Good Books - September 2007

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Okay, I have to admit I am not crazy about gothic stories. Or romances. Or vampire-meets-human-meets-werewolf-cataclysm stories. Except for this one. So while we sit around waiting for the fourth (and final?) book in the Bella-Edward-Jacob saga, and for author Stephenie Meyer’s forthcoming body-snatching aliens novel The Host, give these other vampire stories a try:

Bloodline by Kate Cary

The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Gil’s All-Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez

Thirsty by M.T. Anderson

Vampirates by Justin Somper

I DARE YOU: Game Over

Congratulations and thank you to the over 80 teens who participated in our second Teen Summer Reading Game. They just about 95,000 pages this summer, an incredible total (for some perspective on how much reading that is, imagine stacking up 125 copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into a pyramid…and you get a good idea.)

 Congratulations to the winners of our grand prizes:

• Tiffany W: $75 Borders Gift Card
• Madeline M: PB Teen iPod Messenger Bag
• Sarah K: FLIP Video Camcorder
• Brandi S: Nintendo Wii

We hope that everyone had lots of fun at our end of summer pizza party, and remember, next summer will bring another reading game, and more terrific prizes and activities for teen readers!

See you @ the library!

I Dare You: Librarian’s Dares!

pirate.jpgFor every 25,000 pages that the teens of Fairfield read, the staff of the Fairfield Public Library will complete a dare…

It took teens 42 days to read 84,115 pages. So, next week…as per your votes all summer long, the Teen Librarian dresses as a pirate!

I DARE YOU: Post your Comments Here!

I DARE YOU! 

Last chance to enter your reading and win a Wii!

First weekly raffle winner: Briana C.

Second weekly raffle winner: Gillian C.

Third weekly raffle winner: Madeline M.

Fourth weekly raffle winner: Allie A.

Fifth weekly raffle winner: Bryan F.

Sixth weekly raffle winner: Kevin O.

Seventh weekly raffle winner: Kelly F.

Final Page Total: 94,959

The I DARE YOU Summer Reading game is over. Congratuations to the 79 teens who participated. If you are one of them, make sure you get to the I DARE YOU: Win It All party this Thursday to redeem your grand prize raffle tickets. DDR and pizza begin at 2 PM, all tickets must be cast by 3:15, and the drawing is at 3:30. Don’t be late!

 Again, the prizes being raffled off at the party are:

• $75 Gift Card to Borders

• PB Teen iPod Messenger bag

• FLIP Video camcorder

• Nintendo Wii

To find out how many tickets you have earned, just contact the Teen Librarian.

Good Books - June 2007

Series to Watch Out For

With Harry Potter drawing to a close, and gossip girl becoming a TV show next fall, it’s time to move on to new series, don’t you think?

 After Harry, try:

• Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron 

• Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix

• The Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett

• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

• Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve

After gossip girl, try:

• Summer Boys by Hailey Abbott
• Private by Kate Brian
• The 310 by Beth Killian
• Seven Deadly Sins by Robin Wasserman
• The It-Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar