Teenscape LaGrange

We are please to offer the follwing titles in the Cliffs Notes Series:

The Aeneid
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying
Beloved
Billy Budd & Typee
Bleak House
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited
Cyrano de Bergerac
Doctor Faustus
Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
The Iliad
Invisible Man
King Lear
Lord of the Flies
Moby-Dick
The Odyssey
Of Human Bondage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paradise Lost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
Romeo and Juliet
A Separate Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
These items can be checked out for three weeks and are found in the Young Adult department.
If you want me to order any other Cliffs Notes titles, let me know!
Just email Noël at ya@lagrangelibrary.org.

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...to sign up for one of these great library programs!

YOUNG ADULT HOLIDAY CRAFTS
Wednesday, December 12, 7-8 pm

It’s the holidays, and you’re looking for a couple of cool homemade gifts for your BFFs or your family. Why not start at the library? We’re exploring our inner Martha Stewarts in December, when we’ll make fabric-topped gift jars, ready to fill with chocolates, cookies, or whatever you like.
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

GOT HARRY POTTER WITHDRAWAL? JOIN DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY!
Sunday, December 16, 2–3 pm

DA is the new YA fantasy fiction club. Discover and talk about the latest fantasy books, films, and TV shows. We’ll also write some of our own fantasy fiction and play indoor quidditch! (No previous flying experience required.) Meetings will take place once a month.
The last half of the meeting we’ll play a scrimmage quidditch game, so bring a broomstick.December 16: The Golden Compass Confab. We’ll talk about the new film based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy and discuss if and how the next two films in the series will be made. Plus we’ll chow down on a special cake – made to look like the alethiometer.
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

YOUNG ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION
Wednesday, December 5, 7-8 pm

Ever read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli? It’s an amazing, life-altering experience – a high school story that will stay with you long after our December book discussion. We’ll meet in the comfy confines of our new YA room for lively discussion and tasty snacks. Check out your copy of Stargirl at the Patron Services Desk beginning November 5.
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

LAST MINUTE GIFT WRAP PARTY
Tuesday, December 18, 7-8:30 pm

Bring your unwrapped presents and a roll of wrapping paper. We’ll share all kinds of paper and art supplies and show you some amazing gift wrap ideas. Bring your favorite holiday (or other) music and we’ll listen to tunes as we work. We’ll serve hot chocolate and snacks, too!
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

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Crutcher, Chris. Deadline. YA/ CRU
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."

Hill, Stuart. Blade of Fire. YA/ HIL
Queen Thirrin succeeded in repelling an invasion, but now the dark forces are massing again. This time the problem may come from within. (Sequel to Cry of the Icemark.)

Jolin, Paula. In the Name of God. YA/ JOL
Nadia is a Syrian teenager coping with more than her share of conflict. When a cousin is arrested, she finds herself drawn into the world of Islamic fundamentalism.

Lyga, Barry. Boy Toy. YA/ LYG
A high school senior attempts to understand the meaning and aftermath of a very adult relationship he had with his teacher in the seventh grade.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the Persimmon Tree. YA/ STA
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Bibliographic Information ©2007 BWI

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The new fiction books are starting to arrive at the new library...

Cabot, Meg. Jinx. YA/ CAB
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.

Hornby, Nick. Slam. YA/HOR
When 15-year-old Sam discovers his ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his child, he finds himself transported into the future to figure out how to make the right decisions.

Kerr, M. E. Someone Like Summer. YA/ KER
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.

Kraft, Erik P. Miracle Wimp. YA/ KRA
Presents episodes from the high school life of Tom Mayo, a wisecracking misfit, who is trying to navigate his way through Wood Shop, dating, driving, and class tormentors.

Moranville, Sharelle Byars. The Snows. YA/ MOR
With the thread of family that connects them through the generations, Jim born in 1931, Cathy in 1942, Jill in 1969, and Mona in 2006 each find "sixteen" to be the pivotal age in their lives.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Hush: An Irish princesses’ tale. YA/ NAP
Melkorka is a princess in medieval Ireland, but everything changes when she is kidnapped and taken aboard a Viking slave ship. Melkorka is forced to learn to survive, takes a vow of silence, and learns that any power can make a difference.

Sedgwick, Martin. My Swordhand Is Singing. YA/ SED
In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her.

Van De Ruit, John. Spud. YA/ VAN
As apartheid crumbles and Nelson Mendela is released from prison, 13-year-old Spud Milton prepares to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school in South Africa.

Bibliographic Information ©2007 BWI

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Interested in one of these programs? SIGN UP NOW by calling the YA Department at 352-0576 x 35!

LTTV LIVE @ THE LIBRARY
Tuesday, November 13, 6-8 pm

“I wanna be famous, a star of the screen…” Small screen, that is. It’s the Grand Opening Week of the new Library, and the crew from LTTV is coming to film a segment for their news show! They will be taking a tour of the new building and interviewing librarians and patrons about what they think of the new Library – and if you’re here, you could be a part of it. Come on over and check out the Burns-Diaz Young Adult Room – the newest teen sensation to hit La Grange – and maybe make the news!

YOUNG ADULT HOLIDAY CRAFTS
Wednesday, November 14, 7-8 pm
Wednesday, December 12, 7-8 pm

It’s the holidays, and you’re looking for a couple of cool homemade gifts for your BFFs or your family. Why not start at the library? We’re exploring our inner Martha Stewarts with a felt mitten holiday fridge magnet in November, and in December we’ll make fabric-topped gift jars, ready to fill with chocolates, cookies, or whatever you like.
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

GOT HARRY POTTER WITHDRAWAL? JOIN DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY!
Sunday, November 18, 2-3 pm
Sunday, December 16, 2–3 pm

DA is the new YA fantasy fiction club. Discover and talk about the latest fantasy books, films, and TV shows. We’ll also write some of our own fantasy fiction and play indoor quidditch! (No previous flying experience required.) Meetings will take place once a month.
November 18: The Deathly Hallows Discussion. What did you think of Rowling's final installment? Let's discuss it! The last half of the meeting we’ll play a scrimmage quidditch game, so bring a broomstick.
December 16: The Golden Compass Confab. We’ll talk about the new film based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy and discuss if and how the next two films in the series will be made. Plus we’ll chow down on a special cake – made to look like the alethiometer.
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

YOUNG ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION Wednesday, December 5, 7-8 pm

Ever read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli? It’s an amazing, life-altering experience – a high school story that will stay with you long after our December book discussion. We’ll meet in the comfy confines of our new YA room for lively discussion and tasty snacks. Check out your copy of Stargirl at the Patron Services Desk beginning November 5. Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

LAST MINUTE GIFT WRAP PARTYTuesday, December 18, 7-8:30 pm

Bring your unwrapped presents and a roll of wrapping paper. We’ll share all kinds of paper and art supplies and show you some amazing gift wrap ideas. Bring your favorite holiday (or other) music and we’ll listen to tunes as we work. We’ll serve hot chocolate and snacks, too!
Registration, beginning November 5, is required: Register in person, or call Noël at 352-0576 x 35, or AIM us at lgpublib.

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