Hannah on September 3rd, 2010

We have a teen facebook page.  Look us up: Aurora Public Library Teen Space

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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

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 2nd, 2010

We are about half way to our 600 teens goal!!! If you are a teen and want to see Hannah at Main, Angie at Eola, Pat at West , & Ginger at the Bookmobile all dye their hair whatever color wins the poll on the right side of the screen, then get to Level 4 of [...]

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Hannah on July 27th, 2010

So cool, but very much a mix of every teen book turned into a movie in the past few years.  But, any movie that has a “lightning cage” rocks in my opinion.   What do you all think?  Anyone see it? 

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Hannah on July 12th, 2010

I saw this over the weekend and I have to say that it ranks up there with WallE, Up, Shrek, Ice Age, & Monsters Inc.  I found the minions adorable and funny.  If you want a good movie for everyone in the family then this is one to see.   The movie previews only show some [...]

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