Graphic Novels

The people have spoken! You asked us to make it easier to find graphic novels in the YA section. We've added red stickers to the spines of the graphic novels in our collection. Now you can see at a glance where the graphic novels are!

Vote for the Teens' Top Ten

A few months ago we posted the list of nominees for this year's Teens' Top Ten. Now voting has begun! If you are 12-18 years old, you can vote for your favorites at this site: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teenstopten2010%20Voting Vote any time from now until September 17.

Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. The winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week.

Help shape the teen department

Now that we are settled into the new building, we have a problem that we've never had before: what to do with all that shelf space in the young adult collection!

Of course we'll still order the newest books as they come out, but we would also like to know what you think we're missing. Are there are any authors whose books you think we should have? Any series that you're dying to read but can't find here?

Several teens have already told us that they think there should be a separate Graphic Novel collection (rather than having graphic novels mixed in with the other books). Do you agree? What graphic novel series are we missing?

You can leave a comment here with suggestions, fill in a purchase suggestion form at our website, or just tell a library employee the next time you visit. We really want to hear from you!

Teen Summer Reading Program

"Scare up a Good Book" at the Mahomet Public Library Teen Summer Reading Program (for teens entering grades 6-12)

July 25-Aug. 28, 2010

Read the library books, magazines, and newspapers you enjoy (or listen to a book on CD/cassette), and for every 3 hours of reading, enter a grand prize drawing for one of five $10 bookstore gift cards.

Every time you read 15 minutes, mark a box off on your entry form. When you’ve read 3 hours, bring your entry form with your name and phone number to the Mahomet Public Library to be entered into our grand prize drawing. Then pick up another form, and read your way towards another entry! All entries must be turned in to the library by August 28.

Entry forms available in the library, or print one from the library web page (www.mahometpubliclibrary.org). For more information, contact the Mahomet Public Library at 586-2611.

New Teen Area!

Take a look at the new teen area! In addition to nice furnishings, there are many new fiction and nonfiction books to enjoy.



Plan to join us at the opening of the new library, tentatively set for Sunday, July 25, and check it out for yourself!

Opening date for new building

The tentative opening date for the new Mahomet Public Library building at 1702 E. Oak Street is Sunday, July 25.

The Main Street location is now closed, but will be open from 5:00-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 7
Monday, July 12
Wednesday, July 14
for patrons to pick up books that have arrived through interlibrary loan
(no other services will be available).

Interlibrary loan pickup will resume at the new location the week of July 25.

You may return books to the outdoor book drops at the new location beginning July 15. The book return drop box at the Main Street location will be closed as of July 14.

Library Closing Dates for Move

The Mahomet Public Library will be closed beginning July 4
as we move to our new location at 1702 E. Oak St.!

The Main St. location will be open from 5:00-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 7
Monday, July 12
Wednesday, July 14
for patrons to pick up books that have arrived through interlibrary loan
(no other services will be available).

Interlibrary loan pickup will resume at the new location the week of July 18.

You may return books to the outdoor book drops at the new location beginning July 15. The book return drop box at the Main Street location will be closed as of July 14.

New in the YA Department

Fiction:
• The Clearing by Heather Davis
• Mercury by Hope Larson
• The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye by Bonnie Shimko
• Fang: a Maximum Ride novel by James Patterson
• Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
• Burned: A House of Night novel by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
• As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
• Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards


Books on CD:
• The Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin
• Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
• The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
• Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Sneak Peek Book Event

Friday, June 18, 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, June 19, 1-5 p.m.

Get a “Sneak Peek” inside the new Mahomet Public Library Building, 1702 E. Oak St., and help us fill the new shelves at our “Buy it and Leave it” event on Friday, June 18 from 5-7 p.m., and Saturday, June 19 from 1-5 p.m. Browse a selection of new books and audiovisual materials that are ready to be added to the shelves priced from $5-$25. For example, you can donate a paperback for $5, or a new hardcover fiction or nonfiction book for $20. When you find an item you’d like to purchase as a donation to the library, we’ll add a bookplate with your name or the name of someone you’d like to honor, and the book will be added to the library’s shelves.

You don’t have to purchase an item to get a “Sneak Peek” of the new building-be one of the first to see inside before opening day! For more information, visit the website at www.mahometpubliclibrary.org.

2010 Teen's Top 10 Nominations

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 on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between Aug. 23 and Sept. 17 at the Teen's Top 10 Website: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm; the winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week. The nominees for this year are:

Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Heist Society by Ally Carter
Fire by Kristin Cashore
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
The Roar by Emma Clayton
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd Ed. by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
Dragonfly by Julia Golding
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Taniagawa
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
City of Fire by Laurence Yep

Look at all the new books!

A lot of new books have been added to the YA department over the past month:

Fiction:
• The Life of Glass by Jillian Cantor
• Finally by Wendy Mass
• Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Ron Koertge
• The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd
• Hourglass by Claudia Gray
• Riding Invisible by Sandra Alonzo
• Katy’s New World by Kim Vogel Sawyer
• Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
• After by Amy Efaw
• The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
• The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
• The Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
• The Dragons of Darkness by Antonia Michaelis
• Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
• How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
• Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• Light Beneath Ferns by Anne Spollen
• Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
• Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
• An Off Year by Claire Zulkey
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
• The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
• We Were Here by Matt de la Pena
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Nonfiction:
• More Than the Blues? Understanding and Dealing With Depression by Eileen Lucas
• Losing Someone You Love: Dealing With Death and Dying by Tracy A. Phillips
• The Vampire Book by Sally Regan
• Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin? by Tom Jacobs
• Frequently Asked Questions about Teen Fatherhood by Richard Worth


Books on CD:
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• After Tupac and D Foster: a novel by Jacqueline Woodson
• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
• Graceling by Kristen Cashore

New YA books!

Here's the list of the newest additions to the YA collection:

Fiction:
• The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard
• The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson
• Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla by D.J. MacHale
• The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
• Fearless FBI: Naked Eye by Francine Pascal
• Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
• The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
• After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Gone by Lisa McMann
• Nothing by Janne Teller
• Ashes by Kathryn Lasky
• Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
• Fallen by Lauren Kate
• These Boots are Made for Stalking: A Clique Novel by Lisi Harrison
• Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson


Nonfiction:
• Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guide to Money: getting smart about making it, saving it and spending it by Jessica Blatt
• Eating Disorders by Lauri S. Friedman
• Outsourcing by David M. Haugen, Susan Musser, & Kacy Lovelace, eds.
• The Spies of Mississippi: the true story of the spy agency that tried to destroy the civil rights movement by Rick Bowers

Teen Tech Week

Teen Tech Week is March 7-13, and to help us celebrate, Rosen Publishing is offering a free trial to their Teen Health and Wellness database! Access is available now through April 15, 2010. Login at www.teenhealthandwellness.com using the following:

username: teentech
password: teentech

New YA Books!

Here are some of the new books available in the YA section:

Fiction:
• All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
• Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials by Rosalind Wiseman
• Fallen by Lauren Kate
• The Mark by Jen Nadol
• Shadow of the Leopard by Henning Menkell
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
• Whatever Happened to Janie by Caroline B. Cooney
• Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
• Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
• The Eternal Smile: three stories by Gene Luen Yang
• Punkzilla by Adam Rapp


Nonfiction:
• First Apartment Smarts by Ann Byers
• Everyday Life in the Roman Empire by Kathryn Hinds
• Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

Literary Award Winners

The American Library Association today announced the top books, audiobooks, and video for children and young adults. Here are the 2010 literary award winners in young adult categories:

Michael L. Printz Award winner: "Going Bovine" by Libba Bray

Michael L. Printz Honor Books:
1. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
2. The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
3. Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
4. Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement awarded to Walter Dean Myers

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience, teen award winner: Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork.

William C. Morris Award honoring a book written by a first-time author for young adults: Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan

Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults: Jim Murphy

YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language, honor book: Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi

Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:
1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
2. The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
3. Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
4. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
5. The Kids are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch
6. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
7. My Abandonment by Peter Rock
8. Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel by Gail Carriger
9. Stitches: a Memoir by David Small
10. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

New YA books!!

Here's a list of new YA titles in the library. Check them out:

Fiction:

• Raven Summer by David Almond
• The Brothers Story by Katherine Sturtevant
• Little Black Lies by Tish Cohen
• Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
• Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Betrayed: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Chosen: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Hunted: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Marked: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Tempted: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Children of the Sea. 1 by Daisuke Igarashi
• Girl in the Arena: a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril by Lise Haines
• The Middle of Everywhere by Monique Polak
• The Summer I Got a Life by Mark Fink
• Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore


Nonfiction:

• My Anxious Mind: A Teens Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic by Michael A. Tompkins & Katherine A. Martinez
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan
• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 The Authorized Adaptation by Tim Hamilton