Reminder–GA Peach Book Award voting ends tomorrow at midnight

Just a reminder to encourage your students to vote for their favorite Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers books by midnight tomorrow (March 15th).  If you collected paper ballots, be sure to enter those by the 3/15 midnight deadline as well.  Only votes submitted online will count.  Thanks for your participation.  The winner and honor books will be announced at the Kennesaw State University Conference on March 28th.  I will also post the winners here. 

Happy Reading!!

Vote here:  http://georgiapeachaward.org/2011-2012-vote-voting-ends-midnight-march-15-2012

Georgia Peach Book Award nominees for 2012-2013 announced!

Good morning,

The 20 Nominees for the 2012-2013 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers (Grades 9 – 12) have been selected!

Drumroll please . . . . . .

Title	Author
Anna and the French Kiss	Perkins, Stephanie
Between Shades of Gray	Sepetys, Ruta
Divergent	Roth, Veronica
False Princess, The	O’Neal, Ellis
Glow	Ryan, Amy Kathleen
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (The)	Skloot, Rebecca
Jump	Carbone, Elisa
Mockingbirds (The)	Whitney, Daisy
Name of the Star	Johnson, Maureen
Notes From The Blender	Cook, Trish & Halpin, Brendan
Now is the Time for Running	Williams, Michael
Please Ignore Vera Dietz	King, A.S.
Ready Player One	Cline, Ernest
Running Dream (The)	Van Draanen, Wendelin
Sky Is Everywhere (The)	Nelson, Jandy
Stick	Smith, Andrew
Stupid Fast	Herbach, Geoff
This Girl is Different	Johnson, J J
What Can’t Wait	Perez, Ashley Hope
What Comes After	Watkins, Steve

Please remember that voting for the 2011-2012 Georgia Peach Book Award continues online through March 15.  The winner and 2 honor books will be announced on Wednesday, March 28 at the Kennesaw State University’s Annual Conference on Literature for Children and Young Adults (I will post here the following day).

http://georgiapeachaward.org/2011-2012-vote-voting-ends-midnight-march-15-2012

And another big thank you to all who applied to serve on the committee–we are going through the applications now and will be making decisions in the next few weeks. 

Have a great weekend!

Mary K. Donovan

Media Specialist

Mill Creek High School

GA Peach Committee Applications

Good morning!

We have had a wonderful response to our call for committee members!  Thank you!  The new members will be notified at the end of the month.

Just a reminder that the last day to submit an application to serve on the committee is Tuesday–February 21.

http://georgiapeachaward.org/reading-committee

Have a great week,

Mary K. Donovan

Committee Members Needed: Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers

Good afternoon,

Next month, the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers winner and two honor books will be announced at the Kennesaw State University’s Annual Conference on Literature for Young Adults.  Just a reminder that the voting for this year’s award ends on March 15.  Teens vote online at the Peach Award website:

http://georgiapeachaward.org/2011-2012-vote-voting-ends-midnight-march-15-2012
The committee is now accepting applications for the 2012 -2013 Committee.  If you currently work with teens at the library, love YA books, and love to read (and get tons of free books) then this is the committee for you!!!  This 12 member committee reads and reviews over 100 YA novels and non-fiction texts each year.  In February, the committee selects the 20 nominees for the upcoming award; then Georgia teens vote for their top three titles.  Comprised of both high school media specialists and public library staff who work with teens, this committee provides insight into current YA literature trends and the opportunity to review the best of the best titles available.

If you are interested in becoming a committee member, please take a look at the website for more information about the Peach Award and to complete your application.  And if you have any questions or need additional details about the committee, please do not hesitate to email or call me–I am happy to help!

http://georgiapeachaward.org/reading-committee

 
Mary K. Donovan

Mary_Kay_Donovan@gwinnett.k12.ga.us

Media Specialist

Mill Creek High School

678-714-5846

Vice-Chair, GA Peach Book Award for Teens

GA Peach Book Award Voting Ends Friday!

Don’t forget that the voting for the 2010-2011 GA Peach Book Award for Teens ends this Friday at 5pm.  All voting takes place online at http://georgiapeachaward.org/peach-book-award-voting-2010-2011.  Encourage teen readers to log on and vote for their favorite books.  If you have used paper ballots, simply enter each ballot on the site.  The voting will close promptly at 5pm. so get your votes entered by the deadline. 

The 2011-2012 GA Peach Award candidates will be unveiled at the KSU Literature Conference on March 31st.   The 2011 winner and runner-ups will be announced at lunch, and a breakout session discussing the new titles will be held in the afternoon.  Stay tuned to the KSU Conference site for more details.