Reading Ideas
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Check the Booktalks page for booktalks and book trailers for reading ideas.
Check the YALSA Book Awards Page for more great reading ideas California Young Reader Medal Nominees
Each year, three books are nominated in the Young Adult category. Visit the CYRM site for details. Read all three 2016-2017 nominees by the end of March 2017, and you can vote for your choice at the Mira Costa Library.
2016-2017 Nominees: Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson Kindness for Weakness by Shawn Goodman Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard 2015-2016 Nominees: Cinder by Marissa Meyer - winner! Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 2014-2015 Nominees: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor The Fault is in Our Stars by John Green - winner! Legend by Marie Lu 2013-2014 Nominees: Divergent by Veronica Roth - winner! Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen |
Check these sites for reading ideas:
YALSA's Teens Top 10 Lists NoveList. This database provided by the Los Angeles County Library system requires a password to sign in. Use the barcode number on the back of your Manhattan Beach Public Library Card. If you don't have your own library card, you can use the MCHS ID #. Ask at the library or email Mrs. Lofton for the ID #. Bookleads Wiki The Book Seer Your Next Read RIYL (Read if you like) Subscribe to NextReads newsletters from the Los Angeles County Library Series Book Searcher from the Bettendorf Public Library Series books from Nebraska Library Commission |