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Allen, Thomas B. George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War. 2004. illus. National Geographic, $16.95 (0-7922-5126-1).

This discourse analysis study examines the use of online texts in the live conversations of adolescents at and around computers in the Young Adult section of a Midwestern public library serving a diverse SES population. On the cusp of cyberspace, where online texts influence conversation and the conversation influences the creation of online texts, the adolescents in this investigation were found to use the text for their talk in five ways: reference, authority, experience, expression, and instrument. These techniques are delineated and connected to classroom teaching. The conclusion of the article focuses on the broader teaching implications as they relate to these teens' literacy practices at computers in the library.

Last October the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award committee members; awardees and their publishers; and the web team turned the usual one-night-only ceremony into a month-long celebration. What a year it ended up being for books for young people, culminating in Jan 2021's virtual ALA Youth Media Awards announcement and some truly groundbreaking--and long overdue--wins. Here, the winners of ALA's literary awards are presented.

I invite you to visit our blog. While our class project concluded in late November 2006, the blog will remain available, and you can read students' comments and see for yourself the messages between the readers and the author, which made this project so special. If you're inspired to launch your own book blog--and hopefully you will--feel free to use our project as a template. With free software, a book blog is an easy project to replicate.