The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), is celebrating its first ever Support Teen Literature Day on April 19, as part of ALA’s National Library Week celebration.

Support Teen Literature Day will include an event in Chicago with authors and the band The High Strung, who made an appearance in Groton last summer. The event also will be the official launch of YALSA’s 2007 Teen Read Week initiative, which will be celebrated October 14-20, 2007, with the theme “LOL @ your library.” The humor theme is meant to encourage teens nationwide to make time to read something light and entertaining just for the fun of it. 

Librarians all across the country are encouraged to participate in Support Teen Literature Day by hosting events in their library on that day. The purpose of this new celebration is to raise awareness among the general public that young adult literature is a vibrant, growing genre with much to offer today’s teens.