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From: Eva Davis <lunchgroup>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:49:50 -0500
The Teen Services Division of the Michigan Library Association is pleased to announce that voting has begun for the 2006 Thumbs Up! Award.
Since 1986, the Thumbs Up! Award has honored the best teen title published during the previous year. Since 2001, the Thumbs Up! Award has included a teen vote. We ask that you promote the Thumbs Up! Award to teens ages 12 to 18 in your classroom, your media center, your library, and your community and ask them to vote for their favorite title by May 26, 2006. The title with the most teen votes will automatically be an honor title if it is not selected as the winner by the Thumbs Up! Award Committee. The winning title and honor titles will be announced in mid-June 2006.
The Thumbs Up! Award committee considered more than 320 teen titles originally published in the U.S. between January 1 and December 31, 2005. Our hardworking committee (listed at the end of this email) has narrowed that list to the Top Twenty titles, and we ask that teens help us in selecting the best teen book of the year.
The Top Twenty ballot is available on the Michigan Library Association website at http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/tsd/2006TUballot.pdf. This document includes blurbs and prints on legal-size paper that folds into a nice pamphlet so that you may make paper copies of the ballot available to your teens.
This page, http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/tsd/tunominees06.htm, provides cover shots of the Top Twenty titles as well, but doesn't print as nicely.
Lastly, the Top Twenty are listed in this email.
You may email the total number of votes for each title to Eva Davis, Thumbs Up! Award Committee Chair, at davise at aadl.org, or you may mail your ballots to be at the address at the end of this email. Either way, submit your votes by May 26, 2006!
The Top Twenty list, in alphabetical order by author:
Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena Looking for Alaska by John Green Invisible by Pete Hautman Totally Joe by James Howe Heavy Metal & You by Christopher Krovatin Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier Day of Tears by Julius Lester Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar Inexcusable by Chris Lynch Twilight: A Novel by Stephanie Meyer Teach Me by R.A. Nelson A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary Pearson Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Just Like That by Marsha Qualey Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury Peeps by Scott Westerfeld Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
Please encourage your teens to vote early and vote often! While the award is given through the Michigan Library Association, teens anywhere may vote. If you have any questions, please contact Eva Davis at the phone or email provided at the end of this message.
Gold seals for winning titles and silver seals for honor titles are available for purchase from the Michigan Library Association. Please contact Anne Winkel, winkela at mlcnet.org, for pricing and quantity information.
The Teen Services Division extends our thanks to the 2006 Thumbs Up! Award Committee for all of their hard work:
Julie Beukema, Caroline Kennedy Public Library (Dearborn Heights) Monica Harris Brooks, Marshall District Library Lisa Crandall, Capital Area District Library (Holt-Delhi) Helen Dewey, Benzonia Public Library Anne Heidemann, Chippewa River District Library System (Mt. Pleasant) Sharon Iverson, Ann Arbor District Library Kevin King, Kalamazoo Public Library Cathy Lichtman, Plymouth District Library Rachel McDonald, Kent District Library (Wyoming) Kelaine Mish, Kent District Library (East Grand Rapids) Karen Persello, Chelsea District Library Mary Robinson, Herrick District Library (Holland) Katie Rosen, Rochester Hills Public Library Angela Semifero, East Lansing Public Library Linda Smith, Bay County Library System
If you will be attending the Spring Institute conference in Novi, Michigan March 29-31, please stop by our Top Twenty book discussion the morning of Friday, March 31. This is your opportunity as library workers to tell the committee what you think of each title--what should have been on the list, what never should have made it, and which title you think should win. Registration and information for this fabulous three-day conference are available on the MLA website at http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/si/2006/.
Thank you! --Eva
Eva Davis Branch Services Manager Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. Fifth Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 327-8319 davise at aadl.org
Received on Mon 13 Feb 2006 07:49:50 PM CST
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:49:50 -0500
The Teen Services Division of the Michigan Library Association is pleased to announce that voting has begun for the 2006 Thumbs Up! Award.
Since 1986, the Thumbs Up! Award has honored the best teen title published during the previous year. Since 2001, the Thumbs Up! Award has included a teen vote. We ask that you promote the Thumbs Up! Award to teens ages 12 to 18 in your classroom, your media center, your library, and your community and ask them to vote for their favorite title by May 26, 2006. The title with the most teen votes will automatically be an honor title if it is not selected as the winner by the Thumbs Up! Award Committee. The winning title and honor titles will be announced in mid-June 2006.
The Thumbs Up! Award committee considered more than 320 teen titles originally published in the U.S. between January 1 and December 31, 2005. Our hardworking committee (listed at the end of this email) has narrowed that list to the Top Twenty titles, and we ask that teens help us in selecting the best teen book of the year.
The Top Twenty ballot is available on the Michigan Library Association website at http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/tsd/2006TUballot.pdf. This document includes blurbs and prints on legal-size paper that folds into a nice pamphlet so that you may make paper copies of the ballot available to your teens.
This page, http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/tsd/tunominees06.htm, provides cover shots of the Top Twenty titles as well, but doesn't print as nicely.
Lastly, the Top Twenty are listed in this email.
You may email the total number of votes for each title to Eva Davis, Thumbs Up! Award Committee Chair, at davise at aadl.org, or you may mail your ballots to be at the address at the end of this email. Either way, submit your votes by May 26, 2006!
The Top Twenty list, in alphabetical order by author:
Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena Looking for Alaska by John Green Invisible by Pete Hautman Totally Joe by James Howe Heavy Metal & You by Christopher Krovatin Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier Day of Tears by Julius Lester Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar Inexcusable by Chris Lynch Twilight: A Novel by Stephanie Meyer Teach Me by R.A. Nelson A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary Pearson Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Just Like That by Marsha Qualey Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury Peeps by Scott Westerfeld Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
Please encourage your teens to vote early and vote often! While the award is given through the Michigan Library Association, teens anywhere may vote. If you have any questions, please contact Eva Davis at the phone or email provided at the end of this message.
Gold seals for winning titles and silver seals for honor titles are available for purchase from the Michigan Library Association. Please contact Anne Winkel, winkela at mlcnet.org, for pricing and quantity information.
The Teen Services Division extends our thanks to the 2006 Thumbs Up! Award Committee for all of their hard work:
Julie Beukema, Caroline Kennedy Public Library (Dearborn Heights) Monica Harris Brooks, Marshall District Library Lisa Crandall, Capital Area District Library (Holt-Delhi) Helen Dewey, Benzonia Public Library Anne Heidemann, Chippewa River District Library System (Mt. Pleasant) Sharon Iverson, Ann Arbor District Library Kevin King, Kalamazoo Public Library Cathy Lichtman, Plymouth District Library Rachel McDonald, Kent District Library (Wyoming) Kelaine Mish, Kent District Library (East Grand Rapids) Karen Persello, Chelsea District Library Mary Robinson, Herrick District Library (Holland) Katie Rosen, Rochester Hills Public Library Angela Semifero, East Lansing Public Library Linda Smith, Bay County Library System
If you will be attending the Spring Institute conference in Novi, Michigan March 29-31, please stop by our Top Twenty book discussion the morning of Friday, March 31. This is your opportunity as library workers to tell the committee what you think of each title--what should have been on the list, what never should have made it, and which title you think should win. Registration and information for this fabulous three-day conference are available on the MLA website at http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/si/2006/.
Thank you! --Eva
Eva Davis Branch Services Manager Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. Fifth Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 327-8319 davise at aadl.org
Received on Mon 13 Feb 2006 07:49:50 PM CST
