Book Trailers

Movie trailers give the viewer an incentive to see the next big thing.  The best book trailers, like their cousin the movie trailer, give you a real feel for a book.  Reading is a commitment and it helps to have a preview of the book.  If you search YouTube for booktrailers you will find thousands, mostly created by students.  It is the newest version of the book report.  The quality as you would expect, varies from innovative to sleep inducing.  Many go on far too long.  The most interesting ones are created by the book publishers to sell their novels.  The trailers I have added to this playlist are all books available through the Salpointe Library.

 

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YAC - Young Adult Choices

The International Literacy Foundation wants students to choose the books that will appear on the 2016 list of their best books for young adults.  The Salpointe Library has joined the effort to pick the best books for next year.  We have a collection, donated by publishers, that students can read and rate.  It is a "win win" situation, we get a selection of the newest and the best YA literature for free, and they get student feedback.   My most dependable readers, the Salpointe Book Club members have been reading and rating for a couple months, but I could use some more volunteers.

You can look at the list through our online catalog by searching for Young Adult Choices.  I found book trailers for a few of the titles.  Each book has a link to the google rating form, which takes less than a minute to fill out.