Vote NOW for the Teens' Top Ten!!!

Have you read any of the the YALSA 2010 Teens’ Top Ten nominations?

• Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Hate List by Jennifer Brown
• Heist Society by Ally Carter
• Fire by Kristin Cashore
• City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
• The Roar by Emma Clayton
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
• Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
• hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
• Dragonfly by Julia Golding
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
• I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
• Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
• By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
• Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
• Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• City of Fire by Laurence Yep

Vote NOW for your favorites!

Voting is open now through September 17. The winners will be announced during Teen Read Week, Oct. 17-23.

The Teens’ Top Ten is a reading list chosen entirely by and for teens. Last year, more than 11,000 teens voted for the Teens’ Top Ten, choosing Paper Towns by John Green as their favorite title.

Let the voting begin!

The number of teen rooms in Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Libraries is growing and we need your help naming them! These teen spaces need a name to be used in all public libraries that can help identify them as COOL places just for teens (students in grades 6 – 12).

Vote for your pick in the poll
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during TEEN READ WEEK, Oct.18-23. Voting will close Friday, October 23 at 9 a.m. (And, yes, you may  vote more than once.)

The winning entry will be announced at the THRILL THE WORLD event, which will be held at the North Tampa Branch Library, 8916 North Boulevard on Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m. The winner will receive a $50 gift card and credit for naming teen spaces in all Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Libraries!

Vote Now!

The polls are open! Vote for your favorite books of the past year in YALSA's annual Teens' Top Ten!

The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose the winners. Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Readers ages twelve to eighteen can vote right here, online, anytime between Aug. 24 and Sept. 18; the winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week.

WE NEED YOUR VOTE!

Ask a Librarian's The Director’s Chair video contest is in its final stages, and the finalists need YOUR vote!

Ask a Librarian, your favorite reference chat service, received many creative videos from high school students around Florida. Judges narrowed the entries down to five finalists, now it’s up to you to help choose the winner by voting for your favorite video.

Visit www.askalibrarian.org/thedirectorschair and click on “vote” to see the top five videos and to vote for the one you think deserves to win.

**Polls will be open until Feb. 7 (11:59 p.m. EST).**

Take our poll!

How would you like to see an anime & manga club at your local library branch?

Salena, the teen services librarian at Bruton Memorial Library in Plant City, has been thinking about starting an anime & manga club there. Since she wondered how many folks would be interested, we started a poll to see.

Check out the sidebar on our main blog page to tell us what you think!

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I read Banned Books! Do you?

It's Banned Books Week again! What are YOU reading?

September 29 through October 6, 2007

Each year the ALA (American Library Association) sponsors this weeklong celebration to remind us of the importance of our freedom to read. Want to see which books were most challenged in 2006?

Which series of Banned Books have you read & liked most?

Gossip Girl

Lord of the Rings

Harry Potter

Vote on this poll at