“Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.”
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (1999)
Blog for teens from the Fox River Valley Public Library District in East Dundee, Illinois. Find new books, recommended reads, and information on upcoming teen programs.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Book Bite: "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Book Bite: "The Patron Saint of Pigs" by Lauren Myracle
“Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.”
- "The Patron Saint of Pigs" by Lauren Myracle in Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle (2008)
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Sign up for Craft Lab
Get creative in the library's Craft Lab, Recycled Winter Crafts, on Tuesday, December 23 at 2 p.m.. Use glue, paint, glitter, cotton balls, and fake snow to transform "junk" into art!
What could you make out of burnt out light bulbs, bottle caps, fabric, and ribbon scraps?
A snowman? A reindeer? Something colorful? Something cool?
Please register online or by calling the Information Desk at 847-428-3661 (press 3).
Upcoming Craft Labs:
Monday, January 19: Duct Tape Crafts
Monday, February 16: Sharpie Mugs
Monday, December 15, 2014
Book Bite: "A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle" by John Green
“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”
- "A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle" by John Green in Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle (2008)
Monday, December 8, 2014
Book Bite: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'”
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Monday, December 1, 2014
Book Bite: "The Jubilee Express" by Maureen Johnson
“Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.”
- "The Jubilee Express" by Maureen Johnson in Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle (2008)
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Book Bite: "Looking for Alaska"
“I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.”
- Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005)
Monday, November 17, 2014
Book Bite: "Delirium" by Lauren Oliver
“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.”
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (2011)
Thursday, November 13, 2014
International Games Day is Saturday!
This Saturday is International Games Day, a day when libraries around the world celebrate the educational, recreational, and social value of games. Seriously, click this link to see a map of all the libraries participating this year!
At the Dundee Library we will have games in the Meeting Room and Craft Room from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come participate or hang out with your friends. Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 games will be set up in the Meeting Room, and board games will be set up in the Craft Room. Feel free to bring your own videogames, DS/3DS consoles, controllers, Magic and/or Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Book Bite: "Same Difference" by Siobhan Vivian
“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”
- Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian (2009)
Friday, November 7, 2014
New books
Faith Watters has a picture-perfect life. She's captain of the dance team, popular, happy. She even spent her junior year traveling the world before returning to Oviedo High School for senior year. But she's living a lie. Diego Alvarez hates his new life in the States, but staying in Cuba is not an option. Covered in tattoos and scars, Diego doesn't stand a chance of fitting in, and doesn't want to. His only concern is his secret past, a past, which if it were to surface, would cost him his life. Everyone knows that Faith and Diego don't belong together. But fate has its own plan. All they want is to be free. What they get is something different entirely.
Southern small town darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer, and realizes that she, too, is a target of the depraved stalker.
A teenage girl flees her opulent life in Miami when she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder that was ordered by her father.
After losing his virginity to an older girl who dumps him at the end of summer, Sean decides to join the Marines, but first he must get through his senior year of high school.
Althea and Oliver, who have been friends since age six and are now high school juniors, find their friendship changing because he has contracted Kleine-Levin Syndrome.
In 2035, Dahlia Grillo, a sixteen-year-old math whiz, joins with six other American teens traveling to England to meet with groups from around the world in hopes of stopping C8, the companies that control nearly everything for their own benefit.
Numb after the death of her best friend, Camille, Kinsey starts to shut down but Hunter, Camille's mysterious boyfriend, has other ideas and whisks Kinsey off on a multi-state road trip to forget the ghosts of their pasts and their own fears.
The start of new series--
Rio has always dreamed of leaving the underwater city of Atlantia for life in the Above; however, when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, Rio is left stranded below where she must find a way to unlock the secrets of the siren voice she has long hidden and save Atlantia from destruction.
Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton
Twelve teens who have prepared their entire lives for an ancient life-or-death game must finally come to terms with its arrival, forming tenuous alliances and kiling each other for the chance to be the last one standing and the winner of the ultimate prize: the ability to save a select group of people from the end of the world.
Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and growing their numbers in secret, the dragons of Talon have become strong and cunning, and they're positioned to take over the world with humans none the wiser. Ember and Dante Hill are the only sister and brother known to dragonkind. Trained to infiltrate society, Ember wants to live the teen experience and enjoy a summer of freedom before taking her destined place in Talon. But destiny is a matter of perspective, and a rogue dragon will soon challenge everything Ember has been taught. As Ember struggles to accept her future, she and her brother are hunted by the Order of St. George. Soldier Garret Xavier Sebastian has a mission to seek and destroy all dragons, and Talon's newest recruits in particular. But he cannot kill unless he is certain he has found his prey--and nothing is certain about Ember Hill. Faced with Ember's bravery, confidence and all-too-human desires, Garret begins to question everything that the Order has ingrained in him--and what he might be willing to give up to find the truth about dragons.
Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect--no matter the cost. At first the girls think they have nothing in common, until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who's done things to hurt each of them. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan--jokingly, of course. They'd never actually go through with it. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they'd discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. Only, they didn't do it. So who did? Unless they find the real killer, and soon, their perfect lives will come crashing down around them.
Continuing series--
Rigg's journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all.
Eureka, a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis and who travels across the ocean with Cat, her family, and Ander, the gorgeous and mysterious Seedbearer who promises to help her, has the chance to save the world might have to give up everything--even love.
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
An escaped Amy fights her way to the Fort Black survivor colony to find Kay's brother, Ken, in order to rescue Baby from the sinister Dr. Reynolds.
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
Plagued by nightmares from their summer in the Brookline asylum, Dan, Abby, and Jordan return to New Hampshire College for a prosective students weekend, only to find themselves caught in a dark and dangerous mystery.
Now a prisoner of the most heinous survivors of the human race, B finds herself at the mercy of her enemies and discovers the fate of her parents and friend Vinyl, calling into question how much she is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice
New graphic novels
The Program is a brutal military experiment that pits junior high students against each other every year in a brutal battle to the death. Most of the students from Shiroiwa Junior High scatter as soon as they reach the remote island where they must participate in the latest round of the Program. But Yukie Utsumi and five of her friends lock themselves in the lighthouse, clinging to a desperate hope of survival. They all trust each other, but they also know that only one can survive the Battle Royale.
Black Butler vol. 18 by Yana Toboso
Giant Takeo Goda's love life takes a surprising turn when he saves a girl named Yamato, but will she be drawn instead to Takeo's handsome best friend, Sunakawa?
Monday, November 3, 2014
Book Bite: "Wither" by Lauren DeStefano
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
- Wither by Lauren DeStefano (2011)
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Happy Halloween: Anime Club's zombie creations!
At the library's Anime Club Halloween meeting on Tuesday, we took old Barbies and transformed them into creepy zombies! We first dyed the doll clothes brown, and then painted the dolls' bodies and clothes after they dried. As you can tell, everyone got really creative (and a bit twisted!)...
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| Princess Jasmine... you've changed. |
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| Très chic zombie |
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| Zombies get haircuts, too. |
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| Bad hair day zombie |
These are fun homemade decorations for Halloween or as a gift for fans of the TV show The Walking Dead. Happy Halloween!