BEA Recap: The Books!

Cooking Class: A fun looking cookbook for kids - great pictures and lots of fun ideas

UnSlut: Important book for teens; part diary part memoir

Come Rain or Come Shine: My Grandmother used to love her books. I couldn't pass this up even though my Grandmother is no longer with us.

Truth According to Us: from one of the co-authors of the Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society

Legacy of Kings: Super fun looking teen fantasy novel from the historical time of Alexander the Great 

Royal Wedding: Perfect read of more Mia and Michael

Rogue Wave: Love this mermaid series - action, friendship, and romance

Infinite in Between: I'm excited to read this one about five teens and their entire high school experience.

Soundless: A new Richelle Mead based on Chinese Folklore. Looking forward to this one.

Queen's Hat: A great picture book that showcases London

Some thrillers and historical books that I picked up:

Duplicity

Personal

Alert

War of Two

President's Shadow: Book 3 in the Beecher White series 

Survivor

Most Dangers: Vietnam book from the author of Bomb!

Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party: Fun read about a Princess with fighting powers

Newt's Emerald: Super looking forward to this Regency read with magic

Sunny Side Up: A fun graphic novel about a girl spending the summer with her grandfather

Blackthorn Key: A boy attempts to decipher the clues his master left behind that might solve the murders happening. Really fun read.

Upside Magic: What happens when you're magic isn't like everyone else's magic? Really really cute read.

Superman 

Walk on Earth a Stranger: New trilogy about magic and Gold Rush

Play On: Baseball, Chemistry, Love, and Secrets = sounds really good.

My Secret to Tell: Another thriller from Natalie Richards.

Zeroes: the new Scott Westerfeld

Black Widow: Forever Red. Super excited to learn more about Black Widow

Daughter of Deep Silence: Smart revenge thriller that sounds awesome

A History of Glitter and Blood: Fairies and war and unlikely friendships

Letter to the King: Randomly picked this one up

Clayton Stone at Your Service: Secret agents

White Hots Kiss: from the Harlequin Teen Breakfast

Golden Match: book 2 that looks super cute.

Mariella Mystery: Picked up for a library friend

League of Unexceptional Children: Real kids getting stuff done

Simon Thorn: new MG from Aimee Carter about a boy who discovers a race of animal shape shifters

Voyagers: 39 Clues type book set in space

City of Thirst: Sequel to Map of Everywhere

Girl Who Could Not Dream: MG from Sarah Beth Durst about a dream shop

Foxcraft: Random pick up.

Heartbreakers: A musician and a girl meet and their lives change

Never Always Sometimes: From the Harlequin Teen breakfast

Hello?: From my awesome friend Liza

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between: awesome book - loved it (review coming soon)

Truly Madly Famously: book 2 in a series about an actor in a blockbuster movie based on a book

Some presents for people at work plus:

Hold Me:  the newest book in the Fool's Gold series

If You Only Knew: the new Kristan Higgins book

Redemption Bay: Book 2 in a series that starts with a Christmas novel

BEA Recap: 2015

I went to BEA this year with a library BFF. We took the train in SUPER early to be there on time. 

It was worth it of course. 

I started with the Harlequin Teen breakfast with this fantastic authors pictured above. Both authors and Harlequin people stopped by each table and chatted for a few minutes. We learned about several upcoming books (including a horror book crossed with the Little House series).  I'm super excited for Legacy of Kings but the others look fantastic too!

Sightings from the day include:

Raj from the Big Bang Theory

The actor from the Social Network (who played Zuckerberg) 

The adult Harlequin authors hard at work signing for the masses. 

That's Susan Mallery in the middle, of Fool's Gold fame. Love this series.

A fun book, similar to one from my childhood.

We headed for the hotel. Here's our sunset view. 

We ate dinner at a diner in the hotel - with this cute tea lights. 

I had hot chocolate French toast.

After a short rest, we ventured out into the city again.

Our Drinks:

Our Bedtime view

Day 2:

We got early for tickets. The shuttles from the hotel to the conference center were amazingly great and very helpful. It was another day of chatting with people in lines.

 There were some amazing books on Friday - and lots of amazing authors. I seriously wanted to clone myself because there was no way to see them all. 

The ones I didn't take home with me, I will stalk my public library for them. Also I was happy to learn about some new books.

Cool sign at the Sourcebooks booth

I was first in line for Brad Meltzer. 

This NEVER happens. And it was pretty cool. I saw him last year too, which is great.

Finally after a fantastic meeting with Meg Cabot, we left for the day.

The train ride back was uneventful until we finally stopped for diner.

Where I had this delicious meal. 

All in all, a fantastic two days. 

Other posts for BEA 15 will include, Books, Bags, and Author Moments. So be sure to check those out. 

BEA Recap (2)

BEA is about chatting with everyone about books - the people you're waiting with in line, the publicists and editors, and the authors. I love learning about books to read and books to pick up for my collection. I love meeting authors and telling them that I love their work or that the teens in my library adore their books.

But BEA is also about the books. Most of the books I pick up are used as prizes for the library's Teen Summer Reading Program (along with several ARCs that I reviewed previously during the year on this blog). Many of the ARCs I see at BEA, I purchase for the library's collection.

I saw some great middle grade books. My YA section goes from 6th grade to 12th grade, so I buy middle grade, wanting the younger middle schoolers to feel comfortable in the YA section. I'm always looking for more middle grade, so I was really happy to discover some new upcoming reads.

Some of the books I picked up can go right into the library collection - which is nice. I love putting books in the hands of readers and love hearing what they think about them. 

For my summer reading program, teens are require to write a short review of books they read.

Here are the great looking books I grabbed this year- some for the library, some for prizes, and several I can't wait to read!

 

 My two most anticipated reads this year! 

What books were you happy to learn about?

BEA 2013: Recap 4

I loved talked with people in line and meeting different librarians and bloggers and book people. I love meeting people who adore books as much as I do!

I started my day off with the Children's Author Breakfast (which isn't really a breakfast). I sat in the chairs behind the tables. On my chair was a Percy Jackson T-shirt and Divergent. This was my first breakfast and it was an amazing way to start the day!

Octavia Spencer was the hostess - she was funny and engaging. Her new book Randi Rhodes Ninja Detective has ninjas, mystery, and treasure-hunting. 

First speaker was Mary Pope Osborne of the Magic Tree House fame. She talked about her readers and shared several letters with us. Second Rick Riordan spoke of his sons' influence on his writing and how his students' helped him. Veronica Roth had a different tone - she was more serious and focused her talk on the value of reading for fun, but with an open mind for learning.

Back on the BEA floor, I passed by the Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler line and snapped a picture. 

The line was already starting for Richelle Mead, so I waited for her signing. I'm excited about her adult book!

I got an ARC signed from Wendy Mass, whom readers at my library LOVE

I finally got to meet Shannon Greenland!

I got the newest Kingdom Keepers book signed, along with a picture with Ridley Pearson

I met Helen Fielding, am excited about Mad About the Boy! 

I got a signed ARC for Brandon Mull's new book - Spirit Animals

I saw R2D2 at Tom Angleberger's book line. 

Here are some great romances I got signed for the library collection

Some great looking books:

Summer Reading Prizes

Summer Reading Prizes

Summer Reading Prizes:

Summer Reading Prizes 

Middle Grade Summer Reading Prizes:

Middle Grade Summer Reading Prizes