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Cindy and Lynn: Tomorrow, Thursday, 4.12.12 is Rock the Drop Day. What’s that, you say? Readergirlz Blog and Figment sponsors this annual event and Cindy spied it on a friend’s Facebook page this week (thank you Stacy Dillon of Welcome to My Tweendom). The details are spelled out here, but basically you are encouraged to leave [...]

Cindy: Our middle school students demanded a reserve list for Christopher Paolini’s new book Inheritance (Random/Knopf 11-8-2011) last school year the minute the publication date was announced. It was 7:30 a.m. yesterday when the first student asked if we had the book yet! Um, no…the bookstore isn’t open and our UPS delivery of the preorders [...]

Cindy and Lynn: You may have already seen this fun, inspiring middle school reading video, but if not, check out what Ocoee Middle School in Orange County Florida did to celebrate reading. 1600 students and staff, holding books, dancing and singing to a remake of the Black Eyed Peas song, “I Gotta Feeling.” Using the [...]

Cindy: At the end of each publishing year and after the announcement of YALSA’s BBYA list and the Printz, Newbery and other awards, we purge our temporary BBYA collection and give the advanced reader copies away to our hard working teen BBYA book club members as a reward for sharing their opinions and their enthusiasm [...]