YA for NJ

You can take the girl outta Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey outta the girl.  I may live in VA, but my heart will always remain true to NJ.  A couple of weeks ago, Jersey - especially the coast - was hit hard by hurricane Sandy.  My parents, who live in North Jersey, were without power for 2 weeks.  And that sucked, but thousands of people lost their homes and all of their possessions and are still displaced.

Bruce Springsteen did a huge televised concert that raised a ton of money for victims.  Now over 150 YA and MG authors are doing an auction to raise money for The Community Foodbank of New Jersey.  From November 30th - December 6th, items will be auctioned off on ebay.  There's a tons of cool things to bid on, like a Skype visit with Gayle Forman, autographed books and ARCs (Advance Reader Copy) of tons of upcoming books, manuscript critiques from various authors and editors, and other really cool stuff.

You should definitely pop over and peruse the goods.  Oh, and did I mention that 100% of the money raised goes directly to charity? Sure does.

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100 Book Covers to Fight Illiteracy

100 graphic designers. 28 countries. 1 great cause: fighting illiteracy.

Check out these posters that feature redesigned book covers for "The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time." Proceeds from the sale of the posters (35 euro each, plus a flat shipping fee of 15 euro per order) benefit UNESCO.

I think that the Moby Dick poster is my favorite visually:



Of course, I haven't read Moby Dick, so I wouldn't buy it.  I do enjoy the Alice in Wonderland poster's illustrations,  the simple yet moody redesign of The Catcher in the Rye and the stark black and white on the To Kill a Mockingbird posters.

  

Which one is your favorite?

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