Rock on at the Library!
Bethel Branch
Saturday, May 12, 12:00pm
Celebrate the Bethel Arts and Music Festival by practicing your power chords on Guitar Hero. While you’re waiting for your turn, let your artistic side free and design a cover for a book of your own!
If you’re a fan of the Morganville vampire series by Rachel Caine, or the Inside Out books by Maria Snyder, you’ll want to try The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa.
Description from the author’s website:
Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
But it isn’t easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.
The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. Read the nominees now and then vote in August and September for your favorite (we’ll post the link to vote here). The winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October. The nominees are:
All Good Children by Catherine Austen
Ashes by Ilsa Bick
Abandon by Meg Cabot
Tempest by Julie Cross
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen
Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gullede
Legend by Marie Lu
Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Shine by Lauren Myracle
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd. Illus. by Jim Kay.
This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Were you a fan of Divergent by Veronica Roth? The sequel, Insurgent, is coming out soon. Read an interview with Veronica Roth about the continuation of Tris’s story of guilt, revelations, trials, and loss.
Description: One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
The main character of Ultraviolet, Allison, has synethesia, a neurological disease. She tastes colors and feels the trustworthiness of letters. The story begins with her waking up in a mental institution and as her memory returns she realizes that she has confessed to killing a fellow classmate. She has kept her disease a secret from everyone for years, but a scientist takes a sudden interest in her and she then questions what the world would think of her disease. This book is genre bending great read. In the beginning you think it is going to be a typical young adult mystery. Then, all of sudden you are off onto a totally different type of story, which includes life on other planets. This book was a fast and fun read. Here are a few other books in which one of the characters has synethesia.
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
The Name of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
Absolute Pressure by Sigmund Brouwer
Crafternoon: Wrap Bracelets
Union Twp. Branch
Saturday, April 21, 2:00pm
or call (513)528-1744.
Like to make things? Come to the new Union Twp. library to wrap your head around making awesome wrap bracelets. Supplies and snacks are included, so bring all your friends!
Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse begins with Phillip being dumped by his two best friends or at least he sees their quitting the track team as a betrayal. He is your typical tortured sophomore. His track coach is out to get him, and then his dad decides to clean the emergency supplies for the end of the world. These supplies are all Phillip has left of his dead mother. Then, Phillip meets Rebekah and he tries to turn himself into who he thinks she wants.
This book does a wonderful job of letting you experience a teenager deals with the life changing events in his life. At first, Phillip attended church to get Rebekah’s attention. He does not know a lot about church, and along the way he learns about it and a whole lot about himself. What impressed me about this book was well the characters come alive. I felt like I was experiencing Phillip’s struggle along with him.
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The shows that we adore and quote endlessly:
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Making things totally makes us squee. Try out some of these crafts:
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These are the books that we’ve read and reread to our geeky heart’s content:
Star Wars: Heir to Empire by Timothy Zahn. Picks up where Return of the Jedi left off and is, in this listmaker’s totally humble opinion, way better than the prequels.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. Steampunk alternate history from the author of Uglies.
Star Wars: Complete Cross Sections. From the Millennium Falcon to a Naboo Starfighter, this book shows you every detail of Star Wars tech.
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. This classic series is a must for any manga geek.
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. How exactly would Scotty beam you up, anyway? Kaku puts the science into science fiction.
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Is it fantasy? Science fiction? A classic? It’s all of the above.
Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl
Steampunk! edited by Kelly Link
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick. Have you ever seen Blade Runner? Minority Report? The Adjustment Bureau? You have this guy to thank.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Soulless by Gail Carriger. Vampires, werewolves, and infernal machines—what’s not to love?
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Don’t forget your towel.
Geektastic edited by Holly Black. Whatever geeks you out, there’s bound to be a story about it here.
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
Neuromancer by William Gibson. Are you a cyberpunk?
Dune by Frank Herbert. Fear, spice and sandworms: Tatooine’s got nothing on this desert world.