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Thursday Thirteen #10

2012-01-25T08:46:00.001-08:00

13 YA Books Coming Soon

1) The Calling by Kelley Armstrong (4/10)

2) Black Heart by Holly Black (4/3)

3) Soulbound by Heather Brewer (7/5)
4) Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Ally Carter (3/13)
5) Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (5/1)

6) City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (5/8)
7) Rivals and Retributions by Shannon Delaney (8/7)
8) Dark Frost by Jennifer Estep (6/1)

9) Balthazar by Claudia Gray (3/5)

10) Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate (1/23)

11) Loss by Jackie Morse Kessler (3/20)

12) Faery Tales & Nightmares by Melissa Marr (2/20)

13) Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (2/28)

Thursday Thirteen #9 - The Christmas Edition

2011-12-21T11:57:00.000-08:00

All of the following are available on bn.com for under $3.00 (prices were checked on Wednesday 12/21/11), not sure how long they will stay at the listed price, but the links should still work even after they are back to their regular prices. Hope you all have a very Happy Holiday season.

Remedial Magic by Jenna Black (free)

Marked by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast ($2.99)
Beasts and bffs by Shannon Delany (free)

Entwined by Heather Dixon ($0.99)
First Frost by Jennifer Estep($0.89)

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey (free)
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl ($1.99)

Hereafter by Tara Hudson ($0.99)

Summer's Crossing by Julie Kagawa (free)

Winter's Passage by Julie Kagawa ($2.51)

Bumped by Megan McCafferty ($0.99)
Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) by Sarah Mlynowski (0.99)
Evermore by Alyson Noel ($2.99)

Delirium by Lauren Oliver ($2.99) Withering Tights by Louise Rennison ($0.99)

Thursday Thirteen #8

2011-12-08T08:10:00.001-08:00

13 Harry Potter Gifts for Christmas

For the Harry Potter Fans on your list. (I found all of these on BN.com, but you could probably find them on several sites).

14) A bonus for the chess playing Harry Potter fan:

Thursday Thirteen #7

2011-11-03T11:31:00.000-07:00

13 Ebooks for Teens...

and the reasons for getting an ereader. The first set of books are from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, which happens to be the ereader I have. If you don't have a Nook, you can download their free app to your iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, or Mac, and read their books that way. You can store an entire series on your nook, instead of filling an entire bookshelf with one series (the Morganville Vampires has 11 books in the series so far).

1) The Morganvill Vampires by Rachel Caine

(and the entire series is available on the nook)
2) The House of Night Series by P.C. Cast

(all 9 plus a novela are available on Nook)
3) The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins

(they have all 3 books- which you can buy separately or bundled together in one file-but according to bn.com it is actually cheaper to buy them individually-
the total for the three separate is 19.53

the price for the trilogy is 26.99)

4) The Blue Bloods Series by Melissa de la Cruz

5) The Inheritance Cycle Series by Christopher Paolini
(this is actually a good deal- the 3 pack is only 24.99 on bn.com but
buying them individually would be 32.97 )

6)If you have a Chesapeake Public Library library card, you can check out ebooks and audiobooks free of charge through Overdrive. This is a good way to check out new to you authors, such as L.A. Meyer and her Bloody Jack series.

7) or Playing Hurt by Holly Schindler

8) The audiobooks include Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

9) and The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
10) The Kindle from Amazon is another good source for ebooks, and also has free apps you can use on the iPad, the iPhone, Android, Mac, and PCs. The Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner
11) or Wicked by Addison Moore 12) Or Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

13) But here is another case of paying attention to what you buy.
The Twilight Set is 36.99
The 4 books bought separately is 33.96.

Teen Reed Week, Part 2

2011-10-17T07:55:00.001-07:00

Teen Read Week October 16-22, 2011

2011-10-13T10:16:00.000-07:00

Thursday Thirteen #6

2011-09-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

New YA Books Coming Soon

Another list of books on my to be read list.

1) Trickster's Girl by Hilari Bell
out 10/25

2) Destiny and Deception by Shannon Delaney
out 1/31/12

3) Fangtastic by Lucienne Diver
out 1/8

4) Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep
out 12/1

5) Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
out 10/18

6) Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber
out 11/1

7) The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
out 9/29

8)Infamous by Sherrily Kenyon
out 3/13

9) Enthralled by Melissa Marr & Kelley Armstrong
out now

10) Another Pan by Daniel & Dina Nayeri
out 10/26

11) Seizure by Kathy Reichs
out 10/18

12) Reckoning by Lili St. Crow
out 11/1

13) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
out 10/18

Bonus) Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
out 9/20

Thursday Thirteen #5

2011-06-22T13:03:00.001-07:00

13 YA Books Coming Out Soonish (+2)

Most of these books are ones I am looking forward to reading, some I will have to read the previous books in the series to get caught up beforehand. Give me a comfy chair under a shady tree with a tall glass of iced tea to go with my stack of books, and I'll be set for the summer.

1) Trial By Fire- Jennifer Lynn Barnes (out now)

2) Uncommon Criminals- Ally Carter (out now)
3) Dragon's Oath- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (7/12)
4) City of Fallen Angels- Cassandra Clare (out now)
5) Clockwork Prince- Cassandra Clare (12/6)
6) Silence- Becca Fitzpatrick (10/4)
7) Passion- Lauren Kate (Out Now)
8) Conspiracies- Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill (7/5)
9)Blood Ties- Mari Mancusi (8/6)

10) Bloodlines- Richelle Mead (8/23)

11) Everlasting- Alyson Noel (Out Now)
12) Undercurrent- Tricia Rayburn (7/12)
13) Divergent- Veronica Roth (Out Now)
14) The Warlock- Michael Scott (Out Now)
15) Forever- Maggie Stiefvater (7/13)

New Books Coming Soon

2010-12-14T17:09:00.000-08:00

These books are all being released in January, and have been ordered for our library. Don't you just love looking at covers?

1) Across the Univers

by Beth Revis

2) All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 3) Awakened by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
4) The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman
5) Blessed by Cynthis Leitich Smith
6) Drought by Pam Bachorz
7) The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal
8) Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors
9) My Soul to Steal by Rachel Vincent
10) Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
11) Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
12) Shadowspell by Jenna Black
13) Something Like Hope by Shawn Goodman
14) Throat by R.A. Nelson
15) The Trouble with Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante
16) The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher

Happy Halloween

2010-10-30T13:14:00.000-07:00

For your reading enjoyment, I've created a list of YA books full of werewolves, and vampires, and fae (oh my). All of these listed are either books I've read (and enjoyed) or books in series where I've started (but not finished- yet). Happy Halloween and have fun Trick or Treating.

1) The Darkest Powers series by Kelley Armstrong

2) Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
it's sequel- Trial by Fire will be out next summer

3) The Chronicles of Vlad Tod by Heather Brewer-
12th Grade Kills is the last book in the series

4) The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

5) 13 to Life by Shannon Delaney

Secret and Shadows (the sequel) comes out in February
6) The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa
7) Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler (no series name- yet)
Rage, the 2nd book in the series comes out April 4th of next year
8) The Shadow Grail Series by Mercedes Lackey

9)The Blood Coven Series by Mari Mancusi

10) The Wicked Lovely Series by Melissa Marr

11) The Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead

The last book in the series comes out in December

12) The Wolves of Mercy series by Maggie Stievater

The 3rd book- Forever- is coming out in July of 2011

New Books Coming Soon (Part 2)

2010-09-12T12:45:00.000-07:00

I found these browsing through B&N's Teen Coming Soon list, not sure how I missed them last time. Unless otherwise noted, these titles have a release date of Tuesday, September 14th.

1) Hush by Eishes Chayil

2) We Were Here by Matt de la Pena
3) Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
4) Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
5) Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
Part 3 in the series
1) Crank
2) Glass
6) Virgin Territory by James Lecesne

7) Days of Little Texas by R.A. Nelson

8) The Gathering by Will Peterson

book 3 in the Triskellion series

1) Triskellion

2) The Burning

9) Grace by Elizabeth Scott

10) The Dark Deeps by Arthur Slade

sequel to The Hunchback Assignments

11) The Midnight Charter by David Whitley

the first book in The Agora Trilogy

12) Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

13) The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

New Books Coming Out Soon (Part 1)

2010-08-28T08:24:00.000-07:00

1) Halo by Alexandra Adornetto- out 8/31/2010
(not sure if this is the first in a series
or a stand alone novel) 2) 12th Grade Kills by Heather Brewer- out 9/21/2010
Series started with 8th Grade Bites
This is the final book in the series.
3) The Fledgling Handbook 101 by P.C. Cast- out 10/26/2010
The House of Night series, in order, is:

Marked
Betrayed
Chosen
Untamed
Hunted
Tempted

Burned
4) The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima- out 9/28/1020
Book 1 in the series is The Demon King

5) Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare- out 8/31/2010
This is the first in a new series set prior to her
Mortal Instruments Series.
6) Factotum by D.M. Cornish-out 11/11/2010
The other books in the Monster Blood Tatto Series are:
Foundling
Lamplighter

7) Nightshade by Andrea Cremer- out 10/19/2010

8) Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly- out 10/12/2010
9) Sapphique by Catherine Fisher- out 12/28/2010
The sequel to Incarceron

10) Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick- out 10/19/2010
the sequel to Hush, Hush
11) Reckless by Cornelia Funke- out 9/14/2010
first in a new series.

12) Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
-out 10/12/2010

13) Firelight by Sophie Jordan- out 9/7/2010
14) Torment by Lauren Kate- out 9/28/2010
Sequel to Fallen

15) Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead- out 12/7/2010
Other titles in the Vampire Academy Series are:

Vampire Academy
Frostbite
Shadow Kiss
Blood Promise
Spirit Bound

(to be continued)

Author Links

2010-07-03T11:03:00.000-07:00

Normally, this would have been posted as a Thursday Thirteen. Since today is Saturday, I'm just posting this as a list of author websites. Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what all of these authors have in common *eg*.

1) Jennifer Lynn Barnes

2) Holly Black

3) Ally Carter

4) Tera Lynn Childs

5) Shannon Delaney

6) Kim Harrison

7) Stacey Kade

8) Jackie Morse Kessler

9) Melissa Marr

10) Donna Jo Napoli

11) Carrie Ryan

12) Gena Showalter

13) Jeri Smith-Ready

Judging Books & Covers

2010-06-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

We all know you're not supposed to judge a book by it's cover, and we all do it anyway. After all, the first three things you notice on a book are the author's name, the title, and the cover art. We've all also heard horror stories about covers gone wrong, so for your viewing pleasure I've posted book covers that have done their jobs: piqued my interest. Any of these look interesting to you? What's on your to be read list? (I usually write out the author and title, but since they are all legible- and I'm currently babysitting 22 computers- I'll let you read the cover).
Have a great weekend.

Weekend Update

2010-05-08T10:48:00.000-07:00

Much of my week was spent getting caught up after being out of town for a week. I spent the week in Columbus Ohio at the Romantic Times Booklover Convention, where I got to meet several very cool YA authors. Some I had met at previous RTs, so it was nice to meet up with them again. Most of these pictures were taken during the Book Fair on Saturday, May 1st.
1) Charlaine Harris- okay, not a YA author, but hey I got to meet her.

2) Jennifer Lynne Barnes- her new one Raised by Wolves will be out in June.

3) Holly Black- her newest, White Cat, is out.

4) Heather Brewer- Eleventh Grade Burns came out in February.

5)Ally Carter- Only the Good Spy Young comes out in June.

6) Shannon Delany- 13 to Life: a Werewolf's Tale comes out in June.

7) Jackie Morse Kessler- Hunger comes out in October.

8) Melissa Marr- Radiant Shadows came out in April.

9) Jeri Smith Ready- Shade came out Tuesday.

Rachel Vincent- My Soul to Keep comes out June 1st.

Thursday Thirteen #4

2010-04-01T15:55:00.000-07:00

Thirteen Ways the Library Can Help with a Research Paper

1) The library staff- always willing to answer questions. Not so willing to do the homework for you (high school- been there, done that, lost the t-shirt).

2) Card Catalog- helps you find anything in the library- books, cds, dvds, audiobooks- can be searched by author, title, series, subject, keyword.

3) Books, glorious books... lots and lots of books.

4) DVDs- movies- plays, tv shows, documentaries- all can be resources or topics for research papers.

5) Music- Classical music, popular music, even soundtracks and broadway music. All available for checkout.

6) Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Almanacs- oh my. Most can't be checked out, but with the handy dandy copier, you can still take the information home.

7) Our homepage- keeps you informed of upcoming programs and any closings in our future- for example, Easter.

8) Military & Intelligence Database- whose homepage is currently highlighting global warming, stem cell research, and animal rights (most of these articles are full text).

9) Mango Languages will help you learn the language if you are studying the culture of a country.

10) Literary Criticism Online- where you can find articles on such diverse authors as J.M. Barrie, Clive Barker, George Bernard Shaw, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. You won't find Christopher Marlowe or William Shakespeare, our subscription doesn't go back that far.

11) CultureGrams- provides a variety of fun facts and interesting information about countries and the American States, as well as the Provinces of Canada. It includes: flags, pictures, and even recipes.

12) Expanded Academic and EbscoHost- both excellent sources of full text periodicals and scholarly journals, add to the works cited page.

13) Word- So you can type it up, and even insert those pesky footnotes without too much angst and hairpulling (Endnotes are even better).

Thursday Thirteen #3

2010-03-08T07:28:00.000-08:00

Thirteen YA Authors Websites

1) Kelley Armstrong (http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/)- author of the Darkest Powers trilogy. The third book, The Reckoning, comes out April 6th. And since I like posting pictures, here is its cover:

2) Libba Bray (http://www.libbabray.com/)- author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, as well as Going Bovine.

3) Heather Brewer (http://www.heatherbrewer.com/)- author of The Chronicles of Vlad Tod, the adventrures of a teenage vampire as he makes his way through 8th grade and then high school. The latest book, Eleventh Grade Burns is now out. And there is even a website: http://www.vladtod.com/. The cover for Eleventh Grade Burns:

4)Rachel Caine (http://www.rachelcaine.com/) author of the Morganville Vampire series. The latest, Kiss of Death, comes out in April. Its cover:

5)Kristin Cashore(http://kristincashore.blogspot.com/) author of Graceling and Fire. Her blog says she's working on book 3, still. Here is the cover for book 2:

6) P.C. Cast (http://www.pccast.net/)- coauthor, with her daughter Kristin, of the House of Night Series, and author of the Parthalon books. The latest House of Night book, Burned, will be out April 27th, while the latest Parthalon book, Brighid's Quest, was just released. Their covers are:

7)Suzanne Collins (http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/) author of Catching Fire and The Hunger Games, the cover of which is here. 8) Claudia Gray (http://claudiagray.com/) author of the Evernight series. The latest book is Hourglass, and this is its cover:
9)Lauren Kate (http://www.laurenkatebooks.net/) author of Fallen.

10)Richelle Mead- (http://www.richellemead.com/), author of the Vampire Academy series. The 5th book, Spirit Bound, is coming out May 18th. Here is the cover:

11)Carrie Ryan ( http://www.carrieryan.com/) author of Forest of Hands and Teeth and also The Dead-Tossed Waves. The paperback copy of Forest has a new cover, so I'm posting that here:
12)Rachel Vincent (http://www.rachelvincent.com/)- author of the Soul Screamers series. My Soul to Lose, a novella she wrote as a prequel to book one is available as a free download off of her website. The third book, My Soul to Keep comes out June 1st, but doesn't have any cover art yet, so here is the cover for the 2nd:

13)Scott Westerfeld (www.scottwesterfeld.com)- author of the Uglies series and Leviathan, which came out in October. Here is its cover:

New books for the new year

2009-12-18T07:32:00.001-08:00

Once again I missed Thursday, so no Thursday Thirteen. Although that is one of my new year's resolutions, to post here more often, and spice up the posts some. I've got big plans. And maybe the technology will cooperate this year. Since this will be my last post until after Christmas, I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas, a Happy Yule, Happy Hanukkah, and a great weekend.

1) The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

2) Player's Ruse by Hilari Bell

3) Eleventh Grade Burns by Heather Brewer

4) Hunted by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

5) Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

6) Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

7) Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli

8)The Indigo King by James A. Owen

9) Thirst (vol. 2) by Christopher Pike

10) Royal Blood by Ellen Schreiber

11) The Necromancer by Michael Scott

12) Strange Fate by L.J. Smith

13) My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent

Thursday Thirteen #2

2009-11-18T07:52:00.001-08:00

13 YA Books without Vampires

In honor of the release of the second Twilight movie, I thought I'd do a TT of YA books without vampires. There are books galore out with vampires, and some of them are quite good. But in the rush to read all things vampire, let us not forget there are other things out there to read about: werewolves, fairies (both good and evil), goblens, trolls, zombies, and that strange bizarre thing known as the real world. So this is just a sampling of the nonvampire ya books out there that have made it to my tbr list, some of them I found browsing B&N's teen page, some from browsing our ya section. So what YA books have you added to your tbr list lately?

1) Gilda Joyce:Psychic Investigator

by Jennifer Allison

2) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation

by M.T. Anderson

3) The Summoning

by Kelley Armstrong

4) Going Bovine

by Libba Bray

5) Code Talker

by Joseph Bruchac
6) Graceling

by Kristin Cashore

7) The Warrior Heir

by Cinda Williams Chima

8) City of Bones

by Cassandra Clare

9) The Maze Runner

by James Dashner

10) Before I Die

by Jenny Downham

11) Hush, Hush

by Becca Fitzpatrick

12) Meridian
Amber Kizer

13) Wicked Lovely

by Melissa Marr

Thursday Thirteen #1

2009-11-05T17:09:00.000-08:00

Thirteen YA Novels about Vampires- for those of you who think there's no such thing as too many vampires. I must confess I haven't read all of them, but my to be read pile tends to get away from me (and take over rooms in my apartment- but that's a different story). Most of these are the first in a series (or first in an I-hope there is more series). Book reviews to come.

1) Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer

2) Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

3) Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

4) Vamps by Nancy A. Collins

5)Vamped by Lucienne Diver

6) The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

7) Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

8) Thirst #1 by Christopher Pike

9) Vampire Kisses: The Beginning by Eileen Schreiber

10) Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith

11) The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith

12) Vampirates by Justin Somper

13) Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Banned Books Week

2009-10-01T16:46:00.000-07:00

Since this is our YA blog, I thought I'd salute Banned Books Week with a list of YA books that have been banned or challenged in the past 10 year (I pulled these titles off of ALA's lists of most challenged books by year). I've read quite a few of them, but seeing them on the lists makes me want to go out and read more of them. How about you? How many have you read? Go celebrate Banned Books Week. Read a book.

1. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
2. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
6. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
8. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
9. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
10. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
11. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
12. Forever, by Judy Blume
13. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
14. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
16. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
17. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene

welcome to our blog

2009-09-22T15:18:00.000-07:00

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