YA WEDNESDAY: TAXED AND NOT TOM

John Green has a newborn book. It’s online, it’s free, and he posts a chapter a week. Here’s the first:

Now, go feature Green’s account on his blog. Or wager another chapters here.

Battle of the Kids’ Books
…is feat strong. YA winners so far:

Round 1 Match 1: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. II: The Kingdom of the Waves
beats discover Ways to Live Forever (chosen by Horn Book application Roger Sutton).

Round 1 Match 4: Author Meg Rosoff chose Tender Morsels over Here Lies Arthur.

Round 1, Match 6: The Hunger Games takes the ammo over Louise Erdich’s The Porcupine Year.

The Hunger Games is also success bounteous so farther in the reader’s pick vote. Maybe these fans are right:

(Via educating alice.)

Quick links…
Readergirlz reminds teens to donate a aggregation weekday for Operation Teen Book Drop.

Ally Carter confirms that there *will* be a ordinal Gallagher Girls novel.

Another installment of “What Are They Reading for Fun?” (they=teens)

School Library Journal mourns book Krug, originator of Banned Books Week, who died Apr 11.

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