NEW BOOKS!

I just put in an order for new books for the Young Adult collection. It's a biggie, but here goes:

• Latest Clique titles


• Latest It Girl


• Latest Gossip Girls


• Latest A-List


• Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy - Ally Carter


• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (paperback)


• Keeping Corner - Kashmira Sheth


• Guitars - David Schiller (nonfiction)


• Eagle Blue: a team, a tribe and a high school basketball team in arctic Alaska - Michael D'Orso (nonfiction)


• Game - Walter Dean Myers


• Sunrise Over Fallujah- Walter Dean Myers


• Conception - Kalisha Buckhanon


• How to Survive a Horror Movie: all the skills to dodge the kills - Seth Grahame-Smith (nonfiction)


• The Final Warning (A Maximum Ride Novel) - James Patterson


• The Never War: journal of an adventure through time and space(Pendragon) - D. J. McHale


• Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen


• Useful Fools - C. A. Schmidt


• Safe - Susan Shaw


• Little (Grrl) Lost - Charles De Lint


• Rucker Park Setup - Paul Volponi


• Self-Advocacy: the ultimate teen guide (It Happened to Me) - Cheryl Gerson Tuttle (nonfiction)


• Physical Disabilities: the ultimate teen guide (It Happened to Me) - Denise Thornton (nonfiction)


• Little Brother - Cory Doctorow


• How They Met, and Other Stories - David Levithan


• The Fold - An Na


• Parade of Shadows - Gloria Whelan


• Leftovers - Laura Weiss


• The Missing Girl - Norma Fox Mazer


• Prey- Lurlene McDaniels


• Streams of Babel - Carol Plum-Ucci


• The Black Tattoo - Sam Enthoven (paperback)


• Spud - John Van De Ruit


• Peeled - Joan Bauer


• The Boy Who Dared - Susan Campbell Bartoletti


• Jump the Cracks - Stacy De Keyser


• The Circle of Blood: a forensic mystery - Alane Ferguson


• The Winter War - William Durbin


• The Game of My Life: a true story of challenge, triumph, and growing up autistic - Jason McElwain (nonfiction)


• How I live Now - Meg Rosoff (paperback)


• The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer (the sequel to...)


• Life as We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer (paperback)


• After Tupac and D Foster - Jacqueline Woodson


• Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught


• The Diary of Pelly D. - L. J. Adlington (paperback)


• Walk of the Spirits - Richie Tankersley Cusick (paperback)


• Nobody's Prize - Esther Friedman (sequel to Nobody's Princess)


• Tunnels - Roderick Gordon


• Search and Destroy - Dean Hughes (paperback)


• A Really Nice Prom Mess - Brian Sloan (paperback)


• L8r, G8r - Lauren Myracle (paperback)


• The Presidential Election Process - Tom Lansford, ed. (nonfiction)


• The Key to the Golden Firebird - Maureen Johnson (paperback)


• How to Hook a Hottie - Tina Ferraro (paperback)


• Hit the Road - Caroline B. Cooney (paperback)


• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation - M. T. Anderson (paperback)


• Saturday Night Dirt - Will Weaver


• The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson


• The House of Djinn - Suzanne Fisher Staples


• Whirlwind (Caretaker Trilogy, Book 2) - David Klass


• Truancy - Isamu Fukui


• Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman


• Airhead - Meg Cabot

It's a big list, but the summer's coming!

BTW, there's a web site to check out called Shelfari. You can share books you're reading, the books you want to read, and keep track of everything. The address is http://www.shelfari.com/. It's a social networking site for readers. You can also link to reviews and discuss your reads with your friends.

ATTENTION TEEN WRITERS!!!!

Did you know that there are publishing companies who have writing contests just for teens. Check these out:



HarperCollins:

www.myspace.com/harperteen



Scholastic, Inc.

www.artandwriting.org/enter.htm

http://www.thisispush.com/write/index.asp



How 'bout helping publishers give you what you want to read:

Free Spirit Press

www.freespirit.com/teens/teens.cfm

Henry Holt

http://www.henryholtchildrensbooks.com/ingroup.htm

Sharyn November, Editor Extraordinaire

http://www.sharyn.org/survey.html

Read and Review

http://www.flamingnet.com/



Fun Stuff and Updates:

http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/



Scholarships, anyone?

us.penguingroup.com/static/html/services-academic/essayhome.html



Here's a plug for a semi-new database made available by the Westchester Library System: the LearningExpress link is: http://www.westchesterlibraries.org/node/297


There are loads of practice tests available oline, including the SAT, ACT, PSAT, civil service exams, TOEFL(Test of English as a Foreign Language), GED, and even citizenship tests. And it's all free!

OMG! It's been a long time since...

I can't believe how long it's been since my last post! My intention is to blog as often as I can get to a computer. Well, this is one of my New Year's resolutions.



Interesting things are happening at the Hart Library. We started a Teen Advisory Group in October. I've gotten some good suggestions from the attendees. How about game board nights and Guitar Hero contests? They're in the works. Who would be interested in an anime club? Tell me!



The 2008 Summer Reading Club theme is "Scare Up a Good Read @ Your Library." Bruno the Gorilla (remember him from last summer?) is itching to help out. I'm busy trying to come up with ideas. If you have any, please share!



As for "printed media," I'd like to focus your attention on graphic novels and manga. We have a good selection of both. Have you seen ads for the movie version of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? We have the graphic novel and its sequel. We also have 300 by Frank Miller and a version of Beowulf by Gareth Hinds. Those great illustrators Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Frank Miller rule! we're continuing the run of Naruto, Hellsing, Fruits Basket, and Teen Titans. We've added new series like R. O. D. by Hideyuki Kurata, Scrapped Princess by Ichiro Sakaki, and Miki Falls by Mark Crilley. The library also has plenty of books on how to draw manga, and cartooning.

Snow in August in February?

One of the best books I've ever read is Snow in August by Pete Hamill. It's the story of a young, baseball-obsessed Irish kid in the 40s who accidentally befriends a rabbi. He teaches the rabbi not only how to speak English but how to play baseball as well. One thing they have in common is harassment from the neighborhood bully and his gang. The best part of this story is how two people who come from very different cultures learn about each other and develop a wonderful friendship. There's also a great subplot about the Golem, a fantastic creature from Jewish folklore.