READ THIS BOOK!

   

You have GOT to get your hands on this book. We’re practically forcing  The Fault in Our Stars  into the hands of any teenager or adult who will take a chance on it.

It’s not necessarily happy-go-lucky. It has some heart shattering moments, really. There are, however, parts which are certain to make you laugh out loud. You will fall madly in love with Hazel Grace Lancaster and Agustus Waters. You will never forget them. We promise.

Find a copy as soon as humanly possible and don’t expect to put it down.

Listen to a bit by pressing play below:

According to John Green’s website, “the movie rights have been optioned by Fox 2000.”

Teen Tech Week Video Contest

Teen tech week will be from March 4- March 10. To celebrate, the Essex Library is hosting a video contest. Participants must be in grades 6 and up.

The contest theme? “Why I Love my Library” of course!

Points will be given for creativity, editing skills, and final presentation. Videos must be ten min. long or less and can be submitted on a disc or posted online with the link emailed to Jessica at jbranciforte@essexlib.org. If you don’t have the time to make your own, we’ll have our flip cameras rolling all week long.  Stop in to make a statement! Raffle tickets are awarded to participants – and first place wins a delightful digital prize.

The winner will be announced on March 16th at 11 am on this blog.

                                                                                        Get your cameras rolling!

Have You Seen Thisisteen?

Check out this fabulous website for contests, new book releases, sneak peeks and more….

http://www.thisisteen.com/index.htm

Printz Award Winner

The 2012 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature is:

Where Things Come Back

Written by John Corey Whaley

“Witty, sardonic Cullen Witter agonizes over the disappearance of his beloved brother, Gabriel, while everyone else in his stiflingly dull Arkansas town thrills to the apparent return of a long-extinct woodpecker. Kidnapping, bromance, arcane religious texts, and ornithology collide in this ground-breaking coming-of-age tale.

“Straightforward, yet increasingly complex, this novel masterfully weaves together themes of brotherhood, friendship, loss and religious obsession,” said Printz Award Committee Chair Erin Helmrich.”

Click here for the 2012 Printz Honor Books.

We LOVE Glogster

Check out Jessica’s first project! (She loves Harper Lee even more than she loves Glogster.)

Use Glogster to create posters for book report assignments, civics projects and more.

Check out our “Resources” link on the far right side of our blog for more fun tools.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

* #1 on Amazon’s Top 10 list of best young adult books for 2011
* #6 on Amazon’s Top 20 Books of 2011
* 2011 New York Times Notable Children’s Book
* Huffington Post Top 10 YA Books of 2011
* 2011 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year

The YA Book Award Announcements are Almost Here!

Many of the best awards for young adult literature are released at the end of January. We can’t wait! Do you look most forward to hearing about the Alex Awards? The Printz? Maybe the Teen Nutmeg Nominees here in CT? Check out this list to learn more about each of them. Here in the teen department, we most enjoy the YALSA Teen’s Top Ten. Get ready, the announcements are soon to be posted here on the blog!

Click here to see the YALSA Best of the Best from 2011.

Photo Credit: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/best

What’s Your Favorite Way to Enjoy A Book?

It’s starting to feel like the options are endless!

 

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

Beautiful Creatures – Fan-Made Book Trailer

Keep in mind – these are not characters chosen to play the book characters on the big screen, rather bits of movie and music edited together to best portray a fan’s idea of what the plot would look like in film form.

What do you think? Good actor/actress choices for Ethan and Lena?