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2010 Alex Award Winner
Random House, Inc. is pleased to announce that The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir, by Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch has been selected as a recipient of the 2010 Alex Award.
Each year, the Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.
Click here for a full listing of Random House, Inc. titles that have previously won the award.
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New Blog for High School Educators
For the past three years, RHI Magazine has been made available in print and for free to middle- and high school educators and librarians. With so many teachers, students, and publishers embracing new technology today, and the theme of our fourth issue focusing on environmental education, Random House is proud to now present the online version of the magazine in a blog format.
The blog will also be home to all things high-school related, a one-stop place for news, special editorials, teacher resources, promotional give-aways, and more. We encourage you to book-mark www.rhimagazine.com, to post your comments, and to help spread the word!
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New A.D. Teacher's Guide
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld is a masterful graphic novel and portrait of a city under siege which depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. A teacher's guide to accompany the book is now available.
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Celebrate Banned Books Week
Sponsored by several leading arts, educational and trade associations, Banned Books Week (September 26-October 3, 2009) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, the week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
For a list of helpful teaching resources, visit the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) website.
Click here for our free educator magazine, RHI: Volume 3: Censorship & Banned Books.
Click here to visit the Random House First Amendment page.
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• Your Inner Fish, winner of the 2009 National Academy of Sciences Book Award, is a delightful, intellectually challenging view of evolution from primitive fish to humans. The book's website has resources and tools for teachers and features a compilation of figures from the book into PowerPoint slides for use in the classroom.
• Enrique's Journey author Sonia Nazario recently spoke about her book at the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) conference in Philadelphia. Check out this video by Northern Arizona University, hosted on the NCTE site, used to introduce Enrique's Journey for the university's 2009 freshman read. For additional educator guides and materials, click here.
• Four new Vintage Classics will be available in September: The Original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley), Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• In this video, Sandra Cisneros talks about writing, the authors who inspired her, and the advice she has for aspiring authors. And don't miss the 25th anniversary edition of her classic novel The House on Mango Street, now with a new introduction by the author.
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Ballistics
by Billy Collins
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. "Using
simple, understandable language," notes USA Today,
the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate "captures ordinary
life—its pleasure, its discontents, its moments
of sadness and of joy."
Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches
on a greater array of subjects—love, death, solitude,
youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before.
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The
Lost City of Z
by David Grann
"The Lost City of Z is at once a biography,
a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel
writing. . . . Mr. Grann treats us to a harrowing reconstruction
of Fawcett's forays into the Amazonian jungle, as well
as an evocative rendering of the vanished age of exploration."
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
by DC Pierson
"In a smart, funny and endlessly imaginative debut,
the voluminously talented DC Pierson shows keen insight
into the rocky emotional terrain of adolescence and the
nuances of geek culture. . . . Pierson has written a trenchant,
briskly readable and ultimately sad novel about the greatest,
most fantastical and mind-bending adventure of all: growing
up." —Nathan Rabin, Head Writer, The A.V.
Club
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
"The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the
work of Philip K. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe. But this tale
is true. Rebecca Skloot explores the racism and greed,
the idealism and faith in science that helped to save
thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family. This
is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told."
—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
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