Teen Book Awards

Last week at the American Library Associations mid winter conference, the winners of the main book awards were announced. The teen book winners were:

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Coretta Scott King Award)
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Printz Award)

Ten books were named for the Alex Award, which are adult books that will appeal to teens.
Many other books were honorable mentions. Please check the ALA/YALSA website at www.ala.org/yalsa .
There you will find all the nominees and winners.
We have or will have very soon all of these books at the library. Come and check out the award winners.

Teen Movie

We will be having a teen movie night tomorrow, Thursday January 18. We will be watching Step Up, which is rated PG-13. It will be from 6-8pm in the main meeting room. Anyone in the 6th-12th grades is invited. Refreshments will be provided. Please come and join us in watching this fun movie.

Hot Chocolate and Popcorn

Don't forget that we have programs next week. On Tuesday, there will be a popcorn and hot chocolate social. We will talk about what you want for the teens to do at the library. Please come to let me know what you want to do. Come drink, eat, and hang out with others your age.

Eragon the Movie

I finally saw the movie version of Eragon. I thought it was ok. Had I not read the book, I think that I would have liked the movie better. They cut out a lot of the book. I know that they had to do this but there were some things that needed to be kept. The movie was only about an hour and a half so it could have been a little longer and explained things. What did you think about it? Did you like the movie? Let me know.