Hannah on August 28th, 2010

Book 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Katniss Everdeen, has survived 2 hunger games, her home has been destroyed, Peeta has been captured by the capitol, and any survivors of district 12 are now housed in district 13 (yes, it really is there!).  As if that wasn’t enough, now the rebels of district 13 want to use her the way [...]

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Angie on August 28th, 2010

Guess who won a raffle for the Hunger Games-related board game called Training Days?! That’s right, your amazing Teen Librarian at Eola Road! and it’s available for playing in the library! Just come in the Teen Room and ask for it by name!

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Hannah on August 24th, 2010

The polls are now open for the Teen Top Ten!  Vote now until September 17th!!!!  Winners will be annouced in October!  Vote now and comment here on your favorites! http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm

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Hannah on August 14th, 2010

Katarina (Kat) was born into a family of thieves, but she has been trying to have a normal life.  She stole herself a place in the Colgan Boarding School only to lose it after being framed for a theft she did not commit (stealing the Dean’s car and turning it into a fountain). Then soon [...]

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Hannah on August 14th, 2010

Book 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read Book 1 first, Evermore. Ever and Damen are immortal soul mates.  Damen has searched the world over looking for Ever and he finally has her and she is now immortal like him.  But, when the new kid from England shows up everything that was good is now bad.  The school cliques have [...]

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Hannah on August 14th, 2010

OK, I know this is not the movie poster, but it is the cover of book 2.  I went to the midnight showing of this movie on Thursday and I have to say this movie is one that speaks to everyone in the Nintendo Generation (my generation) all the way to today’s Generation.  There are [...]

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Angie on August 13th, 2010

sigh. i was so hoping to have an excuse to make my hair pink or blue or something equally exotic, unusual and unnatural. but the challenge set to the Aurora area teens has gone unmet. sigh. what kind of challenge does it take to get teens to log the time you read (we KNOW you [...]

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Hannah on August 11th, 2010

http://yafantasyshowdown.weebly.com/index.html  At the above site there is a Showdown between all your favorite YA Book Characters!!!! The following schedule is taken from the site (8/11/10) Round 1 (16 Battles) – Tuesday, August 10th–Thursday August 12th. = 3 Days Round 2 (8 Battles) – Sunday, August 15th–Monday, August 16th. = 2 Days Round 3 (4 Battles) [...]

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Hannah on August 11th, 2010

If you go to  http://loserqueen.com/ you can read the book and vote what will happen next.  “It’s the first interactive book that you can help create!”  What you do… 1. Read the chapters that are already up on the site. 2. Vote by 5 p.m. (EST) on Thursdays of EACH WEEK 3. Read new chapters on [...]

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Hannah on August 10th, 2010

  Book 3… Do not read this unless you have read The Awakening and The Summoning! Chloe (a sup-ed-up necromancer) is on the run from the Eddison Group with a werewolf (Derek), a warlock (Simon), and a sup-ed-up witch (Tori).  All were genetically modified so that their powers wouldn’t have the restraints of the normal supernaturals.  [...]

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