March Display Ideas

Spring is coming! More time to hang outside means more time to read to unwind at night.
One of things I miss about being a YA Librarian is making displays. So I thought maybe I'd write up a few posts about display ideas and create a monthly blog post.

March is:

National Craft Month

Display Ideas: Craft Books

Butterflies out of books

Booklist: Craft books or fictional books with crafting characters - Art or Photography, 

National Nutrition Month

Jump start to summer reading

Food Matters

Display Ideas: Books about Food, cookbooks, or healthy eating habits

Booklist: Characters who cook/bake

National Women's History Month

Love this quote

She Believed She Could, So She Did

Display Ideas: Awesome women in fiction or nonfiction

Booklist: Historical Fiction for Asian Women, American Women, British Women

March is named for the Roman Gods Mars

Display Ideas: Books set in Rome (ancient and contemporary)

Family Tree

Significant Dates Include:

March 14: Pi Day

Display Ideas:

Readius

Book Ideas: Books with characters who rock at Math or books with circles on the covers

March 17: St. Patrick's Day

Display Ideas:

Perfect Books

Book Ideas: Green Books or Books set in Ireland or Voya's recent perfect 10 books

NaNoWriMo: Year 8

My current WIP

Title: Chawton High 3: Chocolates and Everlasting Love

Genre: Young Adult

Synopsis: The third book in a loosely connected series set in New England - all retellings of Jane Austen novels with high school students. This one is Persuasion. 

It involves chocolate - lots of chocolate.

And there is kissing.

Top Ten Tuesday: Author Duos

This week's topic is: Top Ten Author Duos You'd LOVE To See Write A Book Together. Might be hard to come up with 10 but still would be fun! Bonus points if you tell us what kind of book you'd like them to write! I have NO idea how to start this...but I'm going to try it. And it was hard. Then I started thinking about friendships between authors and adult authors I'd love a YA book from...

- meme from The Broke and the Bookish

1. Sarah MacLean and Ally Carter: Historical Fiction Spy series - lots of action and of course kissing

2. Meg Cabot and Kristan Higgins - YA Contemporary (with pop culture, bad dates, and dogs)

3. Sarah J Maas and Susan Dennard (friendship reasons)

4. Janet Evanovich and Jennifer Lynn Barnes: YA Thriller with lots of sexual tension

5. Julie Hyzy and April Henry (YA Thriller set in the White House)

6. Gordon Korman and Matt Holm: Middle Grade thriller with pictures/graphic novel panels similar to Hugo Cabret

7. Richard Castle and Tera Lynn Childs: High concept thriller with kissing

8. Jenny Han and Aimee Friedman - Summer romance series

9. Debbie Macomber and Jessica Burkhart: YA Christmas Romance

10. Sarah Dessen and Taylor Swift: YA country singer with romance.

I get the feeling that I'd love it if author BFFs worked on books together and I think several adult authors could cross-over into YA.