Just a heads up!

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Reading with 6th graders at SSMS

Hi, it was a busy day today after my lunch at ESMS (see below), I had the honor of heading over to SSMS to talk and read to a few 6th grade classes. They were celebrating National Read to Children week and it was great to see them and read part of the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan to them. It's a great book and the first in a series that you won't be able to put down!

Lunch at ESMS

Hi, I was back at ESMS for Library at Lunch and had a blast watching and playing games with the 6th, 7th and 8th graders that attended. I hope to come back soon, so keep an eye and ear out for more details!

Election Season

I am sure you can't help but have noticed that in 2 weeks we have elections coming up and while you won't be able to vote (sorry it bummed me out too when I was your age), you can still learn about the candidates and our electoral system. Check out this link from the Library of Congrees which is all about Elections: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/election/home.html

Booktalks @ ESMS

Hi, sorry this is a day late but yesterday I had the pleasure of booktalking for Ms. Hird's classes at ESMS. It was a lot of fun and you all did a great job asking and answering questions! Just a reminder that all of these books are on the AR list for ESMS, so they count towards your reading for that!! Here are the titles:
· The Gospel According to Larry By Janet Tashijan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Coraline By Neil Gaiman
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Witness By Karen Hesse
· Fever, 1793 By Laurie Halse Anderson
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· Gossamer By Lois Lowry

Fall is finally in the air!

Did you have good weekend? I used Saturday and Sunday to do nice Fall-y kind of things, like going to an orchard and picking out a pumpkin. I also went through a corn maze which was fun. What's your favorite thing to do in the fall?

I had my first visit to APA today and had a blast! You all asked some great questions, which I always love:) Here's a list of the titles that I brought with me and most will be available on your next bookmobile visit:

· The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Hope to see you all soon in the library and can't wait to visit APA again!

Booktalks with Mrs. Sipes's classes

I enjoyed my time at SSMS talking to 8th graders, some of you more than once! Here's teh list of titles that I brought with me:

· The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Booktalks @ Eastside!

Hey, I had fun at ESMS in Mrs. Kennedy's class. Here are the books that I brought with me plus The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Happy Reading!

· The Lightning Thief By Jack Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Ahoy Me Mateys

and shiver me timbers! Did you know today is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Check out this website for more info: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.htmlAvast and take a look, ye lubbers! Hint: check out the website for a translation!

Meanwhile, if you are looking for a good teen read about pirates check out the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer.

Book talks at SSMS with Mrs. Moulder's classes

Oops, this post is a couple of days late-so sorry to Mrs. Moulder's students since I told you I would have this posted when I got back to APL but it has been a busy couple of days! Anyway, I loved coming to visit Mrs. Moulder and her Reading students and had a great time. Hope you enjoyed the booktalks and here's the list of what I brought just in case you need it as promised!

· The Lightning Thief By Jack Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Thursday Theater: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This Thursday, September 11th come to APL and watch a movie. The fun starts at 6:00 in the Miami Room and their will be snacks:) plus a great movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to watch as well! See you there!

More booktalks ahead...

In the upcoming weeks, I will be at ESMS, SSMS and NSMS to do booktalks, booktalks and more booktalks! So keep on the lookout for me, I could be coming to a class near you very soon!

Booktalks with Mrs. Wildman's classes

Today, I had the opportunity (or should pleasure:) to go visit with all of Mrs. Wildman's classes at NSMS. You all were awesome and I had a blast, some of you asked some very interseting questions and I hope I answered them all;) As I promised, earlier today in class-here is the list of books that we talked discussed! Hope to see you at the library:)

· The Lightning Thief By Jack Riordan
· Code Orange By Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole By Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen By Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie By David Lubar
· City of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau
· The Compound By S.A. Bodeen

Booktalks @ ESMS

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of stopping by ESMS to talk to Mrs. Riggins' reading class about library programs and book talk a few books. I had fun and the stopped by the Media Center to drop off some fliers, so if you go to ESMS there are fliers about the teen programs @ APL for this month, grab one while supplies last!

Here are the titles that I brought and we talked about in class:

· The Lightning Thief by Jack Riordan
· Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
· Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
· Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
· Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
· City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
· Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
· Sixth Grade glommers, norks, & me by Lisa Papademetriou
· The Compound by S.A. Bodeen

School of Rock

What better way to "celebrate" the return of school than by showing the movie School of Rock tomorrow night? It's at 6:00 pm in the Miami Room. This is one of my favorite movies, so I hope you can make it!!

Rock Band!!

Come join us for a game program the afternoon of August 19th at 3:30 up in the Delaware Room. I will have Rock Band out so we can play with it. I can't wait-Rock Band rocks!

School days, school days

So school is right around the corner or if you are going to the new Anderson Preparatory Academy then it's already here! So how's your summer been? Have you done anything fun or exciting? Are you excited to start school again?

Thanks!

To all of you who participated in the Teen SRP, thanks and you rock! APL had 380 teens sign up at the Main branch this summer and broke a few records on the way!! Last night @ the After-hours party we had 106 teens from both Main and Lapel attend to play games and win prizes. Fun was had by all, even if I didn't get to play Rock Band:) Oh well, that just means I will have to bring the Rock Band out soon for a program! keep your eyes peeled!!

Chhhhanges....

Have you taken a look at our new home page here @ APL? If not, then here's the link: http://www.andersonlibrary.net , so go take a look. At first, you may think it looks the same but look again, scroll down a little and then take a look at the left hand column. There are now links to our blogs, the APL Teen Scene MySpace page, Twitter and our Ning. Check it out!!

Metamorphosis @ APL update #2

Can you believe that it's nearing the end of July already!!! Let's not think about how that means school is just around the corner but instead I want to remind you all that our Teen SRP, Metamorphosis @ APL is nearing the end. No worries, b/c you still have 1 week left to read and claim your prizes. That is JULY 31st!!!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!! And if you haven't signed up yet, there's still time (see above:), so what are you waiting for???

Blog Links!

Blogger has this (sort of) new feature in which you can make a sidebar of your favorite blogs, so I decide dto do just that.

If you take a look over to the right side of the page, there are now links to my favorite YA author blogs and also links to the new blogs that we have started here at APL, including What's New at APL and the Children's Department blog, so take a look at see what is happening here at the library and also with some really great YA authors!

PS-If you have some favorite blogs that you think I should link to then let me know below in Comments!

Just Ning'n it

Have you all heard of the Ning? It's another online social networking tool that is available on the web. I like it better than MySpace because you can create your own groups, ning etc. Nings have been around for a little while but are just starting to really take off probably due in part to the Nerdfighters ning, which was started by John and Hank Green. John is a YA author who's two books, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, are not only great reads but award winners, as well. Hank is also a writer and web designer and has his own website called Ecogeek, which shows us way we can be more enviromentally friendly but also how technology can also be ecofriendly. Their ning (http://nerdfighters.ning.com/) was created as a result of the Brotherhood 2.0 project. This project which lasted all of last year (there are links to it on the ning's main page) had John and Hank vlogging to each other every day except the weekends and holidays. Anyway, I digress:) Just wanted to give you a heads up on NIngs and also encourage you to check out the Nerdfighters ning and tell you to check it out and also go to ning.com to check out other nings. Whaddya think? I would love to hear your thoughts, leave them in the comments!

Updated Websites

Hey, I updated some of the website links, so you can now see the winner of this year's Rosie Award. What is a Rosie? A Rosie, which is short for the Elliot Rosewater Award is the award given to an outstanding teen book each by the Indiana Library Federation and more importantly you all because teens in the state of Indiana are the ones to vote on teen books and decide the winner. This year's winner and it should come as no shocker to all of you reading it and waiting for it to come back into the library since no matter how many copies we have there are never enough but I am not going to give to you the title here, instead follow the link here to see the winner, the other nominated titles (just because they didn't win doesn't mean you shouldn't check out these great titles!):



http://www.ilfonline.org/AIME/Rosie/EliotRosewaterProgram.htm



If you are interested in the Rosies, encourage your teacher, school media specialist or principal to become one of the schools that participates, the information you need is in the above link!

Metamorphosis @ APL update

Wow!! Our Teen Summer Reaing Program is going great, so far over 300 have you signed up to participate in the program and many of you have to come to all the faboulous programs we are offering to teens this summer. Not to mention that over 120 of you have gotten your SRP t-shirts which are your tickets to After-Hours Party where we will have games, pizza, raffle off prizes, and much, much more!

If you haven't signed up or finished Level 3 yet for your free shirt, don't worry there is still plenty of time left, so come in and get signed up and continue reading!!

Don't forget-we show a movie every Thursday and also have other great programs so check out our website (http://www.and.lib.in.us/teenscene/whatshappening/) or our MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/andersonlibrary).

2008 We the People Bookshelf on Created Equal

Thanks to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association we have received the following books that you can come in and check out:

Kindergarten through Grade 3: “The Ugly Duckling,” by Hans Christian Andersen;
“The Gettysburg Address,” by Abraham Lincoln;
“Pink and Say,” by Patricia Polacco;
“Pink y Say,” by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra López Varela)

Grades 4 through 6:
“Elijah of Buxton,” by Christopher Paul Curtis;
“Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence,”
by Russell Freedman; “Lincoln: A Photobiography,” by Russell Freedman;
“Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom,” by Virginia Hamilton; “Lyddie,” by Katherine Paterson;
“Lyddie,” by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides)

Grades 7 through 8:
“Saturnalia,” by Paul Fleishman;
“Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott,” by Russell Freedman;
“Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches And Letters,” edited by Harold Holzer;
“Breaking Through,” by Francisco Jiménez;
“Senderos Fronterizos,” by Francisco Jiménez (translated by Francisco Jiménez)

Grades 9 through 12:
“Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution,” by Natalie S. Bober;
“That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth,” by Nez Perce Chief Joseph;
“Flowers for Algernon,” by Daniel Keyes;
“Flores para Algernon,” by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso);
“Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography,” by William Lee Miller;
“Amistad: A Novel,” by David Pesci

The titles that are for grades 7-12 will be on display in the Teen Room for the next couple of weeks, so take a look and check some out!

For more info, go to the Bookshelf website: http://publicprograms.ala.org/bookshelf/

Metamorphosis @ APL

In case you haven't seen me at your school or gotten at least a flier about this year's Teen Summer Reading, here's the scoop:

You must be going into 6th-12th grades.
You do not need an APL card but they are useful to have:)
You count hours not books.
You can read whatever you want: books, magazines, comic books, graphic novels, listen to audiobooks/Playaways, etc
You do have to sign up and you can do that starting May 31st at the library either the Check out desk or at Information Services.

The SRP runs from May 31st to July 31st and there are some great prizes (a goodie bag just for signing up) and programs including our End of Summer Reading After Hours Party if you complete the SRP where we give away some faboulous prizes!

For more info stop by the Info Services desk, call 641-2456 or e-mail: teen@and.lib.in.us

See you this Summer!!

ESMS visit with 6th & 7th graders

I had a great time visiting several of the 6th grade reading classes again, as well as Ms. Hird's 7th graders. I hope you all had fun and come in starting May 31st to sign up for the Teen Summer Reading Program! Here are the books that we discussed (and just a heads up a couple of these titles are available as prizes for completing level 2 of the SRP!!)

Life As We Knew It by Mary Beth Pfeffer
The Fold by An Na
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Happy Reading:)

Booktalks and SRP @ NSMS

Thanks to Mrs Wildman and her 7th and 8th grade classes for having me come for booktalks and to promote the Teen Summer Reading Program (more about that soon-btw). As always, I had fun and hope you did as well. Here are the titles that I brought with me today. Happy Reading and I hope to see you all soon @ APL!!

Life As We Knew It by Mary Beth Pfeffer

The Fold by An Na

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Pharoah's Curse Mystery Program

Hey, if you are between the ages of 9-14 then come to APL this Wednesday, May 14th from 6-8:30 and help us solve the mystery of the Pharoah's Curse! Here's a description of the program:

She was Queen of the Nile until the accident...or was it attempted murder?
Join your fellow detectives at The Anderson Public Library in solving the mystery, “The Pharaoh’s Curse.” You must investigate the crime scene and carefully examine the evidence in order to solve the crime. All detectives must be 9 to 14 years of age to participate in this interactive mystery.

Please register for this program by calling 641-2448 or online at andersonlibrary.net

Hope to see you there!

The merry month of May

So here are a few tidbits about the month of May that you may (or may not:) find interesting!

Did you know that May is both National Barbeque and Hamburger Month? Makes sense since as the weather is getter nicer and warmer, we want to fire up the grills and cook out...mmmm....sounds good!

Also, with the nicer weather you should know that May is National Bike Month so get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a bike ride.

I think that is what I will do tomorrow, grill up a hamburger or two and then go for a bike ride!!

Thanks!!

Thank you to everyone that attended the Read 'n' Feed featuring Neal Shusterman, as one of the comment cards said and to me this summed it up perfectly: Neal Shusterman ROX!! I agree and thought you all rocked as well. I had a great time and hope you did as well.

Read 'n' Feed featuring Neal Shusterman tonight!!

Just a quick reminder to all that have their copy of Everlost and are hopefully done with it but even if youa re not that's okay:) to come to the Read 'n' Feed tonight at 7pm in the Chief Anderson Room at APL so you can meet Neal Shusterman and hear him speak about Everlost and his other books!!! Hope to see you there!!:)

Shake, rattle and roll

So the question that everyone has been asking today is did you feel it? So did you feel the earthquake this morning? I did and it was the craziest thing to me anyway but after that I was up for the day:)

Just a bit of trivia for you, the huge earthquake that hit San Francisco way back in 1906-you know the one and the fires that started as a result that destroyed the city also happened on April 18th!

2008 Read 'n' Feed featuring Neal Shusterman

Okay, so I have been hinting about the Read 'n' Feed and the book Everlost for a few weeks now and finally I have a chance to devote a whole post about it and give you all the scoop!

Our 2008 Read 'n' Feed is April 29, 2008 at 7 pm in the Chief Anderson Room. This year the YA Author that is visiting is Neal Shusterman and we have distributed copies of his book Everlost to several classes and have few at the library to hand out while supplies last.

I am very excited because Neal is one of my favorite authors and I have read several of his books and can't wait to meet him and hear him speak about his books!

This month's book on the blog sidebar is none other than Everlost, so look it over and then come to APL to check it out! Plus, if you like it we have a bookmark that talks about several other of Neal's books that we have in the Teen Area!

I hope to see you on the 29th at the Read 'n' Feed featuring Neal Shusterman!!

Booktalks with ESMS

Yesterday, I had the chance to visit ESMS again and this time book talk to 6th, 7th & 8th graders, about 300 of you total! It was great and I enjoyed being able to tell so many of you about these great books and the upcoming Read 'n' Feed with Neal Shusterman! My next post will be about that I promise! Anyway, here's a list of the books that I brought with me to ESMS:

Hidden Talents
By David Lubar
Crash
By Jerrry Spinelli
Things Not Seen
By Andrew Clements
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
By Jeff Kinney
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By Brian Selznick
Love Among the Walnuts
By Jean Ferris
Chasing Vermeer
By Blue Balliet
Everlost
By Neal Shusterman

HAPPY READING:)

Booktalks with Mrs. Riggins's class

Hi, I was at ESMS this morning talking up books, especially Everlost. More on that soon I promise! Anyway, I had fun you all asked some great questions and here's a list of the titles that I brought with me and we chatted about in class.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By Brian Selznick

Hush
By Donna Napoli

The Looking Glass Wars
By Frank Beddor

Everlost
By Neal Shusterman

Hot Lunch
By Alex Bradley

Love Among the Walnuts
By Jean Ferris

Someone Named Eva
By Joan Wolf

Beastly
By Alex Flinn

Booktalks at Highland High School

Hi, I had blast book talking to Mrs. Garner's classes. You all were great especially 7th period:)

In case, you lost your list of books or for those who weren't in the classes and might be looking for some teen books to read, here's the list:

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
By Chris Crutcher
Beastly
By Alex Flinn
Hush
By Donna Jo Napoli
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
By David Lubar
First Part Last
By Angela Johnson
Double Helix
By Nancy Werlin
Everlost
By Neal Shusterman
Hot Lunch
By Alex Bradley

April Fool's Day

What to know a little more about April Fool's Day and where it came from? Then check out this link:

Facts on April Fool's Day from National Geographic

No Fooling, I promise:)

Book talks at NSMS

Today, I was able to visit NSMS and talk with Mrs. Wildman's classes about several great books that APL has in it's collection and of course, EVERLOST!

Here are the titles, so you can see if they are checked in or even put them on hold!

Happy Reading!!

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By Brian Selznick

Hush
By Donna Napoli

The Looking Glass Wars
By Frank Beddor

Everlost
By Neal Shusterman

Hot Lunch
By Alex Bradley

Love Among the Walnuts
By Jean Ferris

Someone Named Eva
By Joan Wolf

Beastly
By Alex Flinn

Book talks @ SSMS

Today it was my pleasure to visit Mrs. Sipes's classes @ SSMS, I enjoyed visiting with everyone and talking up some great reads about World War II and the Holocaust. ANd of course, Everlost-the book for the Read 'n' Feed (more on that in a later blog:). In case you want to check and see if any of the titles are in or if you lost the handy sheet that I passed out (it happens, I know-you should have seen my locker when I was in middle school!), here are the titles that I brought to SSMS. Enjoy!

Everlost by Neal Shusterman
A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Bartoletti
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Someone Named Eva by Joan Wolf

Spring is almost here!

Tomorrow is the first day of spring, so hopefully we will start seeing some sun and warmer weather soon! What do you like best about spring? I love seeing the buds on the trees and the smells of spring.

So what else is March?

I mentioned earlier that March is National Fitness Month but here are some other things that are celebrated in the month of March:

Do you play in your school band or sing in your school choir? Then you might be interested in knowing that March is Music in our Schools Month. For more info, check out this website:
www.menc.org

Are you crafty? Then celebrate National Craft Month!

It is also Women's History Month in March as well. Take a look at this website http://www.nwhp.org/ for more info.

March is...

National Fitness Month and to help celebrate that I am excited to announce that this Saturday, March 15th at 2:00, the Teen Services Department is having a GET FIT with DDR program.

Come test out our DDR and see how by playing games you can also get a good workout! Also, you will find out how to make healthy snacks and also sample them, so come and Get Fit w/DDR @ APL!!

APL's Teen Scene MySpace page

I am so excited to announce that our MyPace page for teens is now up and running! Come check it out, we have pictures and a video about our upcoming Summer Reading Program. It also has links to our website, catalog, new materials and APL's chat. Also, it lists up and coming events for teens @ APL! Here's a link to our MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/andersonlibrary

Teen Tech Week

Come to the library next week to celebrate Teen Tech Week by attending programs like the Guitar Hero 3 Tournament on Thursday, March 6th from 6-8:30 in the Miami Room or the
Ins and Outs of MySpace Program on Tuesday, March 4th from 3:30-4:30 in the Community Technology Center to learn about MySpace and how to be safe on MySpace! You must be in at least 8th grade to attend and must register by calling 641-2456 or registering online at http://andersonlibrary.net

Also, grab a free Teen Tech Bookmark while supplies last!

Visiting class from Indiana Christian Academy

Hi, I enjoyed having the Juniors from Mrs. Rooks's class at the Indiana Christian Academy come to the library for a visit to learn about how to use our online databases and searching the Internet. They were a great class and how some good questions. They are welcome back anytime as is any class that wants to visit the library!

Thanks to Mrs. Sipes's classes!

I had fun today at SSMS booktalking with the 8th graders in Mrs. Sipes's classes.

Here are the titles that we talked about in class:

Make Lemonade
By Virgiana Euwer Wolff

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
By Ron Koertge

Who killed Mr. Chippendale?
By Mel Glenn

Bronx Masquerade
By Nikki Grimes

Witness
By Karen Hesse

Braid
By Helen Frost

Sister Slam
By Linda Oatman High

Game Time

Do you feel like playing some Jenga, Monopoly, Sorry etc. Then come on down tomorrow to the Library to our Game Time @ APL from 3:30-5:30 up in the Delaware room!

Warning: Valentine's Day is approaching! (a plug for the Anti-Valentine's Day Party for Teens @ APL !)

And if like many of us, you feel the need to NOT celebrate this holiday then come to the ANTI-Valentines Day Party at APL on February 14th from 6-8:00. Decorate broken heart cookies, make ANTI-Valentine's Day cards, craft black roses out of duct tape, rock out to Guitar Hero III etc! Dressing in black optional but encouraged!

Chocolate Fest...

was a huge success! Thanks to all that attended and I hope you had as much fun as I did. Were you sick of chocolate by the time you left? Naahhhh.....not possible, right? I think this program was a keeper, so look for it next February as well! And then there is the Pizza Taste off that I have planned for the fall!

Book talks with Mrs. Wildman's class

Hey, I had the chance to visit the 7th & 8th grade classes of Mrs. Wildman at NSMS yesterday and as always had a great time. Hope to see all of you at the library and at some of the upcoming programs that we are having in February for teens.



Here is a list of the books that I brought to class:


Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
We Beat the Street: How a friendship pact led to success
Turnabout by Margaret Haddix
Mythbusters: Don’t try this at home!
Phineas Gage: A gruesome and true story about Brain Science by John Fleischman
Hitler Youth by Susan Bartoletti
Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser
Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde

Book talks with Mrs. Moulder's classes

Today, I was lucky enough to visit SSMS to give book talks to the 7th & 8th grade classes in Mrs. Moulder's classroom. Of course, I had fun (I love being able to visit the schools and meet some many of the teens that live in Anderson) booktalking and chatting with y'all!



Here are the titles I brought:

Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey

We Beat the Street: How a friendship pact led to success

Turnabout by Margaret Haddix

Mythbusters: Don’t try this at home!

Phineas Gage: A gruesome and true story about Brain Science by John Fleischman

Hitler Youth by Susan Bartoletti

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser

Downsiders by Neal Shusterman

A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde

Happy Reading and hope to see you soon at the library!

A visit to Highland High School

Thanks to Mrs. Garner and her sophmore English classes for having me visit yesterday! It was the first time I had the chance to visit Highland and I must say it is a beautiful school and I hope to visit there more often. We chatted about how to get a library card and the fact that any student that attends school in the Anderson Community Schools Corporation can get a library card, pretty cool right? Also we explored the APL website and took a look at some of the databases that we offer that you can use for free with your APL library card. Hopefully, the tips I gave for how to research the databases was helpful. Remember, stop by the Information Services desk anytime you have a question or send it via our live chat!