or teleportation was a better! The day was fun and incredibly insightful. 


 

We are so grateful to these authors, the teens who attended, and of course to our volunteers who made the day run as smoothly as it did!
  

 

Community Service Roundtable

 

 

All are welcome to join us on Tuesday, May 5th for the Community Service Roundtable in the SCLS Blue Room. 

 

We will meet to discuss community service projects, programs, and ideas with each other. Feel free to share tragedies and triumphs.

 

Please send me an email at derek@suffolknet.org to confirm if you will be attending or have any questions.

 

 


YALSA Grant


 

Margaret Edwards Trust Literacies Programming Grant

"Now through Nov. 1, 2015, apply for this grant, which is funded by the Margaret Edwards Trust and will award up to five grants worth $5,000 each for libraries to use towards launching a new or expanding an existing successful program to help teens master text-based literacies. Successful applicants will address teen needs beyond traditional print reading comprehension and be inclusive of activities that help teens build skills to successfully navigate text-based literacies in both a print and an online world. Appropriate activities include but are not limited to helping teens with navigating nonlinear text, repeatedly evaluating resources, sifting through extraneous materials, inferring meaning, and using a range of features to compose unified messages. 


 

Potential applicants can visit YALSA's wiki to learn more about multiple literacies. Apply via this online form."

 

National Library

Legislation Day

   

 

"National Library Legislative Day is May 5th. Several hundred library advocates will be traveling to Washington DC to talk with elected officials and policy makers about the importance of libraries, but you and your library's advocates can participate from your home towns! Check out YALSA's wiki for lots of great ideas and resources that make it easy for you to be a part of this important effort. If you don't speak up for the importance of libraries in teens' lives, no one else will, so we're counting on you!"

 

 
Lit-Fest Date
 

  

 

 

 
CSLP Updates 

      

As per Karen Balsen:


 

"Recently it was discovered that the PDF Forms Handouts on the CD/DVD for each program had edit guidelines on each page.  Unfortunately this was not caught before the CD/DVD's were distributed to libraries.  Upstart has corrected the problem and CSLP has uploaded all PDF Forms Handouts for all 4 programs to the CSLP website. 

 

Once a member logs into the website,  the forms can be found under Membership & Sponsorship > Member Libraries > Proprietary Downloads > 2015 Graphics and Reproducible Files.  Each program link directs you to an alphabetical list of all PDF forms from that manual.

 

CSLP is very sorry for the inconvenience."


 

Also as per Karen Balsen:

 

 

"My contact at the NYS Assembly pointed out to me a "problem" with one of the color clip CSLP art images for 2015.

The image in the children's artwork showing the platypus with his feet on the desk, includes the initials "PPS." I know, for CSLP purposes I believe it  stands for "Platypus Police Society." However, those initials also stand for a easily concealed firearm "PPS - Walther Arms"

www.waltherarms.com/pps/"


 

Mock Quick Picks List 

 

As many of you know we will be releasing the titles for our Mock Quick Picks 2016 slowly throughout the year so there is more time for reading and gathering teen feedback. We will be releasing two new titles a month which are taken from the real nominations list that is updated monthly as well. Here are the eight titles on our list for January - April:

 

Nonfiction 

 

Heppermann, Christine. Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty. 2014. Greenwillow/HarperCollins Children's, $17.99. 9780062289575.

Keyser, Amber J. Sneaker Century: A History of Athletic Shoes. 2015. Twenty-First Century Books/Lerner Publishing Group, $35.65. 9781467726405.

Sundquist, Josh. We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story. 2014. Little Brown & Co/Hachette Book Group, $18.00. 9780316251020. 

Fiction 

 

Hall, Sandy. A Little Something Different. 2014. Macmillan, $9.99. 9781250061454. 

 

Hiaasen, Carl. Skink No Surrender. 2014. Knopf/Random House, $18.99. 9780375870514. 


 Knowles, Jo. Read Between the Lines. 2015. Candlewick Press, $16.99. 9780763663872. 

 

Levithan, David. Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story. 2015. Dutton Children's/Penguin, $17.99. 9780525428848. 

 

Smale, Holly. Geek Girl. 2015. Harper Teen/HarperCollins, $17.99. 9780062333575.