Oct

Zombie Program at Main

Hannah on October 31st, 2011

The Zombie Survival Program went over will the Bang! Check out some of the zombies that attended. Everyone who was there knows more about how to protect themselves from this epidemic!

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Aug

Special K Video: Getting ready for the Talent Show!

Hannah on August 4th, 2011

Come see him and Ty emcee our event it all starts at 2pm!

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May

Blog Art Contest Entries!!!! Pick your Favorite to be our background

Hannah on May 3rd, 2011

Please take a look at the below 3 photos and choose your favorite! Vote on the right of the screen in the poll. The winner will be our background for a year! Picture 1 = Huimin Picture 2 = Kiana Picture 3 = Alma

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Mar

C2E2 in Chicago!

Hannah on March 23rd, 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ala_members/5551385962/ Above is the link to the photo of almost 50 librarians crammed into a booth at this years Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) Conference. For those of you that don’t know what C2E2 is: http://www.c2e2.com/ this is where you can learn all about it and who was there. The pictures on the C2E2 [...]

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Mar

MEET THE NEW PURPLE TEEN LIBRARIANS!

Hannah on March 14th, 2011

Angie Hannah Pat

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Feb

Book Cover Spoofs

Hannah on February 8th, 2011

The Main Library’s TAB created some book cover spoofs for all of the Twilight books as well as Harry Potter. If you’ve been to the Main Library you may have seen them hanging in the TEEN SPACE. If not, here you go:

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Mar

Anime, Manga, & More @ West Branch

Pat Schwartz on March 31st, 2010

Candy Sushi Fun was had by all

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Dec

Pictures

Hannah on December 16th, 2009

Talent Show 2009 Pictures + A Few More Halloween 2009 Pictures

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Angie’s Goodreads

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Angie's bookshelf: read

Ashes

by Ilsa J. Bick

WOW! If there's a book in the universe that can top this one, show me! Immediately post-EMP, three people from very different lives come together to survive. The world seems set against their success, and that helps make the story amazing, ...

Scored

by Lauren McLaughlin

this was a pretty awesome dystopian book. loved the concept of the score.

Wanderlove

by Kirsten Hubbard

Recent high school graduate Bria has to escape reality for a while after a long and painful post-breakup. She hops a place to Guatemala and discovers that her tour group is about a generation older than her. So, when the opportunity present...

Split

by Swati Avasthi

Here is an awesome story about two young men struggling in the aftermath of a lifetime of abuse by their domineering and powerful father, who also happens to be a judge who likes to intimidate his family into silence with facts twisted to h...

Keeper of the Grail

by Michael P. Spradlin

This is the story of Tristan, a young man raised in an abby. He is discovered by a crusading knight and taken on as a squire. and he soon has a dangerous enemy in another Knight. He is given a very important task by his lord, thus leading ...

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Hannah’s Goodreads

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Hannah's bookshelf: read

Found

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A plane lands and there is no pilot. There are 36 babies on board. When all the babies are taken off the plane, it disappears. Now 15 years later Jonah, his sister Catherine, and Jonah's friend Chip are involved in the mystery. Mysterious l...

A Girls Guide to Guys: Meeting Them, Managing Them and All That Love Stuff

by Rachel Hill

I read this in a few hours, but it was very cute and had me laughing. The different types of guys mentioned in the book are really funny and very true. It has some British-English words in it that may not make since to some of us Americans ...

Wolf-speaker

by Tamora Pierce

The Future of Us

by Jay Asher

From the authors of Thirteen Reasons Why & The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things comes a new novel set in 1996.

Josh & Emma have been life long best friends, but when Josh shows more then friendship their relationship chan...

Clockwork Prince

by Cassandra Clare

This is Book 2 in the prequel series to City of Bones.

I love this series, but it really moved slow in book 2.

The Basic gist of the story is about the Shadowhunters trying to find Mortmain, the Magister, and attempting t...

Blood Rites

by Jim Butcher

Front and Center

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I really didn't like this one as much as the other 2.

The Off Season

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

As sequels go this one is good. I don't know what I was expecting but this one blew me away. The first one was good but this seemed to have more depth to it. There were parts that I thought the author needed to go a little bit farther with ...

Crossed

by Ally Condie

As sequels go this one works, but I feel like the only things that happened where to move the story along so she can get to where she wants to go with book 3. The bouncing back and forth in perspectives got confusing and at times annoying.