Every year about this time, you might notice that your local library hosts activities that celebrate teens reading for fun. This year, you fantasy and science fiction fans might be interested to know that the theme is Read Beyond Reality. Celebrate it with your local library and with readers around the country from Oct. 18-24.
You could extend that idea to reading beyond your own reality, too–pick up a book set in a world completely unlike your own. Whether that means a story set in space or in ancient Korea, you can explore all sorts of worlds in a good book.
As the ALA Teen Read Week site notes, teens who read for pleasure do better in school and in the work force. As you support multicultural literature, make sure to stop in at your local library and thank them for the services they provide to local teens. Check out the ALA site for ways in which you can get involved in Teen Read Week, and also make sure to head over to Readergirlz, where they will be hosting live chats with authors and giving away all sorts of goodies. (They’re over on Facebook, too.)
For Teen Read Week here at Tu Publishing, we’re going to be interviewing teens, bloggers, and writers about multicultural fantasy and science fiction–how do we read beyond reality? Keep an eye out here!
Tu Publishing's editorial director Stacy Whitman has worked as an editor at a trade magazine, at Houghton Mifflin's school division, and at Mirrorstone, an imprint of Wizards of the Coast, where she worked on children's and young adult fantasy. In her current day job, she is the publication manager for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. She holds a master's degree in children's literature from Simmons College. 