New Series Alert: Moon Boy

Moon Boy's covers are just brilliant. Bold, flashy, and grabbed my eye immediately.

Long ago, rabbits lived peacefully on the moon. That was until the foxes hunted them, drank their blood and ate their liver. Some of these rabbits escaped to earth. And some of the foxes followed them.

Boy crazy Myung-Ee is an earth rabbit, she finds one of her kind when she meets Yu-Da, the only boy in her class that does not pay attention to her, and the only person she knows who's eyes turn red in the sunlight. One day Yu-Da disappears and Myung-Ee doesn't see him again until five years later, at a different school. She is ecstatic that she has found him, but Yu-Da doesn't know who she is.

Crazy right? But it works. This is a great new series for all of you manhwa (Korean Manga) lovers out there.

Magazine Monday

This week we have:

Latina

Sports Illustrated

and Teen Ink

Upcoming Programs!

Tuesday 02/23:
Game On @ the Library at 4PM
Players' Choice! So bring your favorite Wii game or choose from the ones that we have here! (My personal favorite? Guitar Hero five!) Ages 10+

Thursday 02/25:
Unplugged at 4PM
Epic Pictionary Battle.
Bring your friends and your loudest voice for this game! Ages 11+


Friday 02/26
Teen Advisory Group at 4PM
Test out some new card games to decide what will be played during the next Unplugged. And, of course, there will be snacks and Wii playing. Ages 12+

Night Runner

Just when I thought I was done with vampire books, Night Runner by Max Turner comes along and changes my mind.

After I heard about the cancellation of Stephanie Meyers' Midnight Sun, I thought about the fact that I didn't know of many vampire books with the males' perspective. Night Runner's Zack Thompson is a great addition to the vampire world.

The story starts in a mental ward. Zack lives there because his allergies are so severe and it is the only place that can take care of him. He is pretty content living there, he stays up all night, drinks strawberry smoothies for all of his meals, he can watch all the tv he wants. Then one night, a mysterious man comes to him and tells him that what he thought were allergies were actually a great supernatural power. And that this power has something to do with his parents' death. Then he tells him to run.

I really liked this book, every chapter ended with some kind of cliffhanger that made you want to keep on reading. Zack was funny, charming and you couldn't help but root for him. I'm looking forward to more books by Mr. Turner.

Love is in the Air!

I just finished a new booklist called "Be My Valentine" and guess what its about?



That's right! Romance! This list covers falling in and out of love and everything in between. True Love, Tainted Love, Old-Timey Love (historical romance), LGBT romance and a list of really great authors! Come by the library and check out the display.

Magazine Monday

This week we have:

Nylon (the the cast of the Vampire Diaries on the cover)

Teen Vogue (featuring the star of the new Alice in Wonderland)

ESPN (as usual)

and

Wizard!

Come Check them out!

Sunrise over Fallujah

When I was in high school, I had to read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien during the summer. I was surprised by how much I liked it since it was a war story and I was mainly reading girl drama books at the time. Since then I've always been interested in books about war, we forget that there are teenagers fighting in wars all over the world, and they should have a voice. Walter Dean Myers covers our generation's war in Iraq in his book Sunrise over Fallujah. He shows us the fear and uncertainty along with the bravery and friendship. The book follows Robin "Birdy" Perry from his station in Kuwait to the battlefields in Iraq.

The novel was exciting and had a really good pace, it moved along nicely, but didn't go so fast that the characters didn't get to develop. My only compliant is that there were a lot of characters, and I quickly lost track of who was who unless it was the main three soldiers. If you read this book and liked it, you should also try Fallen Angels, which is Myers' novel about the Vietnam War.