Angels to ZOMBIES: Trends in YA literature and library services

1. Angels to ZOMBIES: Trends in YA literature and library services

2. Library Trends: Or How To Get Teens Excited About The Library

3. Programming • Make the library a fun place to be. • The library is for more than just school and class work. • Yes, even the school media center!

4. Enthusiasm • Be genuinely enthusiastic! • Enthusiasm is contagious – if you are excited about something, chances are very good that you will spark interest • Enthusiasm helps build relationships • The more comfortable teens are with teachers and librarians the more they will use the library

5. Pressure Free Space • In general, the library should be a place that is pressure free. • It’s a place where teens can be “dorky” • The library can be a haven to do things they like to do, but wouldn’t normally participate in.

6. Trends • Be aware of the trends • What music, movies, technology, books are teens into this week? • You DO NOT need to know all of the trends • That’s impossible • And they change fast • But, being aware of a few things goes a long way • Don’t be afraid to catch the end of a trend

7. Technology • Have it available • Use it with them • Book trailers • Book Talking • Reviews • Gaming • Connecting with authors • Skype – Skype an Author Network

8. Social Media • Teens are increasingly plugged in • Try meeting them where they are • Social Media • Facebook • Twitter • Blogs - http://yabookblogdirectory.blogspot.com/ • http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/ • Tumblr - http://www.tumblr.com/ • Goodreads, Shelfari, Library Thing

9. Get The Word Out • Actual quote from a high school senior: “I didn’t know the types of books my school library had, so I almost never went there to look for books. But then I saw there were actually books I like to read and now I stop in at least once a week.” • What’s the best way to get noticed?

10. Build Relationships • Listen to teens: • What do they want in the library? • This goes back to meeting or finding the teens where they already hang out • Making connections over shared interests.

11. Books, Books, Books…

12. Paranormal Retellings Contemporary Dystopian

13. Paranormal More than just vampires, the paranormal subgenre has widened to include all sorts of creatures and entities.

14. Werewolves

15. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer Philomel, October 2010 Sequel: Wolfsbane, July 2011 Marketing included a vlog by one of the main characters

16. Wolves of Mercy Falls Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater, Scholastic Press, 2009-2011 Shiver Linger Forever Grace was attacked by a pack of wolves behind her house as a young child. Since then she has been obsessed with them. Sam is sometimes a boy and sometimes a wolf. What happens when Grace learns his secret.

17. Faeries

18. The Iron Fae by Julie Kagawa Harlequin Teen, 2009-2011 The Iron King, February 2010 The Iron Daughter, August 2010 The Iron Queen, January 2011 The Iron Knight, November 201 The story of Meghan Chase and how she learns of her faerie heritage.

19. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr Harper Teen, 2007 – 2011 Sequels: Ink Exchange Fragile Eternity Radiant Shadows Darkest Mercy

20. Zombies

21. Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris Delacorte Press, July 2011 Friday Night Lights meets Buffy meets Dawn of the Dead. Steroids are turning the football team into flesh eating zombies. Kate must find an antidote before the entire high school end up each other.

22. Benny Imura by Jonathan Maberry Rot & Ruin, Simon & Schuster, October 2010 Dust & Decay, Simon & Schuster, August 2011 It has been 14 years since First Night and the Zombie Apocalypse. Benny Imura is almost 15, so he needs to find a job before his rations are cut. The question is will be join his brother Tom in the family business.

23. Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Delacorte Press, 2009 Sequels: The Dead-Tossed Waves, 2010 The Dark and Hollow Places, 2011 Carrie Ryan writes about a future in which a zombie pandemic has swept through the world leaving only small groups of uninfected people.

24. Demons

25. The Demon’s Lexicon Trilogyby Sarah Rees Brennan The Demon’s Lexicon The Demon’s Covenant The Demon’s Surrender Margaret K. McElderry, 2009-2011 Two sets of siblings must navigate a current day England populated with demons and magicians. One is a set of brothers: one can only tell the truth, one always tells lies. The other set find that life is not all that it seems.

26. Misfit by Jon Skovron Amulet Books, August 2011 Demon girl in Catholic School : what could go wrong? Jael and her father move around a lot, she’s never been at a school longer than one year, this year she wants to break the cycle. It’s also the year she learns that she’s half demon.

27. Angels

28. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand HarperTeen, January 2011 Clara Gardner has just learned that she is part angel. As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make—between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil.

29. Ghosts

30. The Revenant by Sonia Gensler Knopf BYR, June 2011 Set in Victorian Era Colorado, Willie is a teacher at a girls seminary in Indian Territory. After learning that a student died the year before, odd things begin to happen

31. Die for Me by Amy Plum HarperTeen, May 2011 DIE FOR ME introduces a new version of the undead with revenants, beings who are fated to sacrifice themselves over and over again to save others’ lives. When Kate falls for Vincent, a revenant, she must choose between a normal life—or the love of her life.

32. Hereafter by Tara Hudson HarperCollins, June 2011 Floating in a river, the only thing Amelia knows is that she’s dead. Then she tries to rescue a boy, she can’t physically move him so she wills him to live.

33. Witches

34. Chime by Franny Billingsley Dial, March 2011 There once was a girl named Briony who lived in the Swampsea where the Old Ones lived. And she could see them and they could see her. And she kept this a secret. She kept a lot of secrets; secrets about how her step-mother died; secrets about how her twin sister Rose became ill; witchy secrets that if told might kill her; secrets that were buried deep within her soul.

35. The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab Disney Hyperion, August 2011 The Near Witch is an old story used to frighten children. After a stranger comes to the town of Near, something that rarely happens, children start disappearing from their beds. As the search for the culprit goes on, Lexi decides she must find the Near Witch.

36. Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey Flux, September 2011 Braden has been raised by his uncle and taught to use magic. He suffers from a curse called “witch eyes” which causes him to see everything normal eyes filter out – history and memory; love and pain; magic and darkness. When his visions reveal a dark threat, Braden gets swept up into a feud between two powerful families.

37. Mermaids/Sirens

38. Siren by Tricia Rayburn Egmont USA, July 2010 Sequel: Undercurrent, July 2011 Vacationing in Maine was a tradition for Vanessa and her family. When her sister’s body washes to shore following a family argument, Vanessa knows it is more than an accident. During her search she uncovers secrets about her sister and herself.

39. Between the Sea & Sky Bloomsbury, October 2011 For as long as Esmerine can remember, she has longed to join her older sister, Dosinia, as a siren.Then Dosinia runs away to the mainland, and she is sent to retrieve her. Using magic to transform her tail into legs, she makes her way to the capital city. There she comes upon a friend she hasn't seen since childhood, who belongs to a winged race of people. As Esmerine and Alandare band together to search for Dosinia, they rekindle a friendship.

40. Time slip

41. Hourglass by Myra McEntire Egmont USA, June 2011 Emerson Cole sees things that aren’t there: Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep coming back. When her brother brings in a consultant from the mysterious organization called Hourglass it may not only change her future but her past as well.

42. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier Henry Holt and Co, May 2011 International bestseller, translated from the German for publication in the United States. Sixteen year old Gwen thought that the time-travel gene that runs through the female part of her family had skipped over her until she starts to take sudden leaps into the past.

43. Steel by Carrie Vaughn HarperTeen, March 2011 Magic, Romance, Pirates Sixteen year old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments. On vacation with her family she finds an old sword on the beach. The sword transports her to an early 18th century pirate ship.

44. Mythology Based

45. Abandon by Meg Cabot Scholastic, April 2011 Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.

46. The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter Harlequin Teen, April 2011 It's always been just Kate and her mom--and now her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall. Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld--and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests

47. Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs Katherine Tegen Books, October 2011 Three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight

48. Contemporary Often the unsung Young Adult genre. Of late, it has become more diverse in subject matter and characters.

49. Recovery Road by Blake Nelson Scholastic, March 2011 Madeline has a drinking problem and anger management issues, sent to rehab where she meets Stewart. When she gets back home she does everything to get back on her feet and waits for Stewart to join her. But what happens when the person you love doesn’t want to get better?

50. Sean Griswold’s Head by Lindsey Leavitt Bloomsbury, March 2011 How do you deal with a sick parent? Payton Gritas learns that her father has MS and stops speaking to her parents. The school counselor suggests that she find something to focus on. She chooses Sean Griswold’s Head