2010's Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults

Every year, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) picks the top 10 best books for teens. Here is the newest list!

• Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon's Lexicon.
  

• Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses.

• Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea.
  

• Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group.
  

• Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou.

• Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir.

• Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me.
  

• Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World.
  

• Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times.

• Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.

Come in and check one out today!

Nation by Terry Pratchett

Hey! The book we're reading for January is Nation by Terry Pratchett. I just finished this book, so let me tell you a bit about it. When I read a book, it's important that I can picture what the characters look like, and what the setting looks like. I play it like a movie in my head. This is what I pictured in a nutshell:


Time: Alternate history of our world in the 1870s.
Place: A beautiful island with sandy beaches, palm trees, grass huts, and exotic birds.
Main Characters: Mogli from the Jungle Book (Mau) and Alice from Alice in Wonderland (Daphne).

Mau is an islander, living in the middle of the Great Southern Pelagic Ocean--he is dark skinned, with a head of dark curls. He wears hardly any clothing, and thinks little of politics or manners. Daphne is British--pale and blonde, always covered up and conscious of what is proper and what is not. They end up together on this island after a devastating tsunami wipes out Daphne's ship and Mau's island. It is up to them to build a new Nation.

Both characters are extremely nationalistic, but less out of choice, and more because of their sheltered lives. They know little, if anything, of each others cultures and absolutely nothing of each others language. Daphne, being from a royal English family, speaks English, while Mau speaks his native island language.

This book is about culture, friendship, race and tolerance, and faith and the existence of god.

It's philosophical, clever, and funny. I recommend it.

See you January 7th, 2010 for Pizza and Pages!

Teen Read Week Top 10 Winners!

And the winners are.... Here are the top 10 favorite teen reads from Teen Read Week 2009.



#1 Paper Towns by John Green

#2 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

#3 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

#4 City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

#5 Identical by Ellen Hopkins

#6 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

#7 Wake by Lisa McMann

#8 Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast

#9 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E. Lockhart

#10 Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Check out one today!

Coraline is coming....come see the movie with dinner this Thursday from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Then discuss Coraline, the novel AND the Graphic novel at Pizza & Pages in November!

October News

Hope you all enjoyed playing "Ender's Game Jeopardy" at the last Pizza & Pages meeting! Elly led the discussion and the game.



Don't forget to pick up both copies of Coraline for the November 5 book discussion of the novel and the graphic novel. Maybe we'll have time to take a peek at the movie, too!



Next week is a big one for teens. Dinner and a scary movie night on Thursday, Oct. 15. Come for food and the creepy movie, Coraline! Our TAC is running the show!



Then on Saturday....it's Cupcakes for Teens. Learn the latest decorating tips from a real pastry chef. Take home cupcakes for your friends and family, too.

Teen Advisory Council

On Thursday, Novemember 17th the library's Teen Council (TAC) had a meeting. For those who could not attend the meeting we talked about the upcoming events and teen read week.

Some of the Upcoming Teen events are:

Gaming For Teens Thursday,September 24th 6:30-8:30pm

Teen Photo Contest Workshop Saturday, September 26th 2:00-3:00pm
Description: A workshop to introduce teens to the photo contest. Techniques for taking pictures along with the rules of the contest will be discussed.

Pizza and Pages Thursday, October 1st 7:00-8:00pm
Description: Enjoy Pizza while discussing this month's book. The book for October is Ender's Game.

Gaming For Girls Thursday, October 8th 6:30-8:30pm
Description: Girls in grades 6-12 can come and enjoy playing on the Wii or playing DDR (dance dance revolution)

Teen Dinner and Scary Movie Night Thursday, October 15th 6:00-9:00pm
Description: Enjoy dinner and a slightly creepy movie (Coraline).

Cupcakes for Teens Satuday, October 17th 2:00-4:00pm

Gaming For Teens Thursday, October 22nd 6:30-8:30pm

For more information about these and other events you can go to the Baldwin website or you just click this link.

http://host.evanced.info/baldwin/evanced/eventcalendar.asp

Pizza & Pages October 1

Great to see everyone at the last Pizza & Pages. We discussed "Peak" and watched part of an Imax movie on Everest! Amazing!

Don't miss the October meeting...we're reading an award-winner by Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game". In honor of Teen Read Week's 2009 theme, "Read Beyond Reality", we thought we'd try a science fiction title.


Pick up a copy and come to the discussion.

And, don't forget to vote for the top 10 teen books at: www.ala.org/teenstopten. Voting ends on September 18.