Links of the Week: October 23

YALSA’s got $1,000 for members conducting research related to its research agenda. Proposals are due Dec. 1!

Cynthia Leitich Smith talks with a literary booking agent at Cynsations.

Publisher’s Weekly reports on Sourcebooks’ new YA imprint, Sourcebooks Fire, which will launch in spring 2010.

Jezebel summarizes major media coverage of the recent Tween summit in Washington, D.C. Fourteen-year-old Kiley Krzyzekgives her take on the summit for YPulse.

Variety has the details on the shows in development for the CW’s fall season, including Spy School for Girls (hm, sounds like I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter) and The March Sisters (a cross between Little Women and Sex and the City).

Liz B. at A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy gives readers a rundown of kidlit listservs.

Colleen from Chasing Ray has a thoughtful look at the discussion surrounding the National Book Award Young People’s category finalists.

Jen Robinson recaps last weekend’s KidLitCon 2009 with lots of great advice for bloggers.

Linda Braun challenges librarians to examine their teen spaces so that the library is not a supermarket, ie. a place to just pick something up.

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