Corporate Sponsors, Promotional Partners, and Nonprofit Supporters

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Promotional Partners

Harcourt Trade Publishers has been producing high quality, award-winning books and related products for more than eighty years, and is part of Harcourt Education, a global education provider serving students and teachers in Pre-K through grade 12, adult learners, and readers of all ages. The Harcourt companies are Harcourt School Publishers; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Harcourt Achieve (including the Rigby, Steck-Vaughn, and Saxon imprints); Harcourt Assessment; Greenwood/Heinemann; Global Library; Classroom Connect; and Harcourt Trade Publishers.

Listening Library has been the leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks for children and young adults for over 50 years. Their core commitment is to produce the best books—new releasess and popular backlist—as top-quality recordings to be enjoyed by children and teen audiences today and for many years to come. Listening Library has over 750 titles available including a backlist of one of the largest collections of Newbery winners, plus a wide selection of popular fiction and classic children's and young adult literature.

Orca Book Publishers publishes books for children and teens. From picture books to teen fiction, Orca also produces the Orca Soundings series of teen novels, the Orca Currents series for middle school readers, the Orca Echoes series of early chapter books, and the Orca Young Readers series. Orca is dedicated to enhancing literacy and bringing books and readers together.

Scholastic has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of instilling the love of reading and learning for lifelong pleasure in all children. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child’s intellectual, personal and cultural growth, Scholastic, for more than 81 years, has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, one of the leading children's book publishers in the world, is comprised of the following imprints: Aladdin Paperbacks, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Libros para niños, Little Simon®, Little Simon InspirationsTM, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Simon Pulse, and Simon Spotlight®.  Simon Spotlight, an imprint wholly devoted to media tie-ins, has become one of the fastest growing imprints in the children's book industry.

Teenreads.com offers teen readers aged 12-17 reviews and excerpts of YA and adult titles that are appropriate for a teen audience, along with author interviews and biographies, interactive questions and polls, and more. Teenreads.com's "Cool New Books" feature brings readers the latest releases every month. "Word of Mouth" is where teens weigh in and share what they are reading.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. was founded by Vincent and Linda McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) has been involved in the sports entertainment business for more than 20 years and is one of the most popular forms of global entertainment today. WWE is an integrated media and entertainment company, principally engaged in the development, production and marketing of television programming, pay-per-view programming and live events, and the licensing and sale of branded consumer productsfeaturing our highly successful World Wrestling Entertainment brand. WWE is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Toronto.

Nonprofit Supporters

American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
www.aasa.org
AASA is the professional organization for more than 16,500 educational leaders across America. Its four major focus areas are: improving the condition of children and youth; preparing schools and school systems for the twenty-first century; connecting schools and communities; and enhancing the quality and effectiveness of school leaders.

American Booksellers Association (ABA)
www.bookweb.org
ABA is a not-for-profit trade association representing independent bookstores nationwide.

Cable in the Classroom (CIC)
www.cIconline.org
CIC represents the cable telecommunications industry's commitment to education - to improve teaching and learning for children in schools, at home, and in their communities.

International Reading Association
www.reading.org
The International Reading Association seeks to promote literacy by improving the quality of reading instruction through studying reading processes and techniques; by serving as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research; and by encouraging reading as a lifetime habit.

Kids Care
www.kidscare.org  
Kids Care Clubs is a program of the Points of Light Foundation. Their mission is to develop compassion and the spirit of service and philanthropy in school-aged youth. To that end, monthly projects and resources are posted on their website.

KIDSNET
www.kidsnet.org
KIDSNET is a nationally recognized, nonprofit education and media resource that encourages media literacy in young people and their families and is committed to educational excellence in the media industry.

The N
www.the-n.com

The N is Noggin’s programming block for teens, on TV every night starting at 6pm ET, and online all the time at the-n.com. The N’s programming equips teens with real life skills and knowledge to help them engage with their peers and figure out their lives. Teens can watch The N’s dramas, comedies and animated shows on TV, then share their thoughts, insights and feelings online at www.the-n.com.

National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
www.nassp.org
NASSP’s mission is to build effective and skillful school leaders. They provide professional development and other services and products to help school leaders advance their schools into the twenty-first century.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
www.ncte.org
Since 1911, NCTE has provided a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English.

National Education Association
www.nea.org
This organization works with men and women working in schools and colleges across the United States to help all students achieve.

National School Boards Association (NSBA)
www.nsba.org
NSBA is the nationwide organization representing public school governance. NSBA’s mission is to foster excellence and equity in public elementary and secondary education through school board leadership.

SmartGirl
www.smartgirl.org
The mission of SmartGirl is to provide an online community for adolescent girls (and boys) to voice their opinions. Members of the site are primarily girls between the ages of twelve and twenty. There are currently 20,000 subscribers to the SmartGirl’s free monthly newsletter.

Speak Up Press
www.speakuppress.org
Speak Up Press publishes Speak Up, a national annual art and literary journal featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, photography, and artwork of young people thirteen to nineteen years old from across the country and around the world. Speak Up is produced by a local and online teen advisory board.

Swept Away TV/The Rock Star Stories
This television program written, edited, filmed and directed by college and high school students. The program airs in more than 72 markets. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing media career training, mentoring and experiences for young people nationwide.  More than 3000 young people have learned to shoot, edit, film and direct in the 7 years that the program has been on air. Students also produce high school and college press conferences with such musical artists as Yellowcard, Thursday, Something Corporate,  Sum 41, Andrew WK, and the Alkaline Trio.  Students have also produced a book of their best interviews titled The Rock Star Stories available in Summer 2007. 

TeenInk
www.teenink.com
TeenInk is a national teen magazine, book, and Web site featuring teen writing, information, art, photos, poetry, teen issues, and more. All articles are written by teenage authors who are students at K–12 schools. The monthly print magazine is appropriate for teenagers ages thirteen to nineteen attending secondary school: junior high school, middle school, and high school. TeenInk was established in 1989 as The 21st Century magazine by The Young Authors Foundation, a nonprofit organization. More than 25,000 teens have published in the magazine and its companion, Poetry Journals.