Looking for New Music?
A few weeks ago, NME.com posted . There are tracks from each, so listen away. So far, my favorite is This Many Boyfriends. Let me know if you think any of these should be part of the library’s music collection.
Category Archives: Teens
Hunger Games Trailer
The trailer premiered this weekend on the MTV Video Music Awards. Check it out!! March 23, 2012. You can also watch the from the film’s director, Gary Ross.
Teen Book Podcasts
One of the librarian blogs that I read, recently did a post covering podcasts on teen books. If you love teen books and want to hear reviews, interviews, etc, you may want to .
Vote for Teens’ Top Ten
Now is your chance to vote for the 2011 Teens’ Top Ten list. The titles are nominated each year by members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Check out the 2011 nominees. You can vote until September 16th. The winners will be announced during Teen Read Week!
More new books…
, Anna Sheehan Sixteen-year-old Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin. Sign Language, Amy Ackley Teenaged Abby must deal […]
New Books – Week of Aug 24th
Bloodlines, Richelle Mead The stage is set for drama when Sydney, an alchemist, is sent into hiding to a human private school in Palm Springs, California. zzzzzzzzzzz Edda, Conor Kostick In the virtual world of Edda, ruler Scanthax decides he wants to invade another virtual world, embroiling the universes of Edda, Saga, and Epic in […]
More book reviews- Summer 2011
Kadohata – Kira Kira Reviewed by Jennie Yu, grade 6 Rating: Good! This book is about a girl named Katie Takeshima, who deeply admires the spirit of her sister, Lynn. Lynn teaches Katie the “kira-kira”, the glitter in life. But then Lynn gets very ill and Katie uses Lynn’s “kira-kira” to hold on to hope. […]
New Books – Week of Aug 15th
Sleepless, Cyn Balog Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose purpose is to seduce humans to sleep, falls in love with a sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend’s death. The Pirate Captain’s Daughter, Eve Bunting Upon her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Catherine puts her courage and strength to the test by […]
New Books – Week of July 25th
The Poison Diaries, Maryrose Wood In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton’s apothecary garden. The Joshua Files: Ice Shock, M.G. Harris Back home in Oxford, Josh tries to resume his normal life and make sense of his Mayan adventures, […]
How They Met, And Other Stories: A Review
When I inquired as to a trashy book for summer reading, a charming High School senior named Molly Bacon told me about a book called How They Met, And Other Stories. David Levithan’s collection of short narratives is one that I have often walked passed on the shelves, but only on Molly’s suggestion did I […]