Do you have a Talent?
Audition to compete in our Annual Teen Talent Show!
Audition Times:
Wednesday, June 12, to 8 p.m. at Eola Road Branch
Thursday, June 13, 1 to 4 p.m. at West Branch
Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. to noon & 1 to 3 p.m. at the Main Library
Click here for the permission form: Talent Show parent permission form 2013
Rules:
- Singers, dancers, bands & other performers welcome
- Must be between ages 12 and 18 on Aug. 10, 2013
- Performance limited to 3 1/2 minutes
- Signed parental permission form required for all performers in an act
- Finalists will be notified by phone or email
- FREE to enter! FREE admission! Invite your friends!
It’s the year 2044 and the real world is horrible. Eveyone escapes to the Oasis. The Oasis is the online virtual reality world where you can be anything (as an avatar), you can see anything, you can visit anywhere (as long as you have enough money). In the Oasis you can grow up on Sesame Street interacting with Big Bird, Oscar and all the rest of the Muppet’s. You can visit the world of Zork and play the game. You can go to a virtual high school and never have to interact with a real person if you don’t want to.
The Oasis was created by James Halliday. Halliday was the ultimate creator of game and he grew up in the 80′s and loved everything 80′s. When he died he had no heirs to leave his vast fortune to so he created one final game. He hid an Easter Egg in the Oasis. To get to the Easter Egg you would have to find 3 keys that would unlock 3 gates and he only gave one clue as to where the first key was. Five years after his death nobody had even found the first key, that is until Wade Watts, a poor boy from the stacks, figures out that the first key is on the only planet in the Oasis that he can go to…School.
Wade is the first person to get his name on the board and find the first key and gate, but soon there will be more. As the game progresses Wade has to be extremely careful. there is a company who wants to control the Oasis and has players of their own working toward getting that Egg and they wont let anything stand in their way.
Set in the future this book is all about the 80′s, pop culture & gaming! I have to say that I’m in love with this book. If you are a gamer of any type, if you loved the 80′s or just grew up in them, or if you love a good futuristic book then pick this one up! I started listening to the audio but two dics in I had to find the actual book because I got tired of having to stop it whenever I had to get out of the car. This is one you don’t want to miss.
Tags: Book Review, Ernest Cline, Hannah's Reviews, Hannah's Reviews 2013, Ready Player One
Set in the future when the world has been destroyed by solar flairs there are a few survivors, and the people of the Tarot are out to kill each other. Evie has spent her summer in a clinic for kids who are troubled and on their last chance. Her grandmother kidnapped her when she was a child and teach her about the tarot and other such things that she would need to know when the Apocalypse happened. Now a teenager Evie has been seeing things, dark things. Her mother sent her to the clinic to get her grandmothers teachings out of her head.
Jack is a Cajan boy from the wrong side of the tracks with a mile long wrap sheet. In the week leading up to the crazy new world Jack and Evie have a very negative relationship toward one another. When the Solar flairs end up turning most of the worlds population and all the plants into dust while drying up most bodies of water everyone must fend for themselves.
Together Jack and Evie set off on a trek to find Evie’s grandmother, but Evie isn’t telling Jack everything. Evie has powers unlike any other. Many kids left alive do. They are the Arcana (the tarot) and only Evie’s grandmother knows why they have these powers.
LOVED IT! Listened to the audio of this and I have to say that it was fantastic! I thought Evie was a whiny brat, but after seeing what she can do I’m impressed. Can’t wait for book 2.
Tags: book r, Hannah's Reviews, Hannah's Reviews 2013, Kresley Cole, Poison Princess
It’s almost time for us to reveal our new TEEN PAGE!!!!!!
But first… we need to choose a new background.
Take a look at what the teens of Aurora turned in for our BLOG/Facebook Art Contest
Vote for your favorite in our poll to the right
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by May 17th!
Click on the pictures to make them larger!
On June 1st the New Blog should be relieved with the winner as the background!
Don’t forget to pick your favorite on the Facebook page as well.
PINK
Picture 1 comes from West High School
YELLOW
Picture 2 comes from Fisher Middle School
Tags: art contest, blog art contest
Eve Spiker is hit by a car. Her leg is severed. Her mother pulls her out of the hospital before her severed leg can be reattached and takes her back to her office…and that turns out to be a good thing! Eve is different. There is something special about her, but she never knew it. Her mother, Terra Spiker, is an important person in the science world and while Eve is held hostage by her mother she learns more about what her mother does for a living. To keep her busy Eve’s mother gives her a project of making the perfect guy on the new system that her company is developing. She call’s him Adam.
Solo is a boy who grew up in the Spiker Research Facility. He is incredibly smart and can hack into almost all of Spikers secure files. He knows that something is going down that is not right. He wants to take it to the police but he needs more proof. When Eve is injured his plans change to include her.
Set in the modern day this book was not what most people will expect. Eve creates a real boy from a computer, but still it’s supposed to be something that is possible now. I listened to the audio and I feel I have to say that I only picked this up because K.A. Applegate was one of my favorites growing up with the Everword Series. However, that said, I feel the ending was not what it should have been to make this a great book. It started off great and I loved it up until the point where the authors “wrapped up the ending in a big red bow.”
Tags: Book Review, eve & adam, Hannah's Reviews, Hannah's Reviews 2013, katherine applegate, Michael Grant
On June 1st this blog will be replaced, by a new site that is sure to be great!
Everything you could want from your library’s teen site will be at your fingertips:
- booklists
- career info
- college info
- craft websites
- gaming websites
- graphic arts websites
- gossip websites
- health websites
- homework help websites
- movie websites
- music websites
- online magazines
- reading websites
- recycling websites
- reviews
- school websites
- sport websites
- Teen Advisory Board information
- teen issue websites
- test prep websites
- volunteer forms
- writing websites
In what used to be Brazil there is a pyramid city that everyone envy’s. It is one of the last great city’s and all want to be a part of it. It is run only by women. Its name is Palmares Três. The people elect a Summer King (who has no real power), but at the end of his one year in service he is sacrificed by the Queen. With his final breath the Summer King chooses the new Queen. This is only one of Palmares Três’ traditions.
June Costa is the best artist in Palmares Três, or at least that’s what she tells herself. She was born into the upper tiers of the pyramid. Her step-mother is an Auntie (one of the women who run the city). Together with her best friend Gil, June creates art that is meant to help her favorite candidate, Enki, be elected as the new Summer King. Soon the Summer King is chosen and that one choice causes June’s life to change in ways she never imagined.
This is very different then most dystopian futuristic books I have read. I really didn’t know what to expect with this book at first. I received an ebook version of this book from www.netgalley.com and I have to say it was fantastic! I kept trying to imagine her tree whenever I had to put the book down. If you like futuristic novels then you should add this to your list.
Tags: Alaya Dawn Johnson, Book Review, Hannah's Reviews, Hannah's Reviews 2013, The summer prince
Pandora hasn’t seen or talked to her father since she was a child, but on her17th birthday she receives an email from him. Her mother on the other hand forgot that it was her birthday. Having been told never to open anything that her father has sent her over the past decade she is curious to see what he wants to say. His email leads her to a webpage with 12 pictures of her with her father that she has never seen. So one by one she clicks on them and sends them to be printed at Walgreen’s. This one action is the start of a massive world wide problem! Later in the day when she logs into the game called Pandora’s Box everything is unleashed. The phone lines go down, the electricity goes off, her cell phone wont work anymore, but a weird message is on her laptop where Pandora’s Box is still open.
“You’ve reached the point of no return. Welcome to the real Pandora’s Box.
Total annihilation in 10, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 days.”
In search of answers she walks to the new neighbors house to see if the same thing is happening there. Who does she find living next door? None other then the two hottest guys in her school that just moved to town: Eli & Theo. Their parents got married and neither one is too happy about having the other for a brother. With their help Pandora must use the game and track down the clues in order to save the world, that is if she can get out of the hands of the government alphabet in her house. With the world breaking down around them these three teens are the worlds only hope of surviving.
So awesome!!!! Love this book. The cover pulled me in, but the story kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning. The whole love triangle thing could have been handled a little bit differently, but I loved it all the same. Pandora really was an interesting character. I think it would be great to see what happens after the book ends, but I think it ended perfectly well to be a stand alone book as well. If you are looking for a book that will keep you reading look no further!!!
Tags: Book Review, doomed, Hannah's Reviews, Hannah's Reviews 2013, Tracy Deebs
The Main Library, Eola Road Branch, & West Branch are all on the hunt for New Teen Advisory Board Members!
If you want to be part of a great group of Teens who get to have a blast and get volunteer hours doing it then fill out an application before the end of April.
Your first meeting would be the Lock-in if you are chosen by the current TAB!
Applications are different at each location so you have to pick up an application at your library location in the Teen Area.
Good Luck!
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