Main | January 2006 »

November 29, 2005

November / December New Fiction Arrivals

I'm happy to report quite a few new fiction books in the YA collection as of November 2005. Come on by and check one out!

Arilla Sun Down Virginia Hamilton YA/HAM
Autobiography of My Dead Brother Walter Dean Myers YA/MYE
Ball Don’t Lie Matt de la Peña YA/DEL
Bucking The Sarge
Christopher Curtis YA/CUR
Code Orange Caroline Cooney YA/COO
The Cry of the Icemark Stuart Hill YA/HIL
The Dark Horse Marcus Sedgwick YA/SED
The Dating Diaries Kristin Kemp YA/KEM
The Divine Wind Garry Disher YA/DIS
Dread Locks Neal Shusterman YA/SHU
Eagle Strike Anthony Horowitz YA/HOR
Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin YA/ZEV
Eyes of the Emperor Graham Salisbury YA/SAL
Falcondance Amelia Atwater-Rhodes YA/ATW
The Flip Side Andrew Matthews YA/MAT
The Glass Café Gary Paulsen YA/PAU
Good-bye and Keep Cold Jenny Davis YA/DAV
High Rhulain Brian Jacques YA/JAC
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother,Where’s My Prince? Melissa Kantor YA/KAN
Invisible Pete Hautman YA/HAU
Kingdom Keepers Ridley Pearson YA/PEA
Kissing Coffins Ellen Schreiber YA/SCH
Looking for Normal Betty Monthei YA/MON
The Minister’s Daughter Julie Hearn YA/HEA
Not the End of the World Geraldine McCaughrean YA/McC
The O.C.: Spring Break Aury Wallington YA/OC
Ostrich Eye Beth Cooley YA/COO
Poison Chris Wooding YA/WOO
Point of Departure Robert S. Gold, ed. YA/POI
Premonitions Jude Watson YA/WAT
Pinned Alfred C. Martino YA/MAR
The Queen of Second Place Laura Peyton Roberts YA/ROB
Rebel Angels Libba Bray YA/BRA
Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer YA/FAR
The Sledding Hill Chris Crutcher YA/CRU
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers Louise Rennison YA/REN
Trickster’s Queen Tamora Pierce YA/PIE
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman Louise Plummer YA/PLU
This Vast Land Stephen E. Ambrose YA/AMB
The Wave Todd Strasser YA/STR
New Additions as of December:

Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris YA/HAR
Gossip Girls series Cecily von Ziegezar YA/VON
Nobody Does It Better
You’re the One That I Want
I Like It Like That
The Great Tree of Avalon: Shadows on the Stars
T.A. Barron YA/BAR
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan YA/RIO
Ready Or Not Meg Cabot YA/CAB
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens Jane Yolen, ed. YA/YEA

Even more new additions!

Angels In Pink: Holly’s Story Lurlene McDaniel YA/McD
The Book of Mordred Vivian Vande Velde YA/VAN
Inexcusable Chris Lynch YA/LYN
Love, Cajun Style Diane Les Bequets YA/LES
The Sacrifice Kathleen Benner Duble YA/DUB
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea Shyam Selvadurai YA/SEL

November 28, 2005

First Saturday Afternoon at the Movies -- December 17

Bring a small beanbag chair or a comfy pillow from home and join us for our fist Saturday Afternoon Movie. This animated picture tells the tale of a handsome young skeleton who wants to introduce his friends and his creepy little town to the wonders of Christmas!

Join us for popcorn and pop at 2 pm Saturday, December 17th. The movie should end at about 3:20 pm.

Questions? Please call me at the Young Adult department, at 352-0576 x 35.

See you here!

Create Your Own Holiday Cards

Saturday, December 10, 3:00-4:00 pm
“The holidays are coming,
In fact, they’re nearly here
And we hope you’ll join the YA-WhoOOs
To create some festive cheer!”

Stay around after the December meeting for a chance to make some holiday greeting cards with your own personal flair. We have a wide variety of materials (paper, rubber stamps, glitter, etc.) and ideas – and feel free to bring some of your own.

November 16, 2005

Movie Afternoons - Starting December 17

Teenscape at LaGrange Public Library
presents
Saturday Afternoon at the Movies

Are you 13 years old or older? Then please join us in the Library for movies on the “big screen,” complete with popcorn and beverages! Please feel free to bring a pillow or small beanbag chair.

Saturdays at 2 pm*

Questions? Want titles? Call the LaGrange Public Library Young Adult Department at 352-0576 x 35 or email me at zethmayrn@lagrangelibrary.org.

*Movie schedule may change; many selected movies are rated PG-13.

New in Teenscape -- Books On Tape

We have a new addition to the YA section -- Books on Tape! Take a look at our growing collection -- BOTs check out for 3 weeks, just like Books on CD and regular books.

The titles we have so far (as of 11/21/05)are:
Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
The Giver Lois Lowry
A Step From Heaven by An Na
Pool Boy by Michael Simmons


Suggestions? Email me at zethmayrn@lagrangelibrary.org!
Additional Books on Tape added (12/7/05):

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane by Sue Limb
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Fault Line by Janet Tashjian


Hosting by Yahoo!