Monday, December 7, 2009

Teen News

Teen Advisory meeting will be December 9 at 3:00 PM
Teen Book Group will be December 16 at 3:00 PM. We will be discussing both The Compound by S.A. Bodeen and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Hope to see you there!
Remember, we have ALL of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series as both books and unabridged audio books. If you have not read New Moon yet, be sure to check it out before you see the movie.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Teen News

The next Teen Advisory meeting will be Nov. 10 at 3:00 PM. The group will be baking goodies for the Polar Express on Dec. 1 at 3:00 PM and we will serve them at the Polar Express program on Dec. 2 at 5:30 PM. Remember to check out our blog at: http://goodwinteens.blogspot.com/
The Teen Book Club will meet on Nov. 17 at 3:00 PM. We will be discussing The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Teen Reads Twilight Movie Thank You

First off, thanks to our young patrons who attended the Twilight Movie Night for being so well behaved and such good sports when things ran a bit late. A big thank-you to the CHANCES volunteers for helping us set up the room for the movie, and special big thanks to our trusty trustee, Brian Beaverstock for providing the projector. We also want to say a special thank you to teen baker Brianna B. for making an incredible Twilight cake! (If you are looking for a cake for an event, you can contact Brianna through the library and we will pass on messages.)

We would also like to extend a very special Thank-You to Pat Taylor and her sister, Linda Wade, for donating the incredible Twilight souvenirs which came directly from Forks, WA, the setting for the books and film.

We just could not provide these fantastic programs without the help of our volunteers and we want each one of you to know how greatly we appreciate you!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Lexile Levels

The Henry Wilson Middle School is going to a lexile-based reading program. To find books in your child’s reading level please visit:

http://fab.lexile.com/
or
http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=18&tabid=67&tabpageid=311

And please don’t hesitate to ask any of the librarians and we will be more than willing to help you out!

Young Adult News

Teens, be sure to check out the new YA book section. All the new YA titles will now be displayed here. Fans of Generation Dead, the zombie series by Daniel Waters will be excited to know that we now have book 2, Kiss of Life which is as good as the first one. We also have the latest in the Darkside series by Tom Becker Timecurse. Rejoin Jonathan and Carnegie for another bloodcurdling adventure.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Isinglass Book List

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah By Nora Raleigh Baskin

The Compound By S. A. Bodeen

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas By John Boyne

Eighth Grade Bites By Heather Brewer

Airman By Eoin Colfer

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Losing Forever By Gayle Frieseh

The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman

Gone By Michael Grant

Football Genius By Tim Green

Found By Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Ruby Key By Holly Lisle

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks By: E. Lockhart

The Declaration By Gemma Malley

The Reminder By Rune Michaels

Night of the Howling Dogs By Graham Salisbury

My Swordhand is Singing By Marcus Sedgwick

Amazing Grace By Megan Shull

Everlost By Neal Shusterman

The Red Thread By Roderick Townley

The Red Thread



The Red Thread
By Roderick Townley
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we would be happy to ILL it for you!

Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes.

There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done — by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague?

As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries — and new suspicions — until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.