Teen Tuesdays Programming!

Create Space                1st Tuesday                   3:00-4:45pm

Stop in the Young Adult area to create something fun to take home - each month is a different project. All supplies will be provided.

Minute 2 Win It!           2nd Tuesday                     3:00-4:45pm

Stop in the 2nd Tuesday of each month to play a new Minute 2 Win It type of game in the Young Adult area.

SPLAT!                 3rd Tuesday             3:30pm          Downstairs

The next SPLAT! meeting will be Tuesday, March 20th at 3:30pm in the Veslak room downstairs. No reservation needed! We will be talking about the Summer Reading Program, book club possibilities, and other stuff! Look forward to seeing you there!

Wii Tournament Tuesdays!       4th Tuesday       2pm-4:45pm

Each month will be a different Wii game. We will add scores each month and the player with the highest point total from all of the tournaments will win a gift card for a local restaurant! This month Tournament Tuesday will be on March 27th. The game will be Shooting Range from Wii Play.

DS Drop-in

Stop in Saturday, April 14th between 9:30am and 12:30pm with your Nintendo DS and join other DS fans. Play with each other, against each other, and try some new games! This is a free program and registration is not required.

New Books!

These are some new books we have just put out in the YA area - Check'em Out! Click on the title to see their avaiablity or to put them on hold.

Purity by Jackson Pearce - Before her mother died, Shelby promised three things: to listen to her father, to love as much as possible, and to live without restraint. Those Promises become harder to keep when Shelby's father joins the planning committee for the Princess Ball, an annual dance that ends with a ceremonial vow to live pure lives - in other words, no "bad behavior," no breaking the rules, and definitely no sex.

Torn between Promises One and Three, Shelby makes a decision - to exploit a loophole and lose her virginity before taking the vow. But somewhere between failed hookup attempts and helping her dad plan the ball, Shelby starts to understand what her mother really meant, what her father really needs, and who really has the right to her purity.

Drink Slay Love by Sarah Beth Durst - Pearl is a 16 year old vampire fond of blood, allergic to sunlight and mostly evil . . until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops. Her Family think she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don't exist) and they're shocked she survived. They're even more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now swithstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The vampire king of New Englanfd has chosen Pearl's Family to host his feast. If Pearl enrolls in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the king's feast - as the entrees.

The only problem? Pearl's starting to feel the twinges of a conscience. How can she serve up her new friends - especially the cute guy who makes her fangs ache - to be slaughtered? Then again, she's definitely dead if she lets down her Family. What's a sunlight-loving vamp to do?

Boy 21 by Matthew Quick - Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights, and Finley is left to take care of his disabled grandfather alone. He's always dreamed of somehow getting out, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay.

Russ has just moved to the neighborhood, and the life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won't pick up a basketball, but answers only to the name Boy21 - taken from his former jersey number.

As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, "Boy21" may turn out to be the anwer they both need.

Radiate by Marley Gibson - Senior year of high school, Hayley Matthews wants more - more friends, more experiences, more everything. So she goes out for cheerleading, and against the odds, makes the squad. In an instant, she's gotton more. But then one day Hayley notices a lump on her left leg. Pretty soon, she can barely walk. When Hayley gets it checked out, the diagnosis is cancer. The doctor can't say how bad it is. At the minimim, she'll have to have surgery. At the most it could mean the loss of her leg or even her life. Once again Hayley's life changes in an instant. Now she must face the odds again and show everyone, including herself, just how strong she truly is.

Croak by Gina Damico - Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teacher her the family business.

Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard - Are you a Global Vagabond? Eighteen-year-old Bria Sandoval isn't, but she want to be. In a quest to assert her independence, recommit herself to her neglected are, and enjoy some no-strings-attached hooups, Bria signs on for a guided tour of Central America - the wrong one. Middle-aged tourists with fanny packs are hardly the key to self-discovery. When Bria meets Rowan, devoted backpaerker and iving instrutor, and Starling, his outpoken humanitarian sister, seh seizes the chance to ditch her group and join them off the beaten path.

The List by Siobhan Vivian - It happens every year before homecoming - the list is posted all over school. Two girls are picked from each grade. One is named the prettiest, one the ugliest. The girls who aren't picked are quickly forgotten. The girls who are become the center of attention. Each one has a differnt reaction to the experience.

Ripper by Stefan Petrucha - Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels and his lock-picking ability to encourage him. Yet when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world-famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver not only get the chance to find his biological father but also finds himself smack in the middle of a real-life investigation: tracking down a vicious serial killer who has thrown New York City into utter panic.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rothenberg - Brie's life ends at sixteen: Her boyfriend tells her he doesn't love her, and the nrews breaks her heart - literally. But now that she's D&G (dead and gone), Brie is about to discover that love is way more complicated than she ever imagined. Back in Half Moon Bay, her family has begun to unravel. Her best friend has been keeping a secret about Jacob, the boy Brie loved and lost - and the truth behind his shattering betrayal. And then there's Patrick, Brie's mysterious new guide and resident Lost Soul . . . who might hold the key to her forever after.

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare by Melissa Jensen - Ella is nearly invisible at the Willing School, and that's just fine by her. She's got her friends - the fabulous Frankie and their sweet cohort Sadie. She's got her art - and her idol, the unappreciated 19th-century painter Edward Willing. Still, it's hard being a nobody and having a crush on the biggest somebody in the school: Alex Bainbridge. Especially when he is your French tutor, and lessons have started becoming, well, certainly more interesting than French ever has been before. But can the invisible girl actually end up with a happily ever after with the golden boy, when no one even knows they're dating? And is Ella going to dare to be that girl?

Bleach 37 and 38 by Tite Kubo

the alchemy of forever by Avery Williams - After spending six hundred years on Earth, Seraphina Ames' eternal life provides her with the world's riches, but at a very high price. Centuries ago her boyfriend, Cyrus, discovered a method of alchemy that allows them to take the bodies of other humans by jumping from one vessel to the next, ending the human's life in the process. No longer able to bear the guilt of what she's done, Sera escapes from Cyrus and vows to never kill again. But then sixteen-year old Kailey Morgan gets inbto a horrific car accident right of front of Seraphina and Sera accidentally takes over the body while trying to save Kailey. For the first time Sera finds herself enjoying the life of the person she's inhabiting, and falling for the human boy next door. But Cyrus wants Sera back again. Will Sera have to give up the true love that's eluded her for centuries?

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith - Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood - In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes

The One That I Want by Jennifer Echols - Gemma can't believe her luck when the star football player starts flirting with her. Max is totally swoon-worthy, and even gets her quirky sense of humor. So when he asks out her so-called best friend Addison, Gemma's heartbroken. Then Addison pressures Gemma to join the date with one of Max's friends. But the more time they all spend together, the harder Gemma falls for Max. She can't help thinking that Max likes her back--it's just too bad he's already dating Addison. How can Gemma get the guy she wants without going after her best friend's boyfriend?

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler - Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

love & leftovers by Sarah Tregay (a verse novel) - When her father starts dating a man, fifteen-year-old Marcie's depressed mother takes her to New Hampshire but just as Marcie starts falling for a great guy her father brings her back to Iowa, where all of her relationships have become strained.

Daniel X Game Over by James Patterson - Tokyo is the stomping ground of a pair of sadistic shape-shifters at the helm of a massive viedeo-game enterprise. And their next addictive game release is about to control the minds of kids all over the world. But this deadly duo also has an appetite for endangered extraterrestrials, and they plan to make Daniel the main course of their next feast. Can he escape their skewers or will it be Game Over for the Alien Hunter?

The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Meyers - The bond between twins is unmistakable. For Jocelyn and Jack, that bond was all they had. But now Jack is dead. Then Jocelyn receives a letter from Jason December - the code name Jack used when they were children. Only one other person knows about Jason December: Noah, Jocelyn's childhood crush. But Noah isn't the one contacting Jocelyn. Together they decide to return to Seale House, the frightening foster home where all three of them lived together. Seale House has more secrets than they could have ever imagined. And it suddenly seems possible that Jack faked his death, that the letter and the riddles that follow are cryptic clues leading to his real whereabouts. But someone else is looking for him - someone dangerous. Jocelyn and Noah must race to find Jason December.

Witch & Wizard The Fire by James Patterson - The lastest in the Witch & Wizard series finds Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrified everything to lead the Resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination. But the growing strength of the siblings' magic hasn't been enough to stop The One's evil rampage, and now he's executed the only family they had left.

Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey - In this follow-up to Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, Jess, now, married to Prince Lucius Vladescu, has to claim her throne and convience a vampire nation she's fit to be their queen. But she can't even order a decent meal from her castle's Romanian staff, let alone deal with devious undead subjects who would love to see her fail. And when Lucius is accused of murdering a vampire Elder and imprisioned without the blood he needs, Jessica finds herself alone, fighting for both their survivlas.

Slice by Steven Herrick - Darcy can cope with parents, parties and punch-ups He can handle his infatuation with the beautiful Audrey, spending quality chess-time with his nerdy friend, Noah, even the misadventures of kayaking on a school excursion. He's a teenage boy, he can deal with it. If only he'd learn to keep his mouth closed.

Bloodborn by Karen Kincy - Brock Koeman had always loathed werewolves and Others like them. Then, while tracking a werewolf suspected of murder, he and his brother Chris were bitten - and infected with the very disease they despised. Chris is now fighting for his life in the hospital, but Brock faces another kind of battle: stifling the fierce urge to transform into a beast. When werewolves kidnap him and the girl he loves, Brock discovers what it means to be Other - the thrill of unearthly powers, overshadowed by unrelenting danger. Brock begins to see the life that awaits him, but he must accept his new identity  . . before the wolf within kills him.

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