The Winners of the Teens' Top Ten

Students around the country voted for their favorite top ten books out of the 25 nominated titles listed in a past entry.  The books are listed in the order they won with number 1 favorite this year - Catching Fire!  The library has all of the winners in the collection, so stop by and check them out.

The 2010 Teens’ Top Ten are:                         
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Heist Society by Ally Carter
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Fire by Kristin Cashore
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Library Book Club

We had our second meeting this past week.  The club elected officers, talked up ideas for spirit week and looked over the new book selections that we will be reading this year.  We are starting off with The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. 

Scholarship Sweepstakes

Author James Patterson is giving away a number of awards to be used for the purchase of college books. Awards range from $250 - $5000. See the attached link.

http://jamespatterson.com/dollars-for-scholars-entries.php

Ashley Favorites

The following 25 titles and authors were the most checked out fiction titles for the last school year.  See if you have read any of them.  They are listed in alphabetical order by author, each title was checked out by at least 10-15 students.

Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Darkest Powers series - Armstrong, Kelley
House of Night series - Cast, P.C.
Love Sick - Colburn, Jake
Waiting for You - Colasanti, Susane
Hunger Games series - Collins, Suzanne
Just Listen - Dessen, Sarah
Keep it movin' - Divine, L.
Gone series - Grant, Michael
Impulse - Hopkins, Ellen
Kimani Tru series - variety of authors
Freaks - Klause, Annette Curtis
Venomous - Krovatin, Christopher
Vampire Academy series - Mead, Richelle
Twilight series - Meyer, Stephenie
Maximum Ride series - Patterson, James
Touch - Prose, Francine
The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn
Interview with the Vampire - Rice, Anne
Vampire Kisses - Schreiber, Ellen
Perfect You - Scott, Elizabeth
Night World - Smith, L. J.
The Notebook - Sparks, Nicholas
Season of Eden - Warwick, J.M.

Teens Top 10 - Vote!!

Voting is open until September 17th.  The nominations were the result of teen book clubs across the country working with publishers and YALSA, a division of ALA.  You can now vote to help determine the winner.  Last year 11,000 students voted for Paper Towns by John Green.  There are 25 finalists, you may vote for your favorite 3.  The first link will have a listing of the nominations with a short description, and the second link is the ballot.  I hope you have read a number of these great titles, if not we will have a display in the media center of the ones we have.  The winner will be announced during Teen Read Week October 17-23, 2010.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/2010_tttnoms.pdf
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teenstopten2010

Read Print - Online Books

This site is a free online book library.  It has fiction, non-fiction, plays, poetry and short stories.  You may search by author or title.  Most of the listings are classic titles and I noticed that a couple of titles have been withdrawn by publishers, such as 1984 and Animal Farm by Orwell and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald but most of the others seem fine.  There will be a permanent link in the right column of this blog for you to access these titles at any time.

Foreign Language Books

The ESL department was very generous at the end of last year and gave the media center money to purchase titles in Spanish, Korean and Arabic to add to our collection.  They are located in the 400's section.  They will be useful for our ESL students to read popular fiction and classic titles and may also be checked out by students who would like to improve their foreign language skills.

Classics

Have you seen that section in the library and wondered what type of books those were? Has your teacher or parent recommended Great Expectations, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Animal Farm, Pride and Prejudice or something they read when they were teens? What was your reaction? Sure, Not!! Well check out this website and get an idea about what makes these titles great. Find out why they have lasted for generations. These video clips might also come in handy if you ever get assigned to read them in class. http://www.60secondrecap.com/

Steampunk

"Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction. The books are set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used - usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era Britain. They might also contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine). Some recent titles have placed steampunk elements in books that are not in any specific time period. The Wild Wild West televison series and movie reflect elements of steampunk. There is a growing movement establishing steampunk as a culture and lifestyle". For more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/steampunk

For titles that we have in the media center that fall in this genre check OPAC or go to the Book List page.

Audiobooks

Looking for something to listen to? Download some free Young Adult titles to listen to over the summer. Each week 2 titles will be available, July 1 - September 1.

New titles will be posted on the site on Thursdays.

http://www.audiobookcommunity.com/group/sync

Welcome

Hope you enjoy and make use of this new site. We will be posting info about new books, events happening in the media center, our book club and links to a variety of sites that pertain to authors and books you might find interesting. If you come across anything that you think we should include please pass it on to the librarians and we will post it.

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