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Friday, April 29, 2011

Beads & String

 





Here is a sample of some of the fun beads made at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library yesterday.

Watch for more exciting programs on our website or by following this blog or the Facebook page!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Have you Seen...The Teen Zone Remodel, Part 1

There are changes coming to the Teen Zone! The first part happened this week, with the addition of a third Teen Zone Computer!

Also, look for the new magazine rack showcasing all the Teen magazines in one place. It's in the Teen Zone on the back wall by the window.

Keep watch for more new changes before summer!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Stay Safe Online: Photos

Don't let others track your location, home, school, etc by the photos you share online.



You can disable your phone location settings. Use this website: I Can Stalk U to learn how.

There are internet safety packets available at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library for teens and their parents. Drop by and pick one up today.

Monday, April 25, 2011

The Maze Runner Game

                   

The Maze Runner

Join us for our next Book Club discussion on May 12th at 2:45.

We will be reading The Maze Runner by James Dashner.

You can find out more about the book at James Dashner's site, by watching the trailer below, or visiting the Reading with the Teen Librarian's post on the Nutmeg Nominees (that's right this title is a 2012 Nutmeg Nominee!) Books are available in the Teen Zone. And this title is available as an audio book too!

Also, try the Maze Runner Game, provided by James Dashner.



This Week at the Library: April 26-30

Tuesday


Teen Advisory Board at 2:45pm

Wednesday

Find out what happens at the Chess Club.
We will be meeting from 2:45-5:00pm




Thursday

Beads & String
Make your own clay beads from 2:45pm - 4:30pm


 

See You There!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Have You Seen...The Magnetic Poetry Board

Happy April and Happy National Poetry Month

This is the month to raise awareness of Poetry. You may have noticed the poetry and novels in verse books displayed above the computers. You can also access a list of Teen Novels in Verse by searching the catalog for this key phase: "VerseBooklist"


Don't forget to spend some time reading the book spine poetry displayed in the front window in the entry way. T.A.B. (the Teen Advisory Board) put together several poems using only the text on the spine of a book!


And finally, enjoy the magnet poetry available on the table in the Teen Zone. 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Easy A and the Scarlet Letter

If you are coming to tonight's showing of Easy A, you may want to check out some of these books that are similar to (or the inspiration for) this movie.

You can access the list from Reclusive Bibliophile's blog post "If You Like...Easy A"

Some of the books will be available in the program room, before during and after the movie. Hope to see you there.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Cake-on-a-Stick

Did you see those Cake Pops at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library T.A.B. Bake Sale. Did you try one. They were delicious. And now, you have a chance to make your own Cake-on-a-Stick monsters, animals, or objects you can imagine. For ideas, check out the Cake Pops book, available at the library or visit Bakerella's site.  
Cake-on-a-Stick will be Friday, May 20th from 2:45pm until 4:30pm, but you'll be able to keep working until 5:00pm if you aren't finished. 

Registration is requested.

This Week at the Library: April 19-22

This Week  at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library

Happy Vacation Week!


Tuesday


Movie Night @ the Library
Easy A, a PG-13 Film
Starting at 5:00pm
Popcorn and Pizza will be Provided


Thursday
Gaming Club 
2:45pm-5:00pm  




See You There!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Snapshot Day Results

Where you at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library on Snapshot Day 2011?


or

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Great Scavenger Hunt Updates

There were several new books added to the Great Scavenger Hunt List this month. For a complete list, or to find out more about the hunt, visit The Hunt page of the Booth & Dimock Website.

The new titles added that are in the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library Collection are:

Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien
Clarity by Kim Harrington

Trapped by Michael Northrop

Teens Top Ten, 2011 Nominations Annouced

During Teen Read Week in October (yes, I know we are planning too far ahead again,) the votes will be tallied for this year's Top Ten Teen Books. Voting isn't open yet, but the nominees are announced, and it's time to start reading.

Many of the books are available at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library. Just search our catalog for the key-phrase: TTT2011

And the Nominees Are...




The Sky Is Everywhere
Clockwork Angel
Mockingjay
Matched
Behemoth
The Iron King
Angel
I Am J
Demonglass
Hex Hall
You Killed Wesley Payne
Drought
Love, Inc.
Nightshade
Crescendo
Lies
Blessed
Red Moon Rising
Before I Fall
The False Princess




































Drought by Pam Bachorz
Ruby and the Congregants have been enslaved to collect water for Darwin West and his Overseers. Ruby uses her magical blood to bless the water; without her blood, the Congregants will die. She and the Congregants pray to Otto, her father, to return and save them all. One day, Ford, the new overseer, arrives, and he and Ruby fall for each other. Ruby longs to run away with him to the modern world where she can lead a normal teenage life. She is torn between two worlds. Will she choose to be free with her forbidden love, or will she choose to be enslaved with her family?

I Am J by Chris Beam
J (Jeni) is a boy and has always identified himself as such, but he was genetically born female. As a teen, J acts like a boy and dresses in baggy clothes to hide his feminine body. He wants to begin testosterone treatments to transfer physically to a man, but his parents and best friend do not accept him as male. J decides to run away and enroll in a school for gay and transgender students, where he is able to begin to find acceptance. More than just a story of a transgender teen, this is the story of how teenagers live and love and cope.

You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin
Teenage Dalton Rev is a private eye. He is sent to a high school to find out about the death of Wesley Payne. Was it really a suicide? The school's tight cliques have gone insane and lost control. It’s up to Dalton to sort through a huge mess of betrayal in order to restore the hierarchy.
Black, Holly and Justine Larbalestier. Zombies vs. Unicorns. Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books. 2010. (9781416989530). Are you Team Unicorn or Team Zombie? In this anthology of twelve fast-paced stories, popular teen authors make strong arguments for both sides in the long and gruesome debate concerning the awesomeness of zombies versus unicorns.

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card
Danny thought he was a “drekka,” one without magic, until he discovers he has magical powers as a gate mage. The only problem: all the magic families made a pact to kill any person who could make gates to transport themselves. Danny is forced to run from everything and everyone he knows in an attempt to unravel the secrets behind his powers.

The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
In this prequel to the Mortal Instruments series, Tessa Gray travels to England to search for her brother, her only remaining relative. She is captured by the mysterious Dark Sisters and discovers that there is a fantastical world thriving alongside her own. She finds that she must ally with the unknown shadowhunters to save her brother.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
 The final book in the Hunger Games series finds Katniss Everdeen rescued from the horrific 75th Hunger Games—but not her fellow tribute, Peeta Mallark. Now she must lead a rebellion against the evil capital with the help of District 13, which is not destroyed, but has been quietly sowing the seeds of war for years. As Katniss becomes more entangled in war and revolution, the question of who she can trust becomes ever harder, and she must fight for her life once again.

Love, Inc. by Yvonne Collins
Zahara, Kali, and Syd meet in a support group when their respective parents get divorced, but it gets so much worse when they realize they’ve all been dating the same guy: Rick, aka Rico, aka Eric! The girls are devastated...until they decide to show the cheater the error of his ways. When more and more people find out about their plots and plans, Zahara, Kali, and Syd realize that they are much more than three girls who were cheated on.

Matched by Ally Condie
In Cassia’s society, most of her choices are made for her, including the person with whom she will spend the rest of her life: her Match. At age 17, Cassia is happily surprised when her Match turns out to be her best friend Xander, but when a glitch occurs and another boy’s face appears on her screen, Cassia can’t help but wonder what would happen if she were able to choose her own Match. Now she must decide between conforming to society and pursuing a life where she can make her own choices.

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
When Calla, who is a Guardian, saves a boy on her mountain from a bear attack, the consequences are farther reaching than could be imagined, especially when that boy shows up at her school and appears to be a favored companion of her masters, the Keepers.

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
In this sequel to Hush, Hush, a few months have passed since Nora’s lab partner Patch, actually a fallen angel, saved her from his murderous vassal Nephil and became her guardian angel. She and Patch are now dating, but she is starting to doubt his love for her. Is he keeping something from her? And is she really safe now?

Lies by Michael Grant
Lies continues the story that began in Gone and Hunger. Is death the only answer? Life is getting hard for the under 15s who survived. Food is running out, the beach is burning, and things are getting tense. The situation is getting worse for the survivors and everyone has their own battles to face.

Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
An unbelievable betrayal, an ancient spell, and a love triangle all make Rachel Hawkins’ sequel to Hex Hall impossible to put down. When Sophie goes to her father’s mansion for the summer, she thinks she knows exactly what she wants: to undergo the Removal and get rid of the demon inside of her. But when it turns out that someone else is making demons, she has to question everything and everyone—especially Archer Cross, the boy she can’t get out of her head.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Sixteen-year-old Sophie is a witch sent to live at Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (witches, faeries, shape-shifters, etc.), after she bungles a spell at prom and attracts too much attention from normal humans. At her new school, Sophie must face the usual teen troubles of mean girls and crushes with the added dimension of magic and learning about her own powers.

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Meghan starts seeing dark creatures in the most unusual places and senses that everything is about to change. But she could never have imagined the truth—that she is a princess, the daughter of a mythical faery king. When she finds out her little brother has been kidnapped and replaced by a changeling, Meghan ventures in to the fey world to rescue him.

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Number Four is one of nine aliens that escaped from the planet Lorien just ahead of the evil Mogadorians, a rival alien race bent of their destruction. He’s settling into another new town on Earth, trying to get a handle on his developing powers, when he gets the news: Number Three is dead. If Number Three is dead, that means Number Four is next.

Red Moon Rising by Peter Moore
In a world dominated by vampires, half-vamp, half-wulf Danny is used to hiding his true nature. When he experiences strange changes, it appears that his wulf side has become active. In a world where wulves are not treated equally, Danny faces a difficult choice: a dreary future as an inmate once a month or life as an illegal, unregistered wulf.

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
After Lennie's sister suddenly dies, she finds herself torn between two boys. One is the new boy in town, and the other is her sister’s ex-boyfriend. While she is genuinely attracted to one, the other really understands her feelings, yet she knows it is wrong. Who will she choose?

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
 Popular, rich, and attractive Sam Kingston never worried about how her behavior affected other people. After dying in a car crash, Sam is forced to relive the last day of her life for seven days. She progressively becomes a better person as she realizes the ripple effect of her actions and uses the second chance to fix her most dire mistakes.

The False Princess by Ellis O'Neil
At sixteen, Princess Nalia learns that the king and queen have used her as a false princess to protect their real daughter from an omen of death. Princess Nalia, now Sinda, is sent away from the palace to live with the one relative she has left in a world she does not know. Sinda struggles with her new life and uncovers a secret that may change her country forever. Magic runs through her veins, and theories of corruption in the royal bloodline keep her entangled in the royal family's affairs.

Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
In book seven of the Maximum Ride series, the titular character is devastated after a fellow “bird kid” leaves to start his own flock of mutant heroes. Scientists tell her that another “bird kid”, Dylan, is her perfect mate, and that she’s been created to save the world. When the Doomsday Group starts hypnotizing children, Max heads to Paris with her flock to investigate. Unfortunately, Fang and his new flock are investigating as well.

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Sisters Rosie and Scarlett March are left as orphans at eleven after their grandmother is killed by a Fenris, a soulless creature that takes the form of a man and can turn into a wolf. Scarlett loses an eye in the attack and decides to devote her life to hunting the Fenris. Eight years later, the sisters have vowed to protect their town from the Fenris. Silas, a young woodsman, returns to town. Rosie knows the Fenris deserve to die, but she's not ready to commit her entire life to hunting them. Can the sisters learn to live with their differences as Rosie and Silas’s friendship blossoms into something more?

Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Quincie, everyone’s favorite teen restaurateur and vampire, is back in this follow-up to Tantalize and Eternal. This time, she has even more on her plate. She just died, became a vampire, said goodbye to her true love/ werewolf boyfriend Kieren, and she has to stop the most powerful and evil vampire in centuries and find a way to save her own soul and the souls of the soon-to-be evil vampires.

Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
This sequel to Leviathan picks up where the last book left off with Alek, the lost Austro-Hungarian prince, and Deryn, a girl disguised as a boy, on the airship Leviathan heading to the Ottoman Empire. Upon arriving, Alek escapes and starts a revolution to overthrow the Sultan and try to stop a war.

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Normal? Yeah, right! Evie's biggest dream ever was to be normal, but with a faerie ex-boyfriend and a mermaid for a best friend, she might as well just throw the word “normal” right in the trash can. Evie has the unique ability to see through paranormals’ glamours, which has made her a valued asset of the International Paranormal Containment Agency (IPCA). When someone breaks into the Agency headquarters, Evie meets an unusual Paranormal: a boy who can shape-shift into any human. Can Evie save the lives of unarmed Paranormals from something that is after her too?

***Annotated list provided by YALSA and can be accessed here.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Support Teen Literature Day

Thursday, April 14, 2011 is Suppor Teen Literature Day.


Every year YALSA creats a list of Best Books for Young Adults.
A selection of the 2011, fiction titles and be found in the plastic display in the Teen Zone.
There is something for every genre and reader, so be sure to look for your next read here.


Some of the Teen Librarian's Favorites from the BBYA List Include:
Scrawl
Ostrich Boys
will grayson, will grayson
Matched
Marcelo in the Real World
After Ever After

Cartoon Madness Concludes!

Back in March, 32 Cartoons entered into Cartoon Madness, knowing only one would win.
The initial list of contenders can be found here.


After an intense battle, the final votes are in and the Top Cartoon in Cartnoon Madness is decided.


POKEMON


This cartoon won, with an incredible game total of 160 votes!!!

Monday, April 11, 2011

This Week at the Library: April 12-16

Celebrate National Library Week  at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library

It's Going to Be A Busy Week Here at the Library



Tuesday



Snapshot Day is a joint project of the Connecticut Library Association, the Connecticut State Library and the Connecticut Library Consortium.  The aim is to encourage libraries all over Connecticut to collect basic data – how many people use the library on a given day, how many people use computers, attend programs, etc. 
Teen Advisory Board at 2:45pm




Thursday
 
Celebrate Support Teen Literature Day.
Join the Book Club, or just drop by to help choose next month's book.
This month we read Jump by Elisa Carbone.
Copies of the Book are Available in the Teen Zone.
The Book Club will meet at 2:45pm



Friday

Find out what happens at the Chess Club.
We will be meeting from 2:45-5:00pm




See You There!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Book Sale/ Bake Sale

Join Us This Weekend
Get a New Book Friday - Sunday
Support the Teen Advisory Board on Saturday
Buy a Baked Good 
Funds will support the Holiday Food & Gift Drive

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Read This Movie!

Enter the April Contest in the Teen Zone!

The Winner Receives a copy of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants and Ape House.

All you have to do is identify which Movies WERE NOT Based on a Book.

Pick up your entry form in the Teen Zone. The Winner will be annouced on April 22 (The same day Water For Elephants arrives in movie theaters)

Here are the Movies:
1. Clueless
2. I Am Number Four
3. Die Hard
4. Bridget Jones' Diary
5. Easy A
6. 10 Things I Hate About You
7. She's the Man
8. Killers
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
10. The Princess Bride
11. The Lord of the Rings
12. Scot Pilgrim vs. the World
13. True Grit
14. The A Team
15. It's Kind of a Funny Story

Monday, April 4, 2011

This Week at the Library: April 4 - 9

This Week at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library:


Monday- Sunday

 Vote for Movie Night on April 19th

Plus the Final Week for Cartoon Madness: Pokemon vs. Power Puff Girls





 Tuesday

T.A.B.
Friday-Sunday





See You There!