More Reviews

Here are some reviews from our Teen Summer Reading Game:

Erica Noreika gave an "Excellent" rating to Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl and updates us on the story: S is back from boarding school, Nate is slipping from Blair's grasp, and Chuck has a new victim?

Erica gave a "Good" rating to Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser and tells the plot: Brendan and Gary were always being teased so they steal a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor and take their classmates hostage at the school dance.

The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike received a "Very Good" rating from Erica: Alisa Deme is a 5,000-year-old vampire. For ages she has hunted humanity, but now someone hunts her...perhaps another vampire? Alisa is not sure...she thought she was the last of her kind!

Jamie Spock gave a "Very Good" rating to In Mozart's Shadow by Carolyn Meyer: "Nannerl" Mozart's story: her struggle for her father's affections and her desire to have a music career.

Try these books this summer! And check out the list of books on the YALSA poster in the YA section for the Teens Top Ten Nominees for Teen Read Week!

The Heat is ON!

This has been a super hot weather week! Hope you found some shade and got lost in a good book...

Our winner of the Teen Summer Reading Game this week is Chantal Noreika -- congratulations!

Jamie Spock recommends Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser: The main character is, you guessed it, Marie Antoinette. She becomes Dauphine, then Queen of France. She lived like a rock star and unknowingly sealed her doom. Richly detailed and a great book.

Sign-up begins today for No-Cook Healthy Snacks for Teens -- if you are in town August 4th, don't miss it!

Summer Reading Game is On!

Thanks to all of you who wrote reviews for the first week of the summer reading game. Congratulations to Week One Winner Jamie Spock --she won a gift certificate to About Face of Westchester! Here's what Jamie wrote about Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb: This moving and funny book is about a girl who struggles with her mother's death, her father's health, her annoying sister, and her first love. A must read!

Chantal Noreika read Unbelievable by Sara Shepard: Spencer, Emily, Aria, and Hannah try to figure out who is sending them frightening test messages signed with an "A". This "A" is impersonating their dead best friend Ali and knows everything about them. All their little secrets are being told...turning their perfect privileged lives upside down. Hannah gets hit by a black SUV moments before she is able to tell her friends who "A" is...when after a couple of weeks of no communication with "A" they get a frightening text message: "she knew too much--A" just moments after Hannah gets hit....

Other books read this week by entrants included More Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz, Twilight and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer.

What will you read and review this week?

Our Teen Journal Writing Workshop last Monday was lots of fun...participants decorated their journals, talked about what to include in their journals in the future, enjoyed pizza and brownies, and went home with some beautiful prizes.

Please don't forget to sign up beginning July 21 for No Cook Healthy Snacks for Teens (August 4, 6:30 pm) -- it will be a great hands-on class with lots of tasting and recipes to bring home. Ask some friends to come with you and make it a party!