Code Name Verity won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
Congratulations to Elizabeth Wein for winning the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for her book, Code Name Verity. For more information please see the Edgars Press Release: http://www.theedgars.com/2013EdgarWinners.pdf
2014 MYRCA list announced
I am happy to announce the 2014 nomination list. Some may be young for high school but there are some really great reads on the list. I marked the ones … Continue reading
Become Inspired! a booklist by Miranda Forrest
There’s a new display in the library featuring books to inspire YOU! These books contain stories of triumph over adversity, and tell tales of survival. Other books contain advice to … Continue reading
Rebel Heart by Moira Young
Rebel Heart, the second book in the Dust Lands series, follows Saba and her family’s attempt to move on from the deception and destruction sown in Blood Red Road. Lugh wants … Continue reading
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
When a female spy is captured by the Germans in France during World War II, she is tortured until she agrees to tell everything she knows about the Allied plans. … Continue reading
Water, water everywhere…
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. … Continue reading
Not your Mother’s bedtime story….
The genre of horror includes all kinds of stories. First, we have the classical gothic tales like Shelley’s Frankenstein, Stoker’s Dracula and the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. These days … Continue reading
Books on the Silver Screen
This post is late but I was asked to add it here anyway. In May we looked at books that have been made into movies. There were a lot of … Continue reading
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
Four friends take a bottle to the river to secretly share. While enjoying this respite from school, a dare ends in the death of a friend and a subsequent cover-up of … Continue reading
Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
So, can we be brain jacked? Brain Jack is an excellent addition to the very strong list of technology-driven books written for teens lately. The plot is focused, the characters are … Continue reading
