Great YA Books! Watching Live Tweets from the ALA Midwinter Conference

Librarians are now tweeting favorite teen reads for 2009! I love learning from the web in real time. That is one of the great things about Twitter.

Want to follow the tweets? Log on to Twitter and search the hashtag: #alamw10

View some teen recommendations (bbya contenders)from Sunday afternoon's teen panel:

Wintergirls ("scared the crap out of me")

Watersmeet ("fantasy, but believable")

The Unnamables ("different for fantasy")

Tales of Madman Underground (realistic language)

Crash into Me ("not like an adult trying to talk like a teen")

Selkie Girl by Laurie Brooks

Fire by Cashore (great prequel and a great book)

Fire, Swim the Fly & Going Bovine (all have multiple teen fans from this panel)

Swim the Fly by Don Calame - good, relatable mix of sports and humor. boy teen's favorite book of 2009 is Don Calame's Swim the Fly

Teen loves Catching Fire so much she forgot to eat

Goth Girl Rising, teens finds better than Fanboy & GG

Catching Fire, Swim the Fly, and Fire are big teen favorites

Search all the hashtags: #bbya #yalsa #alamw10 if you are buying teen fiction

Click here to view the Best Books for Young Adults Teen Session live YALSA blog post.