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Huntingtown High School Library Media Center - February 17, 2011 Author: Mrs. Younkers
Make a reading resolution!
I’m posting this entry just in time for the New Year-- reflecting on my favorite books of 2009 while resolving to read many more in 2010.As the year draws to a close, top picks emerge in annual “best of” lists everywhere. The young adult Library Services Association (YALSA) encourages teens to nominate and select their favorite books annually. In 2009, Paper Towns by John Green won the “teen’s choice” award with the most votes.Have you read it yet?Whether you're a fan of books that are romantic or realistic, fantasy-based or futuristic; be sure to check out YALSA's entire list of 2009 teens’ Top Ten . You can...
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Huntingtown High School Library Media Center - December 30, 2010 Author: Mrs. Younkers
Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life
In the fourth in our series of interviews with authors longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize, Michelle Pauli talks Theresa Breslin about writing historical fiction for a modern audienceHistorical fiction for teens may not be as in vogue as vampires right now, but for Theresa Breslin, the stories the past inspires can seem just as fantastical. The Carnegie-winning Scottish author has written more than 30 children's books, many of them tackling serious contemporary subjects such as bullying – but, recently it has been characters from centuries gone that have caught her imagination.Her latest novel, Prisoner ...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 2, 2010 Author: Michelle Pauli Tags: Guardian children's fiction prize Children and teenagers History Books Awards and prizes Culture guardian.co.uk Interviews Features
Eat the Director's Brain: Zombies Attack The Collingswood Public Library!
“Eat the Director’s Brain”: The Second Annual Collingswood Book Festival 5K Race to Raise Money for the Collingswood Public Library’s teen Area
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LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News - September 2, 2010 Author: Blake Tags: Humor Public Libraries
Eat the Director's Brain: Zombies Attack The Collingswood Public Library!
“Eat the Director’s Brain”: The Second Annual Collingswood Book Festival 5K Race to Raise Money for the Collingswood Public Library’s teen Area
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LISNews.org - September 2, 2010 Author: Blake Tags: Humor Public Libraries
Make Waves @MPL’s Young adult Summer Reading Club!
Make this summer cool by joining us for our young adult Summer Reading Club! July 28, 2010 – YA Drawing August 2, 2010 – Yarn Octopus/Jellyfish Mobile – 2:00 P.M. August 6, 2010 – Party at 2:00 P.M. with Food, Fun, Games, and Activities & Prizes to celebrate the last day of SRC.
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Meadville Public Library - September 2, 2010
August Anime Club Meeting
Today was the August meeting of the Anime Club, right on the eve of everyone returning to school. Tim showed us some clips from the Sonic the Hedgehog anime movie, clips from the Japanese video game it was based on, and some bonus Japanese Sonic commercials! Our manga drawing theme for the meeting was back-to-school, so we also watched some school-themed anime clips. I had super-cute school supplies--piggy pencil sharpeners and panda/frog erasers--for the four winners. (I got them at the dollar store by H-Mart, if you want to track down some for yourself.) Here are all of the drawings: Actual school supplies! Kelliann had ...
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Sellers Library teens - September 1, 2010 Tags: Anime Club art back to school pictures drawing summer 2010 programs manga
Craft Closet Cleanout
Today, 17 teens dropped in to cleanout the craft closet! It was pretty busy, but everyone got to make a variety of stuff. I emptied at least six boxes of leftover projects, so I say it was a success! Several people did extra projects from this summer, including Relief-Painted Bottle Vases, Decoupaged Boxes, Fingerpainting, and Painted Picture Frames. There were also many other crafts hanging around from the past year, such as Message in a Bottle, Jean Leg Autograph Pillows, Scratch-Painted CD Magnets, and Vampire Glitter Gel. Check out the pictures: Fingerpainting!Relief-Painted Bottle Vases Jean Leg Autograph Pillows Deco...
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Sellers Library teens - September 1, 2010 Tags: pictures summer 2010 programs DIY crafts craft closet cleanout
Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical'
Discworld's creator on his new novel, living with Alzheimer's – and why he should be allowed to decide when to end it allWhen, not very long ago, Terry Pratchett's father was given a year to live, Pratchett père took it, on the whole, philosophically. Father and son had plenty of time to "have those conversations that you have with a dying parent", and to reminisce about his father's time in India during the war. At one point, said Pratchett, in last year's Dimbleby lecture, his father suddenly said, "'I can feel the sun of India on my face,' and his face did light up rather magically, brighter and happier than I had s...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 1, 2010 Author: Aida Edemariam Tags: Terry Pratchett Books Science fiction, fantasy and horror Culture Alzheimer's Health & wellbeing Life and style Assisted suicide Law Society The Guardian Features
Digested read: Tony Blair A Journey
WMDs, George Bush, Cherie and Gordo: Tony Blair's memoir in just 818 words!Title A JourneyAuthor Tony BlairPublisher HutchinsonPrice £25I wanted this book to be different from the traditional political memoir. Most, I have found, are rather easy to put down. So what you will read here is not a conventional account of whom I met. There are events and politicians who are absent, not because they don't matter, but because they are part of a different story to the self-serving one I want to tell!No, seriously guys, this is going to be well different. How many other world leaders use so many exclamation marks! And it is as a w...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 1, 2010 Author: John Crace Tags: Tony Blair Politics Gordon Brown Labour Books Culture The Guardian Features
Mysterious Messages
Listen to Lorena and Olivia explain how you can learn all about codes and ciphers at the library. (1:07)
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OCLS Podcast (OCLS teen Podcast) - September 1, 2010 Author: Orange County Library System Tags: OCLS teen Podcast
The literary (anti)heroes of middle age
Widmerpool, Anthony Powell's ghastly creation in The Dance To The Music of Time, is a spectre to haunt the middle agedA treat turned up on my doorstep yesterday: a new book called The Midlife Manual, by John O'Connell and Jessica Cargill Thompson. I say treat: with my birthday coming next week, it's all a bit close to the bone. I particularly enjoyed their notion of the midlife literary anti-hero. O'Connell (who reviews thrillers for our Review) and Cargill Thompson picked out Widmerpool, the character from Anthony Powell's 12-novel sequence A Dance To The Music of Time. They describe him thus:A classic type: the cowardly ...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 1, 2010 Tags: Culture Books Classics Jane Austen guardian.co.uk Blogposts
Why demon heads of children's fiction are role models for trainee teachers
Roald Dahl's Miss Trunchbull or Gillian Cross's Demon Headmaster demonstrate the exercise of power, study findsThey may be sadistic figures who hate children, but a study suggests that the savage portrayal of headteachers in children's literature possesses a grain of truth and may even be helpful when it comes to training teachers who aspire to lead schools.Characters like Miss Agatha Trunchbull, from Roald Dahl's Matilda, or the Demon Headmaster, from the sequence by Gillian Cross, can teach children to think about power and how it can be used for malign purposes, Professor Pat Thomson, director of the centre for research...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - September 1, 2010 Author: Jeevan Vasagar Tags: Books Children and teenagers Teacher training Teaching Education Roald Dahl JK Rowling Harry Potter Fiction UK news The Guardian
Upper Township's library branch to celebrate its makeover Sept. 8
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By CAITLIN DINEEN, Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Upper Township Branch of the Cape May County Library system is open again after it was closed for seven months for renovations and improvements.
The upgrades - which cost a total of $980,000 - may not be noticeable from the outside, but library patrons visiting the newly renovated site will notice all the big changes once they get inside.
"It was really a gloomy, dark building," said Deborah Poillon, adding that new lighting was among several changes made to the interior of the library.
The Upper Township bra...
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NJLA Blog -- The Official Weblog of the New Jersey Library Association - September 1, 2010 Author: tumulty
September Book of the Month
Fat Kid Rules the WorldBy K.L. GoingTroy Billings isn’t just a fat kid. Troy is the fat kid. He is the fat kid that huffs and puffs when he breathes. He’s the fat kid that trips over everything. He’s the fat kid that jiggles when he runs. Worst of all, Troy is the fat kids that will always make people laugh, especially when it’s at his expense and would not be funny if a skinny person was involved. One day, Troy was standing on the edge of a subway platform, carefully considering how humorous it would be if he propelled his almost 300 pounds into the subway tunnel and splattered against a speeding train. App...
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Lansing Library teen News - September 1, 2010 Author: Brandi
Book Review
Wildwingby Emily WhitmanDo you believe in time travel? Addy couldn't even fathom the thought before she was accidentally swept away in a mysterious time machine to medieval England. She wasn't necessarily sad about the change in scenery because back home, in the 1940s, Addy was a servant. However in medieval England, Addy has been mistaken for the Lady Matilda. She quickly embraces the new name, time period, and lifestyle. Despite the comforts of her station, Addy realizes that even this life isn't completely perfect. This forces her to make a hard decision...stay and enjoy her life as a lady or follow her heart and go ...
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teen Stuff @ Mesa County Libraries - August 31, 2010 Author: teen Librarian
Teens' Top Ten
It's time to make your selections for this year's edition of the teens' Top Ten! Have your say about the most popular books of the year. The winners will be announced during teen Read Week in October. You only get to vote for three, but there are lots of great choices on the list, including:Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonHeist Society by Ally CarterCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsAlong for the Ride by Sarah DessenIncarceron by Catherine FisherIf I Stay by Gale FormanWitch and Wizard by James PattersonLeviathan by Scott Westerfeld
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Sellers Library teens - August 30, 2010 Tags: teen Read Week teens' Top Ten
What’s in a name?
Two young men with the same name were featured in the Baltimore Sun in December 2000. One was named a Rhodes Scholar and the other was wanted for allegedly killing a police officer in an armed robbery. These two young men started out on very similar paths - how did their lives turn out so differently?
The full story of what happened is told by Wes Moore, the Rhodes Scholar, veteran, White House Fellow and successful businessman in The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. This book should be required reading for all middle school students. That’s around the age things really started to fall apart for the o...
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MADreads - August 30, 2010 Author: Molly - Central Tags: Memoir & Biography Nonfiction
Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke
Filled with vitality and physical exuberance, this week's bank holiday choice is that rare thing: a happy poemThis week's choice, "Pier", by one of today's most interesting younger Irish poets, Vona Groarke, seems to be that comparatively rare thing: a happy poem. It centres on the thrill, in the author's words, of "jumping into the sea from a high fishing pier."It might stir your own nostalgia for childhood and teenage derring-do, but if you're lucky - and wise - you won't have outgrown such experiences, nor save them only for bank holidays. "Pier" isn't designed to deliver a message, but it nevertheless says something ab...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 30, 2010 Author: Carol Rumens Tags: Poetry Books Culture guardian.co.uk Blogposts
Youth Outreach Coordinator (Full Time) - Youth Services Department
State: Illinois
Full-time position available. The Youth Outreach Coordinator is responsible for recommending, developing, and implementing outreach programs such as family literacy nights, Spanish storytime, and teen parenting events. Bachelor's degree. Experience with children required. Spanish language skills required. Experience working with diverse or underserved populations a plus.
Schedule: 37.5 hours per week includes every Thursday evening, one weekend per month, and one Friday night every other month. Additional evening and weekend hours may be required for programs and meetings. Benefits. Annual pay: $2...
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SLIS Careers Feed - August 30, 2010
LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #118
This week's episode is a quick look at last week's zeitgeist, highlights of the "slushpile", and an editorial from Mike Kellat, the owner of Erie Looking Productions. A related commentary released online by Ontario public broadcaster TVO from commentator Jesse Brown connected to the editorial can be found here directly as an M4V video file.
Due to communications complications the audio payload was originally uploaded over GPRS via a Nokia E71x. Cable broadband is having issues locally apparently relative to throughput.
Related links:
Matt Welch on FTC regulating online reviews
The Ohio News Network on teen texting
Nielse...
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LISNews.org - August 30, 2010 Author: Stephen Michael KellatStephenK Tags: LISNews Features LISNews Netcast Network LISTen LNN Experimental Public Libraries
Youth Artists Wanted
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SANTA FESEEKING YOUTH ARTISTSTO ASSIST WITH BUS MURAL Literacy Volunteers are looking for teen and young adult artists to help paint a literacy mural on the side and back of a Santa Fe Trails bus on September 16 and 17.Muralist and literacy advocate Phil Yeh will be in Santa Fe on September 16-18 as part of Literacy Volunteers 25th celebration. Phil is an exciting person who has done over 1800 murals around the world and written books over the past 25 years.If you are interested, please contact Meredith Machen, President, Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe, 988-4523 or 577-6337, mermachen@cybermesa.com....
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ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog - August 30, 2010 Author: am at main
Closing the blog
My friends, all good things must come to an end.This will be the final post on the YA Know @ BCL blog. We have enjoyed sharing events and books with you over the past few years, but as the whirlwind of technology moves on, we are shifting our focus to other venues!teens: Follow us on Facebook! We update our wall 3-4 times a week with new book releases, hot programs, author news, etc. Our location is the "Beaverton City Library teen Divison" page.Teachers/Parents: Follow us at teendom, Tweendom! We update this blog on a weekly basis with good homework resources, college prep and scholarships, book news, etc. Add us t...
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YA KNOW @ BCL - August 30, 2010 Author: Courtney, teen Librarian
What I've learned about Teenagers
Writing 11 novels for teenagers gives you a special insight on their world, from their use of language to their taste in fashion1teen rebellions involving clothes dyed black with Dylon, sausages rejected as "meat is murder" or hair backcombed into a landmass don't shock parents now. The most shocking act of rebellion a little caucasian agnostic girl from Penrith could pull is a flash conversion to Islam, before swishing down to Londis wearing full niqab. Inshallah, you are so grounded.2Scores of inner-city kids live their lives on what must feel like a giant Pac-Man grid, being chased by enemies whenever they leave home. A...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 29, 2010 Author: Grace Dent Tags: Life and style Young people Society Books The Guardian Features
Texas Teen Lit Festival Will Be Minus Several Authors
UPDATE According to the Houston Observer, the scheduled festival has BEEN CANCELLED in its entirely, due to the number of participants who have chose
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pligg - all - August 29, 2010 Tags: Current Events
Once upon a life: Deborah Feldman
Brought up in a strict Hasidic community in New York, Deborah Feldman could only dream of lipstick and jeans, cigarettes and playing the piano. So what happened when, in her twenties, she renounced her religion?I grew up in the black-and-white section of Brooklyn, New York. The men in my family wore black hats, black coats and white shirts, they studied black-and-white books and said bright colours were the work of the devil.I read books, too, but they were in English, not Hebrew, and they came from the forbidden public library, and in their black-and-white pages I was introduced to a foreign, exciting world. The spicy r...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 28, 2010 Tags: Life and style Books Judaism The Observer Features
The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
Over a range of troubling themes – the uncertainty of belonging, the inscrutibility of men – Elizabeth Hardwick's fiction shines with wisdom and craft, writes Tim AdamsThere is a gap of 20 years in this selection of Elizabeth Hardwick's short stories, between the late 1950s when she and her husband, the poet Robert Lowell, moved from New York to Boston, and 1980, when, after their divorce and Lowell's death (in a taxi on the way to her apartment), she seemed to discover her fictional voice once more. Hardwick was not idle in between times. She helped to found the New York Review of Books in 1963 and illuminated its pag...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 28, 2010 Author: Tim Adams Tags: Elizabeth Hardwick Fiction Culture Books Short stories The Observer Reviews
But first a bit of blogging...
I admit it. Until the other day, I could not tell you who Ken Mehlman was. Although I am probably more political (being on the progressive left) than many people, I don't keep up with the Republicans as much as I ought, especially the chairs of their national committee.
But the other day I subscribe to Joe. My. God. And then Mehlman came out as gay, after denying it for years and working against gays in so many ways for years. And Joe Jervis has been extremely educational.
The good news is that, finally having come to terms with himself, apparently, he has come out as an advocate for gay marriage. The bad news, of cour...
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The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind - August 28, 2010 Author: Eilir
A life in drawing: Posy Simmonds
'A graphic novel is like a film. There are close-ups and long-shots. You choose the location and the props. You do the make-up and the lighting and you get the characters to act.'A couple of months ago Posy Simmonds found herself ensconced in a French hotel suite for 48 hours being interviewed, almost continuously, by TV and radio stations. She was talking about the film version of her graphic novel Tamara Drewe, which was then about to premiere at Cannes and is now about to open in London. Her French is very good, but she still brushed up on her vocabulary to anticipate a few likely questions. "I thought they'd ask what w...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 27, 2010 Tags: Posy Simmonds Culture Art Comics Film Thomas Hardy The Guardian Features
Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre | Book review
Alan Warner is impressed by DBC Pierre's fast and furious satire on contemporary decadenceIn a perfect inversion of plain truth, the Royal Bank of Scotland recently assured from billboards that it is "Here For You". In reality the exact contrary is true: We Are Here For It. Capitalism without pesky democracy is our future. If any novelist can collate the killing irony of what is happening around us it is DBC Pierre, who has boiled it down to a culinary emulsion of Hunter S Thompson and Ludwig Bemelmans.Gabriel Brockwell is an anti-globalisation activist whose daddy never loved him, a booze- and cocaine-partial sybarite in ...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 27, 2010 Author: Alan Warner Tags: Fiction Books Culture The Guardian Reviews
