Magazine Monday!

(hype hair's September covergirl)

This week I checked in:

Hype Hair

(with Taraji P. Henson as the cover girl)

ESPN

(NHL preview for all of the Hockey fans out there)

and Sports Illustrated for Kids

(now featuring a teen section called SI Teen)

Unplugged this Thursday!

Twice a month, the library has "unplugged" events for teens. All activities have to be electricity and battery free. Tomorrow is Unplugged's first craft program: Make your own journal.

I'll have all the supplies you need to make a book (up to 30 pages) of your very own. Snacks are provided as well. This is a program for ages 11 and up!

Hope to see you there!

New Magazine Alert!

We've just started our supscription to Game Informer magazine. October's issue just came in. come and check it out!

Beastly

For fairy tale fans who want something a little more grown up, Alex Flinn brings us Beastly, an updated version of Beauty and the Beast.

Here, the Beast is Kyle Kingsbury the prince of the 9th grade class at his private school in New York. Kyle's father, a newscaster, taught him that good looks are the key to being special and popular, and while Kyle is beautiful on the outside (and rich, and popular) he's ugly on the inside, looking for ways to humiliate those less popular than he is.

But he messes with the wrong classmate.

Kyle wakes up to find that he has been turned into a Beast. A beast so hideous that his father sends him away to his own house in Brooklyn where he can't be seen by anyone. Kyle becomes Adrian, the dark one, and has two years to find someone who will love him for who he is or he will stay a beast forever.

Sounds familiar? Sure, but there is a reason why this story stays popular.

Catching Fire

I talked about The Hunger Games earlier this summer. If you didn't read the post (and don't feel like clicking on the link to read it again) let me quickly tell you what I said:

1) i love this book
2) you will love this book
3) i'm wondering why you haven't read this book yet

yep. that pretty much sums it up.

Catching Fire picks up where The Hunger Games left off and I don't want to tell you too much about it because if you haven't read the first book I would be totally ruining it for you. Let me just say that Catching Fire is even better than The Hunger Games and i didn't even think that was possible.

Catching Fire is now available at the library. So check it out and read it. Do this now, before The Hunger Games becomes a movie (and you know it will) and then it will be really hard to get the book.

BACK TO SCHOOL!!!

(doritos: the official snack of TAG)

For the Teen Center at Muhlenberg, back to school means one thing: TAG!

That's right. Teen advisory group is back. Last year we were busy planning parties, writing book reviews (some that went on the website) and playing games. And, of course, the snacks.

This year we have more of the same. PLUS we are testing crafts, taking trips, and meeting very cool new people. I hope to see you on the third floor Fridays at 4!!