Week 8 - TRCA top 10!

5 months: 10 Books: 1 Winner  Week #8 of the TRCA is upon us!   Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive. Everyone is a suspect. Everyone has something to hide.  Everyone has secrets - how far would you go to protect them?  Check out this week’s Teen Reader’s Choice Award feature title One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus – you won’t be disappointed. Read one, read some or read them all and have your say in this year’s TRCA!

TRCA 2019 5 months 10 Books 1 Winner

Don't forget the TRCA continues until the first week of June this year.  The featured book for the week of March 11th is Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.

“Will leaves his apartment with his brother’s gun tucked in his waistband. As he travels down on the elevator, the door opens on certain floors, and Will is confronted with a different figure from his past, each a victim of gun violence.”  Will he choose violence or peace?

This book has received the following accolades:

• A Newbery Honor Book
• A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
• A Printz Honor Book
• A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
• Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
• Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award
• An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
• Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner
• An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017
• A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017
• A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017

Check out this book and the rest of the Top 10 at your CCRCE library today!

Share your thoughts with the CCRCE community by using the hashtag #TRCA2019 and make sure you VOTE for your favourite books on the Teen Reader's Choice Award blog!

Check it out - This week's featured TRCA top 10 title is The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antoino Iturbe. How can you keep the magic of reading alive in a world full of death?

Based on the the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Read one. Read some. Read them all and have your say in this year's  TRCA!  #TRCA2019  5 months: 10 Books: 1 Winner