If you are ever sitting around thinking 'what do I read next', take a look at the website insideadog (
http://www.insideadog.com.au/) - created by The Centre for Youth Literature, State Library Victoria - which promotes reading as an active, pleasurable and essential activity for all young people. The site contains reviews, a writer in residence and heaps of info about Australian and overseas books for young people.
They have also created the Inky Awards. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, voted for online by the readers of insideadog.com.au. There are three awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, the Silver Inky for an international book, and the Creative Reading Prize, won by a young person for a creative response to a book they love, in any format they choose.
The Longlist for the Inkys has just been released:
The 2009 Inkys Longlist
Broken Glass by Adrian Stirling
Everything Beautiful by Simmone HowellExposure by Mal Peet
Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Into White Silence by Anthony EatonJarvis 24 by David Metzenthen
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne La Fleur
My Candlelight Novel by Joanne Horniman
Paper Towns by John Green
Screw Loose by Chris Wheat
Skim by Mariko & Jillian TamakiTen Mile River by Paul Griffin
The 10pm Question by Kate de GoldiThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Beginners Guide to Living by Lia Hills
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison GoodmanWhere the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Worldshaker by Richard Harland
The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, voted for online by the readers of insideadog.com.au. There are three awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, the Silver Inky for an international book, and the Creative Reading Prize, won by a young person for a creative response to a book they love, in any format they choose.
For more info about the Inky Awards, and for heaps of ideas for great books to read, visit the Inside A Dog website
