Great Links

I've added a new feature to the blog - Great Links. It's a list of websites that I really like and want to share with you.

Reading Rants is book review website for Teens. The librarian who created this site was one of my professors at Queens College. Her class was awesome and we read great books.

The second site I added is No Flying, No Tights. It has reviews of graphic novels.

Let me know if there are any sites you think are worth sharing.

YALSA Top Ten

The 2007 Teens’ Top Ten is:

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).

2. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (Viking Children’s Books, 2006)

3. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles (Flux, 2006).

4. Maximum Ride: School’s Out – Forever by James Patterson (Hachette Book Group USA/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).

5. Firegirl by Tony Abbott (Hachette Book Group USA/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).

6. All Hallows Eve (13 Stories)by Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt, 2006).

7. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, 2006).

8. River Secrets by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury, 2006).

9. Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe (HarperCollins, 2006).

10. Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks (Chicken House, 2006).

New Arrivals!

Check out these new releases.

Mob Princess: For Money and Love by Todd Strasser

Kate Blessing is not your typical high school junior. She's a good student who's into guys and the latest designer jeans...and she's also part of the mob.

Useful Fools by C.A. Schmidt

A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor village children, becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb the clinic, killing his mother and throwing his family into turmoil.

Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

Jinx by Meg Cabot

Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like,

Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."

Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.

Orangeburg Library teen blog

Welcome to the Orangeburg Library Blog!! This space is for Teens to have their own library cyber-space. Feel free to post comments. Comments will be moderated. Inapproptiate comments will be deleted. Once we are up and running, you will be able to join and make your own posts.


I hope to post to this space weekly to update you about current events at the library and new or interesting books available at the library. Check out our upcoming events.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Meet the Author: Robert Lipsyte
Saturday October 6, 12-2 PM at the Haverstraw King’s Daughter Library.
Meet Robert Lipsyte, author of The Contender and One fat summer . Books will be available for purchase. Free lunch from Yianni’s Wraps Café will be provided. Free tickets available to S. Orangetown students, grades 6-12 at the Library.

Sponsored by LARC (Library Association of Rockland County)

Teen Advisory Board

Help plan teen programs and fundraisers, review books and make suggestions for the collection. We will meet on Fridays from 3:30-4:30 on the following days: Sept 28, Oct. 26 Nov. 30 & Dec. 21.


Teen Read Week
October 14-20

Win a prize each time you check out a book from the YA collection.