Read Beyond Reality @ Your Library!

“Read Beyond Reality” at the Mahomet Public Library during Teen Read Week October 18-24, 2009. Drop in anytime between 3:30 and 4:30 on Tuesday, October 20 to play board games and enjoy snacks! All week, teens in grades 6-12 can enter a drawing to win a $10 bookstore gift card. Just tell us your favorite book of all time! Results will be posted right here on the Mahomet Public Library teen blog.

So stop in Tuesday, October 20, and challenge me to your favorite board game :)

Banned Books Week - Sept. 26-Oct. 3

Banned Books Week is recognized this year the week of September 26 - October 3, 2009. Below is a list of ALA's Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2008-

1. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
2. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
3. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
4. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
5. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
7. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
8. Uncle Bobby's Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen
9. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
10. Flashcards of My Life, by Charise Mericle Harper

Have you read any of the books on the challenged list? How did you feel about the book? What age group do you think it is best suited for?

New YA Books!

Check out one of our new YA books today!

Fiction:
• Exclusively Chloe by J.A. Yang
• Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
• After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
• Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
• Riley Park by Diane Tullson
• Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian
• Surf Mules by G. Neri
• The Unknowns: a mystery by Benedict Carey
• Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
• 20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• Miles Between by Mary E. Pearson
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Large Print)
• Love the One You’re With by Cecily Von Ziegesar (Gossip Girls-The Carlyles)

Nonfiction:
• Split in 2: Keeping it together when your parents live apart by Karen Buscemi

Not seeing the titles or types of books you like to read? Post a comment to let us know what you'd like to see in the YA collection!

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

Why settle for a word a week, when you can learn a new word each DAY! See the side bar for a new word each day from Merriam-Webster Online!

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)