Don’t you wish you could talk to people everywhere and see what they would recommend to you? Well the smart innovators at www.goodreads.com have designed a website where you enter in what you have read, and it provides recommendations for you based on what others who have read the same books liked.  With recommendations, lists, [...]

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Did you get an e-Reader this holiday season, or a smartphone, tablet, or MP3 player? Then you are in luck, my friends. The Wilton Library now offers OverDrive, a service where you can download e-books and audio books to all sorts of devices. For example, if you have a smartphone with the Amazon Kindle app, [...]

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The year is just about over, can you believe it? A lot of excellent books were published in 2011, but the teen staff at the library has whittled down the field to what we consider “the best of the year.” Check out the list below, or pick up a paper copy in the teen library. You can [...]

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Did you know the most poisonous animal is not a snake or a spider, it’s a beautiful little frog! Here’s a link to some real stunners. Here’s another to some outrageous looking moths, including the Deaths Head Moth, who really fits into this upcoming Halloween season don’t you think? Anyone in the mood for Silence of the Lambs?

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For what, you ask?  For the new Teen summer reading program!  Why would you want to do that?  Well, for the prizes awarded every week (duh) but also to out-read your competition.  How?  Well if you are entering 7th grade or higher this year, come into the teen department to register your reading passport and [...]

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Summer’s finally here, but school still has a grip on you because of summer reading. This year, the library is easing your pain by offering you a chance to win some great prizes just by doing your summer reading! Here’s how it works:
1. Come to the Teen Library and fill out a passport. Each week, [...]

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Of course !  You know it is your secret dream.  But…how to go about actually getting a book published?  Not to mention writing it.  Well one secret to writing a book that no one talks about (probably to scare off talented young authors like yourself) is that you don’t actually have to write the entire book before [...]

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Yes, sad but true.  Every year books are “challenged”, meaning someone attempts to ban them, or sometimes actually does.  Check out this map that Google has compiled of where across the country this has happened.  Maybe they have not read our Bill of Rights?  But the American Library Association is fighting back by celebrating their “Banned [...]

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Well of course you are. You wouldn’t want to be left in the dust!  Searching on Amazon under “teen” can give you their bestsellers, but some other sites are YALSA and assorted blogs, like teenreads and teen book review. So don’t just wait until a pile of books to fall on you, go out and find [...]

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Wait, you don’t know what YALSA is? Well that’s the Young Adult Library Services Association and they have published their (excuse me, your) Teen Top Ten list for 2008. Over 8,000 teens voted for this year’s winners!
YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten:
1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
4. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
5. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
6. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
7. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
8. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
9. Before I Die by Jenny Downham
10. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

About the Teens’ Top Ten:
Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and
choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are
members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries
around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National
Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite
titles each year during Teen Read Week. Readers aged twelve to
eighteen can vote right here, online, anytime that week. Be sure to keep checking the dates for next year so you too can vote for your favorites!

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