
Teenreads.com What did people think about New Moon??? The movie set a new record for opening-day box office, taking in $72.7 million on Friday and $140.7 million over the weekend in North America.

While we have just two new titles to share with you this week, fantasy readers still have a couple of new books for which to be thankful this holiday week...

Teenreads.com "Delacorte has been stirring up interest in Lauren Kate’s FALLEN, which launches a four-book series about fallen angels and forbidden love."
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Delacorte has been stirring up interest in Lauren Kate's Fallen, which launches a four-book series about fallen angels and forbidden love. The author embarked on a six-city pre-pub tour at the end of October to promote the novel, due December 8 with a 100,000-copy first printing. ...

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The National Book Award for Young People's Literature was given Wednesday night to Phillip Hoose, for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (FSG/Kroupa), a true-life account of the 15-year-old African-American ...

Teenreads.com For a limited time, you can read THE AMANDA PROJECT free online!
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Amanda Valentino changed everything. Callie Leary has exactly one thing, and one thing only, in common with Nia Rivera and Hal Bennett: They were each chosen by Amanda to be her guide. When Amanda...

Today's guest blogger is 15-year-old Mary Sturgis from Chicago, IL. Last month, she attended a book signing for Melissa de la Cruz's THE VAN ALEN LEGACY, and was able to catch up with the author afterwards for an interview, which she was kind enough to share with Teenreads.com...

Teenreads.com Would Taylor Lautner help you study for your next math test?
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And why not? If Twilight can get kids to read, why can't it help kids to understand the phases of the moon using fractions?As Just Jared Jr. reports, Scholastic MATH magazine asked New Moon star (and fictional ...

Teenreads.com The Daily Beast proposes six young adult series that are likely candidates to replace Twilight as the next blockbuster YA novels.
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From fallen angels to zombies, publishers and movie producers are on the hunt for the next big young adult series that will dominate the market. The Daily Beast’s Shannon Donnelly on the top six candidates.

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Jill Johnson/JPI She's a successful TV star, fashion designer and fiction writer, but she hasn't written a book on style -- until now. Lauren Conrad will unveil her top style tips in Lauren Conrad Style, to be published by Harper Collins in the fall of 2010.

Teenreads.com "New Moon" opens tonight at midnight, starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner. The movie is based on the second book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, NEW MOON.

Teenreads.com Production is set for film versions of Michael Scott’s six-part fantasy series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Variety reported that "Flamel was an actual French alchemist who was born in 1330." His character was included in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Aiming to jump-start another fantasy franchise, Lorenzo di Bonaventura has snapped up rights to produce Michael Scott's six-part fantasy series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel."

Teenreads.com Find out more about CLAUDETTE COLVIN by Philip Hoose here.

Teenreads.com The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards were announced last night. CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose was the winner in he Young People's Literature category. Colvin, who sat at 15 in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and refused to give up her seat to a white person months before Rosa Parks, was there when Hoose accepted his award.

Teenreads.com SLJ names NYTimes bestseller WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead one of the Best Books of the Year. The book has gotten starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Horn Book, Publishers Weekly, and SLJ. I think that's more than enough motivation to get out there and read this book!
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Teenreads.com Students from New York City area schools had a chance to attend this year’s National Book Award’s Teen Press Conference with the award finalists.
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Students from New York City area schools were treated to a surprise guest at this year’s National Book Award’s Teen Press conference with award finalists—Claudette Colvin, the little known civil rights activist and subject of a book by Phillip Hoose showed up at the event.


















