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Afghan Whigs – Do to the Beast Arctic Monkeys – AM Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul Beck – Morning Phase The Black Keys – Turn Blue Bob Dylan – Blonde […]
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What’s wrong with this sentence? – Part 2
A HUGE part of getting grammar right involves the concept of agreement. It’s pretty simple. All the elements of a sentence have to agree with each other: in tense, in quantity, in order. Okay, here are some sample sentences. See if you can figure out what is wrong with each of them. Amanda is bored […]
New Teen Reads
Threatened by Eliot Schrefer Luc gets an opportunity to escape the terrible foster home where he has lived since his mother died when ‘the Prof’ comes to town and hires Luc to help him research the chimpanzees who live in the Gabonese forest, discovering that their survival and his may well be linked. So Yesterday […]
New Young Adult Books You Won’t Want to Miss
Redeemed: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast This is the final installment of the series in which the vampyres and mortal police are pitted against the ever-more-powerful forces of darkness for nothing less than control of the world. Snitch by Olivia Samms In this second book of a series, we […]
And Even More New YA Books for your Reading Pleasure….
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson Lia is the key to an alliance with a neighboring kingdom and, just as her preordained path is to result in marriage, she escapes and believes she has found the peace she seeks in a small village that doesn’t expect her to be a princess or to […]
New Books, New Location
Come on in and see our new shelves for new books. Easier to find, lots more space. And great new titles coming in all the time! The Beasts of Upton Puddle by Simon West-Bulford A menagerie of weird animal creatures on the good side, vicious dragons trying to take over the world and, in the […]
From ‘Master Chef’ to ‘School of Rock ,’ Summer Sizzles With These Camps for Teens
All year long, the idea of summer tantalizes us with images of hot lazy days with no early alarm clock and no homework. It doesn’t usually take long, though, before all that free time begins to feel a little burdensome and boredom sets in. Well, the teen Summer Camps at the library may be just […]
Get a Jump on Summer Reading with These New YA Titles
Sunrise by Mike Mullin The final book in the Ashfall Trilogy, Sunrise takes place a year after the super-volcano that threw everything into chaos and violence. The adults are clueless so it’s up to the kids to rebuild a world that is livable for everyone. Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy A bucket list […]
New Books are Busting Out All Over…
Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Regular teenager one day, demon-hunter the next, Kali is just lucky nobody in her family is around to notice bloody clothes and other signs of periodic disappearance. But when Kali sees one of her classmates marked for demon-destruction, she has to do something and would, right away, if […]
New YA books (and series!)
The Last Forever by Deb Caletti Tessa’s mother has died and their house no longer feels like a home. Tessa’s dad initiates a road trip to Tessa’s grandmother’s small coastal town and, there, Tessa meets Henry Lark and begins to hope again. Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine Set in 1972, this book tells the story […]
