Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice Award Nominees for 2021 by KIMBERLY ADKINS https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx Participate by reading or listening to any two of the ten nominated titles. Voting occurs by March 1, 2021 en-us 2020-05-07 11:17:22 UTC 2025-10-06 15:35:27 UTC hello@padlet.com The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557122930 In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will the the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world. (Publisher)]]> 2020-05-07 11:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557122930 Interview with Dhonielle Clayton (w/ Jason Reynolds) kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557138118 Watch this awesome interview with Dhonielle Clayton about her book, The Belles.]]> 2020-05-07 11:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557138118 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air: Book 1) by Holly Black kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557150670 Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade. (LOC)]]> 2020-05-07 11:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557150670 Interview with Holly Black kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557165316 Spoiler Alert]]> 2020-05-07 11:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557165316 Sadie by Courtney Summers kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557169582 Told from the alternating perspective of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. (LOC)]]> 2020-05-07 11:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557169582 Pride by Ibi Zoboi kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557201186 Zuri Benitez has pride, Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her repidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. (AR)]]> 2020-05-07 12:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557201186 Ibi Zaboi-Beyond PRIDE kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557206827 2020-05-07 12:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557206827 The Lying Woods by Ashley Elston kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557220702 Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized. Back in his small town, he begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger. (AR)]]> 2020-05-07 12:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557220702 Dry by Neil Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557234570 A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.]]> 2020-05-07 12:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557234570 Interview with Neal Shusterman about Dry kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557241336 2020-05-07 12:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557241336 The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557249982 A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world. (AR)]]> 2020-05-07 12:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557249982 kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557262022 Interview with Elizabeth Acevedo
Warning:  Some discussions here may make viewers uncomfortable but are topics central to the YA genre.]]> 2020-05-07 12:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557262022 Hey, Kiddo by Jerrett J. Krosoczka kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557291166 Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, expressing himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. (AR)]]> 2020-05-07 12:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557291166 Interview with Jarrett Krosoczka kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557299891 2020-05-07 12:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557299891 Price of Duty by Todd Strasser kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557319480 Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative. (LOC)]]> 2020-05-07 12:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557319480 Todd Strasser and Price of Duty kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557333331 2020-05-07 13:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557333331 The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557339756 Plus-size, never-been-kissed, fasion blogger Abby lands a dream job at her favorite Los Angeles boutiue, and enters into an opposites-attract summer romance with a fellow intern.  Abby's summer-before-senior year adventures also include helping her friend Jax rate burger joints for Jax's dad's new app, a welcome break from her mother's famous health food blog.]]> 2020-05-07 13:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557339756 Interview with Amy Spalding about The Summer of Jordi Perez kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557368627 Warning: Some topic may make viewers feel uncomfortable.]]> 2020-05-07 13:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557368627 Information kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557379561  
The Louisiana Young Readers' Choice program was founded in 1999 with the first award given in 2000. Participation in this program has climbed from 5,485 votes the first year to over 29,000 students participating in 2009. The purpose of the program is to foster a love of reading in the children of Louisiana by motivating them to participate in the recognition of outstanding books. Now entering its 20th year, the program continues to encourage Louisiana’s youth to read for pleasure. The Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award is a reading enrichment program of the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library with additional support.
LInk to LTRC Disclaimer:
https://www.state.lib.la.us/literacy-and-reading/louisiana-young-readers-choice/lyrc-disclaimer

AT BYRD:  Students are required to take Quizizz quizzes on at least two books  and pass them with a 70% or better in order to participate in the voting party.  Students who do not wish to take the quizzes can vote on their own or at the public library but are not invited to the Voting Party held in the library.




    


  

]]> 2020-05-07 13:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557379561 Access to Titles kwadkins https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557442068 Students can access the audiobooks for 8 of these titles by accessing the MackinVIA app on their Caddo Classlink page.  Simply sign in to the Classlink page, locate the MackinVIA icon and select it.  In the Resources box on the left, they will select audiobooks.

Students may also download the LIBBY, by Overdrive app on their phones in order to download the audiobooks and/or e-books from the public library.  They will have to supply a library card number.  If they do not have one, they can use their Caddo student ID's as a virtual library card.  See directions below.]]> 2020-05-07 13:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kwadkins/f5ybq751d30le0mx/wish/557442068