PSLA Top Forty

The Pennsylvania School Library Association has announced their list of the Top Forty (or so) titles for Young adults for 2006. Several Orca titles made the list.

• Hello Groin by Beth Goobie (also selected to the Top Ten (or so) list)
• The Dream Where the Losers Go by Beth Goobie
• Exit Point, an Orca Soundings novel by Laura Langston
• The Cassandra Virus by KV Johansen
• Laggan Lard Butts an Orca Currents novel by Eric Walters

Also making the Top Forty and Top Ten list was The View From a Kite by Maureen Hill. Published by Vagrant Press this book is distributed in the US by Orca.

Fifteen million pages and counting…

In 2006, Orca Book Publishers published a growing number of titles on ancient forest friendly paper. In total this came to more than fifteen million pages of paper that did not require more trees to be cut down.

Ancient Forest Friendly paper is totally chlorine free or processed chlorine free and contains only the following fibres:
• Post-consumer recycled fibre
• De-inked recycled fibre
• Agricultural residue
• Forest Stewardship Council certified virgin fibre

Go ahead, hug a tree!

Popular Paperbacks

Juice, an Orca Soundings novel by Eric Walters, has been nominated for the Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list for 2008 from the Young Adult Library Services Association. Juice, a story of steroids in football, was an ALA Quick Pick and was included on the Texas Library Association’s Tayshas Reading list.

YALSA Quick Picks

I.D., a new Orca Soundings novel by Vicki Grant, has been nominated for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list for 2008. I.D. is the story of a teen who finds a wallet on the street and slowly starts to assume the owners identity. Vickie Grant is also the author of several other Quick Pick titles including Pig Boy, an Orca Currents title, and Dead End Job, another book in the Orca Soundings series.

Alberta Literary Awards finalists announced

The Writer’s Guild of Alberta has announced the finalists for the 2007 Alberta Literary Awards. A Sack Full of Feathers, a picturebook by Debby Waldman and Cindy Revell has been nominated for the R Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature.

Winners will be announced and awards presented at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on Saturday, September 29 at the Writers Guild of Alberta’s 2007 Conference: Writing the Land in Grande Prairie.

Waldman and Revell are both from Edmonton.