tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175596372024-03-19T06:02:47.085-04:00Teen Blog@BrooksA blog to keep up on what's happening for teens at Brooks Memorial Library including:
• new books
• events
• resources available
• fun website suggestions
• ... and more.Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-53379551544753328802010-05-12T10:15:00.004-04:002010-05-12T10:53:39.179-04:00Get Ready for Summer Reading Fun!<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Summer is on its way, despite the recent weather's indications to the contrary. The summer months will bring both warmer weather and Brooks Memorial Library's annual Summer Reading Program. As past participants well know, the Summer Reading Program is a great way to spend some of your free time pursuing an activity that you enjoy. Best of all, you get a cool prize for completing the program.<br /><br />Interested in signing up for the program? Stop by the library anytime between June 14 and June 26 to register. Registering for the program is a straightforward process and should only take a minute or two of your time. The library staff will be more than happy to help you. They also have a lot of great book recommendations, so check in with them whenever you think you've run out of things to read.<br /><br />The program itself begins on June 28 and runs through August 7. If you want to qualify for a prize, you will need to read at least 2 hours per week for each of the six weeks of the program. A reading log will be kept at the library's circulation desk for you to chart your reading progress during the program. At the end of the program, all participants who have met the reading goal will be entered into a raffle. Raffle prizes will be distributed on or after August 14.<br /><br />We hope that you'll choose to join in on what promises to be a really great summer reading program. And if you have any questions about the program, let us know!<br /></span></span></span>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-4976517370026303692010-02-16T19:40:00.002-05:002010-02-16T19:44:08.737-05:00YA Library SurveyPlease take a minute to fill out our Young Adult Services Survey so we can provide you with all the things you desire from your local library...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PJM7HH3">Click here to take survey: Part One</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PJPSQ37">Click here to take survey: Part Two</a><br /><br /><br />Be sure to complete Part One and Part Two.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Thank you!</span>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-90550341962544011332010-02-16T17:19:00.003-05:002010-02-16T17:41:29.098-05:00Top Teen YA Books 2009<h1>Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults</h1> <p>Selected by ALA young adult division called YALSA. <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbya2010.cfm">Click here </a>for the full list of 90 titles. Some of these titles are located in the Children's room or Adult collection.<br /></p><p><br /></p> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Brennan, Sarah Rees. </strong><em>Demon's Lexicon</em>. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry. 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(YA BRE)</span><br /></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Griffin, Paul. </strong><em>The Orange Houses. </em>Penguin/Dial Books. 2009. </li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Herlong, M.H.</strong> <em>The Great Wide Sea.</em> Penguin/Viking. 2008. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(YA HER)</span><br /></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Jinks, Catherine</strong>. <em>The Reformed Vampire Support Group</em>. Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(YA JIN)</span><br /></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Napoli, Donna Jo. </strong><em>Alligator Bayou. </em>Random House / Knopf. 2009. </li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Small, David. </strong><em>Stitches: A Memoir</em>. W.W. Norton & Co. 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Biography SMALL)</span><br /></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Stead, Rebecca. </strong><em>When You Reach Me.</em> Random House / Wendy Lamb Books. 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(J STE)</span><br /></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Stork, Francisco X</strong>. <em>Marcelo in the Real World</em>. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books. 2009. </li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Taylor, Laini. </strong><em>Lips Touch: Three Times. </em>Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(YA TAY)</span><br /></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li><strong>Walker, Sally M</strong>. <em>Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland</em>. Lerner/Carolrhoda Books. 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(On Order)</span><br /></li></ul>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-89190207605949317782009-12-28T16:06:00.007-05:002009-12-28T16:25:11.547-05:00New YA Titles<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New titles to check out in the library...</span></span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size:130%;">Che : a graphic biography </span></b><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón<br />New York : Hill and Wang, c2009.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimn_S8j0Gg7uvzX3LncRfqoXD42jXMqqmovExIGdR-RDbV1c2ATUd9HicwgfnIRf8P44t4xS7HQKnbRc5xrPPO1J4vnE7dfM7jYqf3ex3bf5MgCsXrbvt3YhyphenhyphenCZzFLxbGjCsQK/s1600-h/che-680x1024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimn_S8j0Gg7uvzX3LncRfqoXD42jXMqqmovExIGdR-RDbV1c2ATUd9HicwgfnIRf8P44t4xS7HQKnbRc5xrPPO1J4vnE7dfM7jYqf3ex3bf5MgCsXrbvt3YhyphenhyphenCZzFLxbGjCsQK/s320/che-680x1024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420398254840332386" border="0" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I am </span></b><b><span style="font-size:130%;">a genius of unspeakable evil and<br />I want to be your class </span></b><b><span style="font-size:130%;">president<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:85%;">by Josh Lieb</span><br />New York, NY : Razorbill, c2009.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNJfsCqZ7V4bHV-1kG7sLpAv_Bbas6AOQWrttSt_47zW4egFjwfBsQuraZvHkgUaom9M16w7Dc2YZY2kglIUXpvgttIOVL-zKhstnB_iv3MMcvlD2wGkMH8LW_GuWjPS9Ejin/s1600-h/genius-evil-645.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNJfsCqZ7V4bHV-1kG7sLpAv_Bbas6AOQWrttSt_47zW4egFjwfBsQuraZvHkgUaom9M16w7Dc2YZY2kglIUXpvgttIOVL-zKhstnB_iv3MMcvlD2wGkMH8LW_GuWjPS9Ejin/s320/genius-evil-645.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420398419408331362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br />The ref</span></b><b><span style="font-size:130%;">ormed vampire support group </span></b><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />by Catherine Jinks</span>Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IQDtYtGnKXM37ZLcrnI9-l5SmAc20t8JegceUvfggl2QEZzDddhqe1vtiwPyflgjQXFgHShyu_BtHupVZJh2d_J1Zo0E07yeoxSuGlPMIgVo3EWraDdOJTjw0vyaWSom921M/s1600-h/vampire.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IQDtYtGnKXM37ZLcrnI9-l5SmAc20t8JegceUvfggl2QEZzDddhqe1vtiwPyflgjQXFgHShyu_BtHupVZJh2d_J1Zo0E07yeoxSuGlPMIgVo3EWraDdOJTjw0vyaWSom921M/s320/vampire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420401039681436594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-30191788920491519202009-12-14T15:51:00.004-05:002009-12-14T15:55:55.027-05:00Love Tamora Pierce?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZhAagf2HxbODk_farhxdOTVUrrnaF8MgDKgjLiTs_PZ4SeWQ2m5AbsuDYNDb7VdD8May2dsD_8wnoatLe36SWAIWPTBpqxtKlI9iNsJTM8FMVRpcC2cOzaWMLn8uwsByWW5z/s1600-h/dec_tamora.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZhAagf2HxbODk_farhxdOTVUrrnaF8MgDKgjLiTs_PZ4SeWQ2m5AbsuDYNDb7VdD8May2dsD_8wnoatLe36SWAIWPTBpqxtKlI9iNsJTM8FMVRpcC2cOzaWMLn8uwsByWW5z/s320/dec_tamora.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415197683440515042" border="0" /></a><br />Check out Author Tamora Pierce over at ReaderGirlz...<br /><br /><a href="http://readergirlz.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-things-to-know-about-tamora.html">http://readergirlz.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-things-to-know-about-tamora.html</a>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-15436460034796764772009-12-12T13:12:00.009-05:002009-12-14T15:55:18.604-05:00Art and Writing Contest<div id="cv_1100" class="subsection"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Wondering what to do over the holiday break?</span></h2><h2><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >Create a piece of art, video, or writing to submit by January 4, 2010 to...</span></h2><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/staff/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/staff/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artandwriting.org/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 433px; height: 74px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWk1YLRsmXysDs1zMgI8gnsK9vrq2_ZyWJ9E7MEyzjS9kzuxGv_IIprGyqP1buaaC85HeXur7nouQ1Hx1RvdCLmStMKvp20ZOzBAzUlzPeB9RtKSaAd8eRcj1F7CyeiqCdmdkb/s320/alliance_logo_630x85.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414419188712984594" border="0" /></a><br /> <p><strong><img alt="" src="http://blog.scholastic.com/artandwriting/alliance_logo_650x85.gif" /></strong><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >And win regional and national RECOGNITION; a chance to EXHIBIT; and a $2,500 SCHOLARSHIP</span><br /><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Vermont Art Region</strong><br /><br /><strong>Regional Affiliate:</strong> Great River Arts Institute</p> <p><strong>Affiliate Supported by: </strong>Spheris Gallery and Reeves Contemporary.<br /><br /><strong>Area of Service:</strong> State of Vermont<br /><br /><strong>Online Registration:</strong> Participants and teachers must register at www.artandwriting.org. Please print the completed submission form and obtain required signatures.<br /><br /><strong>Regional Instructions/Announcements:</strong> All artwork must be submitted as digital files on CD-ROM. Please check our website at www.greatriverarts.org for additional information.</p> </div> <div id="cv_783" class="subsection"> <h2>Deadline and Submission</h2> <p>All submissions must be received by Monday, January 4, 2010.<br /><br /><strong>Processing Fee: </strong>The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the national nonprofit organization that presents The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, requires standardized process fees of $5.00 for each individual category submission and $20.00 for each portfolio submission. Make checks payable to GRAI.<br /><br /><strong>Fee Waiver:</strong> Any student who currently qualifies under the Federal School Lunch Act for the Free and Reduced Lunch program may request a submission fee waiver. Reduced fees are also available to students for whom fees would be a barrier to participation. A request from the student or the teacher for the submission fee waiver should be submitted on school letterhead and included with the work in place of the submission fee.<br /><br /><strong>Regional Celebration</strong><br /><br /><strong>Exhibition:</strong> Saturday, February 13 – Saturday, February 20<br /><br /><strong>Ceremony: </strong>Saturday, February 20, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.<br />Great River Arts Institute<br />33 Bridge St.<br />Bellows Falls, VT 05101<br /><br /><strong>Contact</strong><br />Kristen Fehrenbach<br />Phone: 802-463-3330<br />Email: alliance@greatriverarts.org</p> </div>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-28408437417048250872009-11-04T12:44:00.003-05:002009-12-14T15:54:56.125-05:00YALSA TEEN TOP TEN 2009More than 11,000 teen voters chose <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paper Towns</span> as their favorite book in the 2009 Teens' Top Ten! The winners were announced during Teen Read Week by WWE Divas Brie Bella and Nikki Bella, with a special appearance by John Green. See the <a href="http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/overtheropes/2009/october15-21/12105056">video</a>...<br /><br />Paper Towns by John Green (1st Floor YA GRE)<br /> Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (1st Floor YA MEY)<br /> The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (1st Floor YA COL)<br /> City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (1st Floor YA CLA)<br /> Identical by Ellen Hopkins (1st Floor YA HOP)<br /> The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (J GAI)<br /> Wake by Lisa McMann (on order)<br /> Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast ((1st Floor YA CAS)<br /> The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (1st Floor YA LOC)<br /> Graceling by Kristin Cashore (1st Floor YA CAS)Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-30280324766502368912009-10-14T14:34:00.001-04:002009-10-14T14:39:24.647-04:00Let's get this web search thing straight...<object width="300" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CWHPf00Jkqg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CWHPf00Jkqg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="340"></embed></object>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-81278319924196524272009-10-03T15:39:00.009-04:002009-10-03T16:46:33.845-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >GLBTQ Booklist<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Here are a few titles in our library that address the lives and issues of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gender youth. To find other materials in the library try searching the catalog using the following subjects:</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"> homosexuality, bisexuality, lesbians, gay men, gay women, gay teenagers, gay youth, gender identity, coming out, sexual orientation or transexuals.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBRerpPxbeIP9AOGg8FFn4j63xSy2n84WMa4in6Jr8rKClIELQvK2yQ0t3jsXVYfCR1_Tq5iZQ7lGGUdhxhhR3XiKhGik2HbUBTm-gUlLEnqnF2h-HpsjG_qioddYXf1U1lE8/s1600-h/dishes.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBRerpPxbeIP9AOGg8FFn4j63xSy2n84WMa4in6Jr8rKClIELQvK2yQ0t3jsXVYfCR1_Tq5iZQ7lGGUdhxhhR3XiKhGik2HbUBTm-gUlLEnqnF2h-HpsjG_qioddYXf1U1lE8/s320/dishes.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388464596081881986" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Dishes by Rich Wallace</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">(1st floor YA fiction under Wallace)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span>Nineteen-year-old Danny spends an eventful summer in Maine, looking for romance, working as a "straight" dishwasher in a gay bar, and trying to reconnect with his estranged father.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden</span><br />(1st floor YA fiction under Garden)<br />Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park by Steve Kluger</span> (1st floor YA fiction under Kluger)<br />Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEleW2mpqA-B27JNbb0VR4D5FE1CAGR_fOK0v5J2LA8030zgDEefgYCriMHOmkrukvRlChV-q0igKCkQAZCX2m9k5LsQnRowUMXq20Th9IEYNzV6gb4UdLxLqIJkGf6DJ2Yd1/s1600-h/empress.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEleW2mpqA-B27JNbb0VR4D5FE1CAGR_fOK0v5J2LA8030zgDEefgYCriMHOmkrukvRlChV-q0igKCkQAZCX2m9k5LsQnRowUMXq20Th9IEYNzV6gb4UdLxLqIJkGf6DJ2Yd1/s320/empress.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388466253489100610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Em</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">pre</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">s</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">s </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">of the World by Sara Ryan</span><br />(1st floor YA fiction under Ryan)<br />While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Luna by Julie Anne Peters</span><br />(1st floor YA fiction under Peters)<br />Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Love & Lies: Marisol's Story by Ellen Wittlinger</span><br />(1st floor YA fiction under Wittlinger)<br />When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl from Indiana.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">M or F by Lisa Papademetriou</span><br />(1st floor YA fiction under Papademetriou)<br />Gay teen Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, but then becomes convinced that the crush is falling for him instead.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmhoTxskj5IO3mdiTeELJVvPfX7s5ZS75Y3AP7CHU0wHpPI7gdPgoATzAot_Kgg5sj3uneHKG2qVpg6vC_RTbB6c8re8n5qJeTdC2nP9DwyuvPPdpYrwsVt4PrjKcBD3KS2BSt/s1600-h/fun+home.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmhoTxskj5IO3mdiTeELJVvPfX7s5ZS75Y3AP7CHU0wHpPI7gdPgoATzAot_Kgg5sj3uneHKG2qVpg6vC_RTbB6c8re8n5qJeTdC2nP9DwyuvPPdpYrwsVt4PrjKcBD3KS2BSt/s320/fun+home.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388475582483465026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fun Home by Alison Bechdel</span><br />(1st floor YA fiction under Bechdel)<br />Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hear Us Out</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >!: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >lesbian and gay stories of struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present by Nancy Garden </span><span style="font-size:100%;">(</span>306.76 GAR)<br /><span style="font-size:100%;">A comprehensive and rich account of gay life, both public and private, from one of the pioneers of young adult lesbian and gay literature.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Mom, Dad. I'm gay : how families negotiate coming out by Ritch C. Savin-Williams</b></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">(</span>306.874 SAV) How do kids decide whether and when to take the risky step of coming out? What is involved in negotiating a new identity with parents? And how common are the coming out "horror stories" published in the popular press?Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-14552152761273202202009-10-02T10:41:00.004-04:002009-12-14T15:56:11.088-05:00Come listen to Sarah Dessen read from Along for the Ride...<br /><br /><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lFyPlKoac-M&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lFyPlKoac-M&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-56918877231513232272009-09-04T13:20:00.001-04:002009-09-04T13:22:38.426-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Banned Books Week: </span> September 26th - October 3rd<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DxqbRRQtaLc&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DxqbRRQtaLc&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-34729512255735437982009-09-03T15:57:00.001-04:002009-09-03T16:08:05.612-04:00<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:city><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">Reading</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;"> for Crank Addicts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Have you gulped down <u>Crank</u> only to find yourself desperate for another raw and edgy tale about the dark side of adolescence?<span style=""> </span>Not sure where you should turn to find your next fix?<span style=""> </span>No worries!<span style=""> </span>The Brooks Memorial Library staff has assembled a list of books that will help you maintain your reading habit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Beauty queen</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Glovach, Linda<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC GLO<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reading this diary of a heroin addict is like watching someone fall into an abyss: knowing a crash is inevitable, but wondering how soon and how hard rock bottom will be.”<span style=""> </span>– From <i style="">Publishers Weekly</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Breathing underwater<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finn, Alexandra<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC FIN<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cut</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">McCormick, Patricia<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC MCC<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dreamland<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dessen, Sarah<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC DES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thirteen reasons why<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Asher, Jay<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC ASH<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Invisible<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hautman, Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC HAU<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Speak<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anderson, Laurie Halse<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC AND<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">J AND<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stoner and Spaz<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Koertge, Ron<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC KOE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Looking for </span></u></b><st1:state><st1:place><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alaska</span></u></b></st1:place></st1:State><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Green, John<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1<sup>st</sup> Floor YA FIC GRE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">Culver</span></st1:PlaceName><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;">Creek</span></st1:PlaceType><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;">Preparatory School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alabama</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style="font-family: Arial;"> includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-81245036005511403712009-08-17T20:33:00.003-04:002009-08-17T20:38:57.213-04:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">What to Read After Twilight<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Twilight series remains popular with the Young Adult patrons of Brooks Memorial Library.<span style=""> </span>But what do you do if you’ve finished all of the books in the series and find yourself thirsting for something juicy to sink your reading teeth into?<span style=""> </span>Fear not!<span style=""> </span>Jeanne, the intrepid reference librarian at Brooks, has compiled a list of great books available at Brooks that should appeal to most fans of Stephenie Meyer’s work.<span style=""> </span>But beware:<span style=""> </span>reading any of the following books might result in some sleepless nights as you rush to find out what happens next!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Blood and chocolate</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Annette Curtis Klause<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / KLA <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">A certain slant of light</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Laura Whitcomb<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / WHI c. 2<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">City of bones</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Cassandra Clare<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / CLA <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Evernight</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Claudia Gray<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / GRA <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Graceling </span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">/ Kristin Cashore<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. New Fiction / CAS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">A great and terrible beauty</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Libba Bray<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / BRA <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Keturah and Lord Death</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Martine Leavitt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / LEA <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peeps : a novel</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Scott Westerfeld<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / WES<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sabriel</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Garth Nix<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / NIX<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">The secret hour</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Scott Westerfeld<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / WES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Uglies </span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">by Scott Westerfeld<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / WES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vampire Academy</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Richelle Mead<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / MEA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">The vampire diaries</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by L.J. 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YA Fiction / SMI<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Presents the first two volumes in the Vampire Diaries series, in which popular and beautiful high school senior Elena finds herself torn between two vampire brothers, the dark and brooding Stefan who wants to protect her from the horrors of his past and the dangerously attractive Damon, who is determined to use her to get revenge on his brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wicked lovely</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Melissa Marr<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1st Fl. YA Fiction / MAR <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-86729338008934510202009-07-08T20:15:00.003-04:002009-07-08T20:21:09.777-04:00Green Mountain Book Blog<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Green Mountain Book Award books for 2009-2010 have their own blog...<br /><br /><a href="http://greenmountainbookaward2009-2010.blogspot.com/">http://greenmountainbookaward2009-2010.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyhUw4XfMU_hpfuOzTUHJg4DrJT5WVSUbgoi2ZyK5oO55jmHpbdDndf7IPuOjEIutRz1Wn-ID0Avgb7Xuky0ugypUwWxJRME8JldA3CuPCd3GXZgk6LHNJlbSjRCjvutoAEWp/s1600-h/Twisted.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyhUw4XfMU_hpfuOzTUHJg4DrJT5WVSUbgoi2ZyK5oO55jmHpbdDndf7IPuOjEIutRz1Wn-ID0Avgb7Xuky0ugypUwWxJRME8JldA3CuPCd3GXZgk6LHNJlbSjRCjvutoAEWp/s320/Twisted.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356248575830073602" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />A great place to check out what other folks thought about a book, search a book based on tags, or write your own review of the books you have read on the list.<br /><br />If you see a book you are interested in reading, go to the YA section at Brooks Library and look for the GMBA display on top of the shelves.<br /></span></div>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-44449812956750867892009-05-23T11:46:00.002-04:002009-05-23T11:57:26.083-04:00Join the Zine Scene!
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<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Castellar;font-size:18;" >@ Brooks Library!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Castellar;" >
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Castellar;" >THURSDAY AFTERNOONS <span style=""> </span>4-5:30PM<o:p></o:p> from</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Castellar;" > JUNE 22<sup>ND<span style=""> </span></sup>- August 8<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p>
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Castellar;" > In the<o:p></o:p> Library Meeting Room<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Castellar;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Castellar;font-size:130%;" >
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Castellar;font-size:14;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Group led by Rose Watson and<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Cal Glover-Wessel.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-7997379703527692652009-05-23T10:27:00.002-04:002009-05-23T10:35:00.846-04:002009 Windham Country Reads Summer Reading List: 9-12th gradeOn Wednesday, we posted the Windham County Reads' Summer Reading List for 7th and 8th graders. We are happy to report that Windham County Reads has pit together a similar reading list, this time with 9th through 12 graders in mind. Many of the recommended titles can be found at Brooks. When that's the case, the title has been bolded and a call number has been added to help you locate the book.<br /><br /> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anderson, Laurie Halse <u>Wintergirls</u>. 2009. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></span><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Blundell, Judy <u>What I saw and how I lied</u>. 2008.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <b style="">(YA BLU)</b> </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. 2008 National Book Award winner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Bradbury, Ray <u>Fahrenheit 451</u>. 1953.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(1<sup>st</sup> Flr Fiction BRA)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN">The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic, and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Vermont’s Big Read book</span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cashore, Kristen <u>Graceling</u>. 2008. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Clare, Cassandra <u>The Mortal Instruments: City of </u></span><st1:city><st1:place><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bones</span></u></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-family: Arial;">. 2007. Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. Popular trilogy</span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Doctorow, Cory <u>Little Brother</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">(YA DOC)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;"> After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Flanagan, John <u>Ranger’s Apprentice: Sorceror of the North</u>. 2008. Now a full-fledged Ranger responsible for a sleepy fief, Will finds a new adventure seeking the traitors who poisoned the king, investigating rumors of sorcery, and trying to rescue his friend Alyss, who is taken hostage. Book five in the popular Australian series</span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Freeman, Castle <u>Go with me:a novel</u>. 2008. (1<sup>st</sup> Flr Fiction FRE)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> In the hills of </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Vermont</span></span></st1:place></st1:State><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">, a local man has decided to make life hell for Lillian, a young woman from parts elsewhere. When the local law enforcement proves useless, Lillian decides to fight back on her own, enlisting an unlikely pair of allies in old-timer Lester and naive teenager Nate.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Going, K.L. <u>King of the Screwups.</u> 2009. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Gould, Peter <u>Write Naked</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">(YA GOU)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;"> When Victor finds an old Royal typewriter at a yard sale and takes it to his uncle's isolated cabin in the Vermont woods to attempt to write, he meets up with an unusual girl, and together they explore their concerns about the world, themselves, and each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Green, </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">John</span></st1:PlaceName><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placename><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paper</span></u></st1:PlaceName><u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></u><st1:placetype><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Towns</span></u></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 2008. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">One month before graduating from his </span></span><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Central Florida</span></span></st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a </span></span><st1:time hour="0" minute="0"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">midnight</span></span></st1:time><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> adventure and then mysteriously disappears. 2009 Edgar Award for YA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Guevara, Ernesto “Che” <u>The Motorcycle Diaries</u>.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <b style="">(918.04 GUE)</b> A freewheeling account of an extended youthful road trip undertaken in the early '50s by the future poster boy of Communist insurrection.<o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Johnson, Maureen <u>Suite Scarlett.</u> 2008</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in </span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">New York City</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her out-of-work actor brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Juby, Susan <u>Getting the girl: a guide to private investigation, surveillance, and cookery</u>. 2008. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Ninth-grader Sherman Mack investigates the "Defilers," a secret group at his </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">British Columbia</span></span></st1:place></st1:State><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> high school that marks certain female students as pariahs, at first because he is trying to protect the girl he has a crush on, but later as a matter of principle.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lockhart, E.L. <u>The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks</u>. 2008. <b style="">(YA LOC)</b> <span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. 2009 Printz Honor Book</span></span></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lutz, Lisa <u>The Spellman Files</u>. 2007. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Cracking the case can get complicated and outrageously wacky when a family of detectives is involved. Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, a San Francisco PI, reluctantly she agrees to take on a cold case with 14-year-old sister Rae and parents who have no qualms about bugging their children's bedrooms. When Rae suddenly disappears, Izzy and her family must learn some serious lessons in order to find her. First in the series.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Moore, Alan <u>Watchmen</u>. 2005.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(741.5 MOO)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> In an alternate history </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">United States</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">. where freelance superheroes are outlawed, a retired group of heroes become involved in a murder investigation. A Time magazine top 100 book of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oppel, Kenneth <u>Starclimber</u>. 2009. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board. Third title in series.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Otsuka, Julie. When the emperor was divine. 2002.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <b style="">(1<sup>st</sup> Flr Fiction OTS)</b> </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">A story told from five different points of view; chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camp. </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Vermont</span></span></st1:place></st1:State><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Reads 2009 book.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pfeffer, Susan Beth <u>The dead & the gone</u>. 2008. </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of </span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">New York City</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reinhardt, Dana <u>How to build a house</u>. 2008</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(YA REI)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Tennessee</span></span></st1:place></st1:State><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> town devastated by a tornado.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-4782094803723350862009-05-20T19:05:00.002-04:002009-05-20T19:15:47.382-04:002009 Windham County Reads Summer Reading List: 7th/8th gradeLooking for something to read? Windham County Reads has put together a summer reading list of great books for 7th and 8th graders (although those of you in other grades might enjoy them as well). Many of the books can be found here at Brooks. When that's the case, the title has been bolded and a call number has been added to help you locate the book.<br /> <p class="NoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Asher, Jay<span style=""> </span><u>Th1rteen r3asons why: a novel</u>.<span style=""> </span>2007. <span style=""> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Balliet, Blue <u>The Calder game.</u> 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(J BAL; J CD BAL)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. <u>The Boy who dared.</u> 2008. (J BAR; J CD BAR)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Bradbury, Jennifer. <u>Shift.</u> 2008. When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.<o:p></o:p> DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Colfer, Eoin. <u>Airman</u>.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(YA COL)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Collins, Suzanne <u>The Hunger Games</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(YA COL)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><st1:place><st1:city><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Dowell</span></b></span></st1:City><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">, </span></b></span><st1:country-region><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Frances</span></b></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> O’Roark <u>Shooting the moon</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(YA DOW) </span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">When her brother is sent to fight in </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Vietnam</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.<o:p></o:p> DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Farr, Richard. <u>Emperors of the Ice</u>. 2008. Apsley “Cherry” Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott’s expedition to </span></span><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Antarctica</span></span></st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> in 1910, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins, nearly dying in the attempt. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Ferraialo, Jack D. </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;">The Big Splash</span></u></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">. 2008. Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns. 2009 Edgar award nominee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Frost, Helen <u>Diamond </u></span></b></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Willow</span></u></b></span></st1:place></st1:City><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(J FRO; J CD FRO)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Gaiman, Neil <u>The Graveyard Book.</u> 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(J GAI; )</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> After the murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. 2009 Newbery Medal winner. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Gardner, Sally <u>The Red necklace</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(J CD GAR)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Goodman, Allegra <u>The other side of the island</u>. 2008. Born in the eighth year of Enclosure, ten-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up to Honor and her friend Helix, another "Unpredictable," to uncover a terrible secret about their </span></span><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Island</span></span></st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> and the Corporation that runs everything. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Haddix, Margaret Peterson <u>Found</u>. 2008. When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Hale, Shannon and Dean Hale <span style=""> </span><u>Rapunzel’s Revenge</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(J 741.5 HAL)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel. <span style=""> </span>Graphic novel.<span style=""> </span>DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Herlong, M.H. </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;">The </span></u></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;">Great</span></u></span></st1:PlaceName><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;"> </span></u></span><st1:placename><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;">Wide</span></u></span></st1:PlaceName><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;"> </span></u></span><st1:placetype><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial;">Sea</span></u></span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">. 2008. Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the </span></span><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Florida Keys</span></span></st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> and have a harrowing adventure at sea. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Hiaasen, Carl <u>Scat</u>. 2009. (J HIA; J CD HIA)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Florida</span></span></st1:place></st1:State><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing. <o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Law, Ingrid <u>Savvy</u>. 2008. (J LAW)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident. 2009 Newbery Honor Book. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Nicholl, </span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Sally <u>Ways</u></span></span></st1:address></st1:Street><span class="standardtext1"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> to live forever</span></u></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">. 2008.</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Patterson, James <u>The final warning</u>. 2008. (YA PAT)</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder. Fourth in series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Preller, James <u>Six innings: a game in the </u>life. 2008. Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Shusterman, Neal <u>Antsy does time</u>. 2008. Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Spradlin, Michael P. <u>Keeper of the Grail</u>. 2008.</span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="standardtext1"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">(J SPR; J CD SPR) </span></b></span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">In 1191, fifteen-year-old Tristan, a youth of unknown origin raised in an English abbey, becomes a Templar Knight's squire during the Third Crusade and soon finds himself on a mission to bring the Holy Grail to safety. DCF nominee 2009-2010.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="NoSpacing"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vail, Rachel <u>Lucky</u>. 2008. (YA VAL)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="standardtext1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family's security--as well as Phoebe's social status--but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-28098101438663678362009-05-19T17:18:00.004-04:002009-05-20T18:42:34.465-04:00Book Review: Pyongyang<p class="MsoNormal">Comic book writer Guy Delisle spent several months living and working in <st1:country-region><st1:place>North Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the most unknowable country of modern times.<span style=""> </span>In <st1:city><st1:place><u>Pyongyang</u></st1:place></st1:city><u> : a journey in </u><st1:country-region><st1:place><u>North Korea</u></st1:place></st1:country-region>, Delisle recounts his experience using spare black and white cartoon drawings to accompany his autobiographical tale.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This poignant and bittersweet tale can be read in one sitting and can be enjoyed by comics fans and current events enthusiasts alike.<span style=""> </span>Unlike many of our other graphic novels, <st1:city><st1:place><u>Pyongyang</u></st1:place></st1:city> is shelved on the first floor; its call number is 951.9304 DEL.<o:p></o:p></p>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-66036967972051589692009-05-04T14:51:00.004-04:002009-05-15T16:34:44.831-04:002009 Summer Reading...<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_ufZwfWmOcSIyvkAost6JCMGQioh8GiJp-zwHDVONc4avwQvf-B5cBXHQ19XU1VRGOESi3hyphenhyphenOj_dCob55Q73Zdi4-XRDdGR4H-UkNtlVs4iyZyRkaJBCqc49J4aJU53HOT86/s1600-h/expressyourself.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332043487327471554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 149px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 172px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_ufZwfWmOcSIyvkAost6JCMGQioh8GiJp-zwHDVONc4avwQvf-B5cBXHQ19XU1VRGOESi3hyphenhyphenOj_dCob55Q73Zdi4-XRDdGR4H-UkNtlVs4iyZyRkaJBCqc49J4aJU53HOT86/s320/expressyourself.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Brooks Memorial Library </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Summer Reading Program Sign up:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >June 13th through June 27</span><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Check back on the blog or at the library<br />for event information throughout the summer!</span></span> </div>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-91070461260033754062009-04-22T19:46:00.003-04:002009-04-22T19:53:24.549-04:00Book by student at Center for Cartoon Studies!To get inspired to make your own graphic novel, check out:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2eyvSIwo54KFNMTerOqhVG7pj0rtkdORImaenSuZwJg_cN3AdzdMI7iQCXL9o5ybL7EzP6Q2MaUCFaPK8wBAGb4qksBTcow7nPU_Z47v0QCx1Fi4y6md5WJj4pfPb-UKIo9W/s1600-h/french.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2eyvSIwo54KFNMTerOqhVG7pj0rtkdORImaenSuZwJg_cN3AdzdMI7iQCXL9o5ybL7EzP6Q2MaUCFaPK8wBAGb4qksBTcow7nPU_Z47v0QCx1Fi4y6md5WJj4pfPb-UKIo9W/s320/french.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327666957256422818" border="0" /></a><br /></div>The author, Lucy Knisley, went to Paris with her mom for her 22nd birthday. The book is filled with her cartoon account of the trip, as well as b/w photographs. Knisley is a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies where you could be this summer for a week long workshop!! See last blog post....Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-24727106676319321382009-04-17T13:05:00.002-04:002009-04-17T13:11:17.590-04:00Cartoon Camp This Summer!<span style="font-family: Arial;">The recent spate of warm weather and the dwindling number of school days left in the year have inspired many of us to make summer plans.<span style=""> </span>If you’re 16 or over and an aspiring cartoonist, there’s a great opportunity that you should be aware of when scheduling your summer.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p><br />The Center for Cartoon Studies will be holding a one-week workshop this summer.<span style=""> </span>The Create Comics Summer Workshop will be taking place from July 13 – 17 in White River Junction.<span style=""> </span>Workshop instructors include Steve Bissette (<i style="">Taboo</i>, <i style="">SwampThing</i>), Robyn Chapman (<i style="">Hey! Four eyes!</i>) and Alec Longstreth (<i style="">Phase 7</i>).<span style=""> </span>And what makes this “boot camp” for budding cartoonists even more amazing is that the Center is offering a scholarship.<span style=""> </span>All you need to do is download an entry form (available at <a href="http://libraries.vermont.gov/sites/libraries/files/cbec/ccsscholarshipapp09.pdf">http://libraries.vermont.gov/sites/libraries/files/cbec/ccsscholarshipapp09.pdf</a>) complete the form, and bring it to Brooks.<span style=""> </span>We’ll take care of the rest.<span style=""> </span>If your computer access is limited, you can also pick up an entry form from the library.<span style=""> </span>Since we need to have the forms in by May 27, please have your entry ready by May 23.<span style=""> </span>No more than 1 entry per person, please. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh, and if you’re not 16 yet but will be by June 1, you are eligible to apply!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-47456893205929601302009-04-08T18:01:00.003-04:002009-04-08T18:08:08.096-04:00Fantasy author Mark Freeman<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Thursday April 16th 7-9pm:</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBBmlxUYFA2ehfXMlR2fsKGni4JrEvDCOekteaJ715NMHT3_xQaMOrq61VwayicGYI0ahXwAHP5U9Nnar2LPjyT6ITgZNNoYUywdpP3x0dgEfaS0-0uLE_r3S5ZFguk1P9ATJp/s1600-h/shapeimage_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBBmlxUYFA2ehfXMlR2fsKGni4JrEvDCOekteaJ715NMHT3_xQaMOrq61VwayicGYI0ahXwAHP5U9Nnar2LPjyT6ITgZNNoYUywdpP3x0dgEfaS0-0uLE_r3S5ZFguk1P9ATJp/s320/shapeimage_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322445320984941666" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Author Mark Freeman will be discuss his wonderful new fantasy novel, <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Kindling of Greenfyr, Book One: The Reunification Conspiracy</span>. The Kindling of GreenFyr is the story of Owen McInish, an awkward fourteen year old, bullied at school, and friendless except for his pet cat, Piper. That is, until a snow leopard is chased through the woods behind his house by three huge gray dogs with glowing green eyes. Owen saves the leopard from her pursuers, but the animal escapes him as well, only to return later. The cat's behavior is peculiar, nothing like a wild animal, making Owen even more curious as to its origin. But only when the animal finally allows Owen to touch it, does Owen's adventure truly begin. Author Mark Freeman lives in Hyde Park with his wife and two daughters. He was educated and trained as a wildlife biologist. When not writing Mark has studied grizzly and black bears, bobcats, spiny soft shell turtles and spruce grouse.<br /><br />Checkout his website at: <a href="http://www.greenfyr.com/">http://www.greenfyr.com/<br /></a>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-37086896171560525602009-04-02T13:56:00.001-04:002009-04-02T14:04:50.688-04:00Obama hung out in a Library<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TLFpI3aj9q78x7ReqWxZmUj2vz_PT39_76-PcdKLqILyAV-TZo3XdPPJBo45JVivvr_aphyphenhyphenwoHqhozyaVmOw2Kd6MGHwZ-7sl29hTB05FCJ6mTLMTuQ2EdWn9i68YsgSzF9r/s1600-h/political-pictures-barack-obama-library-cool.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TLFpI3aj9q78x7ReqWxZmUj2vz_PT39_76-PcdKLqILyAV-TZo3XdPPJBo45JVivvr_aphyphenhyphenwoHqhozyaVmOw2Kd6MGHwZ-7sl29hTB05FCJ6mTLMTuQ2EdWn9i68YsgSzF9r/s320/political-pictures-barack-obama-library-cool.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320156369895641826" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/staff/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" />Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-65679682645089948812009-03-24T12:36:00.007-04:002009-03-24T14:27:28.468-04:00DVD Study Guides<span> R U reading a classic in school?</span><br /> <span>Need a little help getting your head around the who, what, where?</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span>Have no fear,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Rocketbooks </span><span>are here!!<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiAGVOrAzzxYe4QJUw0njEwYt2HrTSITjDA7gOiVyQ9YZDgcRW7urbqhX8DDso6NKRO-p3Ggp9zw4s1R4DIda7wIXrYqNatKKbkGuGrpmHaFTpBRRQZnBoKiAN6DVye4Uxa87-/s1600-h/hamlet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiAGVOrAzzxYe4QJUw0njEwYt2HrTSITjDA7gOiVyQ9YZDgcRW7urbqhX8DDso6NKRO-p3Ggp9zw4s1R4DIda7wIXrYqNatKKbkGuGrpmHaFTpBRRQZnBoKiAN6DVye4Uxa87-/s320/hamlet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316816079357331810" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Pick up a Rocketbook DVD to guide you through the plot and characters for the following titles:<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1984 by George Orwell</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Beowulf by Anonymous</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Frankenstein by Mary Shelley</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Hamlet by William Shakespeare</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Macbeth by </span><span style="font-size:100%;">William Shakespeare</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Othello by </span><span style="font-size:100%;">William Shakespeare</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Romeo and Juliet by </span><span style="font-size:100%;">William Shakespeare</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">More to come....</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Go to <a href="http://www.youseemore.com/BrooksMemorial/default.asp">Brooks Library Catalog</a><br />and do a title search for "Rocketbook" to check their availability.<br /><br />If you prefer web resources, go to: <a href="http://myrocketbook.com/">http://myrocketbook.com/</a><br />Fill in a brief log in and you can access the videos online, along with PDF and MP3 study guides.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div></div>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17559637.post-44734254026663397532009-02-18T18:32:00.010-05:002009-03-24T14:27:02.250-04:00New Books in YALooking for something new to read...check out these new titles in the YA section<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32c5yFajXyHYpceRWkyLuH9whTHOIO9VTXah__pT_kXhOSnmpLOvXU6rfboj5XlvGbEyKxxbuz4aGM_8vWWiKlgs4Bw5ir0ABaE1RwYX24NxTJEBdUDP8dBYVM0D3ZwiNoGe0/s1600-h/house.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32c5yFajXyHYpceRWkyLuH9whTHOIO9VTXah__pT_kXhOSnmpLOvXU6rfboj5XlvGbEyKxxbuz4aGM_8vWWiKlgs4Bw5ir0ABaE1RwYX24NxTJEBdUDP8dBYVM0D3ZwiNoGe0/s320/house.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304285210972516242" border="0" /></a>Build a house in Tennessee with Harper in...<br /><br />HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE<br />BY DANA REINHARDT<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOHf0GnED5EkIVeiYUlr5UAhPBLgx4H7QEn4TW8_9i-9Pko-4nWJCZmjbFncBvsXEdFHBTqdfGJtOSruacQkyBYssm2X1S0gT2IxxgBr38Xim5aHZhANMkwtMBR70y0-4FO8c/s1600-h/feather.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOHf0GnED5EkIVeiYUlr5UAhPBLgx4H7QEn4TW8_9i-9Pko-4nWJCZmjbFncBvsXEdFHBTqdfGJtOSruacQkyBYssm2X1S0gT2IxxgBr38Xim5aHZhANMkwtMBR70y0-4FO8c/s320/feather.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304285755943245682" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Travel with Terri from the predictable suburbs<br />to Cancun, Mexico in<br /><br />FEATHERED <br />BY LAURA KASISCHKE<br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrDJAxG4RovM78gMJA0z0FEdM35lAVyvl-shpELrixmcO7LIdv7beiWG9kIt_HsmkKQjRGGBACCsSu58cDq6EEsMnN2GlBrBC6e_75ywAIeRO7Mw6kD6Ntlrmzf2hdzSq-83md/s1600-h/dish.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrDJAxG4RovM78gMJA0z0FEdM35lAVyvl-shpELrixmcO7LIdv7beiWG9kIt_HsmkKQjRGGBACCsSu58cDq6EEsMnN2GlBrBC6e_75ywAIeRO7Mw6kD6Ntlrmzf2hdzSq-83md/s320/dish.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304286277914186610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Working in a Gay bar as a dish washer can<br />make for an interesting summer in Maine in<br /><br />DISHES<br />BY RICH WALLACE<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrt1aABflsfU_DTrzdT-ogvLspvFnwcEB0YHkez5yKCLiECCwNrs5r2yPAtf2azUCKocZ7T72fnBRd4yavq2EPe57WT-fHz_eFqHYf1otRnWzKWhoAvxu_kHfdifchxugCi7F/s1600-h/prom.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrt1aABflsfU_DTrzdT-ogvLspvFnwcEB0YHkez5yKCLiECCwNrs5r2yPAtf2azUCKocZ7T72fnBRd4yavq2EPe57WT-fHz_eFqHYf1otRnWzKWhoAvxu_kHfdifchxugCi7F/s320/prom.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304287374495292274" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;">My personal favorite: 5 authors tell creepytales of...<br />PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL <br />BY MEG CABOT, KIM HARRISON, MICHELE JAFFE,<br />STEPHANIE MEYER, LAUREN MYRACLE<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Brooks Memorial Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00224862644974052781noreply@blogger.com