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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Gareth Hinds
SLJ‘s online event, SummerTeen: A Celebration of Young Adult Books, is just one month away, and we’ve asked some of your favorite participating authors a few questions in advance of the August 9 show....
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Earl Sewell
Earl Sewell is just one of the many blockbuster authors scheduled to speak at SLJ‘s August 9 online event, SummerTeen: A Celebration of Young Adult Books. We caught up with Sewell, whose novels and...
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A Guide to SummerTeen
I’m often jealous when I read reports from our contributors about the amazing book events they attend that feature a dazzling array of young adult authors. In fact, part of my motivation in putting...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: A.S. King
It took A.S. King (the A.S. stands for Amy Sarig) 15 years and more than seven novels to finally get published. Now, the YA writer can’t seem to get enough praise for her work—Everybody Sees the Ants,...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Johan Harstad
Johan Harstad’s debut novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, was originally published in his native Norway in 2005 and successfully made its way to 11 countries before being...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Barry Lyga
Having spent his teen years immersed in comic books, Barry Lyga worked for a decade as marketing manager at Diamond Comic Distributors before publishing his first novel, The Astonishing Adventures of...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Sean Michael Wilson
Scottish comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson has more than a dozen western-style graphic novels and manga-style books released by U.S., U.K. and Japanese publishers (his manga have even been...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Karen Healey
As a kid, New Zealand-born author Karen Healey wanted to be an astronaut or a dinosaur-hunting cowgirl—but not a writer. Things changed when she was bullied, and she started making up fascinating...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Pete Hautman
Pete Hautman is the author of Godless, the 2004 National Book Award-winner in the category of young people’s literature, and most recently LA Times Book Prize winner The Big Crunch, as well as many...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Cecil Castellucci
When Cecil Castellucci was in the indie rock band Nerdy Girl, she went by the name of Cecil Seaskull. Now the author of books and graphic novels for young adults has a new release, The Year of the...
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SLJ SummerTeen Author Interviews
We’ve been talking to the great authors who will be part of our SummerTeen virtual event on August 9. Read on if you missed a few or just want to review as you get prepped for this summer...
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SummerTeen: A Celebration of Young Adult Books
A School Library Journal online event EVENT TIME: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 10:30 AM-5:30 PM ET Join School Library Journal and SLJTeen for SummerTeen: A Celebration of Young Adult Books and take your...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Julie Kagawa
Julie Kagawa had two childhood passions: reading and animals. At the age of nine, Kagawa and her family moved from Sacramento, CA, to Hawaii, where she immersed herself in books—and teachers would...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Katie Kacvinsky
Katie Kacvinsky can proudly say she’s already achieved her dream: writing for an audience. With three novels under her belt, including the popular “Awaken” series, Kacvinsky now writes fulltime after...
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SLJ SummerTeen Speaker: Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer’s debut YA novel, Cinder, came out on January 3, 2012 and is the first in her “The Lunar Chronicles,” a four-book series with future volumes focusing on Snow White, Little Red Riding...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Maggie Stiefvater
Photo: Robert Severi Waitress, calligraphy instructor, and technical editor are just some of the jobs Maggie Stiefvater had before becoming a writer. Now the New York Times bestselling author is busy...
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SLJ SummerTeen 2012: Keynote Speaker Caroline Cooney
Caroline Cooney fans will be pleased to know that the YA author has finished her fifth “Janie” book—a short story called Janie Face to Face. “I can’t tell you how astonishing it is to me that I have...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen: The Rockin’ Women of YA
Maggie Stiefvater, A.S. King, and other YA authors came together August 9 to talk about possible sequels to their novels, the role of social media in their lives, and their different approaches to...
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SLJ SummerTeen: Who Will Mend This Broken Heart?
Why can’t teens get enough of romance novels? Because they fill readers with much needed hope and guidance, say a group of YA authors speaking on the August 9 SLJ online event SummerTeen panel, “Who...
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SLJ SummerTeen: Classic Twists
Teens no longer have to moan when they’re assigned Shakespeare and Dickens, thanks in part to a group of YA authors who’ve revamped and modernized works by such classic authors, making them far more...
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