Friday, May 28

2:30 p.m.

Teen Writer & Illustrator

Graphic Novel Workshop with

Colin Frizzell and Teresa Westervelt

A pile of new books arrived today! Check out descriptions & cover images below and ask  at any of the branches of the library and we’ll reserve them for you.

Summer of Fire – Karen Bass

Sixteen-year-old Del expects to have a lousy summer. She’s been shipped off to Germany to visit her uptight older sister, Cassandra. And it’s not for a summer holiday – it’s punishment. Her parents are fed up with her habit of getting into trouble and then running away.

At first she clashes with everybody. Then she meets Felix, a cute guy who’s the nephew of Cassandra’s neighbour, Luise.

Luise has translated her grandmother’s diary and asks Del to read it. Garda — a pregnant teenager in the middle of World War II Germany — tells the story of a dangerous and desperate life. As she reads, Del begins to see her own problems differently. But as Garda’s life reaches into her own, will Del just try to run away one more time?

Gravity Brings Me Down – Natale Ghent

Sioux Smith is sharp, funny, and wry, and is pretty certain that she sees the world of high school differently from everyone else – a belief that is cemented when she makes an uneasy discovery about one of her school’s “popular” teachers. And while she feels alone at her high school and in her unique slant on small town life, Sioux finds a kindred spirit in the most unlikely of people: an elderly stranger, a woman who has more insight despite her progressing dementia, than anyone else in Sioux’s life.  What Sioux and “Miss Marple” discover about each other over tea, illicitly secreted wine, and Coronation Street, makes for a novel with heart and grit in equal measure.

Not Suitable for Family Viewing – Vicki Grant

If your life were a TV show, would you even get a speaking part?

Robin has everything a girl could want. Thanks to her mother – the internationally beloved talk show host Mimi Schwartz – Robin’s got the money, the means and the connections to make even her wildest dreams come true.

Why, then, does she choose to sit alone in a dark room watching endless reruns of You, You, and Mimi?

Don’t ask Robin. She doesn’t know – at least, not until a bizarre discovery propels her to ditch her pampered New York Life for a deserted Nova Scotian fishing village. There, she stumbles upon love, the truth of her own background — and the shocking secret that helped make her mother  a star.

Rough Magic – Caryl Cude Mullin

Out in the midst of the ocean, rising out of the rough seas, lies a mysterious island. It has seen visitors over the years and has learned to fear them. Humans have done nothing  but take, stealing the island’s magic and enslaving its spirits.

Caliban, born to a great sorceress who was marooned on the island shores, gr

ew up half-wild with its creatures. Having escaped the island to live amongst kingdoms and courtiers for many years, he now finds himself returning with his young charge Chiara, a girl who has a power within her that no one suspected. Once back on the island, they are joined by Calypso, a magical young woman with ties to them all.

Me, Myself, and Ike – K. L. Denman

The guys huddle closer and murmur; the girls incline their heads together and whisper. They’re wall talking about me. I’ll bet if they were taking I could see their tattoos. They’ve been taken. They’re waiting for me to be taken, too.

Kit Katimer used to be happy. He had a beautiful girlfriend,a  few close friends, and a solid family life. Now his only friend is the enigmatic and possibly deranged Ike, who convinced Kit to undertake a secret and very dangerous mission.  Increasingly alienated, paranoid and confused, Kit stands to lose everything – including his life – if Ike has his way.

Jatta – Jenny Hale

Jatta is a princess in the kingdom of Alteeda, but her life is no fairy tale. Her mother was slain by werewolves when Jatta was three years old, and the palace has been haunted by fear ever since. Then

Jatta wakes one morning, bruised and disoriented, soaked in sweat, to see her bedroom smeared with bloody paw prints….

Do you have questions about drugs and alcohol, eating disorders, family life, or other health & wellness topics?   Are you looking for  a safe place to find reliable info?  Check out www.teenhealthandwellness.com  You can check it out from any branch of the library, or from home with your library card number and your PIN.

Spotted this poster   this morning.

The Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows movie will come out November  2010 and May 2011. If you haven’t read the book yet, this is a good time to pick it up – the Library has a few copies in and the audio CD is available too!

Tuesday, March 16

4 p.m.

Collage Night at the Picton Branch with Spark Box Studio 

We’ll have lots of magazines and old books to cut up and make art with.

free!

People don’t own the water in their own village
and they certainly don’t own the diamonds and gold.
Millions are forced to make dinner out of garbage and dust

The book, made up of poems, letters, and diary entries from fictional girls- is a powerful collection of the issues plaguing girls all over the world – from not having purple Uggs boots to being sold into sex slavery.

I say let’s go for it
if it’s all coming down.
I say let’s speak it
let’s fight it
let’s right it.

The author describes the book as a “celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.”

Attention All Hunger Games Fans!

The title and cover of the new book has been announced on the Scholastic website – http://onourmindsatscholastic.blogspot.com/2010/02/hunger-games-book-3-cover-revealed.html
They’ve also listed a few key points about the new book, including some real surprises, like: Despite internet rumors to the contrary, it is not revealed that Cinna has been secretly designing outfits for a Capitol operative known as “Lady GaGa”.

The Library has both the Hunger Games and  Catching Fire, so check those out if you haven’t already!

New! The Library’s now got audiobooks that you can transfer to your iPod or other MP3 player. Lots of great new titles are available, including the new one by Ann Brashares (3 Willows), Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, and Little Brother by the always interesting Cory Doctorow.

Click this link and log in with your library card number and PIN:

(If you don’t know your library card number or PIN – just call, stop in,  Facebook,  or e-mail teenroom@peclibrary.org to find it out!)

Just noticed this cool list by author Cecil Castelluci – (she wrote the Queen of Cool and Boy Proof!) of ” ‘Books that Rock’  — eight novels with characters whose lives are changed by (turn that down!) music”
The Library has most of these – so if you’re interested, stop in and ask for them!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/cecil-castellucci-picks-young-adult-books-that-rock.html