Staff Book Pick of the Week: Peaches

This week's pick is Peaches: A Novel by Jodi Lynn Anderson (YA ANDERSON).

Murphy McGowen, Birdie Darlington, and Leeda Cawley-Smith could hardly be more different. Murphy firmly marches to the beat of her own drummer, Leeda realizes (again) she will never match up to her sister Danay and is tired of trying, and Birdie is just hoping to hold her family's peach orchard together. But when Murphy is sentenced to community service and Leeda decides peach-picking is preferable to helping plan her sister's wedding, all three girls end up together at the Darlington Peach Orchard for a summer they never expected.

New Book Display: Celebrate Teen Tech Week!

Celebrate Teen Tech Week 2008 (March 2nd-8th) with these reads about music & technology!

Dessen, Sarah
Just Listen: Annabel never told anyone what happened at that party last year and she doesn't say a word about why she hates her life now. But her new friend Owen refuses to take silence for an answer, and as Annabel gets to know Owen (and his music), she wonders if she can trust him with her secret.
YA DESSEN

Going, K.L.
Fat Kid Rules the World: In a chance encounter at a subway stop, Troy Billings (a.k.a. Fat Kid) meets Curt MacCrae, infamous homeless kid and guitar talent from Troy's high school. All of a sudden, life starts to be different.
YA GOING

Howell, Simmone
Notes from the Teenage Underground: Gem and her two best friends Lo and Mira are working on their underground film when their friendship (or lack thereof) gets in the way. Will Gem be able to carry on and make the film alone when Lo and Mira are nowhere to be seen?
YA HOWELL

Hughes, Mark Peter
Lemonade Mouth: Only the music teacher Mrs. Reznik thought they had a shot at anything more than making idiots out of themselves. Find out how Wen, Mo, Stella, Charlie, and Olivia morphed into the band Lemonade Mouth.
YA HUGHES

Krovatin, Christopher
Heavy Metal and You: Narrator Sam is obsessed with heavy metal music until he meets Melissa, who wants him to stop listening to his music, stop cutting class, and start being more of a preppy-type guy. He's not sure he can and stay true to himself at the same time.
YA KROVATIN

McDonald, Janet
Harlem Hustle: 17-year old Eric Samson, a.k.a. Hustle, is certain rap stardom is on its way. When the wake-up call hits him, will he realize it?
YA MCDONALD

Myracle, Lauren
Ttyl: Three friends spend their sophomore year figuring out life, school, love, and each other, all while IM'ing.
YA MYRACLE

Perkins, Mitali
First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover: Sameera Righton (childhood nickname of Sparrow) is used to staying on the sidelines. Sure, she blogs about various issues at sparrowblog.com and has a loyal group of friends who read it. But that invisibility is about to end: Sparrow's dad is running for president, and his campaign staff have decided it's time Sparrow is by his side. Is Sparrow's blogging career at an end?
YA PERKINS

Simons, Leslie
Everyboy Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture: What is emo? What are its roots? Find out in this guide to emo everything.
781.66 SIM

Vega, Denise
Click Here (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade): When Erin's blog accidentally gets posted on the school's intranet, her previous problems involving her best friend and boys pale in comparison.
YA VEGA

New Books!

Check out these new books going on display in the Teens & Tweens Space:

The Black Sheep by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout (YA COLLINS)
Bleach 12 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 13 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 14 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 15 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 16 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 17 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 18 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 19 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 20 (YA BLEACH)
Bleach 21 (YA BLEACH)
Click: One Novel, Ten Authors (YA PARK)
Cupid by Julius Lester (YA LESTER)
Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything by E. Lockhart (YA LOCKHART)
Kare Kano 19 (YA KARE KANO)
Kare Kano 20 (YA KARE KANO)
Kare Kano 21 (YA KARE KANO)
Kissing the Bee by Kathe Koja (YA KOJA)
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin (YA ZEVIN)
Naruto 19 (YA NARUTO)
Naruto 20 (YA NARUTO)
Naruto 21 (YA NARUTO)
November Blues by Sharon Draper (YA DRAPER)
Now You See Her by Jacquelyn Mitchard (YA MITCHARD)
Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Kloss (YA KLOSS)
Scandalosa!: A Honey Blonde Chica Novel by Michele Serros (YA SERROS)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: on Location by Jen Calonita (YA CALONITA)
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor (YA BEDDOR)
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (YA OKORAFOR-MBUCHU)
Sight by Adrienne Maria Vrettos (YA VRETTOS)
Slam by Nick Hornby (YA HORNBY)
Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones (YA JONES)
Sweet 16 by Kate Brian (YA BRIAN)

Staff Book Pick of the Week: Estrella's Quinceanera

This week's pick is Estrella's Quinceañera by Malín Alegría (YA ALEGRIA).

All Estrella wants for her fifteenth birthday is a simple party with her friends from her new private school, but her family (especially her mother) has an entirely different idea. Estrella's mother wants her to have a real quinceañera. With a puffy orange dress, gaudy decor, and a mariachi band looming in her near future, Estrella is wondering how she can possibly avoid the whole thing - and keep her new friends from finding out about its existence. That soon proves difficult, as does juggling the rest of her life - her old friends who have been roped into helping with the quince (and are not too pleased with how Estrella has more or less dropped them), her demanding schoolwork, and Speedy, the boy from the neighborhood Estrella has been secretly seeing. Will Estrella be able to handle it all without everything toppling down around her?

New Books!

Check out these new books going on display in the Teens & Tweens Space today:

The God Box by Alex Sanchez (YA SANCHEZ)
Honk If You Hate Me by Deborah Halverson (YA HALVERSON)
Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles De Lint (YA DE LINT)
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow (YA SHARENOW)
1,000 Reasons Never to Kiss a Boy by Martha Freeman (YA FREEMAN)
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (YA WITTLINGER)

Staff Book Pick of the Week: Billie Standish Was Here

This week's pick is Billie Standish Was Here by Nancy Crocker (YA CROCKER).

11-year old Billie Standish is used to being on her own. As an only child of parents who had wished for a son and the girl at school none of the other girls want to be friends with, Billie knows how to be invisible. During the summer of 1968 Billie's small town of Cumberland looks like it might be engulfed by a flood and to Billie it seems the only people who haven't fled are her parents and herself. Then on a trip to get the mail Billie runs into her elderly neighbor Miss Lydia, and soon the two are close friends. But when something unimaginable befalls Billie, will she and Miss Lydia be able to move on and make peace with what happened? Will Miss Lydia's friendship save Billie from her invisibility? Find out in Billie Standish Was Here.

Staff Book Pick of the Week: Freak by Marcella Pixley

This week's pick is Freak by Marcella Pixley (YA PIXLEY).

Until seventh grade, Miriam doesn't mind her social status of creative outcast. Her older sister Deborah has always been her closest ally and confidant, but then Deborah enters high school and is all of a sudden beautiful and popular. To make matters worse, family friend Artie Rosenberg is coming to live at Miriam's house during his senior year, and while Miriam thinks Artie's her soulmate, he seems to think Deborah is his. Add to the mix a set of parents not fully grounded in reality and a group of classmates intent on making Miriam's life miserable, and you have the makings for a horrible seventh grade year. And when Miriam reaches her limit, will she be able to change things for the better? Find out in Freak by Marcella Pixley.

Reminder: Teens & Tweens Program This Saturday

Don't forget: Teens & Tweens is meeting this Saturday, February 9th @ 2:00 PM. This month we're making photo cubes: Made out of discarded CD cases & your photos, these photo cubes will have you busting out your creative side. Just make sure to bring the photos you want to use, and we'll provide the rest!

New Books!

Check out these new books going on display in the Teens & Tweens Space today:

Book of Shadows by Cate Tiernan (YA TIERNAN)
Chicken Soup for the Teen Soul: Real-Life Stories by Real Teens (158.12 CHI)
The Coven by Cate Tiernan (YA TIERNAN)
Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer (YA BAUER)
Don't Get It Twisted: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel by Paula Chase (YA CHASE)
Estrella's Quinceanera by Malin Alegria (YA ALEGRIA)
The Icebound Land by John Flanagan (YA FLANAGAN)
Lucky: An It Girl Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar
The Miner's Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas (YA LASKAS)
Porcupine by Meg Tilly (YA TILLY)
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (YA LE GUIN)
Princess Mia by Meg Cabot (YA CABOT)
Right Behind You by Gail Giles (YA GILES)
Wilderness by Roddy Doyle (YA DOYLE)

New Books!

Check out these new books going on display in the Teens & Tweens Space today:

Because I'm Worth It by Cecily Von Ziegesar (YA VON ZIEGESAR)
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale (YA HALE)
The Boy Book by E. Lockhart (YA LOCKHART)
Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell (YA CORNWELL)
Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs (YA JACOBS)
Gossip Girl: a Novel by Cecily Von ZIEGESAR (YA ZIEGESAR)
Hit and Run by Lurlene McDaniel (YA MCDANIEL)
Hush: an Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI)
I Like It Like That by Cecily Von Ziegesar (YA ZIEGESAR)
Nobody Does It Better by Cecily Von Ziegesar (YA VON ZIEGESAR)
The Number Devil: a Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (YA ENZENSBERGER)
Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson (YA ANDERSON)
Race: a History Beyond Black and White by Marc Aronson (305.8 ARO)
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz (YA HOROWITZ)
You Know You Love Me by Cecily Von Ziegesar (YA VON ZIEGESAR)
You're the One that I Want by Cecily Von Ziegesar (YA VON ZIEGESAR)