Bookmarked
The library book group was created in August of 2007 as a venue for high school students to have an opportunity to sit and chat about books. The group meets every Monday at lunch in the library. Bookmarked has also been instrumental in helping the librarian with author visits, fund raising, Teen Read Week and Teen Tech Week.
For 2010-2012, the students are participating in YALSA's YA Galley Program to select the nominated books for Teen's Top Ten. YALSA is the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Bookmarked reapplied for this program and will be continuing to review and nominate books for the 2013-2015 Teen's Top Ten.
Bookmarked was asked by School Library Journal to contribute reviews of books for its bi-monthly newsletter, SLJ Teen. This is a year long stint and began June of 2012. The editors at School Library Journal have raved about the students' book reviews. Open here, to read the reviews from each edition of SLJ Teen.
For 2010-2012, the students are participating in YALSA's YA Galley Program to select the nominated books for Teen's Top Ten. YALSA is the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Bookmarked reapplied for this program and will be continuing to review and nominate books for the 2013-2015 Teen's Top Ten.
Bookmarked was asked by School Library Journal to contribute reviews of books for its bi-monthly newsletter, SLJ Teen. This is a year long stint and began June of 2012. The editors at School Library Journal have raved about the students' book reviews. Open here, to read the reviews from each edition of SLJ Teen.
Members 2012-2013 with author, Gina Damico, in the black jacket holding bookmarks
Bookmarked Members Only: TTT review form is available online here
Open this link to complete the form. The completed form will automatically be submitted to Ms. Kahn.
All members of Bookmarked should join the Bookmarked group created on GoodReads. Download the GoodReads app for IOS or the GoodReads app for Android so that you can be connected all the time.
All members of Bookmarked should join the Bookmarked group created on GoodReads. Download the GoodReads app for IOS or the GoodReads app for Android so that you can be connected all the time.
Open here to see a video of the upcoming books from Scholastic Publishers.
Bookmarked's ya-galley-program book montage
19 members
The PFTSTA Library high school book group meets face to face every Monday at lunch.
19 membersThe PFTSTA Library high school book group meets face to face every Monday at lunch.
Members 2011-2012
The American Library Association (ALA) held its annual conference in New Orleans in June of 2011. Members of Bookmarked were invited to speak on Sunday, June 26th at YALSA's (Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of ALA) committee meeting for the Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA). Each year the BFYA committee selects about 90 of the best books published for young adults. The members of the committee want the list to include books that the teens like, not just books that the librarians enjoyed.
 Authors, Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, spoke to the teens before the teens spoke to the BFYA committee. |
 Students were asked to speak on any books that they read from the BFYA nominated titles. Some spoke once, others spoke multiple times. |
 Lauren Myracle was blown away by the review one of our students wrote about her book, Shine. The author, standing on the right, met and signed books for all of the Taylor teens. |
 Jonathan Stroud, the author of the Bartimaeus Sequence talked to this student about his favorite books. |
ALA Panel Presentation June 27, 2011
Two students also attended the ALA conference on Monday, June 27th. They were invited to join a 3 member panel discussion called, Trends in YA Services: Using Mobile Devices to Serve Teens. Jennifer Valesquez, standing third from the left, is a librarian from San Antonio. She began by giving statistics on teen use of social media and mobile devices. The other three librarians standing on the left and the right are from the New York area and shared programs that they designed especially for the their teen patrons. The students were asked to comment on their use of electronic devices for reading or research as well as their opinions of the programs.
Listen to the interview on The Reading Life by clicking the picture
On June 14, 2011, three members of Bookmarked were interviewed on the New Orleans NPR station, WWNO. The students were talking about books, reading, and the American Library Association programs in which they are participating. You can hear the interview by clicking on the above picture.
Click here to check out the book review blog from two members of bookmarked.
Bookmarked gathers for a group shot for the school yearbook.
Who knew we were such an attractive bunch and avid readers too!
Bookmarked 2010-2011
Bookmarked has been selected to be one of 16 library book groups in the USA to read, review and select the 25 books nominated for Teen's Top Ten sponsored by YALSA, a division of the American Library Association. This appointment will last from 2010-2012. Click the box below for more information. Or read more here.
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Bookmarked 2009-10
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Gerald McBoing, McBoing made some cool sounds!
You can see the elementary students on the white board. We put the book near the camera so the kids would get a nice view of the pictures.
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On October 16, 2009, the book group had a skype session with the book group at St. Scholastica in Covington, LA. We plan a reprise of this event in December. The photo below is what Bookmarked saw as we Skyped.
Bookmarked 2008-09
