Dec

Teen Videographer’s Club

Hannah on December 3rd, 2011

What is a Book Trailer? = It’s like a Movie Preview for a book! How do I make one? = Sign up to be part of the Teen Videographer’s Club!

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Computer Guts

Pat Schwartz on March 8th, 2010

If you want to know what it takes to make a computer work, register for the program on March 10 at the West Branch. Questions? Contact Pat Schwartz 630-264-3600

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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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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.