Come Meet Teen Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

On October 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of the new teen novel Crazy Beautiful, will be at Edith Wheeler Memorial Library to talk about her book. Crazy Beautiful, a contemporary re-visioning of Beauty & the Beast, is told in he-said/she-said fashion, about a boy with hooks for hands and a gorgeous girl who meet on their first day at a new school. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Please register for this event here.

Teen Summer Reading Favorites

Looking for a good book? Teens who came to the "End of Summer Reading Party" said these were the best books they read this summer:

• Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
• They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
• Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
• Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
• Midnight Rider by Joan Hiatt Harlow
• Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
• The Clique by Lisi Harrison
• Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
• Long Shadows by Erin Hunter
• Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
• Sand Dollar Summer by Kimberly Jones
• New Spring by Robert Jordan
• Epic by Conor Kostick
• Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

We have many of these books here at the library. Check our catalog here to see if they're checked in. Got favorites of your own? We'd love to hear about them!