Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.Book of the Day: The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.Teen Driving Seminary
Are you reading to hit the open road! Safety first! Join the folks from AllState and bring your folks for information about driver safety and ways to save on car insurance!Tuesday, February 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Book of the Day: The Runaways Vol. 1 Pride & Joy by Brian Vaughan
Just read this last night and I can personally testify that it was excellent! I am not a comic book/graphic novel kinda girl (or so I thought) but I read this in one sitting. Definately worth a look, whether or not you are into graphic novels! See yesterdays post for series details!Bethel-CON Coming Soon!
Hey! Love Anime and Manga? We have starting a club just for you and we'll kick it off with Bethel-CON! Check back here for details. If you want to be involved in planning just send an email to kalchthaleri@einetwork.net and put "anime" in the subject line! Series of the Day: The Runaways
Today I went to a meeting with some really wonderful Teen Librarians from around the area. The gal who heads up the teens at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh did some really cool book talks and one of the series that she spoke about was The Runaways. It is a series of graphic novels from Marvel about a group of teens who discover that their parents are more than just annoying, over-bearing and obnoxious, as they used to think-- they are in fact, evil villians out to destroy the world. I came back to Bethel and started reading the first book in the series and it grabbed me right away! Check it out if you haven't yet!Book of the Day: Inventing Elliot by Graham Gardner
Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.
Book of the Day: This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him.
The Ultimate Teen Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn & Leonie Flynn
Stuck for something to read? Whether you're searching for a book to blow your mind and change your life, or just a light read for the beach, "The Ultimate Teen Book Guide "is the perfect place to start.And the winner is...
The White Darkness : a novel by Geraldine McCaughreanYesterday, the Young Adult Services Association of the American Library Association gave the Michael L. Printz Award award to The White Darkness by McCaughrean. According to the Library Association, this award is giving each year a book that "exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature".
It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.What do YOU think?
Have you read The White Darkness? We'd love to know! It is the story of Fourteen-year-old Symone, who is completely obsessed with exploring the Antarctic. Her father died there, and since the his death, she has read every book and watched every movie she can find about it. She is particularly enamored with Capt. Lawrence "Titus" Oates, one of the explorers lost in the doomed Scott expedition. Titus is her companion and confidante, an imaginary friend who fills in for her grieving family and distant friends.
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Zigzag by Ellen Wittlinger
A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she did not know she had.
Podcast Solutions : the complete guide to audio and video podcasting by Michael W. Geoghegan and Dan Klass
Interested in making your own podcast? Check it out!
Duct Tape Cell Phone Cases and CSI: Next Week!
Don't forget!
Make a duct tape cell phone case, next Wednesday, January 16 from 6:00 - 7:00 PM
CSI Mystery Night is next Saturday, January 19 from 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Book of the Day: Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
In 1916, mass hysteria grips the Jersey coast when a shark terrorizes the shoreline in this account of one of the first documented shark attacks.
Book of the Day: Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
A heart-wrenching account of the nine high school students who integrated Little Rock High School.
Book of the Day: Getting Away with Murder: the Emmett Till case by Chris Crowe
The Emmett Till case was not the sole cause of the civil rights movement, but it was the final indignity that caused the flood of outrage to overflow the dam of racial injustice." Mainstream history has all but forgotten about this 14-year-old African American from Chicago who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi for making "ugly remarks" to one of their wives. The men were acquitted, and several months later, they were interviewed by Look magazine and publicly confessed to the crime. The event galvanized black Americans, and even many of the whites who had supported the defendants were appalled at their national confession. Four months after Till was killed, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, and the wheels of the civil rights movement were set in motion. Crowe's research is extensive and his writing is well suited to his audience. The black-and-white photographs add tension and realism to the story. The picture of the boy in his casket originally published in The Chicago Defender is a graphic, powerful testament to the brutality of the crime.
Book of the Day: Season of Life: a football star, a boy, a journey to manhood by Jeffrey Marx
When Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Marx was a kid in the 1970s, he was a ballboy for the Baltimore Colts. One of the team captains was Joe Ehrmann, a larger-than-life party guy and star defensive lineman. After the death of his younger brother, Ehrmann changed his life, working in Baltimore's inner city and eventually becoming an ordained minister. Prompted by an article about the demolition of the Colt's legendary Memorial Stadium, Marx reconnected with Ehrmann and became fascinated both with his ministry and his work as a volunteer football coach at a Baltimore private school. This account of Ehrmann's career--and his effect on Marx's life--is inspirational without being preachy. Most amazing are the stories of the team Ehrmann coaches--a football team on which life lessons are more important than tackling fundamentals.Book of the Day: A Hole in the World by Sid Nite
Fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford experiences an eye-opening and transformative summer living and working on the central Virginia farm belonging to a distant relative, where everyone seems to be haunted by the death of a much-loved and admired farmhand the year before.
Book of the Day: Blind Sighted by Peter Moore
Kirk, a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and life with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her.Book of the Day: All You Need is Love by Emily Franklin
Having returned from a study-abroad program in London to be with her aunt who has breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Love struggles to decide what to do next with her life while also experiencing some tensions with her father.
Book of the Day: Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Book of the Day: Faith Wish by James Bennett
Upset with the course her life has taken, pretty and popular senior Anne-Marie is drawn to the leader of a cult-like Christian group, becomes pregnant, and runs away to figure out what the Lord wants her to do with her life.Book of the Day: Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers
Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.
Book of the Day: Not Like You by Deborah Davis
When she and her mother move once again in order to make a new start, fifteen-year-old Kayla is hopeful that her mother will be able to stop drinking and begin a better life, as she has been promising for years.
Book of the Day: Club Meds by Katherine Hall Page
When Chuck, Busby Memorial High's school bully forces Jack to turn over his Ritalin, Jack and the other members of Club Meds--those who visit the nurse's office daily for medications--band together to thwart Chuck's future schemes.
Book of the Day: --Or not by Brian Mandabach
Fourteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan refuses to go along with some of the things the majority embraces at her school and is surprised to find how much is made of her actions.
Book of the Day: The Book of Story Beginnings
by Kristin KladstrupOscar Martin was fourteen when he mysteriously disappeared from his Iowa farmhouse home in June 1914. His sister claimed Oscar had rowed out to sea - but how was that possible? There is no ocean in Iowa. When, nearly a century later, Lucy Martin and her parents move from their city apartment to that same farmhouse in Iowa, it is not long before Lucy discovers the strange and dangerous BOOK OF STORY BEGININGS. And it's not long before Oscar reappears in a bizarre turn of events that sends the two distant relatives on a perilous journey to save Lucy's father. This remarkable debut fantasy novel is a thrilling page turner as well as a tribute to the writer's craft.
Book of the Day: Something remains
By Inge Barth-GrozingerWhen the Nazi Party takes over the German government, 12-year-old Erich Levi notices that his once vibrant household has turned somber. "His mother hadn't laughed as often as usual, and his father's mischievous face suddenly looked gaunt." Things also change at school. Daily, Erich faces humiliations by cruel teachers and classmates, and Jews are excluded from extracurricular activities, including sports. The most painful development is that people who once spoke openly to his family now look the other way and refuse to do business with them. Erich's best friend, Kurt, joins the Jungvolk (the junior section of Hitler Youth) and no longer acknowledges Erich for fear of the consequences. Erich struggles to understand why Hitler hates Jews ("We're Germans ourselves!" the boy points out). Life continues year after year in the tranquil village of Ellwangen, but just below the surface brews a mixture of anger and hatred, making life for the few Jewish residents intolerable and dangerous. First-time author Bart-Grozinger wrote Erich's story after doing a research project with her students on the Jewish community in Ellwangen during the Nazi regime
Book of the Day: The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney
by Lauren Barnholdt"Mom says karma always comes around to get you, and I guess it's true. Because last summer I was a total liar, and now, right in the middle of Mr. Pritchard's third-period math class, my whole world is about to come crashing down. "
That's because while Devon was living with her grandmother for the summer, she told her "summer friend," Lexi, that she was really popular back home and dating Jared Bentley, only the most popular guy at school. Harmless lies, right? Wrong. Not when Lexi is standing at the front of Devon's class, having just moved to Devon's town. Uh-oh. Devon knows there's only one way to handle this -- she'll just have to become popular! But how is Devon supposed to accomplish that when she's never even talked to Jared, much less dated him?! And it seems the more Devon tries to keep up her "image," the more things go wrong. Her family thinks she's nuts, her best friend won't speak to her, and, as if it's not all complicated enough, Jared starts crushing on Lexi and Devon starts crushing on Jared's best friend, Luke. It all has Devon wondering -- who is the real Devon Delaney?
Book of the Day: After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.
This book won't be out until January 10, 2008 but it is going to be good! Jacqueline Woodson can't write a book without winning an award and anything involving Tupac has to be awesome!
Book of the Day: The Chicken Dance by Jacques Couvillon
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
Book of the Day: What They Found: love on 145th Street
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
The Pod Cast has arrived!
Well, not the actual podcast itself, but the icon. It is over there--> Just click on it and hear the first episode!
Uh but not yet, because it isn't there yet...but it will be today!
Uh but not yet, because it isn't there yet...but it will be today!
Book of the Day: The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden
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Book of the Day: Cover Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl by John Feinstein
Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.Book of the Day: Before I Die by Jenny Downham
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
THE PODCAST IS COMING!
Yes! This week! Bethel Park Library Teens Podcast! Subscribe via iTunes, or the pod page (link not up yet-- but this week, as promised!)
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Book of the Day: 1,000 reasons never to kiss a boy / Martha Freeman.
After her first boyfriend cheats on her, sixteen-year-old Jane vows to never kiss another boy.
The boyfriend list : (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs and me, Ruby Oliver) by E. Lockhart.
A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.
Book of the Day: What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.Follow this up with the sequel, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know.
Book of the Day: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard. The sequel to What My Mother Doesn't Know.
CONTEST! WIN THIS BOOK OF THE DAY! The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron
A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.We have SEVEN copies of this book! New copies! If you want to have your own of The Lost Years of Merlin simply email Ing at kalchthaleri@einetwork.net and put GIVE ME MY BOOK PLEASE in the subject heading. The first SEVEN folks to do so get their own copy of the book!
Happy Holidays folks!
Book of the Day: Willie the Scrub by James McEwan
Willy and his friends have just started 5th grade and they want to be part of the 'in' crowd, the jocks. The fall football season leaves Willy a benchwarmer, or scrub, but he goes out for wrestling in the winter and things begin to change.The Podcast
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Looking for Holiday Reads?
Last year I posted a holiday-themed book for every day in Decemember up through the 25th. Scroll down to Blog Archives, pick December (36) from the drop-down menu and there ya go!
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Book of the Day: Who Will Tell My Brother by Marlene Carvell
During his lonely crusade to remove offensive mascots from his high school, a Native American teenager learns more about his heritage, his ancestors, and his place in the world.Book of the Day: Absolutely, Positively Not...by David LaRochelle
In this hilarioius book, sixteen-year-old 
Steven tries very hard to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.
Steven tries very hard to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual. Book of the Day: Donorboy by Brendan Halpin
When Rosalind's two moms are killed in a tragic run-in with a Turducken, she moves in with her donor father, Sean, who has no clue how to raise a teenage daugther. Book of the Day: To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
An editorial cartoonist who travel to Afghanistan during the recent American bombing campaign to document its effects on ordinary people shares what he experienced in this graphic journal. Book of the Day: What's in a Name by Ellen Wittlinger
Each of ten teenagers living in Scrub Harbor, Massachusetts, explores his or her identity at the same time that the local residents consider changing the name of their town.