New in the YA department

It's a short list this month, but there are a few items in the process of being cataloged, and I have some more orders to place! Watch next month's list for more new books!

Fiction:
• Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson & Ned Rust
• Almost Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Audiobooks:
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Wanted: Book Reviewers!

I have one copy of the not-yet-published book "Everwild" by Neal Shusterman, and am looking for someone who would be interested in reading and reviewing this book for the blog. "Everwild" is Book 2 of the "Skinjacker Trilogy", with the first book being "Everlost". The copy I have is an Advance Reviewer Copy (ARC), not a final copy...it's an uncorrected proof of the book. I would like to share any reviews you write on the blog, as well as with the publisher of the book. E-mail amy.webb@mchsi.com if you are interested in reviewing this book, due to be released Nov. 2009, and I will contact you when a copy is available at the library for you to pick up.

Word of the Day

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Word of the Week

QUASAR (noun)- An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Some quasars are more than ten billion light years away from earth.

(from "100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know" from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries)