Flume Awards

Nominate your favorite reads today! No adult contribution allowed! Teens only!

The Flume award is a teen choice award done here in NH! Each year, students get the chance to nominate their favorite titles for The Flume award. This title must be a book that has been published within the last two years. From the massive list that comes in, librarians narrow it down to 13 titles and then teens vote on the winning title! They are currently taking nominations! If you go to the teen section, you will find nomination slips on the board. Feel free to take one and then put your vote in the glass jar on the shelf next to it. I will collect and mail the votes. Teens may nominate their favorite reads until January 13th, 2012.

In April, we will put out a vote to see who the overall winner is, so watch for more in the spring! In the meantime, make sure your favorite book that has been published in the last two years is on the list! Who will you be voting for?

For more information, or to vote online visit: http://www.nashualibrary.org/YALS/Flume.htm

Fun Stuff!

A few updates to the Derry teen area and programming

Montooth Challenge: We have cataloged the first two books in the Montooth series by Robert Jay and now you have a chance to enter for an intriguing prize. What's the prize, you ask? Let me tell you! If you read books one and two and then send in an entry form with a plot idea for the third novel, and if your idea is accepted, then you will have your name in A BOOK! Drop by the teen section to take the books out and pick up an entry form!

Teen Book Group: We will be holding our first teen book group meeting on November 10th, from 3:30-5:30. Join us to do projects, talk about books, hang with friends. To join us for this group, register on line at www.derrypl.org and click on the calendar on the left or call the reference desk at 603-432-6140. Please register for this round by October 18th!

SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy: We had our first SAT Essay session this past Saturday. If you are taking the SAT in the upcoming months and want to have some time to practice the essay component as well as learn strategies and tips, please join us for the next sessions on October 15th, November 12th and 26th, from 1:00-3:00. Don't miss a free opportunity to get ahead of the curve!

Watch for pick up projects and more games in the teen area coming soon!

Upcoming Programs:

Anime Club: October 11th, 3:30-4:30
Writers Club: October 12th, 6:30-8:00
SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy: Oct. 15th, November 12th and 26th, 1-3:00
Teen Book Club: November 10th, 3:30-5:30( register by October 18th)

Banned Book Trailer

As you most likely know, this week is banned books week! Please feel free to drop by the library and take a look around the teen section to see what books in this area have been challenged or banned, make an I Read Banned Books, bracelet, necklace or key chain, and read the banned books week proclamation. In addition to this, we will be featuring titles and reviews of banned and challenged books this week on the blog. Today we will take a look at a book trailer of the novel SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Banned Books Week

This week is Banned Books Week. Watch for banned and challenged books in the teen area marked with Caution and Danger tape. The Caution tape indicates that a book has been challenged and the Danger tape indicates if a book has been banned. Please feel free to take these books out! They can cut the tape off at reference or at circulation. In addition to the book displays, we will also have an ongoing activity this week in the Teen Section. Students are welcome to come in, hang out in the teen area (as always) and create "I READ BANNED BOOKS," bracelets, key chains and necklaces with the beading supplies on hand. We will also be featuring book trailers and reviews on banned or challenged books this week on the blog.


Upcoming Events:
Anime Club: Tues, Sept. 27th, 3:30-4:30pm
Teen Writers Group: Wed, Sept. 28th, 6:30-8:00pm
SAT Prep/Essay: Sat. Oct. 1st, 1-3pm

Drop Ins for these programs are welcome!

Pick Up Project: I READ BANNED BOOKS key chains, bracelets etc.

New Teen Section and Upcoming Events!

We are excited to announce the unveiling of the newly remodeled upstairs along with the beautiful new Teen section. I am so excited to be the Teen librarian in this brand new space. Let me tell you a little bit about it.

The upstairs has a gorgeous Robert Frost theme with lots of poetry and paintings lining the walls. If you look to the back left corner after entering the building you will see a birch tree mural on the wall. That is the teen section. Go that way! We have fiction, new releases, graphic novels and short stories in this section. The teen nonfiction and multimedia are still going to be interfiled with the adult materials. But you will be able to identify them with the handy purple dot that is on the spine.

Another new thing to look for is the activities cupboard. This cupboard has materials for beading, storyboards for creating your own anime, graphic novels or comics, writing materials to write. reviews for this blog, card games and more. You'll also find a featured book, something that has a lot of buzz right now. Feel free to take it home and have a read. I will just replace it with another popular one! There are a few games on the bottom shelf and we will be collecting more as time goes on.

Be sure to check out the bulletin board for upcoming programs. I will be posting information about programs here as well!

Things to watch for in the upcoming week!

September 25th marks the beginning of Banned Books Week! Watch for Banned Books Week displays throughout the library as well as beading supplies to make I READ BANNED BOOKS bracelets, necklaces and key chains. Also, I will be sure to place out lots of banned books, so you can go ahead and start reading these bad boys. Granted, you've probably already read some of these...does The Hunger Games sound familiar?

PROGRAMS!!!

Sept. 27th, Anime Club 3:30-4:30
Sept. 28th, Writers Group 6:30-8:00pm
Oct. 1st, SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy 1:00-3:00
To register for these programs, please go to www.derrypl.org, click on the calendar on the left hand side, find the program and click REGISTER. Drop ins are also welcome!

We'll see you in the stacks!

Isn't It Romantic by Ron Hansen

No Spoilers.

Title: Isn't It Romantic?
Author: Ron Hansen
Year of Publication: 2004
Genre: Romance
Pages: 198
First Line: "America was Natalie's idea."

Summary: Touring America was Natalie's idea. But she had not planned on being accompanied on a cross-country bus by her playboy fiance, Pierre. Nor had they anticipated being stranded in Seldom, Nebraska, population 395.

But that is exactly what happens to this French couple, and they quickly find themselves being taken in by the obliging citizens of Seldom: Natalie by Mrs. Christiansen, a retired high school teacher who runs a rooming house for women, and Pierre by Owen, a gas station owner and ambitious winemaker in an unlikely part of the world.

And here, also, the separated couple becomes enchanted by the locals. Natalie is soon being wooed by Dick Tupper, a handsome and honest rancher. Pierre falls quickly for Iona, a beautiful, no-nonsense waitress at the local diner.

In this charming entertainment, mistaken identities, botched schemes, and hilarious misunderstandings abound as Parisian sophistication collides with the af

Source: Back/Inside of book

Review: None of the characters in this book were likeable. The plot was underdeveloped and there were too many characters to keep track of in such a short piece. I found the situations to be unrealistic for the characters and their personalities. Honestly, I have very little to say about this novel. It was very disappointing and I'm glad it took less than half-a-day to read it.

Worst part: The characters were obnoxious.

Best part: I can't think of a single thing.

Grade: F

Other Books by This Author: Various, which can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Ron-Hansen/e/B000AR9NZG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

21 / 100 books. 21% done!

Indigara by Tanith Lee

No Spoilers.

Title: Indigara
Author: Tanith Lee
Year of Publication: 2007
Genre: Science Fiction, Futuristic Fiction
Pages: 195
First Line: "Otis's Diskript

The problem was that on that day I was supposed to go in for my half-yearly service appointment."

Summary: Welcome to Indigara . . . a strangely familiar, strangely hypnotic world.

Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet's two sisters -- one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie -- to their planet's film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon plunged into the mysterious underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister other-where if Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of fantasy and SF pilot movies that never got made into series. Even while girl and dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above. . . .

Source: Back/Inside of book

Review: All-in-all, I found this book to be too vague. I had a hard time understanding what was going on. The idea was interesting, but it was not executed in a way that made me really into the book, which was frustrating, especially given its shortness. I was also frustrated to learn that Indigara is not pronounced the way you might expect, which took me out of the story, especially when the name was mentioned. I liked Otis' character a lot, but something about him seemed missing. Many of the characters were like that -- likable or interesting, but missing something. I would probably not recommend this book, however I know Tanith Lee has written 80 novels (as of 2007) and various other pieces, so it's possible this one was a fluke.

Worst part: The vagueness of the writing.

Best part: Otis.

Grade: C-

Other Books by This Author: Not going to list these, but there is a list found at the beginning of the copy of this book in the edition I read.

20 / 100 books. 20% done!