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Cheers! I’ve just discovered the Neil Gaiman interview at Bookslut!<\/a> And it’s just another click to the montly Booksluts in Training<\/a> piece, which features some great YA titles ” that fit perfectly into the October sensibility. Adventures, mysteries, even thrillers are here but all have one thing in common: something wicked lurks within their pages and makes the readers cautious about turning each and every page.” Good reads for crisp autumn nights.<\/p>\n

Book Buds<\/a> is relaunching and having a drawing for two cool books to celebrate. Enter the drawing by answering this question: What would you<\/i> say upon climbing down from the hatch of your space rover, and setting foot on Mars? (And no, you can’t say that “One small step” thing, that’s been done.) This ‘out of this world’ contest ends October 18th, so start thinking now…<\/p>\n

Hey, have you dropped by Competizione<\/a>? I love web contests, and these guys advertise them all. Check frequently!<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a> has a round-up of the Top 10 Characters from Children’s Historical Fiction. I find myself a bit chagrined at how many of these books I’ve never even read! Meanwhile, if you also haven’t read any of the novels up for the UK’s Man Booker Award, never fear – there’s the Guardian’s Digested Version<\/a> to boil them all down to a couple of paragraphs for you. That, of course, would never work with a YA book…<\/p>\n

Sigh. Yet another<\/i> celeb writes a kid’s book — this time Gloria Estefan<\/a> is throwing her spangled spandex um… hat <\/em>into the ring. AND her book comes with a CD. Of course<\/i> it does.<\/p>\n

Via Bookshelves of Doom<\/a>, what’s got to be the oddest book challenge, EVER<\/a>… Truly. Pre-Christian, Sumerian texts, now newly translated into English<\/a> aren’t stories of stick figures and dirt. Who knew?<\/p>\n

If you haven’t read Pam Coughlan’s<\/a> piece inThe Edge of the Forest<\/a> on booktalking middle school-aged kids, do. Her tips can carry over as good info for doing author visits, too.<\/p>\n

I don’t often get to read the School Library Journal, but an article by Caroline Lehman discussing depictions of sexual abuse in YA literature<\/a> really caught my attention. Lehman’s new nonfiction book, Strong at the Heart<\/a> has given her some insights into these hurtful incidents in the lives of young men and women, and I appreciated her taking a look at the literature we write that speaks about these topics. As YA authors, some of who want to write about these things in a fictionalized way, it’s important to, as Jane Yolen says “write the true…” Is YA literature on sexual abuse really helpful? Does it present a true reflection of the lives and the stories of the abused? Does it perpetuate stereotypes in its depictions of “victims” and “heroes”? There’s a lot in Lehman’s thoughtful piece to consider. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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