Please Vote for GreenBeanTeenQueen!

Hello my lovely bloggy buddies!  This is a special month, because my VERY good friend Sarah Bean Thompson (aka the GreenBeanTeenQueen) is running for a spot on the 2013 ALA Printz committee.

(If you don't know what that is, it's a group of librarians selected to read and select new YA books to win the Printz award.  It's a huge deal to get your book on the nominee list.) You can read more about it here.

I'm sorry to say you have to be a member of ALA or YALSA to vote, so I will not be able to vote for her.  But if you are a member or know someone that is, please pass her name on!  I know you guys have wonderful connections, and give wonderful support to your fellow bloggers! (that is why I love you so much!)

She is a WONDERFUL teen librarian.  She is really dedicated to her teens, and they can attest to that.  I know some of them run in the same blog circles as us, and they have nothing but good things to say about her.  And dudes, she has pink streaks in her hair.  Which is SO totally awesome.

Here is her platform from her facebook page:

"My name is Sarah and I currently work as a teen librarian. I also blog at GreenBeanTeenQueen. I love YA and being elected to the Printz committee would be a librarian dream come true! I have had an article on book blogs as well as a Teen Read Week Booklist published in VOYA and I've presented workshops on tween and teen lit and reader's advisory. I currently serve on the Fabulous Films Committee for Young Adults and the Gateway Award (Missouri State High School Book Award). 

I believe that the Printz Award is an award that all YA librarians and teens can be proud of. The books selected for this award should be books that adults and teens will read and discuss. They should represent the best of YA and be books that teen librarians can pick up and say "this is why I love YA and why I do what I do." 

Check out my blog, read my reviews, and feel free to ask me any questions you might have! I'd love your vote!!

Voting is open only to ALA/YALSA members, so please share with your librarian!!"




What I love about her book reviewing, is that if she doesn't like a book, she never hesitates to mention that even though the book wasn't for her, that doesn't mean someone else won't like it.  She encourages everyone to read the book for themselves and see what they think.  


Sarah would make a wonderful addition to the Printz committee, so please think of voting for her or telling your librarians to vote for her!


Voting ends April 22.  


Oh and don't forget to "like" her facebook page!

Tour De ARC: Across the Universe

The Tour De ARC is chugging along all breakneck speed, so hold on to your wi coms because Across the Universe by Beth Revis is on it's way to Kim Franklin! 

The lovely Cinnamon at Cinnamon: On Writing Books and Being Toast started the tour by graceously lending her own ARC (advanced review copy) of Across the Universe to Colene at The Journey.  Then, because Colene loves me uber lots, she sent it on to me.  And now I am finished and have sent it on to Kim.  Make sure to check on Kim's blog to find out who the ARC will go to next!  It may be YOU!

So, I normally don't do reviews on here, I just didn't want to add one more thing to my plate.  Besides, I've got the hookups with the lovely greenbeanteenqueen.  She's got ARCs-a-plenty and has actually just loaned me the brand spanking new ARC of Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton.  It was part of her gigantic amount of books she acquired at ALA.  Ah the perks of working at a library with a famous book reviewer and teen librarian.

Okay totally went off topic.  So, I read Across the Universe.  Long story short: LOVED it.  Go read it.  Like, now.  Seriously, I'll wait right here while you go buy it/check it out....

Dum dee do dee dum...

Okay, so now that you're back from buying it or putting it on hold at your local library, I'll go ahead and leave you to your reading pleasure.

OOH ooh, hop on over to my good friend Donea Lee's blog to read some interviews of me and two of my blogging besties!  She's calling it AbCoJen.  It's really cool to see our three different answers to the same questions!