November Blues

by DCPL on March 17, 2010

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November Blues by Sharon Draper

What would you do if you lost your boyfriend permanently? Still, you carry a part of him with you. What would you do next? Those are the questions that November Nelson must work through her Junior year in high school.

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2010-2011 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers nominees

by DCPL on March 10, 2010

The 20 Nominees for the 2010-2011 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers (Grades 9 – 12) have been selected!

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After

After by Amy Efaw

In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.

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Bonechiller by Graham McNamee

Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.

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Brutal by Michael Harmon

Forced to leave Los Angeles for life in a quiet California wine town with a father she has never known, rebellious sixteen-year-old Poe Holly rails against a high school system that allows elite students special privileges and tolerates bullying of those who are different.

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Teen Tech Week!

March 7-13 is Teen Tech Week, a national initiative that focuses on promoting libraries’ nonprint resources to teens. This annual event is sponsored by YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association and this year they have chosen the theme Learn Create Share @ Your Library. This year’s aim is to remind teens and those that [...]

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Georgia Peach Award 2009-2010

Calling all teens! You are not too young to vote in one election this year! You can vote at the library and decide which book will be victorious in the race for the 2009-2010 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers. Be sure to carefully evaluate each candidate, because Pollsters are predicting [...]

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Eragon: The Movie

Movie adaptations of books can be very enjoyable, both for fans of the books and for newcomers to the stories. They can introduce neophytes to the tales as well as let old hands watch the books come alive on a screen. When they are botched, however, they can be disastrous. If movie [...]

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Top 15 Metamorphosis

Check out these cool books for the summer. *Real* teens picked these out, so you know for sure that these books rock!

Artemis Fowl

From a strikingly original voice in fiction comes the story of Artemis Fowl, a very unusual hero. Artemis combines the astuteness of Sherlock Holmes with the sangfroid of James Bond and [...]

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Y’s Choice TAB Fantasy Books for Teens

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Hawksong

The Kiesha’ra: Volume One. An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. Danica is an avian shapeshifter, and her golden hawk’s form in the sky is as natural to her as her human one on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente [...]

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Y’s Choice TAB Top 15 Authors for Young Adults

Alice Walker

Once: PoemsThis first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. “Brief slashing poems-young and in the sun” (Muriel Rukeyser).
The [...]

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