News from Roselle Teen Scene

RMS artwork is back, and better than ever!  There is art back in the YA area, and also up in the dispaly case located near the front door/circulation.

Instead of writing a lot, I'm just going to post some pictures!!!....  And make sure to get in to see this awesome, one of a kind artwork today!  Hurry, before the artwork goes back to the schools and back to the students.

Labels: artwork, RMS

Hey there all you comic book fans, graphic novel fans, manga fans, anime fans, (I could keep going...)!  Starting on Saturday May 4th and running through Friday May 10th is FREE COMIC BOOK WEEK!  If you check out ANY YA ITEM (books, audiobooks, Anime, Manga, graphic novel, etc...) and you are in 6th-12th grade, then you can choose a FREE COMIC BOOK!

So get in today to check out a young adult item and claim your free comic book.

Labels: Free Comic Book Week, teen reading

So I know last week my post was all about April being National Poetry Month, but did you know that April is also National Humor Month?

Everyone loves to laugh, and I'm sure you've all heard the saying "Laughter is the best medicine".  I'm a big believer in laughing and not taking everything so seriously all the time, so use this month as an opportunity to read some funny books, tell a few good jokes, and spread the laughter around.  It's also a good time to find the humor in things and look on the bright side!

Need to learn a few good jokes?  Try checking out some of these books:
     The Everything Guide to Comedy Writing     by Mike Bent     NFIC 808.7 BEN
     The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations     by Ned Sherrin     NFIC 808.08 OXF
     Great One Liners     by Gene Perret     NFIC 818.5402 PER
     Knock Your Socks Off: A Book of Knock Knock Jokes by Michael Dahl  JNFIC 818.5402 DAH
            (There are a lot of joke books upstairs in Youth Services too!)

Want to read something that makes you laugh out loud?  Try some of these:
     Absolutely, Positively, NOT...     by David LaRochelle     YA FIC LAR
     Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians     by Brandon Sanderson     YA FIC-FANTASY SAN
     Beat the Band     by Don Calame     YA FIC CAL
     Scarlett Dedd     by Cathy Brett     YA FIC BRE
     Sidekicks     by Jack D. Ferraiolo     YA FIC FER
     Stickman Odyssey     by Christopher Ford     YA GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR
     Struck by Lightning     by Chris Colfer    YA FIC COL
     Withering Tights     by Louise Rennison     YA FIC REN

Labels: funny, jokes, laughter, Natinal Humor Month

First, a big THANK YOU to the teens who participated in this year's teen National Library Week program.  We had a great time talking about books, discovering new series, and chowing down on pizza!  I would also like to say Thank You to Jani's Pizza for the delicious, piping hot pizza.  Despite all the fun we were having, we still found time to come up with a list of book recommendations (in no particular order), in case you are looking to try something new.

1. ANYTHING by John Green (seriously, ALL of his books are amazing!)
2. ANYTHING by Ellen Hopkins (I know you're probably tired of me saying how wonderful she is, but this recommendation came from the teens, not just me!)
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
5. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
6. The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa (Iron King is book #1)
7. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
8. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9. Zoobreak by Gordon Korman
10. Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
11. The Good Braider by Terry Farish
12. Showoff by Gordon Korman
13. Beautiful Creatures Series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures is book #1)
14. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
15. The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier

Click on the link to check the availability in our catalog.  If it's not on the shelf, place it on hold!  If there is no link, that's because the library doesn't own it...yet!

Labels: Book Lover's Day for Teens, recommendations, teen reading

Every year, across the United States, one week in April is set aside for the celebration of LIBRARIES!!! One of my favorite places, and I hope one of your favorite places too, is the local public library.  You can get so much from a library, whether it's internet access, your favorite books, video games, movies, music, downloadable books and audio books, information on what's going on, or even just a simple answer to a question.  And we get so much from you, the library user, in return!

This year, the Library has several events planned for National Library Week, and you can check out the Library's events calendar HERE to see everything that is planned, but I wanted to specifically let you know about the Teen Program and Volunteer Appreciation Day, since so many of our volunteers are VolunTeens!

Labels: National Library Week, volunteens, volunteers

Hey there all you teen readers out there!  If you've been in the Library this week, then you've seen my new book display and you know that April is National Poetry Month.  If not, now you know!  Not everyone thinks about poetry in the same way, and April is a chance to explore poetry and all it offers.  Poetry does not necessarily mean lovey-dovey, rhyming prose, although it can.  Poetry can also be free verse (non rhyming), structural like a concrete poem, or like Shakespearean sonnets or Haiku's, it can follow a very specific pattern.  But poetry can also mean novels in verse, and this is personally my favorite kind poetry.

One of my favorite authors who write novels in verse is Ellen Hopkins.  Many of her books focus on  the myriad of problems and obstacles teens must face and hopefully overcome.  She actually started her career in writing novels in verse by writing about her own daughter!  The book that I am talking about is called Crank, and it has won several awards and really jump started her career.  Since that book, she has written several more, and while not all of them focus on her family (Glass and Fallout are the two followup books to Crank) they do focus on older teens and their issues.

Besides anything writeen by Ellen Hopkins (we do own quite a few of her books) here are few other great examples of novels in verse:

So try something new this month, and don't be discourage if the book looks like it has a lot of pages...novels in verse read rather quickly, and you might even find yourself wanting more!

Labels: poetry

What?!?!  This time around for the Duct Tape program we all made bags!  And not just some flimsy bags either, but something that could actually carry something!  Check out the crazy awesome pictures from our bag making experience.

We're you off somewere cool for spring break and you didn't get a chance to make it in?  Or maybe you just decided to sleep your break away...no problem!  There are plenty of books in the Library to help get you started on your next duct tape project.  Try a few of these:

• The Kids' Guide to Duct Tape Projects by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt   JNFIC 745.5 BEL
• Ductigami: The Art of the Tape by Joe Wilson                             JNFIC 745.5 WIL
• Stick It!:  99 DIY Duct Tape Projects by T.L. Bonaddio             NFIC 745.5 BON
• Dazzling Duct Tape Designs by Tamara Boykins                         NEW NFIC 745.5 BOY
• The Duct Tape Book by Jolie Dobson                                        NEW NFIC 745.5 DOB

Or you may like hunting for duct tape video instructions on YouTube!  Simply search "duct tape project" or "duct tape (whatever you want to make)" and you're bound to find some great video tutorials!  Here is a link to the one that inspired the bags we made on Thursday.

Labels: duct tape, teen program