Hey Twilight fans!

Mark your calendars: the Twilight DVD comes out on March 21!
I'm thinking we should have a party in the library and watch it...eat some popcorn...maybe even raffle off the movie...

What do you think?

[image from amazon.com, copyright Summit Entertainment]

2009 Printz Award Winner!

The Michael L. Printz Award honors the best book written for young adults each year. Congrats to Melina Marchetta, author of Jellicoe Road, winner of the 2009 Printz award! Click below to browse through this book, or stop in the library to check it out!

Animoto

Check out ANIMOTO, a site where you can make a video using your own photos. You can either upload the photos from your computer, or you can use photos from flickr, picasa, smugmug, and other image hosting sites. After you choose your photos, you can add music.

I promise to make a video soon and upload it so you can see what I'm talking about! :)

Here's an image I grabbed from their site that explains the process quickly:

Shmoop

Need some help to get started writing a research paper? Want to make history more fun? Check out SHMOOP. From their site:

Shmoop wants to help you become a better lover (of literature and history). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.

Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

[In case you missed it, click here!]

2 new Reading Olympics books available!

As of right this minute, I just finished processing the following 2 books, which are on the 08-09 Reading Olympics list:

1. Tithe: a modern faerie tale by Holly Black
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travles from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.

2. Watchers by Dean Koontz
Summary: From a top-secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life-forms. One is a magnificicent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose...Best-selling author Dean Koontz presents his most terrifying, dramatic and moving novel: the explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of makind's darkest creation...

Both of these books will be on the Reading Olympics display in the library! Stop by to check one out!

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