This Week in YA- October 18, 2008

Blogs and random other things:

• The National Book Award finalists were announced Wednesday. More information on our post on the subject.
• In honor of Melissa De La Cruz's third book in the Blue Bloods series, Revelations, she's posting a quote a day from it on her blog.
• Alan Gratz's publisher, Dial Books, is letting you read Something Rotten for free here.
• On Lauren Myracle's blog she posted multiple ways to win a Bliss Shirt.
• You can get a Paper Towns' collab album by doing three things: Watch this video to see how.

Books that came out in the past week:

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
• Two to the Fifth by Piers Anthony
• The Twilight Saga Box Set by Stephenie Meyer
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Doomwyte: A Novel of Redwall by Brian Jacques

Books that come out in the next 10 days:

• October 21: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• October 28: Twilight (Mass Market) by Stephenie Meyer
• October 28: The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series by Lois H. Gresh
• October 28: Headlong by Kathe Koja
• October 28: Guardian by Julius Lester
• October 28: Everything Beautiful in the World by Lisa Levchuk

This Week in Books & Books Teen Event News:

We'll be at all of them! Come and say hi! (There will be future posts about all three)

• Wednesday, October 22, 7pm: John Green for Paper Towns.
• Friday, October 24, 7pm: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson for Science Fair
• Saturday, October 25, 7pm: Darren Shan for Death's Shadow

-The YAthenaeum Team