Watch This Cool Line Rider Video!

Watch this cool line rider video, then make your own at Offical-linerider.com! This neat tool allows you to draw the course for the rider. It's great fun and much harder than you think!

Funny Book Trailer for "Looking for Alaska"

Here is a very funny book trailer made by some teens for an English class. It is for the young adult book, Looking for Alaska, by John Green, which won the Printz Award for Young Adult Fiction last year!

February Teen Programs

In February, each branch will have a teen CD Share and T-Shirt Decorating Party. Teens should bring CD's to listen to and a T-shirt to decorate. Fabric paints will be available for the T-shirts and examples of how to cut and style T-shirts will also be given. The programs will be at the following branches and times:

Gambier: Tuesday, February 13th, 6-7 P.M.

Fredericktown: Tuesday, February 20th, 6-7 P.M.

Danville: Tuesday, February 27th, 6-7 P.M.

BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!!! SNACKS WILL BE SERVED!!!!

PLAY PACMAN HERE!!!!!!!!

PLAY PACMAN HERE NOW!!!!!

SCROLL DOWN TO THE VERY BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE TO PLAY NOW!!!!

Book Review: Born to Rock by Gordon Korman

Imagine you are a conservative high school student who is a member of the Young Republicans. One day you discover that your biological father, whom you've never met, is actually the ultimate KING of PUNK ROCK! What do you do? Leo, the protagonist of Born to Rock decides to find his father and hit him up for college tuition money to Harvard, where he has been accepted for next year. Leo ends up as a roadie for his father's band on the best ever Punk Rock Festival tour. Find out what Leo learns about his father, punk rock and life in this funny funny book!

Looking for a Good Book?

Do you need a suggestion for a good book? Look on the left sidebar of this blog for book covers from my collection at LibraryThing. Click on the title of the book located directly under the cover for more information about the book. You can also see my whole collection of recommended books for teens by clicking on the "my library" link here or on the sidebar. When you look at the whole collection you will see the tags I have used to describe the books, such as "drama" or "fantasy". You can also see how many stars I've given the book. Click on one of the tags, such as "suspense," and you will see all of the books I have described that way. Finally, you can click on the title of any book in my collection to see much more information about it including recommendations for other titles that people who like this book have also liked. If you really enjoy using Library Thing you can sign up for your own free account and start making lists of your favorite books! I will continue to add recommended books as I have time, so check back often!

January Teen Library Program Schedule!

Whose Line is it Anyway?

Join us as we play "Whose Line is it" comedy improv games! This was the most popular teen program at Gambier last year. They loved it! Be sure to invite your friends -- the more that play, the more fun we have! Branch schedules for this program are listed below:

Gambier - Tuesday, January 9, 2007 6-7 P.M.

Fredericktown - Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6-7 P.M.

Danville = Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6-7 P.M.

Book Review - "The Book Thief"

"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is the story of a young foster child girl in Nazi Germany. Her real parents had been sought out as communists. The story is narrated by death, and apparently death is an elegant speaker. See World War II through the eyes of death as he follows this extraordinary girl who learns to have both a passion and hate for the magic of words.

If you would like to check out this book, ask your local librarian, who can get it or put it on reserve for you!

Teen Book Review!

Here is the first installment of our Teen Video Book Review program. If you have recorded a book review and would like to see it posted here, please have your parents sign the permission form available at any branch. Below, the book being reviewed is "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. If you think you might like to read this book, ask for it at your library branch!

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YALSA MYSPACE!

Check out the Young Adult Library Association's new MySpace for teens and others connected with young adults and libraries!

YouTube Video Shows Harry Potter Title

Watch this video to see how the title is uncovered on Rowling's website. (If you'd rather try it yourself before watching, see my previous post.

Title of Final Harry Potter Announced!

The final installment in the Harry Potter Series will be titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

If you want to play the game on Rowlings' website to find the title yourself, here a few hints. Click on the pink eraser. Click on the farthest doorknob reflected in the mirror. Click on the center of the large door next to the mirror. Click on the top of the mirror. Click on any two spiderwebs next to the big door. Click on the second chime to the right in the window. Use the key the chime turns into to open the big door. Click on the present. Click there again, and play hangman to discover the title. Good Luck!

Christmas Song Generator!

So this is Xmas,
And what have you done,
Another book over
And a new one just begun.

Merry Xmas (War Is Over)
from the Christmas Song Generator.

Get your own song :

I typed in the word "book" at The Christmas Song Generator and the above was what it spit out!

Listen to MuggleCast's PodCasts!

MuggleCast presents great podcasts with news, views and more concerning Harry Potter. This was The Peoples Choice Winner at the 2006 Podcast Awards, the Highest Rated podcast on Yahoo! Podcasts and consistently one of the top three "Arts" podcasts on iTunes, discussing the latest in Harry Potter news, theories, rumors, and more! Go to the MuggleCast Site to listen online now!

Also there is another Harry Potter series of podcasts called PotterCast. About their latest episode, they say:


-It's part one of our annual holiday filk show (featuring all your HP/Christmas song parodies), with a little extra twist.
-A full audio report from the Wizard Rock Yule Ball in Cambridge, Mass., with clips from the performances, interviews with the bands and fans, and more.
-The trio reveals the big secret about Draco and the Malfoys
-Sue plans to crowd surf at the next Yule Ball
-Laura Mallory the Mad/Evil Muggle
-Everyone's a WINNER!
-Filks:
-"Rock Around the Hogwarts Tree"
-"Miserable Moaning Myrtle," by Lady A.
-"Voldemort is Coming Tonight"
-"Run, Run, Marauders," by the Corner Booth Mods
-Snape's Christmas
-"Do You Hear What I Hear?"
-"Butterbeer," by Lysh the Fish.

Sounds like FUN!

YA Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of the Year

See what books several young adult authors list as favorites this year at Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations Blog.

Check Out this YouTube Video of Harry and the Potters

NO TEEN LIBRARY PROGRAMS IN DECEMBER

There will be no teen library programs during the month of December at the Gambier, Danville and Fredericktown branches of the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County. But, don't miss our January programs, which will be "Whose Line is it Anyway?" games! This was an all-time favorite of the teens in Gambier last year. Check back for dates and times in January.

Just for Fun!

Here's a photo I took on our family trip to the Grand Canyon this summer!

A Few Choice New Books I Want to Read

Ater the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away, By Joyce Carol Oates.

An Abundance of Katherines, By John Green (Note: This author won the Printz Award last year. He is a Kenyon graduate!)

NOTE:
YOU CAN FIND THESE BOOKS AT THE GAMBIER OR DANVILLE LIBRARIES. IF YOU DON'T SEE IT THERE, ASK THE LIBRARIAN TO PUT IT ON RESERVE FOR YOU!