Eleven-year-old Johnna, who is deeply involved in the sixth grade Halloween pageant although her family views it as a celebration of an un-Christian holiday, decides that she must follow her own beliefs.
Happy Halloween! Book of the Day: Save Halloween by Stephanie S. Tolan
Eleven-year-old Johnna, who is deeply involved in the sixth grade Halloween pageant although her family views it as a celebration of an un-Christian holiday, decides that she must follow her own beliefs.
Book of the Day: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Book of the Day: Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
Four students, who have formed a study group to prepare for the SAT exam, sustain each other through the emotional highs and lows of their junior year in high school.
Book of the Day: A Novel Idea by Aimee Friedman
Norah forms a book club and falls in love with James, one of the club's members.
Book of the Day: Lisa, Bright and Dark by John
Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
Book of the Day: Taming a Liger: unexpected spiritual lessons from Napoleon Dynamite by Jeff Dunn
Spirituality in Napoleon Dynamite? Heck, yeah! You just might be suprised!
Book of the Day: Nothing But the Truth by Avi
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Book of the Day: On the Devil's Court by Carl Deuker
Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball.
Book of the Day: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Book of the Day: Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Haddix Peterson
In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence.
Body in the Book Drop
We had a packed house last night! Thanks to all of you who showed up and helped to solve the crime! Poor Jamie. Strangled over a soccer game. What a way to go.
BODY IN THE BOOK DROP
LIVE MURDER MYSTERY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
7:00 PM
Book of the Day: Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the nieghborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Book of the Day: Fish by L.S. Matthews
As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.
Book of the Day: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
Book of the Day: Punished by David Lubar
Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
Book of the Day: Strange Happenings: five tales of transformation by Avi
Five original stories where strange changes occur, from a boy and a cat changing places and a young man learning the price of selfishness to an invisible princess finding herself.
Okay...
Looking back on the "books of the day" one must admit that for the most part, they are QUITE creepy. It must be the whole Halloween thing...sorry about that! We will try for more variety. The best way to get variety is to get suggestions from YOU! Comment us!
Thanks!
And HAPPY TEEN READ WEEK!
Today was the Pizza Taste Off and 21 of you turned out for it and ate pizza from a bunch of different Bethel Park pizza joints! Winner will be posted here tomorrow!
Thanks!
And HAPPY TEEN READ WEEK!
Today was the Pizza Taste Off and 21 of you turned out for it and ate pizza from a bunch of different Bethel Park pizza joints! Winner will be posted here tomorrow!
Book of the Day: The Pack by Tom Pow
In a post-apocalyptic world, Bradley, Victor, and Floris live with wild dogs on the dark, forgotten edge of a devastated city. They have learned to survive on their own. But when Floris is kidnapped the others must venture into the unknown to save their friend.
Book of the Day: All Hallow's Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde
Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.
Book of the Day: Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely by Melody Carlson
Two sophomore girls, best friends since kindergarten, grow apart when one wants new friends and decides the other is a popularity liability. First in a teen Christian series.
Book of the Day: Haunted by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost.
Book of the Day: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. Contains mature subject matter.
TAG MEETING REMINDER!
The date for the Teen Advisory Group Meeting was changed to NEXT Wednesday, October 18 @ 7:30 PM. It will be great fun!
Also, next week is Teen Read Week! Check for something every day at the Library including the Great Pizza Taste Off @ 4:00 PM on Monday!
Also, next week is Teen Read Week! Check for something every day at the Library including the Great Pizza Taste Off @ 4:00 PM on Monday!
Book of the Day: Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard
When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.
Book of the Day: Clay by David Almond
The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.
Book of the Day: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Book of the Day: Vanishing Act by John Feinstein
Eighth-grade sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie reunite at the U.S. Open tennis championships where they investigate the mysterious disappearance of a top Russian player.
Book of the Day by Chris Crutcher
Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
Book of the Day: Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.
Book of the Day: Squashed by Joan Bauer
As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.
Book of the Day: Jade Green by Phyllis Reyolds Naylor
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.
Book of the Day: Thirsty by M.T. Anderson
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.
Book of the Day: Tenderness by Robert Cormier
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.