METAMORPHOSIS @ YOUR LIBRARY

The summer reading program has begun! This year we are introducing a separate program just for teens. Anyone going into 6th grade (and higher) can register for the teen summer reading program. You can register in the branch or click here to register online. If you register online, don't for get to come into the branch to pick up your reading log and other materials!

Our first teen program of the summer will be June 3 from 2--4 PM in the Collins Hill meeting room. We will be doing henna tattooing. All participants must have a parent sign a permission slip to use the henna.

Join Us for a Discussion of Sure Fire by Jack Higgins.

Collins Hill Branch

May 20, 2008 6--8 PM

Summary: Resentful of having to go and live with their estranged father after the death of their mother, fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, soon find they have more complicated problems when their father is kidnapped and their attempts to rescue him involve them in a dangerous international plot to control the world's oil.

New Teen Books (Week of April 28)

New Teen Fiction

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The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
Maggie Bean Stays Afloat by Tricia Rayburn
The Gypsy Crown by Kate Forsyth
Ironhand #3 by Charlie Fletcher
The Pirates of Turtle Rock by Richard W. Jennings
Rits by Mariken Jongman
42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith
A Posse of Princesses by Sherwood Smith
The Fire of Ares by Michael Ford
Queen Geeks in Love by Laura Preble
Season of Ice by Diane Les Becquets
The Queen Geek Social Club by Laura Preble
Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story by Carolyn Meyer
March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac
On Rough Seas by Nancy L. Hull
Battle Fleet: Adventures of a Young Sailor by Paul Dowswell
Book of Jude by Kimberley Heuston
A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker
Quest by Kathleen Benner Duble
Itch by Michelle D. Kwasney
Juliet's Moon by Ann Rinaldi

SAT/ACT Words of the Week

Immutable: unchangeable; changeless.



Boorish: of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.



Proponent: a person who argues in favor of something; an advocate.



Words taken from Peterson's Master the SAT 2008. Click here to put a copy on hold.

New Teen Books (Week of March 24th)

Check out these new titles and put your request in today! Simply click on the title and you will be taken straight to the library catalog. Be sure to have your library card number and PIN number handy to place your request.

Fiction
Renegade #03 by Ted Dekker (Suspense)
Secrets of my Hollywood life: family affairs #03 by Jen Calonita
As if being 12 3/4 isn't bad enough, my mother is running for president! by Donna Gephart
Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer
Thirteenth reality: the journey of curious letters by James Dashner (Science Fiction)
Brett McCarthy: work in progress by Maria Padian
Don't talk to me about war by David A. Adler (Historical)
Lock and key by Sarah Dessen
Outcast #03 by Erin Hunter (Fantasy)
The day of the djinn warriors #04 by P.B. Kerr
Chaos #04 by Ted Dekker (Suspense)
Sweet and vicious #3 by Claudia Gabel
The boy who dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Historical)
Outbreak #03 by Miu Kawasaki (Science Fiction)
The shadow speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (Fantasy)
Kiss my book by Jamie Michaels
Northlander #01 by Meg Burden (Fantasy)
Loves me, love me not #02 by Claudia Gabel
Middleworld by J & P Voelkel
Beowulf, a hero's tale retold by James Rumford
A boy from Ireland by Marie Raphael
The cat: or, how I lost eternity by Jutta Richter
Giving up the ghost by Sheri Sinykin (Horror)
The tree shepherd's daughter by Gillian Summers (Fantasy)
Uncle Montague's tales of terror by Chris Priestley

SAT/ACT Words of the Week

Garner: to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place; to get; acquire; earn; to gather, collect, or hoard.

Arable: capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage; land that can be or is cultivated.

Click here to reserve Kaplan's ACT Comprehensive Program 2008 Edition.

Check out these new titles and put your request in today! Simply click on the title and you will be taken straight to the library catalog. Be sure to have your library card number and PIN number handy to place your request.

Fiction
The fall of the templar by Derek Benz & J.S. Lewis
The Ashleys by Melissa de la Cruz
Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
Simon Bloom, the gravity keeper by Michael Reisman (Science Fiction)
Sarah Simpson's rules for living by Rebecca Rupp

Nonfiction
Jon & Jayne's guide to making friends & "getting" the guy (or girl) by Jon & Jayne Doe
Real food, real fast by Sam Stern and Susan Stern
Confessions of a not-so-supermodel: faith, friends, and festival queens by Brooklyn Lindsey
It's easy being green: one student's guide to serving God and saving the planet by Emma Sleeth