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:)