Magazine Monday!!

We have some new magazines in! Come and take a look!

Teen Vogue

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WWE

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Latina

Pinata Parties

We've really been into Pinata's lately. I've been dreaming about making a giant pinata, but until then, we've been working on smaller versions. Last week we made the basic shell, and this week during Unplugged, we are painting the pinatas, hopefully they will be all ready for the ultimate Pinata Party at Teen Advisory Group. Oh yes. We'll be smashing the pinatas.

Unplugged: 04/08 at 4PM

Teen Advisory Group: Pinata Party

04/30 at 4PM

Magazine Monday!

No new magazines this week. BUT I do have a little something for all of you magazine fans out there...

I've been doing some spring cleaning and I have a ton of magazines to give away for free! They are mostly from December/January and they are great. So come check it out and grab some magazines!

Pure

Tabitha and her five best friends have something in common. They've promised each other to stay "pure" until marriage. Each girl made this promise when they were in middle school and all of them have the purity rings to prove it. But in high school, things get a little tricky. Tabitha meets a boy who makes her knees weak and one of her friends breaks their vow, causing a major rift in her group. Tabitha is caught in the middle and doesn't know what to do. What do you do when everyone seems to be right?

I really liked Terra Elan McVoy's Pure because it didn't take sides. A lot of books, especially for teens can have a "black or white" approach. Things get over the top and the good guys are very good and the bad guys are horrible. Pure was all about the shades of grey. Just when you decided to side with one character, you get the other view and you are confused all over again. That is a feeling I definitely remember having as a teenager and McVoy really captured it.

The Real Real

MU was fortunate enough to have an author panel come to the library this month. One of the panelists that came to speak was Emma McLaughlin, one have of the writing team that brought us The Nanny Diaries and Citizen Girl. McLaughlin and her writing partner Nicola Kraus released a novel for young adults called The Real Real. It's great.

Jesse is a high school senior in a high school in the Hamptons. Posh right? Not really. Jesse's mom cleans the houses of the Hamptons elite, and her dad manages a restaurant. Jesse has been working her butt off to get enough money for college, and when XTV comes to her school, looking for the next big reality star, Jesse gets swept up in the excitement of becoming the next Lauren Conrad.

But things aren't so great as they seem. XTV decides that her best friend isn't camera ready, so she has to go, neither is her crush. Jesse finds out that this "reality" couldn't be farther from the truth.

The Real Real is funny, fast paced and a sharp look at how reality stars are made.

Bones of Faerie

After the War, Liza has always been afraid of magic. When she was young, she saw her father leave her newborn sister in the fields because she showed signs of a faerie power. Shortly after, her mother didn't come home after dark, so Liza knew she would never return.

To Liza magic is wild and uncontrollable. Nothing good can come from it. So when she starts to have visions, she runs away, fearing her father. Lost in the woods, Liza begins a dangerous journey, trying to make sense of her visions bridge the world between humans and faeries.

Bones of Faerie was a little difficult to follow at times, maybe because I haven't read a lot of fantasy before and didn't know how to keep track of the characters. I had to push through a couple of times, and reread passages, but I was glad I did. It is really great and I think fantasy fans will really like it.

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Woooaaaahhhh!

So there are certain books that are destined to be passed around by girls for years to come. This is one of them.

A Bad Boy can be Good for a Girl by Tonya Lee Stone looks at three very different girls and their relationship with one very bad boy.

Josie is self-confident and very naive. Nicolette already knows how powerful sex can be, and is curious about and Aviva is a smart and funny senior who is surprised to find out that a handsome jock wants her. All of them get in over their head, but all of them come out a whole lot wiser.

I normally don't love books written in verse, but this book grabbed me. I was on the train and I missed my stop while reading it! A sure sign that a book is good.

I would definitely recommend this book to older teens.