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Patchogue Medford Library Young Adult Department

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Tibby Expelled from Book Survivor

Book Survivor IV: The Great Character Battle

Week 1

Reporter Assigned: Ivanna Reed


Tibby is the first character voted out of our Book Survivor. Tibby is from the series "The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants." The series currently has four books published: The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Girls in Pants and Forever Blue.

The book has been a very popular read. So popular that it has been made into a movie!

If you'd like more information on the books, please check out the official Sisterhood website!

http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/sisterhoodcentral/


And please, vote for the next character to be voted out!

Click here to take survey


Ivanna Reed, signing off!

Friday, January 26, 2007

Annual Book Awards announced!

The American Library Association announced the winners of its annual book awards earlier this week.

Check out who won and read reviews of the winning Young Adult books at Teen Reads

Other YA title received honorable mention for the Newbery Children's Book Awards. Check those out at Kids Reads

Do you agree with the committee selections? 232 books were nominated for the Printz award alone. What books would you have nominated?

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Baker Baker..Baking a Cake

Hi everyone!

The YA Department will be participating in the PML Bake Off for the second year! Make a dessert from scratch (without a mix)! Win a prize! We will be having the Bake Off on Feburary 23rd. Check at the YA Desk after February 2nd for details and an entry form.

Please continue voting in Book Survivor if you haven't already. Our first book will be voted off next week!

Click here to take survey

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Book Survivor IV: The Great Character Battle

Hello and welcome to Book Survivor IV: The Great Character Battle. This edition of Book Survivor will be completely online and a prize will be available if you participate. We have 20 characters this time around and voting will take place weekly!

Here is the link: more information on the books and series will be announced here shortly, but for now, please feel free to vote! Voting will begin on January 17th and will continue until the end of January, when the first book will be voted off! Subsequent weeks will feature an additional book voted off.

Click here to take survey

Thursday, January 11, 2007

A Day in the Life of a YA Librarian

You are about to get a secret glimpse of a life you possibly never knew, and possibly never wanted to know..

A Day in the Life of YA Librarian!

Copy and paste this link to check it out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98204697@N00/sets/72157594473961376/

Would you like to see another librarian's life at PML?

Please vote if you'd like to see a Day in the Life of:

Martha
Debbie
Danielle
Jeri


---Brian

Monday, January 08, 2007

Some non-fiction

I haven't written anything about non-fiction books lately, and didn't include any in my list of favorites!

Here's a variety of non-fiction I've liked lately.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Bartoletti
How did so many young people come to be members of Hilter youth? Many of them were drawn into what seemed to be a scouting type organization. But the organization emphasized loyalty to the Third Reich at any cost. Interviews with surviving members and photographs help us understand what it meant to belong to Hitler Youth, and how members could be influenced even to turn in their own parents.

Men of Salt by Michael Benanav
The author heard that the last remaining camel caravans were threatened by the introduction of trucks, and decided to join one as it headed to salt mines deep in the Sahara desert. He and his guide joined a caravan that travelled for almost 1000 miles through terrain with no landmarks that the author could see and no maps. The book includes pictures taken by Benanav of places and people the author met.

The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
January 12, 1888 was unseasonably warm on the Great Plains. People went outdoors, and children went to school without winter clothers. Suddenly, a blizzard blew in: during one three minute the temperature dropped 18 degrees. Visibility went down to zero and the snow was so fine is was like a sandstorm, clogging eyes and noses. The European immigrants who were settling the plains were unprepared for the vagaries of the Great Plains weather. Meteorology was a young science, and communications were limited. Approximately 500 people died in the storm, including 100 schoolchildren.

Journey from the Land of No: a Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian
An Iranian American poet and documentary maker recounts her life as a daughter of Jewish parents growing up in Tehran, during the Islamic revolution. This is the story of how her family's life changed, both because they were non-Muslim, and because of the increasinly restrictive political and social atmosphere as the Ayatollah and the extremists tightened control.

When I was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti
In Israel, everyone is expected to do national service after high school. This is one girl's story of her two years in the Israeli army, following strict routines, going through basic training and never getting enough sleep. She grows away from her old friends and a former boyfriend, and into a position in military intelligence.

Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America by Deborah Hopkinson
This book describes the history of cotton in the United States. Cotton was grown in this country from colonial times, but with the industrial revolution, demand increased, and the southern colonies used slaves to increase production. Young people, young girls especially, began to move to mill towns to work in textile factories. Bartoletti describes how the cotton industry and social structures were related, including slavery, child labor, and social structures and population migrations.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Any aspiring writers out there?

Lauren Barnholdt, author of Reality Chick is offering an on-line writing class for teens!
She says the class will cover how to get published, what makes good writing, and more.

The class will start in February, and sign up is on a first come, first serve basis.

E-mail Lauren at lauren@laurenbarnholdt.com to sign up or to get more info.

Speaking of teen authors -

Alice Hoffman, author of Incantation will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on Friday, January 12, at 7:30 pm. She will be discussing her newest book which happens to be for adults (and is set partially on Long Island), and will be signing books.