Summer Reading Program

This year's teen summer reading program is "Make Waves at Your Library." Programs will kick off with the 2nd annual "Chalk It Up" sidewalk drawing event on Saturday, June 19th from 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM at the library. There will be other events going on as well on Saturday and throughout the summer. Check our website for more information. Come to the library to register for the summer reading program anytime from June 19th on. We even have a display of books set up in Teen Space if you want to read something with a watery theme!

New sequel out!

This year's Teen Nutmeg Award winner, Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer has a brand new sequel. It's called This World We Live In and the library now has it. So if you want to find out what happens to Miranda and the rest of her family as life continues in the post-meteor world read this sequel. Check here to see if it's in. Once you read it post a comment and let us all know how you liked it.

Great New Teen Nutmeg Nominee

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd is one of those books that is hard to put down. The mystery is introduced right away and, as the reader, you can't wait to see how it turns out. A brother and sister team, Ted and Kat, are the sleuths of this mystery. It's written from Ted's point of view which is very interesting because he has Asperger's syndrome. I haven't yet finished the book but I have my own theories, just like Ted, about what happened. If you like this book, try Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork another great book about a teen with Asperger's syndrome.

This Year's Teen Nutmeg Book Award Winner

Life As We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer won the 2010 Teen Nutmeg Book Awards with 1309 votes. Total teen votes 7101; total schools and libraries 111.

Nominees for 2011 have been announced. Check out the Nutmeg Book Award website to see the new list. Copies of nominees are now available on the library's Nutmeg shelf in the Teen Space.

Check out this sequel

Did you read Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, the 2010 Nutmeg nominee written by Jordan Sonnenblick? It was a favorite among Teen Nutmeg readers here in Monroe. For those who read it and want to know what happens to Jeffrey Alper, the adorable younger brother who is diagnosed with leukemia, check out the sequel. It's called After Ever After and we'll have it here at the library soon thanks to the generous donations of some of our patrons. Click here to reserve a copy.

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!

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!