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The 2009 Kirkus Reviews Book Video Awards challenges student filmmakers to produce video trailers for three upcoming YA novels published by Delacorte Press. This year’s chosen titles are:

• Fallen by Lauren Kate
• Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

The finalists for the 4th annual Teen Book Video Awards are Benjamin Bliss (Fallen), Rosie Lambert (Very LeFreak), and Brighton Linge (The Maze Runner).

The polls are open through Oct. 30th, so be sure to vote for your favorite video and send the link to everyone you know so they can check them out too!

To watch these enticing book trailers, vote for your favorite, and read more about the competition and each of the filmmakers, visit http://www.barnesandnoble.com/kirkusbva/.

More than 11,000 teen voters chose Paper Towns as their favorite book in the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten! The online poll took place from Aug. 24 through Sept. 18, with the winners announced during Teen Read Week by WWE Divas Brie Bella and Nikki Bella, with a special appearance by John Green. See the video.

1. Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
4. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
7. Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
8. Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin’s Griffin)
9. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
10. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Teens created this video for our VOLaTiLE (VOLunteer Teens in Library Environments) program.

Author Jennifer Brown

Celebrate Teen Read Week with Jennifer Brown, author of the newly released teen novel “Hate List.” In the book, Valerie Leftman must come to grips with a tragic school shooting her boyfriend carried out and the role she played in it when she helped him create a list of things and people they hated. Based in the Kansas City area, Jennifer Brown is a two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award and the humor columnist for The Kansas City Star. “Hate List” is her first novel. Come hear her speak and answer your questions.  Register NOW!

Click here to see if we have a copy of “Hate List” in!

Saturday, October 10, 2009 › 2-4 p.m.Columbia Public Library, Program Room, Children’s Area

We want your help to make some YouTube videos for our web site. Reviews or trailers about books you’ve read, virtual tours of the library or teen tutorials are just a few of our ideas. What are yours? Cameras, tech support and snacks provided. Participants will need to have a parent sign a release form if they wish to have their video posted online. This is a part of the library’s new VOLaTiLE program: VOLunteer Teens in Library Environments. Register Now!