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YAngelism

The Downton Abbey Season One Primer

January 4, 2012
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Hello, People of America. If you’ve been on the internet at all in the last year, you’ve probably read multiple mentions of Downton Abbey, ITV’s WWI-era costume drama which has captured the fascination of people on both sides of the pond. Masterpiece Theatre on PBS is set to air the second season of the award-winning [...]

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Letters to the FYAditor: Library YAngelism

November 9, 2011
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Welcome back to our feature “Letters to the FYAditor”, where we show you, gentle readers, the contents of our email inbox. Today we have some fabulous examples of YAngelism taking place in library displays. First, reader Carrie shows us an awesome display she set up of YA Gateway books.

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Texas Book Festival 2011: Cocktail riches and YA dreams

October 26, 2011
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Ok, so you know how I said that this year’s Texas Book Festival might be the best one yet? Well, not that you were disagreeing with me or anything, but I TOLD YOU SO. Seriously, you guys, it pretty much melted our faces with awesome. From the fancy pants parties to the flagrant YAngelism to [...]

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Texas Book Festival 2011: Get yr planner pants on!

October 13, 2011
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Y’all! The Texas Book Festival is a week away! And we’re pretty much spazzing out here at FYA HQ, because this festival is full of opportunities to swimfan meet fantastic YA authors and booze it up with our fellow book nerds. Two years ago, Posh met Sara Zarr, and then last year, we got to [...]

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I have seen the light!

March 30, 2011
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Friends, readers, we come together today to sing out in praise of the great gospel of YA! We are young and a little less young, black, white and brown, woman and at least two men (hi brian and Antony!), but we are all brothers and sisters in YA. How many of us remember the dark [...]

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Letters to the FYAditor: Homeschool YAngelism

February 16, 2011
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In this weekly installment from the craytopia of our mailbox, frequent commenter & smarty pants Katie Coops asks for your feedback. Check out her letter and help a girl out! Hello ladies! So I finally quit my heinous teaching job where I was forced to teach to the state’s standardized test and had no authority [...]

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you say you want a revolution, well, you know, these books can change the world

February 9, 2011
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a couple of weeks ago, while we were at the sundance film festival*, we noticed something crazy — celeb-types reading YA books! and not just the books for the movies they starred in for library READ posters**! it turns out the publicity firm media muscle has launched a good books/good cause campaign, putting their books [...]

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From the Front Lines of the War for YAngelism

December 22, 2010
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We recently received the following email from Amber, a witness to a terrible attack upon the cause of YAngelism. We decided to share her horrifying story with the world in the hopes that increasing awareness will prevent this travesty from happening in the future. May this testimony inspire you, dear believers, to keep fighting the [...]

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The YAngelist Anthem

December 15, 2010
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Earlier this week, we received the following email: Dear FYA, Today, I was extremely bored doing my grown-up job, so I decided to take a break and write a YAvangelist anthem. Please feel free to sing it loudly to non-believers. Enjoy. Consider this a thank you for providing me with countless hours of entertainment. Spreading [...]

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Adult Literary Fiction Can Bite Me: A YA Manifesto

October 6, 2010
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Give it up for today’s Smarty Pants/Super Yangelist, Rachel K! Rachel became a librarian in order to feed her book habit. She happily reads at least one YA novel a week, though does try to read Adult Literary Fiction on occasion, which never ends well. She and her friend Jo have a website where they [...]

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