
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Movies, Costumes, and Sugar

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Weird and Chilling Anime and Manga



Monday, October 20, 2008
Local Author Talk at the BCL

On October 25, at 3:00 p.m., the Beaverton City Library will be hosting an evening with local author David Michael Slater in their auditoriam. Slater's new book, The Book of Nonsense, is the first in a series for Young Adults. Here's the description from the author's website: The book is ancient, ravaged and full of utter nonsense. But the moment it enters Daphna and Dexter's lives, bizarre things begin to happen. Why is their father, who found the book, suddenly so distant? Is the old man who took it from him some kind of hypnotist? Why is a giant, red-eyed boy menacing them? And what does their thirteenth birthday have to do with all this? Daphna and Dexter can't stand each other, but they'll have to work together to learn the truth about the Book of Nonsense - before their lives come apart completely.
Find out more about the event here: http://www.beavertonlibrary.org/teens/events.html, or on the BCL's teen blog, http://bclyaknow.blogspot.com/.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Rock the Pizza Vote

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Randomness from the Web
For serious news...the National Book Award Finalists have been named. This is an award given to writers from writers. The finalists in the Young People's Literature category include the following:
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp.*
And true confession from your librarian, I have read one of the above titles. Shocking! Just means I have some (more) books to add to my reading list! Have you read any of these? What did you think? Comment now!
And now for something fun and completely time consuming -- sand art. Thanks to this blog I follow (thanks, Big A little a!) I zoned out to pretty colors of sand. It took all of my concentration to stop. Have fun!
*Titles underlined link to our catalog.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
On Guard!

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Teen Read Week, Yippee!

Friday, October 10, 2008
Bump in the Night
More Rave Reviews from the Teen Book Group

This month's book was Life as We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a harrowing account, through a 15-year-old's journal entries, of the catastrophic consequences when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to the Earth.
Teen on the Street (or in the Puett Room) Reviews:
*No comment.
*Close to what could happen [in real life].
*If I wrote a book like this, I would include Godzilla.
*The cover freaked me out, but the book was good.
*The book was so awesome that the title as an option for my future band name, and the cover.
*SPOILER ALERT* I really, really liked the ending. I though it was gonna be one of those sad lame books that want you to think about life and how it sucks, but I think books should always end happily. Who needs books about life? We're IN life!! I want to read something HAPPY.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Creepy and Cool

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Midnight Sun
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Letters about Literature
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Death Note II

OK, Animanga fans. Get yourselves motivated, 'cause the live-action Death Note II is coming soon to a Portland theater near you. Check out this website for more information: http://www.deathnotefilms.com/home.php. And if you're unfamiliar with Death Note, come by the library to check it out (you'll probably need to put it on hold): Y Graphic OHBA, or Y Graphic DEATH for the first volume.
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