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We're halfway through March and have been busy putting together fresh displays, diving into new releases, and planning for upcoming Teen events! Plus-- it's Women's History Month! What feminist reads are on your TBR pile?! New releases with strong female characters Internment by Samira Ahmed We've been waiting for this book for months and are … Continue reading Teen Thursday: Women’s History Month edition
AN EVENT YOU CAN'T MISS CARYOLYN COHAGAN SATURDAY, MARCH 24 AT 2 PM About Cohagan's book, Time Next: Mina's adventure continues in this sequel to the award-winning Time Zero. In book one, Mina and her friends narrowly escaped fundamentalist-ruled Manhattan. Now, they've been taken in by the Unbound, a modern community that wants to shelter and care for … Continue reading Teen Thursday: 03.22.2018
EXCITING YA NEWS TEXAS TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL AUTHOR, JULIE MURPHY HAS ANNOUNCED HER NEXT BOOK AND WE CAN'T WAIT FOR SPRING!! And catch her and a ton of your other YA faves for FREE at Texas Teen Book Festival on October 7 at St. Edwards University! NEW RELEASES A Map For Wrecked … Continue reading Teen Thursday 8/17
There have been so many great children's books this year, I hardly know where to begin. Many of my favorites from this year (Viva Frida, Brown Girl Dreaming, The Farmer & the Clown, The Right Word, Tiny Creatures, Greenglass House, Egg & Spoon, I'll Give You the Sun, Grasshopper Jungle) are included in our Winter … Continue reading Ellen’s BookKids Favorites of 2014
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! Texas Teen Book Fest News! There have been a lot of announcements from the fest in the past few weeks. Many amazing authors have joined the line up, so here … Continue reading Teen Thursday
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! July Buzz Book: Conversion We are buzzing about Conversion by Katherine Howe. Seventeenth-century Salem witch paranoia and modern-day high school life collide in this suspenseful and exciting mystery. Here is … Continue reading Teen Thursday
The Austin Teen Book Festival, taking place on October 1st, 2011 10am – 5pm at the Palmer Events Center, is a FREE festival with the mission of connecting teens with authors of books for teens. Panels of authors will discuss a wide variety of topics, sign their books, and celebrate all things teen fiction. To … Continue reading I (Heart) the Austin Teen Book Festival (and FUN!)
The Austin Teen Book Festival, taking place on October 1st, 2011 10am – 5pm at the Palmer Events Center, is a FREE festival with the mission of connecting teens with authors of books for teens. Panels of authors will discuss a wide variety of topics, sign their books, and celebrate all things teen fiction. To … Continue reading Real Life is Messy: Varian Johnson Tackles the Real World at the Austin Teen Book Festival
Have you ever read a new series and been annoyed that it takes a year for each of the new books to come out? I know I have. Well, apparently the folks over at Dial (an imprint of Penguin) have also felt this way. They are putting out Catherine Fisher's entire new Relic Masters Series … Continue reading Teen Review: The Relic Master
Are you a teen? Are you a teen who likes to read? Are you a teen who likes to read and would like to review a book for BookPeople? It's like this: we have copies of two new teen novels we will give away for FREE to the first two teens (ages 13-18) who volunteer … Continue reading Teen Reviewers Wanted
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