Save the Date : Skype Author Chat for Teens with Pam Bachorz

Pick up a copy of CANDOR at our Teen Book Club display @ Jan Kaminis Platt Regional Library

Jan Kaminis Platt Regional Library
3910 S. Manhattan Ave.
Tampa, FL 33611-1214
813.273.3652

In a town where his father brainwashes everyone, Oscar Banks has found a way to secretly fight the subliminal Messages that turn even the most troubled kids into model citizens. On the outside, he's the perfect Candor teen, and no one knows that he's built an entire business around helping new kids escape before the Messages take hold.

But then Nia Silva moves to town, and Oscar thinks she's perfect exactly the way she is. Soon he must make a choice: let Nia be lost to the brainwashing, or help her stay special and risk himself in the process.

Read the first chapter, see photos of settings that inspired CANDOR, and listen to music that gives you the flavor of the story at the author's website.

YA author John Green at ALA :: Book Nerd PARADISE

(so ... no advance copies of Mockingjay ... hopefully this means no spoilers! Is everyone counting down to August 24?)

Young Adult author John Green hanging out the annual American Library Association conference in Washington DC.

John Green is the author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and most recently Will Grayson, Will Grayson (a colaboration with Young Adult author David Levithan).

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Find John Green books in our catalog

Find David Levithan books in our catalog

Maximum Ride in Manga?

James Patterson has been very busy. He's got a new website!

http://www.max-dan-wiz.com/

This site is host for 3 teen book series, Maximum Ride, Daniel X and Witch and Wizard.

It has great hints, tips, and other fun stuff.

You can also get a look at Maximum Ride in Manga (The Angel Experiment), Maximum Ride videos, and read the prologue to Daniel X. There is more stuff but you just got to see for yourself.

Check Out Maximum Ride Books from your library.

Maxiumum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

Max

Maximum Ride: School's out forever

Maximum Ride: Final Warning

Daniel X: Alien Hunter

Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Daniel X: Watch the Skies

These books are available in Paper, CD and Down-loadable Audio.

There's more than a few sad Rogues in the world today...

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html

Thanks, Gary! The world is a better place for the fantasy and fun you inspired!

Teen Read Week and your 31 Flavorite Authors!

Teen Read Week (October 14-20) celebrates our favorite teen lit books and authors, and what better way is there to get in the spirit than by getting to know some of those authors first-hand?


This month, Readergirlz & YALSA present 31 Flavorite Authors, hosting an online chat each night with the likes of Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse), Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries), and Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants). Head over and check out the full line up...


ps... Thanks to the folks at Pop Goes the Library for the heads up on this!

33 Days and Counting

Not to hate on Harry (the last thing I need is to have another wizard mad at me--long story, don't ask) or J.K., the richest, most powerful woman in the world, but we have another new release from a Brit master about to drop.

Now that Kurt Vonnegut has joined Douglas Adams on the other side, I'm going to have to declare Neil Gaiman is my favorite living writer (Best thing about living writers? They're alive to write new books. Of course, that hasn't stopped 2Pac).

Anyway, M is for Magic is a collection of short stories (I know, not a new book exactly but we're not going to have to wait long for that either) that really is a good intro to Gaiman's writing. This is flying under the radar, so there's not a long wait yet.

Once you're hooked, you'll want to go back to some of his early books, starting with Stardust (hitting the screen in August) and Neverwhere and working your way up to the amazing American Gods. Or you can do the right thing and drown in the genius that is The Sandman. Your call.

Goodbye to the Monkey House!

This makes me sad...

Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84

Though it's never been a warm and fuzzy "feel-good read," I've loved Vonnegut's work since I first read Slaughterhouse-Five as required reading in 10th grade. He combined tales of wartime brutality and sci-fi/fantasy with a sense of irony and humor that made the tough stuff easier to absorb.

I always liked his short stories best, collected in books like "Welcome to the Monkey House" and "Bagombo Snuff Box."

Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut! And thank you!