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Teen Reads for Grown Ups
This month we are reading Silverfin by Charlie Higson. Stop by the Aloha Teen Tower to sign up for the book club and pick up a members only copy of the book. We will meet on March 14th at Pegasus in Castle Rock to talk about the book. (Must be 18 or older to join). If you have read the book and want to leave a comment to let us know what you think just click on the title of this post and a comment box will appear at the bottom of the page.
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High School Book Club
This month we are reading The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. Stop by the Aloha Teen Tower to sign up for the book club and pick up a members only copy of the book. We will meet on Thursday March 15th at the Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock to talk about the book. (Must be in 9th-12th grade to join).
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App, Book, & Music of the Week
App
Temple Run is the game we can’t stop playing this week. All of our friends have this game on their iPhones and iPads. The game is kind of like Indiana Jones. You have to find a treasure and then escape through a maze to get to safety. Right now the app is only for IOS devices (Apple) but there is a lot of talk that it will be out for Android soon.
Book
Are you as tired of supernatural romance books as we are? The cure this week is The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall. It’s a murder mystery set during a trial. A guy in town is accused of killing a beloved coach and his sister tries to prove that he is innocent. The story is exciting and full of suspense, just the way a mystery should be. We loved it!
Music
We have been feeling really mellow this week. I’m not sure if we are feeling more chill because of the song we have been listening to…but I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz is defiantly chill. We love this new single, and although the library doesn’t have the single you can watch the music video here or check some of his older songs.
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Read 678
This month we are reading Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Stop by the Aloha Teen Tower to sign up for the book club and pick up a members only copy of the book. We will meet on March 8th @ 4:30pm at the Philip S. Miller Library to talk about the book. (Must be in the 6th, 7th, or 8th grade). If you have read the book and want to leave a comment to let us know what you think just click on the title of this post and a comment box will appear at the bottom of the page.
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App, Book, & Music of the Week
App
The app this week is not so much an app as an idea. Apple has set up iBook and included textbooks. The interactive textbooks from some of the best textbook producers in the world are, cheaper that the printed textbooks and have some very cool features. It looks like you can make flash cards, get additional info by clicking on the pictures inside the books, and you can even add study cards as you go. Some of us are about to go to college this year and we are hoping to be able to get some of our books from the iBook Store so we can have access to these cool features.
Book
The book we could not put down this week is Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan. Thriller anyone? The cover lets you know something really crazy is going to happen and we were not disappointed. This guy and girl plan the girls kidnapping and her rescue in order to impress college admissions boards. Everything seems like it will work out. She will be the stoic victim and he will be the hero who rescues her … It sounds great until things go horribly wrong. This book is a must read.
Music
We loved watching the Grammy’s this year because Adele got all of the awards that she deserved! Rolling in the Deep is a great song and we are so excited that Adele one six Grammys. Click here to use your Douglas County Library card to download a free MP3 of the single.
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App, Book, & Music of the Week
App
The app this week is Learn to Draw Digital Sketchbook by Walter Foster. It’s pretty cool. Some of us in TIC can draw and some can’t but we all liked trying out this app. The app is free and so is the intro lesson. You get a couple different drawings to try. There is audio that reads the lesson to you while you trace the drawing. As you get more comfortable you can draw more on your own and eventually try doing it on paper with just the audio playing. It was so cool to actually draw something and have it look like what we were trying to draw! You can also use the app as a sketch pad to doodle whatever you want. This is a great app. The only bummer is that more lessons cost money. The price range is $2.99-6.99, but if you want to learn to draw this app is a pretty cheap way to get started. Right now you can only get this app for the iPad.
Book
Robbie Forester and the Outlaws of Sherwood St. by Peter Abrahams is the book that we really liked reading this week. It just came out in January and we had to wait in line to read it. We really liked reading something without vampires and romance for a change. We also liked reading something with slightly more realistic characters. Robbie is like a modern day Robin Hood, but she is not some amazing ninja girl with crazy super powers. She has her friends, the Outlaws of Sherwood St.) to help her and a worthy advisory in the form of a real estate mogul who will stop at nothing to redevelop Brooklyn and kick out the current residents. This was a fun book and a clean read. Anyone who likes adventure and a mystery would like this book. Click here to put the book on hold with you DCL library card.
Music
Marchin On by OneRepublic is the song we have been playing nonstop this week. We can’t get it out of our heads. We love the way it starts out slow and builds into a real rock song. Click here to put the CD on hold with you DCL library card.
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App, Book, & Music of the Week
App
Fruit Ninja is the app we can’t stop playing this week. You can get the lite version in the app store and try it out to see if you want to pay $2.99 for the full version. We love it when games give you a free sample so you can see if you like it. In this case the game is totally addictive! How it works is that fruit flies in the air and you use your sword to cut it up. It’s great!! You can get the game for: iPhone – iPad – Windows Phone 7 – Android – Samsung Bada – Nokia Ovi
Book
The book we love this week is Steel by Carrie Vaughn. Here is the plot: When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she’s magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean. How kick butt is that. All of the sudden she is fighting for real not just for trophies, but for her life. We can’t get enough Carrie Vaughn. Click here to check it out at the library.
Music
The song of the week is Iridescent by Linkin Park. This song is from Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon. It has been playing pretty much nonstop all week in our houses. Click here to check it out at the library.
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Teen Reads for Grown Ups
This month we are reading Totally Joe by James Howe. Stop by the Aloha Teen Tower to sign up for the book club and pick up a members only copy of the book. We will meet on February 8th at Pegasus in Castle Rock to talk about the book. (Must be 18 or older to join). If you have read the book and want to leave a comment to let us know what you think just click on the title of this post and a comment box will appear at the bottom of the page.
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Read 678
This month we are reading Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. Stop by the Aloha Teen Tower to sign up for the book club and pick up a members only copy of the book. We will meet on February 9th @ 4:30pm at the Philip S. Miller Library to talk about the book. (Must be in the 6th, 7th, or 8th grade). If you have read the book and want to leave a comment to let us know what you think just click on the title of this post and a comment box will appear at the bottom of the page.
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App, Book, & Music of the Week
The app of the week is hands down Wattpad! O.K. so here’s how it works. You can download to iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Blackberry, and Android. (Free) Then you have access to thousands of electronic books, and poems and short stories. They have a big teen section where teens can publish their work. If you create an account (free) you can make comments on other people’s work and publish your stories. Some of books are self-published and others have been published in magazines and with publishing houses. This is a great app if you want to read something new or if you want to publish your own work.
This week we are reading The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. It’s a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. Alyss goes from being a princess in Wonderland to a regular girl in the regular world. We hear the story from her point of view and find out all about the battle to control the land. It’s full of action and is an amazing take on the original story.
We will be watching the Grammy’s this year so that we can cheer for the Foo Fighters. To get in the mood we have been listening to “Walk” and all of the songs on their new album “Wasting Light”. Click here to use your Douglas County Library card to download a free MP3 of the single.
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