Archive for June, 2010

• Red Carpet Event

  Date: 2010.06.27 | Category: Teen Contest, Teen Short Film Contest | Response: 0

  

  Join us on Wednesday June 30 at 7pm for the RED CARPET EVENT

  • Vote for the Best Film
  • Enjoy burritos donated by Chipotle
  • Prizes from the Castle Rock Film Festival, Best Buy, and Warner Bros
  • See what the teens in Castle Rock are doing with their talents

  We can’t wait to see everyone at the event!

  Don’t forget to vote for other awards before the event here

• Vote Now for the Teen Short Film Contest

  Date: 2010.06.27 | Category: Teen Contest, Teen Short Film Contest | Response: 1

  ALL VOTES MUST BE SUBMITTED BY TUESDAY

  Watch all the entries

  We need your help to decide whose film is the best in these categories:

  Best Director

  Best Editing

  Best Cinematograhpy

  Best Special Effects

  Click Here to watch all 11 videos and then leave a comment on our blog of which ones you think deserve to win for each category.

  Don’t forget the Red Carpet Event on June 30 at 7pm at the Castle Rock Library

  You will get vote for the Best Film at the Red Carpet Event

• New Books- 5th Week of June

  Date: 2010.06.24 | Category: New Books | Response: 0

  Flash by Michael Cadnum

  Relates one momentous day in the lives of five young people in the San Francisco Bay Area, including two teenaged bank robbers, a witness, and a wounded military policeman just back from Iraq.

  Realistic Fiction

  The Fire Stone by Riley Carney

  Fifteen-year-old Matthias demonstrates remarkable courage and unexpected abilities while seeking the Fire Stone, one of the elusive Stones of the Elements which, when joined, can either save or destroy the world of Mundaria

  Fantasy

  

  Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler

  Two teenagers become close as the citizens of their town fight over the packs of wolves that have been reintroduced into the nearby Yellowstone National Park.

  Realistic Fiction

  13 to Life by Shannon Delaney

  Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing. Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change. But showing a hot new guy around Junction High, she’s about to discover a whole new type of change.

  Horror

  This Gorgeous Game by Donna Freitas

  Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest’s enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair.

  Realistic Fiction

  Nomansland by Lesley Hauge

  Living under a strict code of conduct in an all-female community 500 years after the earth’s destruction, a sensitive teenaged girl raised to be a hunter discovers forbidden relics from the Time Before.

  Science Fiction

  Shadow of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne

  Dark Guardian Book 4

  Hayden has the unique ability to feel the emotions of her fellow werewolves except for Daniel, an attractive and mysterious newcomer who she is not sure she can trust, especially when an ancient enemy targets the community, intent on killing Hayden.

  Supernatural

  First Strike by Jack Higgins

  Rich and Jade Book 4
  

  British twins Rich and Jade are once again thrown into danger as they try to help their spy father, John Chance, save the President of the United States from a radical group holding the White House hostage and attempting to steal the nation’s nuclear launch codes.

  Adventure

  The Reinvention Moxie Roosevelt by Elizabeth Kimmel

  On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her unusual name.

  Realistic Fiction

  The Last Words of Will Wolfkin by Steven Knight

  Fourteen-year-old Toby, paralyzed since birth and raised in a convent, suddenly finds himself capable of movement and speech when his long-time companion, a cat, takes him on a magical and mysterious journey to Iceland.

  Fantasy

  Lost For Words by Alice Kuipers

  Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister’s life, and by keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover.

  Realistic Fiction

  Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev

  Bertie, who is blessed with word magic, and her fairy sidekicks, seek to save Nate, who has been kidnapped by the Sea Witch, but Bertie is torn between Nate and Ariel, an air spirit who loves Bertie enough to die for her.

  Fantasy

  Dark Flame by Alyson Noel

  The Immortals Book 4

  Ever fights for control of her body and  her soul. Ever is trying to help Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and acting recklessly, she poses the ultimate threat exposing their secret world to the outside.

  Fantasy

  Scars by CA Rainfield

  Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist, has not felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially since she cannot remember her abuser’s identity, and she copes with the pressure by cutting herself.

  Realistic Fiction

  The Last Airbender: Movie Novelization by Michael Teitelbaum

  Based on the series Avatar: the last airbender created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko ; based on the screen play written by M. Night Shyamalan

  Fantasy

  Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams

  Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason.

  Realistic Fiction

• New Books 4th Week of June

  Date: 2010.06.17 | Category: New Books | Response: 1

  Stranded by JT Dutton

  When fifteen-year-old Kelly Louise and her mother move to Heaven, Iowa, to live with her grandmother and cousin, she learns a terrible secret about a baby recently left to die in a corn field and must decide whether or not to tell the truth.

  Realistic Fiction

  Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs

  12 year old Teddy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopotamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. Even though it’s claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy.

  Mystery

  The Red Umbrella by Christina Gonzalez

  In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.

  Historical Fiction

  By Royal Command by Charles Higson

  Young Bond Book 5
  

  Piecing together information gained while skiing in the Alps, teenaged James Bond returns to Eton College and foils an assassination attempt, then goes on the run across Europe with a beautiful and dangerous Irish girl, Roan.

  Adventure

  The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells

  While spending the summer in the Hamptons, sixteen-year-old Mia is disappointed that her cousin Corinne has grown so distant, but when she meets the irresistible and adventurous boy next door, everything changes for the better.

  Chick Lit

  

  Battles of the Clans by Erin Hunter

  Warriors Series Field Guide
  

  Onestar, leader of Wind Clan, introduces two young kittypets to the warrior code, the history of each of the Clans, and legendary battles that have been fought.

  Fantasy

  Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto by Eric Luper

  After his girlfriend breaks up with him and he sees his father out with another woman, high school senior Seth Baumgartner, who has a summer job at the country club and is preparing for a father-son golf tournament, launches a podcast in which he explores the mysteries of love.

  Realistic Fiction

  Wanted by Sara Shepard

  Pretty Little Liars Book 8

  Former best friends Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily, who lost their best friend and leader, Alison, years ago when she disappeared, find themselves in grave danger when they pursue the truth about Alison.

  Mystery

  Poser by Sue Wyshynski

  Eager to make friends when her family moves to California in the middle of her tenth-grade year, Tallulah lies about being an expert surfer which, when she is found out, ruins her reputation and her only option is to make the lie true.

  Realistic Fiction

• New Books 3rd Week of June

  Date: 2010.06.14 | Category: New Books | Response: 0

  The Keepers’ Tattoo by Gill Arbuthnott

  Months before her fifteenth birthday, Nyssa learns that she is a special member of a legendary clan, the Keepers of Knowledge, as she and her uncle try to escape from Alaric, the White Wolf, who wants to use lines tattooed on her to destroy the rest of her people.

  Fantasy

  Reality Check by Jen Calonita

  When a television executive signs Long Island sixteen-year-old Charlie and her three best friends to be the stars of a new reality television show, their lives are suddenly not the same.

  Realistic Fiction

  Jump by Elisa Lynn Carbone

  P.K. has taken a totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into an adventure of rock climbing out West with a guy she barely knows. P.K. is in heaven, until the cops show up with an arrest warrant.

  Realistic Fiction

  Carter’s Big Break by Brent Crawford

  Fourteen-year-old Will Carter’s summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up.

  Realistic Fiction

  What Curiosity Kills by Helen Ellis

  As sixteen-year-old Mary Richards slowly transforms into a cat, she discovers that a whole race of cat people prowl the streets of Manhattan at night, and that her transformation could decide the outcome of a citywide turf war.

  Fantasy

  The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice by Ann Finnin

  In fifteenth-century France, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is saved from execution by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at the Benedictine monastery of Sainte Felice, where he tries to use his powers to save his new friends and mentors from the Inquisition.

  Fantasy

  Early to Death, Early to Rise by Kim Harrison

  When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.

  Supernatural

  Conspiracy 365 June by Gabrielle Lord

  Conspiracy 365 Book 6

  Next chapter in Cal’s race against time

  Suspense

  The Tension of Opposites by Kristina McBride

  Sixteen-year-old Tessa has been living in suspended animation since her best friend was kidnapped at the age of fourteen, and when she suddenly returns, both of them, along with the people they love, must deal with the emotional aftermath of the terrible ordeal.

  Realistic Fiction

  I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan

  Eighteen-year-old Bronwen has long felt that she was switched with another child at birth, and so although she loves Jared, she must decide if she is ready to be married or should, instead, live on her own first.

  Realistic Fiction

  The Ghosts of Ashbury High by Jaclyn Moriarty

  Student essays and scholarship committee members’ notes reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.

  Realistic Fiction

  How to Make a Bird by Martine Murray

  When seventeen-year-old, small-town Australian girl Manon Clarkeson leaves home in the middle of the night, wearing her mother’s long, inappropriate red silk dress and riding her bike, she is heading for Melbourne, not exactly sure what she is looking for but not wanting to stay at home alone with her father anymore.

  Realistic Fiction

  Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver

  To fulfill his destiny, Torak must defy demons and tokoroths, navigate through the Gorge of the Hidden People, and battle the evil Eagle Owl Mage.

  Fantasy

  Pucker Up by Rhonda Stapleton

  Felicity is head-over-heals in love with her boyfriend Derek and it’s only two weeks until prom. But then she learns that her boss at Cupid’s Hollow used Cupid magic to make Derek fall for Felicity. What will happen when the magic wears off?

  Chick Lit

  Shadows of the Redwood by Gillian Summers

  Sixteen-year-old half-elf Keelie, her cat Knot, and her grandmother, also an elf, travel to California to help a redwood forest that is missing its tree shepherd, and with the help of the handsome Sean and a former apprentice of her father’s, plus a mysterious coyote, Keelie tries to discover the deadly secret of the bloodroot tree in time to save the forest.

  Fantasy Fiction

  Brilliant by Rachel Vail

  Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother’s major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn’s and her younger sisters’ world upside-down.

  Realistic Fiction

• Teen Short Film Contest

  Date: 2010.06.03 | Category: Grant Money, Teen Contest, Teen Short Film Contest | Response: 0

  TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

  Time is running out to turn in your entry for the Teen Short Film Contest.

  You need to turn in your film by 6/14/10.  We can’t wait to see all of you at the Red Carpet Event on 6/30/10 where we will be screening the films and voting on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.

  This year we have a lot of sponsors:

  Best Buy gave us a grant which enabled us to buy a Flip Camera for the 1^st place winner and Best Buy gift cards for our other winners

  Castle Rock Film Festival is providing us with VIP passes for the winners to attend the 2010 Festival

  Chipotle is providing food for everyone who attends the Red Carpet Event.

  Get those films in and we will see you on the Red Carpet on June 30^th at 7:00.

  For more information about The Castle Rock Film Festival please visit their webpage at:

  www.castlerockfilmfestival.com

  Here are the rules

• New Books 2nd Week of June

  Date: 2010.06.03 | Category: New Books | Response: 0

  Trackers by Patrick Carman

  Book 1

  In the 21st century landscape of bits and bytes, everyone leaves a digital footprint–even the most advanced cyber criminals. And that’s where the Trackers come in. Four tech-savvy kids armed with high-tech video cameras and esoteric coding skills, the trackers can find almost anyone, anywhere.

  Science Fiction

  Super Human by Michael Carrol

  A ragtag group of young superheroes takes on a powerful warrior who is transported from 4,000 years in the past to enslave the modern world.

  Supernatural

  Fifteen Candles by Veronica Chambers

  Amigas- Book 1
  

  For Alicia Cruz and her three best friends, quinceñeras, the fantastic parties thrown for Latina girls turning fifteen, are a staple of the Miami social scene. After meeting the new girl in town, Alicia ends up helping organize Sarita’s quince. Soon Alicia is turning into a quince-zilla.

  Chick Lit

  Hunting the Dragon by Peter Dixon

  An eighteen-year-old surf bum joins forces with a dolphin activist and his young assistant as they try to find and sink a ship whose pirate crew is killing dolphins along with the tuna they catch and sell.

  Adventure

  Worldshaker by Richard Harland

  Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.

  Fantasy

  Fire in the Sky by Erin Hunter

  Seeker- Book 5
  

  Despite their misgivings about the many dangers that lie ahead, the bears venture out onto the Everlasting Ice and learn of their final destination with the help of a mystical bear spirit.

  All That Glitters is Not Gucci by Rachel Maude

  Poseur Series- Book 4

  For Melissa, Charlotte, Petra, and Janie, having a Poseur handbag selected to appear in Nylon magazine’s “20 under 20″ fashion issue and catching the eye of Hollywood tastemaker Ted Pelligan is great, but they are determined to beat out the other young designers for the cover shot.

  Chick Lit

  The Fire Opal by Regina McBride

  While invading English soldiers do battle in sixteenth-century Ireland, Maeve grows up with a mystical connection to a queen who, centuries before, faced enemies of her own.

  Supernatural

  The Boneshaker by Kate Milford

  When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

  Supernatural

  Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

  After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman’s son.

  Supernatural

  The Beautiful Between by Alyssa Sheinmel

  Connelly Sternin feels like Rapunzel, locked away in her Upper East Side high-rise apartment studying for the SAT exams, until she develops an unlikely friendship with her high school’s Prince Charming and begins to question some of the things that have always defined her life.

  Realistic Fiction

  Classic by Cecily Von Ziegesar

  It Girl- Book 10

  It’s almost Valentine’s Day and love is in the air…and in everyone’s inboxes. Each year, The Waverly Computer Society runs Perfect Match, an online personality survey that pairs up Waverly Owls with their supposed soul mates. Now the campus is overrun with peculiar pairings, odd couples, and mischief makers hoping to play Cupid for a day.

  Chick Lit

• SCOTT PILGRIM

  Date: 2010.06.02 | Category: Books and Such | Response: 0

  Have you heard of Scott Pilgrim?

  If you haven’t, you should learn about him now!

  They are turning the graphic novels into a movie

  

  Check out the trailer