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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!



Bravo, everyone! Bravo!

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!

For example, you could send Ballou High books from their wish list via Powells books! That would be a cool way to tie-in both readergirlz and GuysLitWire. Here's how you can help out Ballou High: It's Time for the Annual Spring Book Fair for Ballou High School Library!

You can also donate books to 826NYC, 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:

826NYC
Attn: 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 time to ROCK THE DROP! Today is the day for Operation Teen Book Drop 2013!

Love books? Share them! In honor of Support Teen Lit Day, readergirlz has teamed up with Figment, I Heart Daily, Soho Teen, and 826NYC to celebrate the sixth annual Teen Book Drop. Anyone anywhere in the world may participate simply by leaving the book of their choice in a public place (a coffeehouse, a school, a skateboard park) for someone else to find. It's just that easy! Plus, there's the bonus fun when someone contacts readergirlz to tell them they found the book that you dropped.

If you want to chronicle your drop, share it on social media like this:

* Follow @readergirlz on Twitter and tweet #rockthedrop
* Print a copy of the bookplate and insert it into a book (or 10!) Drop a book in a public spot (park bench, bus seat, restaurant counter?) with a note or Post-It on the front saying something like, "THIS BOOK IS FREE!" or "READ ME!" Lucky finders will see that the book is part of ROCK THE DROP!
* Post the banner at your blog and social networks. Proclaim that you will ROCK THE DROP!
* Snap a photo of your drop and post it at the readergirlz Facebook page. Then tweet the drop with the hashtag #rockthedrop to share the news with other readers.

This year's bookplate was designed by the super-talented Lindsay Frantz. Thank you, Lindsay!

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!

This year, readergirlz is encouraging folks to donate books to 826NYC. If you're interested, here's the address:

826NYC
Attn: Joan Kim
c/o: readergirlz Rock the Drop
372 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

If you're in New York, drop by Figment today - they are giving away TWO books (one to keep, one to drop) to all participants while supplies last! Click here for details.

Visit the readergirlz blog, Facebook page, and Twitter for more news and pictures before, during, and after the event!

We're just three days away from Operation Teen Book Drop 2013! Are you ready to Rock the Drop?

Readergirlz are happy to announce Operation Teen Book Drop 2013! On April 18th, readergirlz will be teaming with Figment, I Heart Daily, Soho Teen, and 826NYC to celebrate YA lit in honor of Support Teen Lit Day on Thursday, April 18th. We can't wait!

This year, in addition to rocking out and dropping our favorite YA titles in public spaces for lucky readers to discover, we're also directing supporters of teen fiction everywhere to consider a book donation to 826NYC to help grow their library.

Here's how you can get involved:

* Follow @readergirlz on Twitter and tweet #rockthedrop
* Print a copy of the bookplate and insert it into a book (or 10!) On April 18th, drop a book in a public spot (park bench, bus seat, restaurant counter?) Lucky finders will see that the book is part of ROCK THE DROP!
* Post the banner at your blog and social networks. Proclaim that you will ROCK THE DROP!
* Snap a photo of your drop and post it at the readergirlz Facebook page. Then tweet the drop at #rockthedrop with all the other lovers of YA books.

This year's bookplate was designed by the super-talented Lindsay Frantz. Thank you, Lindsay!

If you'd like to donate books to 826NYC, here's the address:

826NYC
Attn: Joan Kim
c/o: readergirlz Rock the Drop
372 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Visit the readergirlz blog, Facebook page, and Twitter for more news and pictures before, during, and after the event!

Readergirlz and Figment are planning a Rock the Drop event on April 12, 2012.  It works like this.  Get a book.  Put the bookplate, below, in the book.  Drop the book somewhere that someone might find it.  It's like International Book Giving Day but more subversive.

So what happens next?  Come on March 31st to see!

Once again, readergirlz and Figment are going to ROCK THE DROP in honor of Support Teen Lit Day, 4/12/12. We can’t wait! Here’s how you can get involved:

* Plan to snap a photo and post it at the readergirlz facebook page. Then tweet the drop at #rockthedrop with all the other lovers of YA books. 

Over at readergirlz, we asked folks to suggest songs about compassion for our December playlist. Here's what we came up with:

Sally by Jonatha Brooke
Serena by Duncan Sheik
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
One by U2
Fix You by Coldplay
Explode by The Cardigans
Love a Diamond by Tonic
When You Come Back Down by Nickel Creek

If you want to take a listen, visit the readergirlz blog after December 1st. (I'm posting this a few days early at my blog.)

On Monday, readergirlz will be featuring Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan. What are your favorite examples of compassion? Send @micolz a direct message or an @-reply on Twitter, or leave a comment at the rgz blog, and you may see your response in her post on Monday morning!

Don't you just love a feel-good song playing in the background when you're reading a good book? When I asked folks to suggest songs about loyalty for our February playlist at readergirlz, the music recommendations came pouring in! This month's playlist includes:

Stand By Me by Ben E. King
Don't Leave My Mind by Azure Ray
I'll Be There by The Spinners
Just When You're Leaving by Joanna Pacitti
Lean On Me by Al Green
I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders
Mordred's Lullaby by Heather Dale
At Your Side by The Corrs
I Will by The Beatles
Touch Me by The Doors
Sway by Bic Runga
I'll Be by Edwin McCain
I'll Be There by The Jackson 5
For Good from the musical Wicked
Keep Holding On by Avril Lavigne
Stay by Lisa Loeb

Click here to listen!
(Note: Not all of the songs were available on Project Playlist.)

February's theme at readergirlz is loyalty. When discussing this theme, these teens thought of their friends, their families, and their pets, among other things.

Want to share your favorite YA novels with others? Do so in a cool way on April 14th, 2011 to show your support for Teen Literature Day. Here's Lorie Ann Grover from readergirlz to tell you a little more about the annual event:

Hey rgz,

Just a quick update on our plans for YALSA's Support Teen Literature Day, April 14th, 2011. You know we have ALWAYS orchestrated Operation Teen Book Drop since we began in 2007. Because this past December we teamed up with First Book in A Novel Gift, and helped with the donation of 125,000 YA novels to underserved teens, we are shaking things up a bit.

This year, we are refining our focus and simply encouraging rgz around the world to drop a YA book in their own community to celebrate Support Teen Lit Day. Why not make this the annual honoring effort? Imagine people around the world finding copies of the best literature in unexpected places, gifted out of love for YA lit. Everyone can participate to raise awareness of the day!

Soon, we'll have a banner for your sites and a bookplate for you to download and glue into your donation. We'll have other fun details as well. Watch for all the upcoming info, and be ready to ROCK THE DROP!

Water and Pub, (c) Faith Pray 2011 india ink and watercolor

(Ahem. Still working on Plan A.)

Sweet Laurette's, (c) Faith Pray 2011 india ink

1. Do a bundle of new artwork
2. Frame it
3. Open a Gallery on Etsy
4. Find a local place to hang my art

Port T 3 Comments on Book Drops and Quiet Gifts, last added: 4/14/2011 Display Comments Jan Morrison said, on 4/12/2011 4:26:00 AM That is wonderful news and I like your etsy shop! Keep on keepin' on, girl! Jan Morrison Kjersten said, on 4/12/2011 4:02:00 PM Yay! Siblings are the best. Glad you get to make it to the conference. Wish I could be there. Congrats on the etsy shop, too! I'll go check it out now. Faith Pray said, on 4/14/2011 11:01:00 PM Jan, thank you! I'm having fun with the abecedaria on your blog! Kjersten, I do wish you were coming this weekend. You will be missed! Add a Comment More from this Blog | Email This | Add a Tag 21. 'Twas the Night Before Rock the Drop Add/View Comments | Previous | Top | Next Posted on 4/13/2011 Blog: Little Willow - Bildungsroman (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags:  readergirlz, book group, books, pr, Add a tag 'Twas the night before Rock the Drop And all through the blogosphere People put bookplates In stories held dear... Want to share your favorite stories with other readers? Give a book away tomorrow! People love free stuff, and people who love to read love free books. Tomorrow, Thursday, April 14th, folks all over the world will be dropping the book(s) of their choice in a public spot - in a diner, on a seat in the subway, next to a school, on a park bench - with a lovely bookplate pasted inside to let the lucky reader-finder know that the book is all theirs, and that it's part of the Rock the Drop effort being put on by readergirlz and Figment. For more information about Rock the Drop, please visit the readergirlz website and check out Rock the Drop Eve: A To-Do List by Kelly at Figment. Also watch Crissa-Jean Chappell drop books like they're hot. Then click below to download the bookplate. Add a Comment More from this Blog | Email This | Add a Tag 22. Rock The Drop 2011! 0 Comments | Previous | Top | Next By: Mitali Perkins, on 4/14/2011 Blog: Mitali's Fire Escape (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags:  Operation Teen Book Drop, readergirlz, Teen Reads, Add a tag Are you Rocking the Drop? Thanks to readergirlz and Figment Fiction, here's what many of us are doing all around the planet today to support Teen Lit Day: 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 Figment will 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?   Come visit me on the Fire Escape! 0 Comments on Rock The Drop 2011! as of 1/1/1900 Add a Comment More from this Blog | Email This | Add a Tag 23. Rocking the Drop 3 Comments | Previous | Top | Next By: Beth Kephart , on 4/14/2011 Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags:  Rock the Drop, Bookslut review of The Heart is Not a Size, ReaderGirlz, UNDERCOVER, Teen Lit Day, Add a tag I rocked the drop with The Heart is Not a Size and Undercover in support of Teen Lit Day today.  Get out there, or get here, and check it out! 3 Comments on Rocking the Drop, last added: 4/14/2011 Display Comments bermudaonion said, on 4/14/2011 12:44:00 PM You rock! Kelly H-Y said, on 4/14/2011 5:00:00 PM How cool! Lilian Nattel said, on 4/14/2011 5:20:00 PM way to go! Add a Comment More from this Blog | Email This | Add a Tag 24. Teen Lit Day: Rocking the Drop with Readergirlz 0 Comments | Previous | Top | Next By: Beth Kephart , on 4/14/2011 Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags:  Rock the Drop, ReaderGirlz, Figment.com, Teen Lit Day, Add a tag I'm about to go out and Rock the Drop for Readergirlz in support of Teen Lit Day.  What's that, you say?  You don't know about Teen Lit Day?  You don't know about Readergirlz and its mission to promote teen literarcy and corresponding social service?  You don't know about Figment?  Stop all traffic.  Take a moment here.  Get yourself involved. 0 Comments on Teen Lit Day: Rocking the Drop with Readergirlz as of 1/1/1900 Add a Comment More from this Blog | Email This | Add a Tag 25. The You Are My Only Treasure Hunt Continues 3 Comments | Previous | Top | By: Beth Kephart , on 9/21/2011 Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags:  Lorie Ann Grover, ReaderGirlz, You Are My Only Treasure Hunt, On Point, Add a tag Readers of this blog know that a You Are My Only treasure hunt is under way.  The hunt goes something like this:  I've written five guest posts about the making of this book.  Those posts have now begun to pop up in the blogosphere.  Your job (should you choose to accept it) is to find those five entries and then post them collectively on your own blog.  Send the link to me, in a comment box on my blog, and your name will be entered into a drawing.  Two winners will be selected. Each will win these two things: A signed copy of You Are My Only AND a critique (by yours truly) of the first 2,000 words of a work-in-progress. As many of you know, I teach memoir at the University of Pennsylvania and served as the inaugural readergirlz author in residence. I have written in multiple genres and critique adult fiction for major U.S. newspapers. Your manuscript can, I am hinting, be in any genre, save for a screenplay, about which I have absolutely zero expertise. To make this contest a little easier, I am reprinting here the first paragraphs of the two entries that are now floating out there in the virtual world. The first, titled "The (furious) metamorphosis of Sophie," is hosted on a blog that has the clever subtitle "Looking better in black since 1234."  It appeared on September 9th, and it begins like this: Several years ago I began to write a novel for adults that had a certain Sophie as its focus.  She was in her late thirties and her boyfriend, Vin, had recently left her.  She was alone, a writer, and trying to piece together the unresolved oddments of her past.  Strange things were being left on Sophie’s doorstep—signs, masks, even a pot of soup—and the only thing that Sophie knew for sure that she was being lured to an abandoned asylum on the other side of the woods by people she wasn’t certain she could trust. The second, titled "Opening the door to Cloris and Helen," appears today, September 21, and is hosted by a blogger whom we all consider to be our friend.  It begins like this: I’ll be honest.  Cloris and Helen are two characters who have been living with me for more than a decade.  That’s right.  I carried these two dear souls, these more-than-best-friends ladies, through a variety of novels I’d been writing.  They were bird-obsessed in one book (not so strange, since all of my books have at least one character who is obsessed with birds).  They were digging a huge hole beneath their house in another.  In an early version of the book that became You Are My Only, it was Cloris who had been committed to the asylum.   Two posts up and three to go.  I'll be keeping you apprised as the hunt continues. Finally, today, I would like to thank the ever-dear Lorie Ann Grover for her beautiful words about You Are My Only.  I had the privilege of work 3 Comments on The You Are My Only Treasure Hunt Continues, last added: 9/21/2011 Display Comments Serena said, on 9/21/2011 7:09:00 AM I've found the guest posts and am intrigued what the others will say. :) Thanks for the insight. Wendy said, on 9/21/2011 9:04:00 AM I'm onto you, girlfriend *laughs* Stalking my way around the blogosphere, diligently finding your posts (and loving them, I might add)! Mandy said, on 9/21/2011 6:20:00 PM I love the treasure hunt! How fun! :) Add a Comment More from this Blog | Email This | Add a Tag View Next 25 Posts © 2012 Jacketflap.com                         About Us   FAQ   Advertise on JacketFlap   About our Widgets program for Publishers   Privacy   Terms