Teen's Top 10 Nominations

See the 2009 Teens' Top Ten nominations! (PDF). There are 25 nominations and 25 weeks until Teen Read Week, so if you read one nominated book a week, you'll be ready to make an informed decision as to which book is your favorite when it's time to vote the week of October 18-24.

About the Teens' Top Ten
Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year during Teen Read Week. Readers aged twelve to eighteen can vote online anytime that week.

"Shift" by Jennifer Bradbury

"Shift" by Jennifer Bradbury is a great read for boys or girls. The story's chapters alternate between present and past as we learn about Chris and Win, two boys that embark on a cross-country bike trip after their high school graduation. The problem is, only one of them returns. When Win leaves Chris as he stops to change a flat tire shortly before the end of their journey, Chris angrily figures Win went on to his uncle's house in Seattle. Chris returns home and heads off for college, only to find that Win hasn't returned, and has no uncle in Seattle. Win's rich, controlling father has an FBI agent putting pressure on Chris to find out where Win is, making Chris's start to college difficult. As the chapters alternate, you see the mystery unfold, and can start to see what's happened to Win. Read this book! You're left wondering until the very end how things will be resolved.

Save the Date!

Join us for the GROUNDBREAKING EVENT for the new Mahomet Public Library at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 30th. Everyone is welcome...bring your shovel and help us get started! Groundbreaking events will be held at the new library site, east of Sandy Ridge Subdivision on Highway 150. I'll post more details as they become available.

April is National Poetry Month!

In honor of National Poetry Month, check out "Gregory's 30 Poets/30 Days" at the GottaBook blog. Each day in April you'll see a new previously unpublished poem by a different children's poet. See the blog at

http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2009/03/announcing-30-poets30-days.html.

for an alphabetical list of participating authors, as well as links to other blogs celebrating National Poetry Month. And don't be turned off by the fact that it's "children's poetry"...poems can be humorous or uplifting, no matter what age they are created for.