The Mother Daughter Book Club will meet from 10 – 11 a.m. on the third Saturday of each month in East Library Conference Room 1. The club is open to girls in grades 6 – 9 and their mothers, who will discuss each month’s books. January’s titles are Am I Right or Am I Right? by Berry Jonsberg and Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter by Alice Kuipers. No registration is required. Call 531-6333, x1217 for more information.
Check out this site for interviews with Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson and more!
Read a book, get a free book bag – how easy is that?! Read Out of the Dust by Karen Hess or Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley, and get your very own APPR book bag! Pick up an entry form at your middle school or local library from September 21 – October 21.
Although you can’t start posting your books and collecting prizes until May 26th, you can sign up for Mythic Summer today at your library! You can either come on in to one of our branches or you can sign up from home by clicking on the Mythic Summer button on our homepage, ppld.org.Use your library card number and pin when signing up and don’t forget to pick up a Mythic Summer booklet and confirm your registration next time you are in the library!
Get ready to read your way through Mythic Summer!
The seventh book in the Harry Potter series will be released on July 21st, 2007, according to J.K. Rowling’s official website. The news, which broke yesterday, immediately sent Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to the top of the online booksellers top seller lists.
Deathly Hallows is the long awaited finale of the Harry Potter series. The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was first published in the United Kingdom under the title Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ten years ago, in 1997.
Deathly Hallows will be released just 8 short days after the opening of the movie adaptation of the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, on July 13th.
Whether you like to read books or listen to them, write them or draw them, you might want to take a look at the show that is currently in the Coburn Gallery down at Colorado College. The BOOK as OBJECT: An international survey of Sculptural Bookworks is a survey of sculpture that uses books as its inspiration and medium.
So check out the art in the gallery and then head over to the W.E.S Room in the Warner Student Center on Friday December 8th at 7:30 PM for a Slide Lecutre and Panel Discussion about the exhibit.
Why don’t you tell everyone about your old favorites or your new finds? If you’ve read a book that you think is absolutely amazing (or even just pretty cool) head over here and put up your own review of the book on the Teen Zone! You can read other people’s book reviews, and to write a review of your own, just click on Review A Book! at the top of the page and enter all the info! Don’t worry if someone has already written a review for the book that you want to review; your opinions and perspectives are the most important part, so get writing!