Thursday, January 28, 2010

Last Days to Vote

Saturday January 30th is the last day to come in to the library to cast your vote for the best Nutmeg book. Here are the nominees. Winner will be announced February 14th. Come in and cast your vote!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Printz Award Goes To "Going Bovine"


Each year a teen book is selected by the American Library Association as the best young adult book from the previous year. This award, called the Printz award, is similar to the Newbery medal given to children's books. This year the Printz award went to the book Going Bovine by Libba Bray. Bray, the author of the Gemma Boyle series: A Great and Terrible Beauty, The Sweet Far Thing, and Rebel Angels, takes a real departure from historical fantasy in this new book. School Library Journal says, "In this ambitious novel, Cameron, a 16-year-old slacker whose somewhat dysfunctional family has just about given up on him, as perhaps he himself has, when his diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jacob, "mad cow" disease, reunites them, if too late. The heart of the story, though, is a hallucinatory-or is it?-quest with many parallels to the hopeless but inspirational efforts of Don Quixote, about whom Cameron had been reading before his illness."

Find out if it's checked in at the library, then tell us what you thought of this book. We'd love to hear your review!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Teen Nutmeg Book Award Voting


Come in to Teen Space at the library and cast you vote for the 2010 Teen Nutmeg Book Award winner. Anyone in grade 5 through 9 who has read at least one of these Teen Nutmeg Book nominees can vote. Fill out a ballot and drop it in the box by the Nutmeg Books. Voting ends January 31, 2010. We'll announce the winner here and at the library on February 14, 2010.