Table of Contents

Summer 2007

From the Editor

Sarah Flowers

From the President

Judy Nelson

YALSA Perspective


Fifty Years of YALSA—and Reading for the Fun of It!


Mary Arnold

Surveys


What Members Want


Sarah Flowers

Teen Perspectives


Teens and Reading: My Flamingnet Perspective


Seth Cassel

The View from ALA


Spectrum Scholars Celebrate Ten Years

Author Perspectives


The Power of Words: An Interview with Brian James


Dominique McCafferty

Best Practices


A New Mantra: An Interview with Michael Stephens


Meg Canada

Building Teen Communities Online: Listen, Listen, and Listen


CD McLean

Gaming in Libraries 2.0


Katherine Makens

Hot Spot: LOL @ your library®


Teen Read Week™ Collaboration


Megan Fink

Get Out the Vote for Teens’ Top Ten


Diane P. Monnier and Diane Tuccillo

Audiobooks that Tickle the Funny Bone


Francisca Goldsmith

Looking for the Comic in Graphic Novels? Try These Humorous Reads for Teens!


Dawn Rutherford

Reading—It’s Not Just about Books


Linda W. Braun

LOL on Screen


Robyn Lupa

Got Laughs? Programs @ your library


Nichole Pereira

Literature Surveys and Research


Early Adolescents’ Reading Habits


Stacy L. Creel

Professional Materials

Guidelines for Authors

Index to Advertisers

The YALSA Update