The Saturday Post: Festivals, Covers, Videos & more!

* First things first — the complete Wordstock Festival line-up is now posted online! (Here’s a list of just the YA/MG authors, too). Who will be joining us at Wordstock?

* If you’re in the southeast part of the U.S., also check out the expanding line-up for YallFest.

* A small library in Vermont lost pretty much its entire children’s collection during Hurricane Irene. If you’d like to help them re-stock their children’s & YA shelves, Kate Messner has tips on how to do so.

* Saundra Mitchell unveiled the cover & synopsis for her new book, The Springsweet, a companion to The Vespertine:

It’s a long way from Baltimore to Oklahoma Territory. But Zora Stewart will go any distance to put the tragic events of her sixteenth summer behind her. So this city girl heads to the tiny frontier town of West Glory to help her young widowed aunt keep her homestead going.

When another Baltimorean shows up in West Glory, Zora couldn’t be more surprised. Theo de la Croix made the long trip out west hoping to court Zora, whom he has long admired from afar.

But Zora has developed an attraction to a rather less respectable fellow: Emerson Birch, a rough-mannered young “sooner” whose fertile land is coveted.

As Zora begins to suspect that there may be more than luck behind Emerson’s good land, she discovers an extraordinary, astonishing power of her own: the ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a “springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.

Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water. Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply surviving and start living.

* Check out the great book trailer for Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff:

* And here’s the book trailer for Shut Out by Kody Keplinger:

* In case you missed it, here is the official teaser-trailer for The Hunger Games movie:

* And in a bit of self-indulgent news, here’s the 411 on MY comic book, Fame: Suzanne Collins, which you can pre-order now:

Writer Suzanne Collins has been following the traditions of J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer and that is getting young adult readers excited to read and Bluewater Comics is excited that now fans of Collins will be able to read about her life with the upcoming bio-comic “Fame: Suzanne Collins.”

Collins had made her mark as a writer on the Emmy-nominated hit “Clarissa Explains It all” (starring a young Melissa Joan Hart) and “Clifford’s Puppy Days,” but ultimately found herself in the literary world where she authored the popular the “Hunger Games.”

“Fame: Suzanne Collins” explains her interest in writing and how she began writing “Hunger Games” and is written by Sara Gundell with art by Niño Harn Cajayon and Joe Phillips providing the cover art.

“Suzanne Collins has already wowed legions of fans with her ‘Hunger Games’ books, yet most know very little about the woman herself,” said Gundell. “With the movie version of ‘The Hunger Games’ coming out next year, it seemed only fitting to share her story with fans.” Darren Davis, president of Bluewater Comics, said he is excited to promote the story of a person who makes reading fun for kids.

“Bluewater is constantly reaching out to libraries and school systems because we thinking reading is incredibly important,” said Davis. “I learned how to read by reading comic books and for us to make a comic to share the life of person like Suzanne Collins is what we are about.”

“It’s fascinating to see how Collins’ own life helped influence and shape the books that would one day make her famous the world over,” said Gundell. “With ‘The Hunger Games’ movie coming out in 2012, her following is only going to grow. “

Davis went on to praise Gundell’s writing and said she captured the life of someone “who tells great stories.” He described Cajayon’s artistry as “rich and textured” and able to give life to Gundell’s work.