Looking for something fun to do this summer and love to arts and crafts? A number of your Sno-Isle libraries are hosting different arts and crafts projects in August, and they would love for you (and your friends) to join them! Check out the schedule and stop by.
Looking for something fun to do this summer and love to play games with your friends? A number of your Sno-Isle libraries are hosting game extravaganzas in August, and they would love for you (and your friends) to join them! Check out the schedule and stop by.
Describe the book: Iris' dad was injured at Pearl Harbor and her mother committed suicide just days before he came home. Now having a home in the Lower East Side and going to public school is her life. When a boy from her school disapears, and her father is put on the case, she decides she has to help,but not with her father's permission.
What did you think: This book was amazing! I really love watching crime shows and the way the author incorporated some of a detective's work into the book was cool. Iris and I are kind of alike because I would probably try to solve the case like her. My favorite part was when Iris, Suze, and the Rainbows went to Savoy.
Who would you recommend it to: Mystery and Detective Lovers
- E.L. (Grade 7) from Lynnwood Library
A teen submitted review is featured every Monday. The reviews will be chosen from the Sno-Isle Teen Book Reviews. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library. If your review is featured, one of our librarians will contact you with a small prize!
Looking for something fun to do this summer and love to watch movies with your friends? A number of your Sno-Isle libraries are hosting movie nights in the next few months, and they would love for you (and your friends) to join them! Check out the schedule and stop by
Around a year ago I wrote a post about how I feel about movies that have been turned into books. In that post I mentioned two fairly long books, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series.
These are long books that are jam packed full of world building detail and their plots can be viewed as complex. However, at least they unfold in a linear fashion.
The same can not be said for the next book to movie translation I am anticipating. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a book noted for how challenging it is to read and yet they are turning it into a movie!
I am very curious to see how they pull this off. The Wachowski brothers are the directors, which could be a very good thing or a very bad thing. We shall see come October 2012.
How is your summer going? Anything exciting going on? If you are getting the mid-summer duldrums, Struck by Jennifer Bosworth (featured as this week's Tuesday Trailer) could be the book to kick you right out of it.
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s
survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in
storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los
Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia
feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the
city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The
beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland,
where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night,
the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two
warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their
opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the
freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more
devastating storm that is yet to come.
Lightning addict?! A little too thrilling a hobby for me. I'm assuming none of you do anything that crazy either. But if you want to win this book, tell me about what sorts of thrills you do seek out for excitement. No thrill too small!
Winner
will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday July 31, 2012. Be sure
to leave a
name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must
be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.
You likely know Lisa McMann from the Wake Trilogy or the supremely creepy Cryer's Cross. Dead To You is her newest, and first non-supernatural, book.
