Our Mission
Flamingnet's mission is to promote reading among young adults; making reading more fun by highlighting books that young adults may enjoy and fostering literacy through charitable work.
Background
Flamingnet was created in 2002. When I was in fifth grade, I read many different books. This led me to combine my reading with my father's hobby, computer programming. Gradually I wrote reviews on the books that I read, and my father posted these reviews on the Internet at Flamingnet. After seeing our website, national publishers and authors of young adult literature began asking me to review their books. These publishers include Penguin Books, Scholastic, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Warner, and HarperCollins, as well as many other publishers and individual authors. As I received more books to review, Flamingnet began to accept student reviewers from all over the United States to help with the reviews.
| Our Mission Flamingnet's mission is to promote reading among young adults; making reading more fun by highlighting books that young adults may enjoy and fostering literacy through charitable work. Background Flamingnet was created in 2002. When I was in fifth grade, I read many different books. This led me to combine my reading with my father's hobby, computer programming. Gradually I wrote reviews on the books that I read, and my father posted these reviews on the Internet at Flamingnet. After seeing our website, national publishers and authors of young adult literature began asking me to review their books. These publishers include Penguin Books, Scholastic, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Warner, and HarperCollins, as well as many other publishers and individual authors. As I received more books to review, Flamingnet began to accept student reviewers from all over the United States to help with the reviews. Flamingnet is currently a growing young adult book website, and my father and I are kept very busy spreading the word about our site and working with all the reviewers, underwriters (adult volunteers that assist our student reviewers with their writing), Flamingnet members, authors, publishers, and publicists that have become part of our Flamingnet community. My grandfather in Florida is also very busy sending out letters to libraries telling them about my website. Here are links to awards that have been received by Flamingnet and comments from users about my site. The Website My website is for students between 8 and 18 years old, their parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians who are looking for books to recommend or buy for their children, grandchildren, students or patrons. Flamingnet has lists of both classic books, as well as new titles, that this age group may find interesting and enjoyable.
Our Student Reviewers Over the years, hundreds of young adults have reviewed new and advance books for Flamingnet. Information about how to become a Flamingnet student reviewer and an application are found elsewhere on the site (information and application). Our student reviewers not only get to read new books before they become available in bookstores, they get to keep the books that we send them to review. Flamingnet student reviewers also learn how to express their opinions in writing about what they read. Through our underwriter program, adult volunteers (authors, teachers and librarians) assist our students with their writing skills and provide important feedback in order to encourage them to become better writers. After a student reads and reviews a new book, we ask them to rate each book they review on a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being the best). Flamingnet's TOP CHOICE AWARD is given to books based on this student reviewer rating. We also ask our reviewers about the language and content (drugs, sex, and violence) in the book, and students rate books for content using our Flamingnet Content Rating. Hopefully, their reviews and ratings will help you decide on your choice of books. How To Submit A Book To Flamingnet For Review If you have questions, please send me an email or call. |
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