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Friday, October 23, 2009

Teen Read Week booklist and video


My Top 10 lists

Science Fiction
1. Hunger Games
2. Uglies
3. Kingdom Keepers
4. Pendragon series
5. Life as We Knew it
6. Prom Dates from Hell
7. Mediator series
8. Vampire Academy series
9. Killer Pizza
10. Morganville Vampires

Fantasy:
1. Graceling
2. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
3. Percy Jackson series
4. Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
5. Dragonfly
6. Song of the Lioness series
7. Sweep series
8. Enchanted Forest Chronicles
9. Oh. My. Gods/Goddess Boot Camp
10. Salem Witch Tryouts

Adult Fantasy:
Song of Ice and Fire series
Maria V. Snyder

Here's the display I created at the Otis Library


Monday, October 19, 2009

HAPPY TEEN READ WEEK!



Things to do:

1. Visit Libraries for wicked cool events all over the world
(At Otis we have free teen books up for grabs, Dungeons and Dragons night, Screening of the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Creating Ice Cream Sundaes)
2. Visit YALSA (ultra cool librarian club) to check out which books make it into the
Teens Top Ten - aka books you LOVE
3. Visits author sites - giving out free books
4. Visit READERGIRLZ who are hosting their annual awesome chatting with authors event all week long.
5. Enjoy a great book, talk about books, or introduce someone to your favorite books