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!!