Fun Nonfiction

Check out our new display of nonfiction in the library’s teen corner, featuring fun nonfiction like these new books:

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Celebrate Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month!   Come by the library’s teen section this month to check out our display of historical fiction featuring strong female characters.  Here’s a preview:

	Just Jane by William Lavender Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.
	Anila’s Journey by Mary Finn In late eighteenth-century Calcutta, half-Indian half-Irish Anila Tandy finds herself alone with nothing but her artistic talent to rely on, searching for her father who is presumed dead.
	What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
	Flygirl by Sherri Smith During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl “passes” for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
	Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss’s daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.

Happy Anniversary

Today is the fourth anniversary of this blog!  I can’t believe I’ve been posting here and working in the young adult part of the library for four years now.  What’s happened in those four years?  Well, here’s a list of a few things we have for teens now that we didn’t have before:

• Teen magazines
• Graphic novels
• Manga
• An awesome teen librarian
• Booklists
• Programs just for teens
• Fun nonfiction

So next time you’re at the library, take a minute to enjoy everything that’s here for you that we never used to have.  Happy anniversary!

Katie

10 Things You Might Not Know About the Library

1. We have TV series on DVD.  Come in and check out Glee, Modern Family, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Vampire Diaries, The Office and more.
   
2. You can take practice tests for the ACT, PSAT, SAT, AP Exams and more using our Testing and Education Reference Center.  You can also see in-depth information about college programs.  Just click here to access the Testing Center.  Your user ID is your Winfield Library card number.  

3. We’ve got a Flickr photostream with pictures from library events.  Check it out at www.flickr.com/photos/winfieldpubliclibrary. 

4. If you forget your library card, but you have your school photo ID with your name on it, you may still check out library materials. 

5. Our all ages chess club meets once a month.  The next meeting is Saturday, December 11 at 10:00 a.m.  The club meets in our Youth Services department, but adults, teens, and kids are all welcome to join. 

6. If you need to do research for a school project, click here to access Encyclopedia Britannica to get biographical information, timelines, atlases, country comparisons and for general research.  You can even make your own custom charts to compare information.  Your password is your library card number. 

7. Back issues of magazines may be checked out for two weeks.  Check out the teen magazines, like Alternative Press, Shonen Jump, Mad Magazine, Teen Voices, Seventeen, Game Informer and more. 

8. If you need a book but we don’t have it, you can request an interlibrary loan and we’ll get it for you from another library.  Just ask for a form at the front desk. 

9. If you have to write a paper about a social issue, like abortion, cloning, global warming, or another controversial issue, SIRS Knowledge Source is perfect for you.  A quick call to the library will get you the password information if you have a Winfield Library card. 

10. We have a suggestion box in the teen area of the library.  Drop in a card with the names of books you want me to buy, ideas for library programs, or general comments.  If you want a personal response, put your name and number or email on the card.  Anonymous suggestions are welcome, too!

Check Out Nonfiction

Didn’t know we had teen nonfiction?  Up to now, they’ve been our stealth books, living among the YA fiction with only a red sticker to tell them apart.  But now they’re breaking free!  All our YA nonfiction will now be shelved together.  Look for the audiobooks, and the nonfic will be on the shelves right under them.  Here are just a few of the titles we already have:

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I’ve got more on order, including teen autobiographies, BMX Riding Skills, What Color is Your Parachute for Teens, Fashion 101, and more!  Keep checking back for new stuff, and feel free to comment me with any ideas for new nonfiction.

Finally!

New shelves are finally here!  Now for everyone who put a suggestion in the suggestion box that said:

“Get the old comic books like Batman, Spiderman.”

“Get more manga. Seriously.”

“Put the new Naruto and Bleach manga here.”

or anyone who just wished we could have more graphic novels and manga, your wish is granted.  The new shelving has arrived, and look!  You can actually see the green wall behind it.  So if you have a suggestion for some new graphic novels or manga series, comment me, because I finally have the space to buy more. 

And even if you’re not a graphic novel and manga fan, new shelves means more breathing room in the rest of the collection, too.  So basically, no matter what you read, feel free to let me know what you think I should buy for the library.

Katie

 

 

Aahh!

Almost forgot to post today, but this totally counts, suckers!  The new shelving has arrived and I’ll post pictures asap.   Graphic novel and manga fans, you should be especially happy, since now you’ve got your books on real shelves, not strange, makeshift ones.  Enjoy!

 

New Shelving

Tomorrow we should be getting in a new shelving unit for YA books!  This means more room for audiobooks, graphic novels, and manga, and a little breathing room for the general collection.  Cross your fingers that everything goes smoothly, and drop by tomorrow after school to check out the YA Corner’s new look.

New Magazines Coming Soon

I just subscribed to two new magazines for the Y.A. Corner, so be on the lookout for MAD Magazine and Shonen Jump.  

I’ve still got room for one or two other magazines on our shelves, so comment me with suggestions!

Are you Libba Bray’s number one fan?

Do the words “A great and terrible beauty” make you swoon?  Are you the first person on hold to get “Going bovine” when it comes out next month? 

If so…what would you do to get an autographed copy of one of those two books?

Lucky you, all you have to do is enter our Libba Bray autographed book contest, going on now until September 15.  Tell us in 200 words or less why you love her books and you could win a book autographed by the author herself!   Entries must be received by September 15.  Pick up an entry form in the YA section of the library and bring your entry to the main desk, or email your entry to me.   Please include your name, grade and phone number if you email me your entry.

I will take names off the entries in order for them to be anonymously judged by library staff.  Two winners will be chosen; the first place winner will get first choice of book. 

Good luck!

Free Stuff

Thanks to everyone who filled out my end-of-summer-reading survey during the past few weeks.  You got first dibs on some great advanced copies of new young adult books. 

The survey is now over and I’ve still got plenty of books to give away.  So, it’s now a free-for-all!  Come in to the library’s Y.A. Corner and find the basket marked “Free Books” to check out what’s left.  Almost all are advanced copies of books that don’t come out until the fall. 

First come, first served…
Katie

Lucky You

Here’s the new bulletin board (center) with all the upcoming events for teens. 
Now there are new books on either side of it – twice as much space for new books!

Can’t find the manga?  I moved it so manga fans can have their own space.  Manga is now on these wire shelves on the far right of the Y.A. book shelves.

Enjoy!
Katie

Blame it on the turkey

Ok, I admit it! I haven’t blogged in a week. I think all that turkey crept into my brain and made me sluggish this week, so my normally sparkling blog wit has suffered. BUT, where have you lazy bums been? Not leaving me hilarious comments, there’s where not!

Anyway… I will tell you what I HAVE been doing for you this week, my loyal blog reader. (Ha ha, I have more than one reader…right? right?)

The Y.A. Corner of the library now has twice as much shelving for new books. What have I ordered lately, you ask? “Slam” by Nick Hornby and “The Luxe” by Anna Godbersen are two that come to mind.

We also have new shelving just for manga, and I have bought plenty of books for the upcoming Day of Manga, but you’ll have to come to the Day of Manga to be the first to see those.

Also, look for the new events board in the Y.A. Corner, with details about the book group, Teen Advisory Group, and other teen programs at the library.

Pictures to prove all this will be coming soon…
Katie

Free books!

Interested in free books?  Just come to the Y.A. Corner and check the coffee tables for free books for you to take. 

BUT, (now that I’ve lured you in with the promise of free goods) there is one small catch:  I need you to email me a short review of the book you take.  You don’t have to tell me what the book is about; I just want your opinions.  Did you like the ending?  Did you like the cover?  Did you hate everything about the book?

Some of these books are advance reader copies, or books that aren’t available to buy yet.   So, what you tell me can help me decide if I should buy these books for the library’s collection. 

Take a free book. Read it. Review it. Keep it. 
Katie

Escape!

Eyes burning from staring at textbooks? Sick of trying to cram in a semester’s worth of studying in just a few days?  Take a finals study break and escape to the library this Saturday, May 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

We’ll have snacks, games…bring a friend and just get away from it all for a few hours.  If you can’t make it from 11 to 1, remember the Y.A. Corner is available all day, so come relax and unwind with a new book.

Katie

Welcome to our new blog!

Welcome to our new blog, a place for Winfield’s teens to find out what’s going on at the library.  We’ll let you know about upcoming programs, new books and magazines that are arriving, and what our book group is reading this month. 

We’re glad you checked our our blog, but don’t stop here!  We have completely renovated the library’s Young Adult area, turning it into the Y.A. Corner that you see here.  We have new furniture, new book display space, and soon, new magazines.  We hope you’ll let us know what you think-love it or hate it, we want your input.   

Katie, Tressa and Nuccia