The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan   

Please check it out and let me know what you think. Pages 123-131 OMG that is all I have to say. Author/illustrator Matt Phelan's artwork conveys in very small ways the powerful emotions of the men, women and children living through this heartwrenching time in American history.  It is not a history lesson but a book that will make everyone want to learn more the Dust Bowl and the 1930's.

       

 

 

For more information check these sites out.

 

                            Surviving the Dust Bowl

                            Farming in the 1930s

                            Works Progress Administration

 

 

 

EAT IT UP! Ultimate Snack Competition

It's time to get cooking! During this program, you will team up to create a "healthy" snack using ideas from cookbooks like Rozanne Gold's Eat Fresh Food, Sam Stern's Real Food, Real Fast and Megan and Jill Carle's Teens Cook.

All ingredients provided, you just need to bring your taste buds and culinary creativiy!

Eat It Up will take place:

• March 18th
• 6pm
• Northwest Library

Judging will be based on creativity, appearance and taste. Registration is required for this teen event. Please call 807-2626 to register today!

If you have any questions, please ask Sarah C.

 

 

Below is the basic information for the competition. Head to your nearest Worthington Library for more rules and guidelines and while there pick up an entry form and a great book of poetry to get some ideas.

• To enter the competition, pick up an entry form and a complete set of rules at any Worthington Libraries location. You may submit up to three poems and/or two short stories.
• A panel of six judges will review all submissions and select a total of six winners, three middle school and three high school.
• Contest winners can present their work at an Open Mic Night for Teens on April 29 at 7 pm at Old Worthington Library.

If you need some inspiration, the Old Worthington Library will be hosting a 'Write Stuff' workshop. We will be focusing on POETRY! Registration is recommended but not required. The Write Stuff program will be held on Saturday, March 13 at 2pm in the Old Worthington LIbrary meeting room.

 

The pubishing world is thankfully starting to feel the same way as me. It is now on to bigger dilemmas, 'it's the end of the world as we know it!"  Though the dystopian genre has been around for awhile in teen literature I am so happy it is making a return.

POST APOCALYPSE/DYSTOPIAN      

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins with the sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay (August 2010)

 Here are a few more that are either in your local library or will be released later this spring. 

• Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
• Maze Runner by James Dashner
• The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd
• The Line by Teri Hall (March 4, 2010)
• Epitaph Road by David Patneaude (March 23, 2010)
• Dark Life by Kat Falls (May 1, 2010)
• The Gardener by S. A. Bodeen (May 25, 2010)
• Nomansland by Lesley Hauce (June 22, 2010)   

 

 

How do you want your accomplishments, challenges, loves and losses to be remembered? Get guidance on writing your personal story during this session.

• Old Worthington Library, meeting room
• Saturday, February 20
• 2pm

 Here is the cover for Mockingjay, the third book in the Hunger Trilogy! I am so excited. For mor information, check the Huger Games website through Scholastic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

!  Ages 10-18 are invited for an afternoon of action-packed fun during a Super Smash Brothers tournament!

• Saturday, February 13, 2010
• Northwest Library, Meeting Room
• 3:00-6:00 PM
  NOTE: If want to participate in the tournament you need to be signed in by 3:15pm.
• The tournament starts at 3:30pm.
• Anyone 10-18
• It will be a Wii tournament, bring your controllers if you'd like.

This will be one of my last programs as the Teen Librarian at Northwest, so stop by and wish me luck on my new adventures!

The winner: Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

After creating a list of the pros and cons of marriage, science-minded Charles  Darwin chooses to marry his strictly religious first cousin. Little does he know that he is about to embark upon the most loving, creative, and intellectually important relationship of his life.

 

 

 

 Finalists

         

• Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tonya Lee Stone
• Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
• The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
• Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker

Enough of my quick rant, the trailor does look good and yes I will see the movie (especially since one of my favorite actors, Sean Bean,  is playing Zeus).  I look forward to reading the second book soon.

                                   

 

 

 

What was so special about the first full moon? Well it is supposed to be the brightest and biggest due to being closer to the earth than normal.

"The 2010 wolf moon will appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than any other full moon this year, because our cosmic neighbor will actually be closer to Earth than usual." National Geographic Online.

I have a love/hate relationship with full moons. I LOVE how they look and light up the sky on a clear night but I "hate" the idea that a full moon makes people do odd things (or at least it seems like it).

"Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent." Fox News Online

Did anyone get to see the Wolf Moon??

 Saturday, January 23 is National Pie Day!

Some interesting facts for you on this wonderful pie day

• Before pie was America's favorite dessert, fruit pies were commonly eaten as part of breakfast in the 19th century.
• The term "as American as apple pie" traces back to 14th century England. The Pilgrims brought their pie-making skills, along with the apple seeds to America. As the popularity of apple pie spread throughout the nation, the phrase grew to symbolize American prosperity. (http://www.crisco.com/Articles_Tips/Central/Pie_Central/fun_pie_facts.aspx )

There is even an American Pie Council. So get with it and bake a pie, eat a slice of pie, have a pie tasting party,knit a slice of pie 

The pie world is endless!

                                                                   

                              

1. Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees  Brennan
2. The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
3. The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong
4. The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
5. Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli
6. Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
7. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
8. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
9. Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
10. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker

                    

     Winner: Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan

Finalists:

• Ash by Malinda Lo
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• The Everafter by Amy Huntley
• hold still by Nina LaCour

              

The class will be held on Saturday February 6th from 11 a.m. - 12:30 in the TEEN ROOM at Northwest Library.

If you have any questions, please call Ann Badger at 807-2626

The 2010 Michael L. Printz award for excellence in young adult literature.

And the winner is....  GOING BOVINE BY LIBBA BRAY

The honor books (runners-up):

                            

• Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
• Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
• Tales of the Madman Underground: A Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

 TheWriteStuff: Fan Fiction 

Good luck SOTS team!