This year's TRCA has come to a close. As we eagerly await the results of the top title for 2019 please remember to return any library books you have to the NNEC library.  All books are due in as of Friday May 31st.  Any books that are lost will require a replacement cost.  The library would rather have the books back then your money so check your lockers, classroom, cars and your house for that library book you signed out!

Don't forget voting starts May 6th for the Teen Reader's Choice Award! Stop by the library and fill out a ballot for your favorite top ten title or visit the TRCA Blog to cast your vote online.  Read one, read some or read them all and have your say in the 2019 TRCA!

10 Books: 1 Winner : 5 months!  The Teen Reader's Choice Award continues throughout the month of April.  Be sure to pick up one or more of the TRCA top 10 titles this month so you can cast your vote in May for your favorite TRCA title.

The last featured top ten title is Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and illustrated by Emily Carroll.  Based on the well known novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson this graphic novel narrative version will not disappoint faithful readers.

“After accidentally busting an end-of-summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda Sordino is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. Based off of an award winning novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.”

Check it out in the NNEC library today!

TRCA Featured title!

This week Teen Reader's Choice Award feature title is The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.

A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. The Poet X is the debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.  - National Book Foundation

Check out this title and the other top 10 TRCA books at the NNEC library today. 

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