BANNED BOOKS

I'm guessing at least one of your favorite books has been challenged somewhere in the United States, either in school or at your public library.  Books such as Harry Potter, 1984, Lord of the Rings, and Bridge to Terabithia have been subject to such challenges.  It is YOUR right and privilege to read material you want to read.  Stand up for your literature, and make sure you know what you're reading, you can handle what you're reading, and you understand the challenges of your most treasured books.

You can check out some of the banned books lists at:
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/censorship/bannedbooksthatshapedamerica

There are tons more websites out there with more information. If you wonder why a particular book has been challenged, you can simply search in Google the book title followed by "challenged book" and you should get something.

Here is a preview of our display next week. Thank you to the teens who have participated thus far!

Twister

TWISTER TOURNAMENT!! 

Wednesday, September 24, 204

5pm-6pm

It's only a week and a half away!

I DID put a sign up sheet at the high school, the middle school, and downtown for those of you too afraid to call me to sign up.  You can also sign up ONLINE with NO human interaction at all (YAY!) at http://mdypl.evanced.info/signup/eventcalendar.aspx

I'm going to have lots of snacks and sodas as usual.  There WILL be some prizes, mostly free books, because, hey, I'm a librarian. BUT the biggest prize is bragging rights.  'Cuz hey, how many people can say they won Mega Twister?

Carpool with friends, add a stop to your bus assignment at the Admin. building, but get your tushies down here!

Banned Books Week CHALLENGE

TEENS! I have a challenge for you: In a couple of weeks, it is Banned Books Week.  this is the time we recognize amazing books that have been challenged and taken out of libraries for a time.

This is what I want you to do: 

1. go to this website, http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
2. find a book title on there that you have read and liked
3. Take a picture of yourself BUT, you have to write the book title on a piece of duct tape and tape it over your mouth.

Here's an example:

4. Send the picture to me on FB or email kkauffman@mdy.lib.in.us

If you do this by September 20, I will give you $1 off any fines you have on your library account.

These will be used for a display I'm doing in the YA section of MCPL.  Stand up for YOUR right to read!

NEW BOOKS!!!!

I have finished cataloging my newest order of about 50 books!  I got a LOT of Manga (ones requested by YOU guys!) as well as new girlie books, nonfiction, and dystopias/post-apocalyptic books. 

Have you met The Lady of New Literature?

 

She will greet you when you check out new books!

Below are the books on the new shelf. READ!!! Check them out, place holds. Do what you gotta do, but get these books in your hands!

  

 

Young Hoosier Book Club

Hooray! Young Hoosier Book Club season has begun! I just finished up the book club for Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Remember, there will be FIVE books in the series! The 4th one comes out in November of this year. 

Meyer modernizes and combines multiple fairy tales to weave a story about a futuristic Beijing, during which, the moon is colonized, and the queen wants to rule both the moon and Beijing.  Cinder, a lowly cyborg/mechanic is thought to secretly be the rightful queen of the moon...the princess who Queen Levana supposedly had murdered 10 years ago so she could be queen...only the princess escaped! Join these wonderful, strong, courageous, and sassy ladies through this incredible series!

8th grade:  

   :6th grade (they all ran away before I could get a group photo)

7th grade:           

Craaaaaafts

I had another craft night yesterday...and wouldn't ya know, I forgot to take pictures! I never do that! The teens aren't going to remind me, either, because they don't want their pictures taken. Come on, guys, you look great!

However, here is my horrid example of the baskets we made...The pretty basket is my page, Hannah's, from a couple years ago when they did Japanese basket weaving. I couldn't figure out how it was done, so we did baskets with magazine pages.  I had 11 people and we were talking about stuff from school to Leo DiCaprio to bacon! I love this time with my teens to just chill out!

BOOK REVIEW TIME!

I just finished Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi and MAN, was it a wild ride! Drowned Cities it the companion novel to Ship Breaker, written a few years prior.  Drowned Cities is a Dystopian novel where Mouse and Mahlia, living in swampland under a cruel rule must survive raping and pillaging of soldiers, lack of food and medicine, and the fact that the two teens are outcasts.  No one in the village likes them; they are lost children of the war.  When Mahlia and Mouse find a half man/half animal injured and sick in the swamp, they take medicine to him.  When the soldiers find out the medicine is gone, they destroy the village and kill nearly everyone in it.  Mouse is taken as a soldier to the Drowned Cities while Mahlia must work together with Tool to get him back.  They travel to flooded cities, through death and destruction to save Mouse, but when they find him, will he want to give up his new soldier status?

This book has crazy twist and turns and shows the realistic underbelly of a futuristic world where nature takes its toll on the country.  The addition of a scientific monster created for the purpose of war creates an incredible dynamic when paired next to a one-handed human girl.  The story is fast-paced, full of action, and rife with description. There is quite a bit of violence, due to the less than desirable future, but well worth the read!

MCPL DOES have this book under YA BAC Ship #2 (We also have Ship Breaker YA BAC Ship #1)