{"id":391,"date":"2011-11-16T00:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/cindy2\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/choosing-a-book-part-2\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:54:59","slug":"choosing-a-book-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/choosing-a-book-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Book, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Lists are a great way to find more books to read\u2014especially if you can find annotated lists that give you a sentence or two about the books on the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">One of my favorite places to look at lists is the ALA (American Library Association) website. Each year the ALA produces many lists for teen readers. You can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/yalsa\/booklists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ALA lists<\/a> here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/yalsa\/booklistsawards\/booklists\/bestficya\/topten2011.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults<\/a> list has many good books.&nbsp; Try <em>Ship Breaker<\/em>, <em>Trash<\/em>, <em>Bamboo People<\/em>, or <em>Revolver.&nbsp; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Or try <em>Unwind<\/em>, <em>Tantalize<\/em>, or <em>Leviathan<\/em> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/yalsa\/booklistsawards\/booklists\/popularpaperback\/ppya11topten.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Ten Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Quick Picks, the Alex Awards, the Printz, and the Newbery are all listed on the site.&nbsp; Check them out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lists are a great way to find more books to read\u2014especially if you can find annotated lists that give you a sentence or two about the books on the list. One of my favorite places to look at lists is the ALA (American Library Association) website. Each year the ALA produces many lists for teen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/choosing-a-book-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Choosing a Book, Part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}