Monthly Archives: May 2009

Summer Reading 2009

This year’s Teen Reading Challenge is Express Yourself. Teens who sign up for the reading challenge will get a journal to write or sketch in. Complete the challenge by reading for 20 hours and doing six activities such as writing … Continue reading

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Remember When You Were a Kid…

And You Thought You Could Do Anything?

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The Killer’s Cousin, by Nancy Werlin

Not a new book (published in 1998), but this is a great mystery that shouldn’t be missed!  David, a high school senior and the narrator of this story, has been accused of murdering his girlfriend.  The jury found him not … Continue reading

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Feeling a Little Dystopian?

From Booklist Magazine Online, May 14 2009 – Perhaps reflecting the unease in every society that something darker lurks beneath the veneer of civilization, a growing body of dystopian literature has recently dominated the YA science-fiction and fantasy genres. In … Continue reading

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The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, by Mick Cochrane

Eighth Grader Molly wants to play baseball (BASEball, not SOFTball) on her school’s team.   There is a girl’s softball team, but no girl’s baseball team.  There is a baseball team, but since there are only boys on it, it appears to … Continue reading

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Teen Summer Reading Program is Coming!!!

Stay tuned for details….

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