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Today's the day, rgz! It's time for Operation Teen Book Drop, 2015, also known as #rockthedrop. April 16th is YALSA'sSupport Teen Literature Day.
Quick! Print out a bookmark below, created by Little Willow. Place it in a favorite YA book, and leave the novel in a public spot to be found. Tweet or post a pic at our facebook page with the hashtag #rockthedrop. Show your love for YA lit and brighten someone's day.
Off you go! Be sneaky. Be creative. Have fun! Oh, and if you find a book, let us know that, too! Drop a note in the comments. Alrighty. GO!
Support Teen Literature Day and Operation Teen Book Drop are underway! Sending our love to YALSA, YA authors, the publishing industry, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and rgz around the world. Special thanks to our 2014, sponsors, iheartdaily and Justine Magazine!
Here's the drill: 1. Find a YA book to donate. 2. Print the bookplate below and paste it in your book. 3. Leave the book in a public place to be found. 4. Snap a pic or post a message about how you Rocked the Drop on our facebook or twitter. #rockthedrop
Keep up the celebration by checking out these 7 philanthropies. It is rgz' 7 year anniversary after all!
As we get ready to Rock the Drop on Thursday, the 17th, here's a list of seven philanthropies you might look into. Get your book ready to drop with a bookplate and think how else you might contribute to Support Teen Literature Day!
Operation Teen Book Drop, 2014 – Seven Literary Philanthropies We Love
1. Girls Write Now Founded in 1998, Girls Write Now is the first organization in the country with a writing and mentoring model exclusively for girls. Girls Write Now provides guidance, support, and opportunities for at-risk and underserved girls from New York City’s public high schools to develop their creative, independent voices, explore careers in professional writing, and learn how to make healthy school, career and life choices.
2. First Book A recognized leader in social enterprise, First Book has pioneered groundbreaking channels to provide new books and educational resources at deeply reduced prices — and for free — to schools and programs serving children in need.
3. 826 National 826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. Its mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
4. The Lisa Libraries The Lisa Libraries donates new children's books and small libraries to organizations that work with kids in poor and under-served areas. It was started by author Ann M. Martin and friends to honor and memorialize children's book editor Lisa Novak. Since its founding in 1990, the Lisa Libraries has contributed over 300,000 books to nonprofit organizations across the country.
5. Room to Read Room to Read works in collaboration with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they’ll need to succeed in school and beyond.
6. Reading is Fundamental Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the largest children’s literacy nonprofit in the United States. It prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most. RIF inspires children to be lifelong readers through the power of choice.
7. World Literacy Foundation The World Literacy Foundation is an independent not-for-profit charitable body, founded in Australia in 2003 that acknowledges education as a basic human right, and believes that literacy unlocks the door to a life of learning.
It's coming! Support Teen Literature Day is Thursday, April 17th, 2014! So we all need to get ready for Operation Teen Book Drop. Above is the banner celebrating the day and our fabulous sponsors: iheartdaily and Justine Magazine. Feel free to grab and share it!
Below is the bookplate for you to print and glue into the young adult book you choose to drop in a public gathering place to Rock the Drop on April 17th. Follow us on facebook and twitter and plan to post a pic. #rockthedrop
To continue the celebration of our 7 year anniversary, we thought to recommend 7 philanthropies you might support as well this season. Watch for a full write-up soon!
Okay, how cool that J.J. Abrams' fascinating new novel S sprang from a book he found years ago. It was left in a public place with the intention of being found, read, and passed along. Did you catch him on Colbert? Listen in for a laugh, and just imagine who might find your next Operation Teen Book Drop donation, and how might they be moved to act, give, or create...
As we look back over the day, you all rocked the drop from Glasgow to Georgia, from zoos to restaurants, from one reader to the next, and we thank you! What a celebration for Support Teen Lit Day. You all posted, tweeted, tumbled, and pinned. The photos are awesome on #rockthedrop and the readergirlz facebook page. Be sure to scroll through and enjoy what we did together. It's AMAZING!
Crissa, rgz HOST, always rocks the drop with style! Take a look at her video drop. Thank you, Crissa!
And here are just a few pics to remember the day: Thank you, publishers, such as Team Egmont! Thank you, libraries, such as San Diego County! Thank you, authors, such as Sara Zarr in Salt Lake City to... Liz Gallagher in Seattle. Thank you, schools: Courtney Craig Merritt I am a Spanish and English teacher at Del Norte High School and a bunch of my Education In Action club kids will be dropping off books in the 4S Ranch community. Keep your eye out! We're so excited to be a part of this wonderful, literary cause. and thank you, readergirlz!
If you were not able to rock the drop yesterday due to time, weather, or other such uncontrollable things, don't fret - you can totally drop a book today, this weekend, whenever time allows! When you do, leave us a comment here at the readergirlz blog or on Facebook, and tweet @readergirlz with the hashtag #rockthedrop - and include a picture if you took one!
You can also participate on a larger scale, if you'd like, by donating a bunch of books to the place or cause of your choice. Visit a local shelter, a school, a library, a children's hospital, and ask if they take donations. Once you've gotten the okay, gather up new or gently used books from your friends, family, classmates, and co-workers, add the bookplates, tuck in some bookmarks, then drop the books off!
You can also donate books to826NYC, a non-profit organization that assists young writers between the ages of 6 and 18 as well as the awesome folks who teach them. If you'd like to send them books, here's the address:
826NYCAttn: Joan Kim c/o: readergirlz Rock the Drop 372 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
During yesterday's tweets and texts, we heard about World Book Night, which is happening on April 23rd. Learn more about that, and see if an event is happening in your neck of the woods.
Is this the first time you've heard of Operation Teen Book Drop? Anyone anywhere in the world may participate. It's free, it's fun, and it's global. Want to learn more about it? Click here!
It's here! Celebrate Support Teen Literature Day by dropping YA titles for happy readers to find! Rock the Drop with rgz, Figment, iheartdaily, Soho Teen, and 826NYC.
•Print out the below bookplate (by Lindsay Frantz) and drop your book in a public place.
Word is coming in left and right for tomorrow's plans to Rock the Drop for Operation Teen Book Drop. If you are in NYC, check out the below from Figment!
Figment will be manning a table outside our Upper East Side office on Thursday with a bunch of free books -- we're encouraging people to come and take two: one for keeping, one for dropping. If you could tweet this out, we'd appreciate it! Our Twitter handle is @figment. Link is below.
And of course, if you want to add some books to our pile (we'll have bookplates), drop em by!
Let us know where you are dropping for 2013! Full details and bookplate here! Can't wait to see your #rockthedrop tweets and pics at the rgz facebook page!
Remember this most awesome label from last year? We are working on the new one for you. It's coming soon, along with all the info. And of course, everyone will be dropping their favorite YA books in a public place in celebration of Support Teen Lit Day on April 18th!
Download the banner above, created by David Ostow (who blogs hilarious cartoons here), and add it to your website or blog, linking back to this post on readergirlz, and proclaiming that you will indeed ROCK THE DROP!
Print a copy of the bookplate below and insert it into a book (or 10!) that you'll drop today in a public spot (park bench, bus seat, restaurant counter?).
Take a photo of your drop and email it to readergirlz AT gmail DOT com — pictures of drops happening all over the world will be posted at the readergirlz blog, and the amazing folks at Figmentwill also be featuring the event.
Can you imagine people around the globe finding copies of amazing books in unexpected places, given in honor of great stories for teens?
Today was a gorgeous day in New York City, which meant that the hubs and I were all the more excited to get outside and rock the drop! We decided to give away an ARC of our forthcoming SASS super-special, UP OVER DOWN UNDER, which releases on my birthday, April 29th!
(Side note: the obvious implication here is that if you buy a copy on release day, that's almost like a birthday pressie for me!)
If you've ever wondered what it's like to write a novel with one's significant other, suffice it to say, we turned the revises in a few months before the wedding, and somehow still managed to make it down the altar. I for one am especially excited about this book, as the first novel in the SASS series, WESTMINSTER ABBY, was also one of the first novels I ever wrote and published under my own name. Yay!
Here's a quick video clip of our adventure. Miss Jones was all too happy to help us on our not-so-covert mission (and all tricked out in her camo, yet). Enjoy! And let me know if YOU rocked the drop today, too!
So, what can YOU do to help rock the drop? Oh my goodness -- so many things:
1. Visit GuysLitWire and check out the wish list they've created -- 750 books that supporters can buy from Powells.com. Purchases will be sent directly to one of two tribal school libraries, Ojo Encino Day School or Alchesay High School.
2. If you are a teen author, download a schmancy bookplate from the readergirlz site and paste it into a copy of one of your books. Then, drop your book in a public location tomorrow for some lucky reader to find! Over 100 young adult authors have already pledged to participate in this giveaway -- why not join them?
3. If you are a teen reader (or a fan of teen lit of any age), feel free to drop a copy of a favorite book in a public place as well! And visit the readergirlz site for downloadable bookmarks, widgets, and more fun stuff!
However you choose to participate, don't forget to let us know all about it on Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blog or website. The divine Cynthia Leitich Smith has posted a comprehensive piece about the event on her blog, Cynsations, and you can also watch the trailer here.
Some of you already know how much I like to rock. So come on, people -- don't leave me hanging!
I'm THRILLED to be participating in Operation Teen Book Drop tomorrow! So, my books aren't *technically* for teens, but I do have teen readers. And I'm putting my own spin on the program by making it an unofficial Operation Tween Book Drop. :)
Tomorrow, I'll be leaving autographed copies of TAKE THE REINS, CHASING BLUE and a few other books in the Canterwood series in various, random places in my neighborhood and in Manhattan. They'll also have a supercute Aladdin MIX postcard inside. You might find one on a park bench. Or the subway. Or a coffee shop. Or a picnic table. I'll be taking pics of drop off locations and posting them on my Twitter.
I'm encouraging YOU to do the same. Donate a book to a school, library or program that's in need of books for young readers. Huge thanks to Simon & Schuster for participating.
Happy OTBD! :)
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If you associate April 15th with (ick) filing your taxes, here's a better alternative--think of it as a fantastic day for teen lit. On April 15th Operation Teen Book Drop will deliver 10,000 new books to teens on Native Reservations and Tribal Lands, more than 100 top young adult authors will leave their books in public places for young readers to discover, and members of the public can buy books online and have them shipped to tribal libraries.
“These publishers have shown astounding vision and generosity by supporting Operation Teen Book Drop,” says readergirlz co-founder and award-winning novelist Dia Calhoun. “Now underserved teens can benefit from the current explosion of high quality YA books. These teens can see their own experience, their tragedies and their triumphs in these books, books that become shining doorways to the young human spirit.”
The donations are especially significant to Native teens. “In their lives, they really don’t have new books,” says Mary Nickless, the librarian at Ojo Encino Day School, one of 44 institutions that will benefit from Operation TBD.
In its third year, Operation TBD is part of a massive effort by librarians, young adult authors, and avid readers to spur reading on a nationwide scale. The day aims to encourage teens to read for the fun of it.
Through the efforts of readergirlz (http://www.readergirlz.com), GuysLitWire (http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com), YALSA (http://www.ala.org/yalsa), and publishers, teen patients in pediatric hospitals across the United States will receive 8,000 new young-adult novels, audiobooks, and graphic novels.
We invite you to celebrate Support Teen Lit Day with us. AUTHORS -- donate one of your own books to your community...BOOKLOVERS -- donate a favorite book -- then join our amazing online book bash, The TBD Post-Op Party, the night of April 16th.
Drop a Book TODAY! April 16th! Leave one copy of your novel, with a TBD bookplate pasted inside, in a teen gathering spot in your community. Place it where the book will be found, taken, and read. (i.e. a coffee shop, the park, your school, a bus stop.) Imagine the fun someone will have when they find your donation! This is the same day all 8,000 publisher-donated books will be dropped in pediatric hospitals across the country, and it is the same day authors and readergirlz worldwide will release their own books into their communities just as you have.
Join the TBD Post Op Party on April 16th We invite all readergirlz and authors to join our online two-hour book party hosted at the readergirlz blog on April 16th, Support Teen Literature Day, from 6 PM-8 PM Pacific / 9 PM - 11 PM Eastern. The chat will be in a thread titled TBD Post Op Party. The readergirlz divas will be giving away books and prizes, and chatting with teens and authors from around the world.
We all know that books give hope. Together, let's show our love of teen lit and ROCK THE DROP.
Read, reflect, and reach out!
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I have returned this moment from Radnor Middle School, where I left three copies of House of Dance along the bus line. The former Dr. Dewsnap teaches there now, having moved there awhile ago from the high school where she inspired me and, ultimately, many pages in my first young adult novel, Undercover.
The books are there to be discovered. They are there as part of the terrific national program, Operation Teen Book Drop, which celebrates its second anniversary today and owes its birth to the extraordinary founders of readergirlz.
I borrow the following text from the readergirlz press release, so that you might know more and celebrate with all of us who are honored to reach out to younger readers.
In its second year, “Operation TBD” (short for Teen Book Drop), puts free books donated by 18 book publishers into the hands of many teens most in need of escape, inspiration and a sense of personal accomplishment. Books with exceptional characters and fabulous stories can provide just that for teens and their families dealing with difficult, long-term hospital stays.
At a time when philanthropic giving is down, readergirlz co-founders have been inspired by overwhelming industry support for Operation TBD. “readergirlz is always looking for innovative ways to connect teens with literature, “ said Dia Calhoun, co-founder of readergirlz and acclaimed young-adult author. “We’re honored that publishers have supported this goal by giving so liberally this year.”
Operation TBD also aims to encourage all teens to choose reading for pleasure as a leisure activity, over other entertainment options. Inciting the broader teen community to participate in Operation TBD in its drive to spur reading on a national scale, readergirlz has launched a trailer on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/readergirlz) inviting teens and YA authors to leave a book in a public place on April 16. When visiting www.readergirlz.com, participants can download bookplates to insert into the books they’ll leave behind, which explain the surprise to the recipient and tell them to read and enjoy.
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Very cool! So glad to have found this site (through Sherrie @ Write About Now)!
Florinda said, on 4/16/2009 3:28:00 PM
What an awesome idea - kind of like BookCrossing, but targeted. My teen is currently out of town, but maybe I'll "drop" a book in her room for her to find when she gets back. Thanks for sharing this!
Mari said, on 4/16/2009 3:55:00 PM
Yay! I hope they make it into good hands. :)
holly cupala said, on 4/16/2009 6:43:00 PM
Beth, is it possible for me to think you're any more cool than I already did? Thank you so much for reaching out to teens with your wonderful books!
I had SUCH a good time doing this, and now even more fun reading your comments. It was a fun day, and, yes, a bit like BookCrossing, and Mari, I do hope those books make it into the right hands (so that my husband will stop giving me grief about being an impossible idealist), and, finally, Holly—I felt like the most uncool person staring into that photograph. My hair was soaking wet, and I had no make up on. So thank you for the boost of your comment!
lib said, on 4/17/2009 8:01:00 AM
Beth, You look absolutely lovely!!
Melissa Walker said, on 4/17/2009 9:28:00 AM
Gorgeous you, gorgeous books! Yay, Beth!
Anna Lefler said, on 4/17/2009 7:08:00 PM
Marvelous cause! It's so generous (but not surprising) of you to be involved.
Dear readergirlz, the time has come for the final week of THE Five Weeks of Contests!
Here's the deal: each week from now until Support Teen Literature Day on April 16th, we'll be awarding a package of books to one winner. To enter, you just comment at the readergirlz blog (comments on older posts count - a point for each comment!) and get an extra ten points for taking up the week's challenge. Get ten more any time by becoming one of our blog followers!
Report your post at the readergirlz blog with the URL (and get eleven points!). We'll keep track of the comments and urls and award the winners each week. Books! Prizes! And you'll be supporting teen lit and hospitalized teens across the country.
Written a book for teens? Any book? Or got an extra one on your shelves to spare? The American Library Association's Young Adult Division, aka YALSA, and we at readergirlz are inviting you to participate in a fabulous opportunity.
We're starting our second joint teen literacy project, Operation Teen Book Drop (TBD) (the first was the 31 Flavorite Authors for Teens program last October.) To build awareness for April 17, 2008, Support Teen Literature Day, readergirlz and YALSA are organizing a massive, coordinated release of 10,000 publisher-donated YA books into the top pediatric hospitals across the country.
We now invite you to celebrate Support Teen Lit Day with us. How? Donate one or more of your books to your community and join an unprecedented online book bash: The TBD Post-Op Party!
Web-Based Stuff To Do
If you want to share a teen book you own and love, download a TBD bookplate here. Paste this bookplate into the book you plan to donate. If you're the author of the book, download this plate.
Blog about Operation TBD and your upcoming participation, and place the I Rock the Drop icon on your site. Pick up the code here and check mine out in the sidebar.
At the readergirlz MySpace group forum look for the thread TBD rgz and post a reply that you plan to “Rock the Drop.” Watch and participate in other readergirlz MySpace group forum threads as they're posted.
Drop a Book on April 17th
Leave your book, with a TBD bookplate pasted inside, in a teen gathering spot in your community. Place it where the book will be found, taken, and read. (i.e. a coffee shop, the park, school, a bus stop.)
Join the TBD Post-Op Party, April 17th
We invite everyone to join our online two-hour book party hosted at the readergirlz MySpace forum, on April 17th (Support Teen Literature Day), at 6-8pm Pacific/9-11pm Eastern. The chat will be in a thread titled "TBD Post-Op Party." The readergirlz divas will be giving away books and prizes!
We've invited so many authors, you just never know who you might end up meeting! This is the same day all 10,000 publisher-donated books will be dropped in pediatric hospitals across the country, and it is the same day authors and librarians themselves will have released their own favorite books into their communities as you have.
Operation TBD has special meaning to my fellow readergirlz divas. After researching pediatric oncology wards for her novel GIRL OVERBOARD, Justina Chen Headley spent a year purchasing autographed YA novels to donate to her local Children’s Hospital, specifically because most hospitals do not have comfort objects for teens. Lorie Ann Grover (ON POINTE) and Dia Calhoun (AVIELLE OF RHIA) personally know the healing power of stories during hospital stays, since they both live with chronic illness. In fact, it was after they described Operation Teen Book Drop to me that I decided to join the team.
Pooja said, on 3/20/2008 1:15:00 PM
Lovely. Will definitely find a way to participate!
Mitali Didi, no words on Barack Obama's speech on race? I was sure you would reflect on it on the Fire Escape!
Mitali Perkins said, on 3/21/2008 1:40:00 PM
Pooja, thanks for spurring me on. I've been mulling it over, and posted my thoughts today.
Pooja said, on 3/21/2008 5:02:00 PM
Will read them this weekend and respond. It was a difficult speech to digest and I am thrilled you have finally posted your perspective.
Cloudscome said, on 4/16/2008 9:06:00 AM
Linked you on this. I'm dropping a couple books tomorrow.
We're celebrating our one year anniversary over at readergirlz with a makeover and a March Sarah Dessen extravaganza, including a Sneak Peek Lock and Key (her forthcoming wonderful novel) Party on Thursday, March 27th at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST at the readergirlz forum.
The readergirlz divas -- Dia Calhoun, Lorie Ann Grover, Justina Chen Headley, and moi -- also invite you to join us, YALSA, and publishers in a never-done-before book release program, Operation Teen Book Drop (TBD). We're putting new and amazing books into the hands of over 10,000 teen patients in Children's Hospitals across the country in April. More details to come, so get in touch with us over there to find out how you can read and release a book with us!
I started messing around in Photoshop this evening painting a sketch of the pop star Pink I posted here earlier. I'm normally a vector guy, so I'd be really curious to hear any thoughts from some painters out there on my progress (or lack thereof).
Thanks in advance.
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DavidSniderDesignStudio said, on 6/13/2007 8:48:00 PM
Uh...you done good! Wouldn't notice it being a first time try for sure!
Ryan said, on 6/14/2007 11:22:00 AM
Two things I might've done differently. One, I would've colorized the blue lines to match the rest of the image; and two, I might've added some additional highlighting and shading colors (but not a full value range, since you already have some shading in the pencils).
Overall I think it's pretty sweet though, and the underlying drawing is outstanding.
There's dancing in the streets; it's a caricature conga and I'm going to join the back of the line. Kick out those heels!
This was for an article about ageing action heroes, with the return of Rocky, Die Hard and Indiana Jones imminent. My rough pencil sketches of the heads, though the final painted version can be found here.
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Alice, thanks for the post!
That is very cool!