Archive for May, 2010
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New Books 1st Week of June
The suburb Beyond the Stars by M.T. AndersonBrian and Gregory have survived the Game of Sunken Places, but are once again drawn back to cousin Prudence’s house in Vermont, where they discover that something has gone very wrong with time, people have disappeared, and danger is lurking everywhere.
Science Fiction
Catwalk by Melody CarlsonWhen the Forrester sisters take their hit television show to New York for Fashion Week, they find that success in the big city comes with big challenges.
Christian Fiction
Premiere by Melody CarlsonWhen two sisters get their own fashion-focused reality television show, vivacious Paige is excited, but Erin, a Christian who is more interested in being behind the camera than in front of it, has problems with some of the things they are asked to do.
Christina Fiction
Picture the Dead by Adele GriffinAfter Jennie Lovell’s fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
Historical Fiction
The Enemy by Charles HigsonWhen the sickness came, every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they’re fighting to survive. Now there are rumors of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground – the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there – alive?
Horror
Smoke Mountain by Erin HunterBook 3 in the Seekers
When the bears learn of the legendary Last Great Wilderness, a fabled bear paradise, they believe that this must be their ultimate destination.
Fantasy
Finding My Place by Traci L. JonesAfter moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie feels lonely at her nearly all-white high school until she befriends another “outsider” and discovers that prejudice exists in many forms.
Realistic/Historical Fiction
Addicted to Her by Janet Nichols LynchAfter falling obsessively in love, high school wrestler Rafael Montoya must choose between a reckless young woman and responsibilities to his family and future.
Realistic Fiction
The Lighter Side of Life and Death by CK Kelly MartinWhen best friends Mason and Kat lose their virginity to each other, they react quite differently. Mason is obsessed with Kat; Kat responds by ignoring him completely. Partly from a desire for revenge, partly from fascination, Mason begins an intense physical relationship with 23-year-old Colette, a dalliance that soon becomes just as obsessive as his relationship with Kat was.
Realistic Fiction
Amy & Rogers Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonAfter the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.
Realistic Fiction
Prophecy of Days by Christy RaedekeBook 1 – Daykeeper’s Grimoire
Caity Mac Fireland of San Francisco accompanies her parents to an isle off the coast of Scotland where she finds a Mayan relic and, guided by a motley crew of advisors, uncovers an incredible secret that an elite group of power-brokers will stop at nothing to control.
Adventure
Love Bites by Ellen SchreiberBook 7- Vampire Kisses
Goth teen Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, face new challenges when Alexander’s sexy and charismatic best friend, Sebastian, arrives in Dullsville.
Supernatural
Somebody Everybody Listens To by Suzanne SuppleUpon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.
Realistic Fiction
The Oracle of Dating by Allison Van DiepenFor five bucks, the Oracle of Dating will tell you : How to flirt ; If that cute guy you’re crushing on likes you, too ; Whether your new romance will last through lunch period…What she won’t tell you? Who she is. No one at Kayla’s school knows she’s the famous Oracle of Dating–the anonymous queen of dating advice.
Chick Lit
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Eclipse Bottle Cap Pendant Art
Do you root for Team Edward or Team Jacob?It doesn’t matter….you are proud to be a Twilight fan!Make a bottle cap pendant with your favorite Twilight sayings or pictures. -
College Bound Book Club
Sharpen your skills for college entrance exams and prepare for college by reading great books this summer.Castle Pines Library at 7:00 p.m.Registration is required. This book club is for high school students and recently graduated seniors
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New Books- 4th Week of May
Unfamiliar Magic by RC AlexanderTwelve-year-old witch Desi secretly uses her mother’s spellbook with unexpected results, including meeting her warlock father for the first time and becoming like sisters with Cat, who was once her mother’s familiar.
Fantasy
Token of Darkness by Amelia Atwater-RhodesAfter Cooper Blake wakes from a serious car accident to find himself in the company of an attractive, tormented ghost, he keeps his visions to himself until he discovers that two of his peers also hide supernatural abilities.
Supernatural
The Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea M. CampbellExpecting to become a supervillain on his sixteenth birthday, Damien Locke, son of one of Golden City’s most notorious supervillains, is horrified to discover that he may instead be destined to become a superhero.
Fantasy
Dark Fire by Chris D’LaceyBook 5 in The Last Dragon Chronicles
Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
Fantasy
Gigged by Heath GibsonGeorgia high school junior J.T. relies on the discipline of the Reserve Officer Training Corps to cope with grief, life in foster care, and his physical limitations, as well as to prove himself to his mother, dead in a car crash, and his father, a soldier killed in Desert Storm.
Realistic Fiction
Folly by Marthe JocelynIn a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London’s famous Foundling Hospital.
Historical Fiction
Chasing Orion by Kathryn LaskyIn 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.
Historical Fiction
The Ring of Five by Eoin McNameeKidnapped on his way to boarding school, Danny Caulfield, who has one blue eye and one brown eye, ends up at a mysterious academy of spies, where he is to be trained in the art of espionage in an effort to keep the Upper and Lower worlds from colliding.
Fantasy
The Wager by Donna Jo NapoliHaving lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
Historical Fiction
A Blue So Dark by Holly SchindlerAs Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother’s schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity.
Realistic Fiction
Hell’s Heroes by Darren ShanBook 10 in Demonata
Bec, Kernel, and Grubbs gear up for the fight of their lives as the final battle between Earth and the hoardes of the Demonata draws near.
Horror
Greek: Double Date by Marsha WarnerTwo dates-same night! Major oops. When Casey Cartwright’s brother begs her to be nerdy Dale Kettlewell’s date to the boring Honors Engineering Awards, Casey says yes. Ugh. But it’s a nice thing to do. But now, that night conflicts with the biggest event of the semester, the All-Greek formal. Casey already has a date lined up. What to do?
Realistic Fiction
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Teen Fashion Contest
Do you like to get creative with you clothes?
Then this contest is for you
Teen Fashion Design Contest Official Rules
1. Registration Required. (Teens 12-18)
2. When you register you will receive a plain white t-shirt (men’s size large). This shirt must be the main fabric for your design. (The sooner you register the more time you will have to work on your design.)
3. You may add fabric or cut fabric, but the t-shirt needs to be used in the design. You can change the t-shirt as much or as little as you want. (You could make the shirt into a dress, or a smaller shirt, a pair of shorts. Anything you want. You may dye or color the t-shirt; you may add as much fabric as you want to alter the t-shirt.)
4. Bring your garment and model to the runway show between 5:00pm-6:00pm on 7/30/10. This is the night of the Runway Show. Anyone not checked in by 6:00 will not be able to compete.
5. All entries must be finished and wearable.
6. You can style your model with any accessories you want. (Jeans, jacket, shoes, hair, makeup may all be part of the design and don’t need to be made by the designer.)
7. Entries must be an original design and must be sewn by the designer.
8. Entries must not be too revealing. Entries that expose undergarments will not be allowed on the runway.
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Teen Summer Reading
It’s time for summer reading!
Read 12 hours and get a ticket to Elitch Gardens
Sign up starting June 1st
Program ends July 27th
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New Books- 3rd Week of May
Click on the book cover to put any book on hold
Resto
ring Harmony by Joelle AnthonyTen years after the Great Collapse of 2031, sixteen-year-old Molly McClure, with only her fiddle for company, leaves the safety of her family’s island home to travel through a dangerous and desolate wasteland on her way to Oregon to find her grandparents and persuade them to return with her to Canada.
Science Fiction
Compromised by Heidi AyarbeWith her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.
Realistic Fiction
Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt BellThirteen-year-old Genevieve’s summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
Realistic Fiction
The Buccanneer’s Apprentice by Vance BricelandOn his first sea voyage, seventeen-year-old Nic Dattore faces vicious pirates, then, with a motley crew of castaways, decides to commandeer the pirate ship to return home, racing against time to save the magical city of Cassaforte from a diabolical plot.
Fantasy
Play Dead by Ryan BrownIn Brown’s fresh and riveting supernatural thriller, football-player zombies bent on revenge take over a football-obsessed Texas town.
Horror
A Coven of Witches by Joseph DelaneyThis stand-alone addition to the international phenomenon and bestselling Last Apprentice series features four terrifying stories about witches who inhabit the world of Tom Ward and the Spook.
Fantasy
For the Win by Cory DoctorowA group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections.
Realistic Fiction
Friend is Not a Verb by Daniel EhrenhaftWhile sixteen-year-old Hen’s family and friends try to make his supposed dreams of becoming a rock star come true, he deals with the reality of being in a band with an ex-girlfriend, a friendship that may become love, and his older sister’s mysterious disappearance and reappearance.
Realistic Fiction
Rules of Attraction by Simone ElkelesLiving on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
Realistic Fiction
God is in the Pancakes by Robin EpsteinFifteen-year-old Grace, having turned her back on religion when her father left, now finds herself praying for help with her home and love life, and especially with whether she should help a beloved elderly friend die with dignity.
Realistic Fiction
Dark Life by Kat FallsWhen fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier’s underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
Science Fiction
Lies by Michael GrantBook 3 in the Gone Series
As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.
Fantasy
Illyria by Elizabeth HandTeenage cousins Madeleine and Rogan, who share twin souls and a sexual relationship, are cast in a school production of Twelfth Night that forces them to confront their respective strengths and future prospects.
Fantasy
Vampire Rising by Jason HendersonAt a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.
Horror
The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis HoltTraces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
Historical Fiction
Whisper by Phoebe KitanidisAlthough fifteen-year-old Joy, who uses her mind-reading ability to grant wishes for people, and her older sister Jessica, who uses the same ability to bring misery into the lives of others, do not get along, Joy tries to find and protect Jessica when she goes missing.
Fantasy
Up Over Down Under by Micol OstowS.A.S.S. Series
When sixteen-year-olds Eliza of Washington, D.C., and Billie of Melbourne, Australia, participate in a semester-long ecology exchange program, Eliza’s plan to “cut loose” out of the public eye goes awry, while Belinda must consider tempering her idealism in order to work within the system.
Realistic Fiction
The Daughters by Joanna PhilbinIn New York City, three fourteen-year-old best friends who are all daughters of celebrities watch out for each other as they try to strike a balance between ordinary high school events, such as finding a date for the homecoming dance, and family functions like walking the red carpet with their famous parents.
Realistic Fiction
Spells by Aprilynne PikeSummoned to study at The Academy of Avalon, sixteen-year-old Laurel learns about the town with friend Tamani, while honing her long-forgotten skills as a Fall faerie in order to protect her human family and Avalon from trolls.
Fantasy
Fire Will Fall by Carol Plum-UcciSequel to Streams of Babel
Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.
Spy Fiction
Zen and Xander Undone by Amy Kathleen RyanTwo teenaged sisters try to come to terms with the death of their mother in very different ways.
Realistic Fiction
We Hear the Dead by Dianne Salerni
It starts as a harmless prank…then one lie quickly grows into another. Soon Kate and Maggie Fox are swept into a dizzying flurry of national attention for their abilities to communicate with the dead. But living a lie is sometimes too much to handle, even if you have the best intentions
Historical Fiction
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June Teen Book Club
In a future world, all babies are born. However, between the ages of 13 and 18 parents can make the decision to have you “unwound”. Your body will then be harvested to be used in other people’s bodies. In the book, three teens are coming of age and are trying to uphold their values and maybe save their own lives.Come join us for a discussion of this book on Saturday June 5th from 1-2pm. Pick up a Book Club copy of the book in the Teen Tower before the event. New members are always welcome!
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Pretty Little Liars New TV Show
Pretty Little Liars is being made into a TV Show on ABC Family. It premiers Tuesday June 8 at 7pm. Read the books before the show starts. We own them all! -
New Books- 2nd Week of May
Bullet Point by Peter Abrahams
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father’s innocence.
The Karma Club by Jessica Brody
When high school senior Maddy catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she devises a complicated plan to get revenge.
Tell Us We’re Home by Marina Budhos
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl’s mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
Something Like Fate by Susane Colasanti
Lani and Jason, who is her best friend’s boyfriend, fall in love, causing Lani tremendous anguish and guilt.
Mistwood by Leah Cypess
Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she struggles with her growing feelings for the prince.
Stettin Station by David Downing
With American entry into WWII looming, Anglo-American John Russell searches for a way out of Germany.
Resistance: Book 1 by Carla Jablonski
Fighting on a secret front of World War II Paul and Marie’s bucolic French country town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII, but the siblings still live in the shadow of war. Their father is a Prisoner of War, kept hostage by the Germans. When their friend Henri’s parents disappear and Henri goes into hiding because of his Jewish ancestry, Paul and Marie realize they must take a stand. But how can they convince the French Resistance that even children can help in their fight against injustice? Resistance is the first volume of a trilogy written by acclaimed teen author Carla Jablonski and illustrated by Leland Purvis.
Party by Tom Leveen
As eleven different high school students recount, in their own voices, events before, during, and after the same end-of-year party, the stories intersect and combine in unexpected ways.
After the Kiss by Terra Ela Mcvoy
This moment changes everything. Becca has been head-over-heels for Alec from the instant they met. He’s a brainy jock with a poet’s heart—in other words, perfect for her. Camille is careful with her words and protective of her heart, especially since Chicago. Then a new boy in her new town catches her off guard with a surprise kiss. Too bad that new boy is Becca’s boyfriend, Alec. Camille and Becca have never met, but their lives will unravel and intertwine in surprising ways as they deal with what happens after the kiss.
Gimme a Call by Sarah Mlynowski
After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls–and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices–from her seventeen-year-old self.
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.
Thief Eyes by Janni Lee Simner
Haley’s mother disappeared while on a trip to Iceland, and a year later, when her father takes her there to find out what happened, Haley finds herself deeply involved in an ancient saga that began with her Nordic ancestors.
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
Sixteen-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt’s law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently haunts her.
Checkered Flag Cheater by Will Weaver
Sequel to Super Stock Rookie
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.
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