Teen Tech Week is here! Teen Tech Week is here!

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New books are in-heavy on the graphic novels this week…click to hold!

Hello and welcome to another edition of our Tuesday Teaser. Does the name Vladimir Todd mean anything to you? Not to be confused of course with any of the other infamous Vladimirs.

No this Vlad is currently spending eleventh grade at Bathory High when you know, things go downhill. His friend has returned a vampire slayer (friend drama: check),  his uncle has a court date (family problems: check) ,plus there’s a new vampire on the block (vampire who wants thirsts for your blood: check); all in all, a typical junior year.

So check out Eleventh Grade Burns to see how Vlad makes it through this time. Or check out the awesome website behind the book below…

If you haven’t read three books in the series, have no fear, you can check them out here:

So you’ve heard of the Printz Awards and all that good stuff. But what about an award chosen specifically by the teens of Illinois? Well we have one and it’s called the Abraham Lincoln! Each year High School students can vote at their schools or libraries to choose a winner from 22 selected books.

Today the 2010 winners were announced and here (drum roll please) are the top 3!

Numero uno-our 2010 winner is…City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

2nd place goes to…Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

and 3rd to Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief

Here’s what the votes looked like but you can nominate a book for 2012 here! Any thoughts on the winners?

Hello! New books (and how crazy are the Secret Circle covers put together?) and a new CD! Remember that all our new CDs and DVDs are on the *new* shelves in the  front of the Teen Department-check ‘em out!

Can’t find the book you need? Have a recommendation? There are 3 ways to fix this:

1. Just leave a comment below with the title and author info!
2. Tweet it out – @MPLD_TeenTweets
3. Leave a Suggestion on our www.mpld.org/teen page by clicking here!

Happy holding!

The end of February is nearly here! So what are we fanatic about today?

March Programming! It’s a jam packed month…starting right away on the 2nd with Game On (no sign-up needed for this program) and then Teen Tech week (more on that later!), but be ready for Twitter tips, making your book soundtrack and more! So keep checking the blog or the website (www.mpld.org/teens) for more info or sign up for programs at the Front Desk!

Hello and welcome to  B.S.N.S! Something for all the Olympic fans out there as well as the 3rd in the Wake trilogy…Gone.

Now get to holding!

Contests, giveaways, new books oh my! That and a whole lot more to look at or write about on…

As well as fan fiction stories, chat rooms and more awesome. Plus it’s a website that is having Tiger Beat ( Libba Bray,  Barnaby Miller, Dan Ehrenhaft, Natalie Standiford -all Teen authors) play its launch party in March (unfortunately the party is in NYC…but still), awesomesauce.

So check out Teen Fire for some new reads or giveaways or whatever else you can find!

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Today is a 2 for 1 Sci-fi/Fantasy Teaser type of Tuesday…

The first Teaser…dadadaaah…Chapters names and why she picked them from Cassandra Clare’s newest unpublished book in the Mortal Instruments series-City of Falling Angels (that won’t be released until 2011!). So click here to get the first sneak peak!

The second Teaser involves a book you can check out now… Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta (writer of the awesome, award-winnning Jellicoe Road and Looking for Alibrandi  annnd Saving Francesca). You can read an excerpt here or listen to one here!

At a whooping 400+ pages, this fantasy novel is sure to keep you busy from the first time you meet Finnikin and his seemingly doomed kingdom of Lumatere…

…but the Library is going gold!

Missed the Opening Ceremony? Check it out here. Need more Olympic related facts/videos/history…try Olympic.org. Get all the info. you need, because you only have 894 days left before the next Olympics in London. Or perhaps you’re in need of a gold related read? Stop in at the Lib and check out our display!

Want to find out what’s showing when…try this! Go gold for the rest of February!