Southwest Idol!
February 25th
5 - 7 p.m.
Come stretch your vocal cords at the Southwest Branch’s karaoke night!
Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Teen Activity Night Tomorrow!
Each month, Southwest will be having a Teen Activity Night. Come check out the first one of the new year:
Southwest Idol!
February 25th
5 - 7 p.m.
Come stretch your vocal cords at the Southwest Branch’s karaoke night!
Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Southwest Idol!
February 25th
5 - 7 p.m.
Come stretch your vocal cords at the Southwest Branch’s karaoke night!
Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Looking for something new?
Try looking through our new titles list on the Pima County Public Library Catalog page. There you'll find lists of new teen books, CD's, and DVD's.
Some new items -- DVD's:
Michael Jackson's This is it
Twin Peaks
Zombieland
CD's
Before I Self-destruct
One Love
Whip it music from the motion picture
The Fall
Books
Agatha Heterodyne & the airship city : a gaslamp fantasy with adventure, romance & mad science
Beautiful Creatures
Confessions of a Serial Kisser
Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
The World Is Mine
Gateway
Girl From Mars
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Ah l'amour!
February is here which means a new book display up in the Teens area and with Valentine's Day fast approaching the theme is love. Drop by to check out what we've got.
Don't see something you like? Try these love stories:
Annie On My Mind
Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
Along for the Ride
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Graceling
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Marcelo in the real world
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mail room of a corporate law firm.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Dracula
Written mostly in the form of diaries and journals, the classic story tracks the cruel Count Dracula from Transylvania to England, where he devastates London while savvy Doctor Van Helsing seeks to end his bloody reign.
Rainbow Boys
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Like Water For Chocolate
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. A combination fairy tale, melodrama, romance, Mexican cookbook, and home remedy handbook.
Emma
Emma Woodhouse, a spoiled young woman used to having her own way, learns that she is not the best person to make decisions about other people's lives.
Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?
An eighteen-year-old pinball addict and a smart-mouthed girl who don't quite fit in with anyone else develop a special relationship.
Blankets
Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers.
Do you have any books about love that you liked? Any that you hated? Tell us about it in the comments section!
Don't see something you like? Try these love stories:
Annie On My Mind
Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
Along for the Ride
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Graceling
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Marcelo in the real world
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mail room of a corporate law firm.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Dracula
Written mostly in the form of diaries and journals, the classic story tracks the cruel Count Dracula from Transylvania to England, where he devastates London while savvy Doctor Van Helsing seeks to end his bloody reign.
Rainbow Boys
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Like Water For Chocolate
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. A combination fairy tale, melodrama, romance, Mexican cookbook, and home remedy handbook.
Emma
Emma Woodhouse, a spoiled young woman used to having her own way, learns that she is not the best person to make decisions about other people's lives.
Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?
An eighteen-year-old pinball addict and a smart-mouthed girl who don't quite fit in with anyone else develop a special relationship.
Blankets
Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers.
Do you have any books about love that you liked? Any that you hated? Tell us about it in the comments section!
Teen Activity Night
Each month, Southwest will be having a Teen Activity Night. Come check out the first one of the new year:
Southwest Idol!
February 25th
5 - 7 p.m.
Come stretch your vocal cords at the Southwest Branch’s karaoke night!
Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
TAG
Teen advisory group: Tiger Eyes
"We will lure teens in with music and make them leave with books!"
4th Thursday of every month 5:00 - 6:30 PM
What do you want for activities at the Southwest Branch library?
How can we be a funner place to learn?
What do you want to see happen?
Talk about it with us!
"We will lure teens in with music and make them leave with books!"
4th Thursday of every month 5:00 - 6:30 PM
What do you want for activities at the Southwest Branch library?
How can we be a funner place to learn?
What do you want to see happen?
Talk about it with us!
Quotes
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite." - William Shakespeare
Poems
Tiger Dance
Crouching, dancing, preparing for the pounce
Prowling, circling, not making one small sound
You see your prey, make music from within
Happiness for your kill
Happiness... the sweetest sin
Its your nature, so you are not ashamed
Pretend that you are not playing all these games
You are just the bucket
Filling up with rain.
Empty to Full
Regretting, soul-aching, all possibility gone and
Doubting, numbness creeping, no hope stage right;
Grasping for some/any life-affirming sign or
Entertaining some cousin of faith…
Heart-guarding, fearful, yet yearning for sunlight and
Seeking some Truth or just why I’m still here;
A small voice may whisper: “Connected,” but!
The fear of separation persists in dark hours…
Though I know better I indulge in despair and
That’s where you find me to reaffirm this:
I AM connected to the Sun, the Source; therefore-
God may refill me if/when She’s invited…
Warmth spreading, heart opening and
Beauty is everywhere -- light fills the room;
What was unknown before I now rejoice in:
I have the power to make words into flesh.
Radiating, Multiplying, Sending Love outward and
Creating, Transforming, Adding Joy to the World!
This power is limitless and can only do good, so
Worry not. Instead, let me show you my secret.
Change
There's air, there's heat, there's cold
There's skin and thoughts and hearts to mold
But through it all
Every battle falls
into place.
Empty space.
Everything needs to be filled up,
But everyone is changing and what can I trust
Anymore?
So many doors
To choose from.
I'm starting to shed like a snake growing fast.
New, like a baby born.
A new world, a new life starts to take form.
Visual Art
All these pages are so empty,
Like tangy fruit you thought would be sweet.
The pages tear away from you,
What could be of value in words?
What is so beautiful about the alphabet mixed together?
I myself cannot produce an acceptable answer to that question.
Sometimes I wish I could paint pictures;
Shapes instead of letters.
But this is my gift, that's what I've been told
And so I go on...
Crouching, dancing, preparing for the pounce
Prowling, circling, not making one small sound
You see your prey, make music from within
Happiness for your kill
Happiness... the sweetest sin
Its your nature, so you are not ashamed
Pretend that you are not playing all these games
You are just the bucket
Filling up with rain.
Empty to Full
Regretting, soul-aching, all possibility gone and
Doubting, numbness creeping, no hope stage right;
Grasping for some/any life-affirming sign or
Entertaining some cousin of faith…
Heart-guarding, fearful, yet yearning for sunlight and
Seeking some Truth or just why I’m still here;
A small voice may whisper: “Connected,” but!
The fear of separation persists in dark hours…
Though I know better I indulge in despair and
That’s where you find me to reaffirm this:
I AM connected to the Sun, the Source; therefore-
God may refill me if/when She’s invited…
Warmth spreading, heart opening and
Beauty is everywhere -- light fills the room;
What was unknown before I now rejoice in:
I have the power to make words into flesh.
Radiating, Multiplying, Sending Love outward and
Creating, Transforming, Adding Joy to the World!
This power is limitless and can only do good, so
Worry not. Instead, let me show you my secret.
Change
There's air, there's heat, there's cold
There's skin and thoughts and hearts to mold
But through it all
Every battle falls
into place.
Empty space.
Everything needs to be filled up,
But everyone is changing and what can I trust
Anymore?
So many doors
To choose from.
I'm starting to shed like a snake growing fast.
New, like a baby born.
A new world, a new life starts to take form.
Visual Art
All these pages are so empty,
Like tangy fruit you thought would be sweet.
The pages tear away from you,
What could be of value in words?
What is so beautiful about the alphabet mixed together?
I myself cannot produce an acceptable answer to that question.
Sometimes I wish I could paint pictures;
Shapes instead of letters.
But this is my gift, that's what I've been told
And so I go on...
Eye Level
Dust to dust,
But prettier.
More like a sunset
curled up into a cloud,
right at your fingertips.
Book Reviews
Rhymes With Witches by Lauren Myracle
Every high schooler wants to be accepted and respected as popular. Every high school girl wants to feel like they belong. So, when the most popular girls in town flag you down and tell you they want you to be one of them, what would you do? Lauren Myracle writes from the point of view of Jane, a girl in a broken family who has always been used to being an outcast. These popular girls lure her in and treat her like royalty, and so Jane starts to overlook their shallowness, and all of the weird things they make her do to stay in their precious group. Rhymes With Witches is a fictional story that illustrates the very real problems of growing up, friendship, and romance.
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
What would you do if, as a senior in high school, you found out that you might not live to see your graduation? Deadline by Chris Crutcher tells from the point of view of one such person.
Ben Wolf maps out a plan for the remainder of his life, and vows to tell no one of his condition. Things start to fall apart and he finds himself reassessing his intentions. Falling in love, finding a friend in the town drunk, and becoming a football hero were not part of his brilliant plan.
This book will make you laugh, cry, and give you a whole new prospective of untimely death.
Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata's Outside Beauty is a story about four inseparable sisters who get separated. Their flighty, single mother gets into a car accident and is forced to send her daughters to their individual birth fathers while she recovers.
Far apart and living with someone who sends the occasional Christmas card and visits once in a blue moon, these girls will do anything to get back together.
If you like easy reads, modern fiction, and are a fan of well-written and beautiful tales, this book is for you!
Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger
Liz's grandma, Bunny dies. Bunny always understood Liz even when Liz's own mom never tried to.
Liz's Mom isn't taking the death of Bunny well. She joins a spiritualist church that communes with the departed.
Down the street a woman and her two kids come to live with their grandmother. The woman is sick and needs her estranged mother's help raising her children after she dies.
Nathan and Liz become friends during this grieving process.
This was a really good book. I like Ellen Wittlinger. I chose this book because at that time I was worried about my own grandma dying and how I would handle it. I know when she does die that I will be okay.
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Twilight is the beginning to arguably the best young adult series in the history of teen fiction. Stephanie Meyer writes about the most complex relationship: a human and a vampire. Their love for each other causes innumerable problems. In the end, though... will it be able to save them? Read it and find out!
The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang
This holocaust tale will bring tears to your eyes and chill you to the bone. We've heard Anne Frank's voice echo through her words from her small hideout in the Netherlands. But what about the people who didn't have a secret annex? What about the people who got herded onto the trains like cattle? Gudrun Pausewang provides us with the voice of a little girl on that horrible journey. The Final Journey.
The Absolutely True Story of Being a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Living on an Indian reservation his whole life has never been easy for Junior. He was born with a disability that makes it hard for him to speak, giving him a lisp and a stutter. He also has to wear some pretty funny looking glasses. He got beat up almost every day. When he decides to leave the reservation school to get a better education, things don't look up for him at home. Transferring to a better, richer, and most importantly, a whiter school leaves him with no respect, the loss of his one and only friend, and a whole bunch of guilt. But Junior knows that in the end, its always worth it to be on the way to having a better life. I finished this book in one night. Its impossible to put down! Sherman Alexie isn't just an author, he's an artist. His words are addictive.
Every high schooler wants to be accepted and respected as popular. Every high school girl wants to feel like they belong. So, when the most popular girls in town flag you down and tell you they want you to be one of them, what would you do? Lauren Myracle writes from the point of view of Jane, a girl in a broken family who has always been used to being an outcast. These popular girls lure her in and treat her like royalty, and so Jane starts to overlook their shallowness, and all of the weird things they make her do to stay in their precious group. Rhymes With Witches is a fictional story that illustrates the very real problems of growing up, friendship, and romance.
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
What would you do if, as a senior in high school, you found out that you might not live to see your graduation? Deadline by Chris Crutcher tells from the point of view of one such person.
Ben Wolf maps out a plan for the remainder of his life, and vows to tell no one of his condition. Things start to fall apart and he finds himself reassessing his intentions. Falling in love, finding a friend in the town drunk, and becoming a football hero were not part of his brilliant plan.
This book will make you laugh, cry, and give you a whole new prospective of untimely death.
Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata's Outside Beauty is a story about four inseparable sisters who get separated. Their flighty, single mother gets into a car accident and is forced to send her daughters to their individual birth fathers while she recovers.
Far apart and living with someone who sends the occasional Christmas card and visits once in a blue moon, these girls will do anything to get back together.
If you like easy reads, modern fiction, and are a fan of well-written and beautiful tales, this book is for you!
Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger
Liz's grandma, Bunny dies. Bunny always understood Liz even when Liz's own mom never tried to.
Liz's Mom isn't taking the death of Bunny well. She joins a spiritualist church that communes with the departed.
Down the street a woman and her two kids come to live with their grandmother. The woman is sick and needs her estranged mother's help raising her children after she dies.
Nathan and Liz become friends during this grieving process.
This was a really good book. I like Ellen Wittlinger. I chose this book because at that time I was worried about my own grandma dying and how I would handle it. I know when she does die that I will be okay.
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Twilight is the beginning to arguably the best young adult series in the history of teen fiction. Stephanie Meyer writes about the most complex relationship: a human and a vampire. Their love for each other causes innumerable problems. In the end, though... will it be able to save them? Read it and find out!
The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang
This holocaust tale will bring tears to your eyes and chill you to the bone. We've heard Anne Frank's voice echo through her words from her small hideout in the Netherlands. But what about the people who didn't have a secret annex? What about the people who got herded onto the trains like cattle? Gudrun Pausewang provides us with the voice of a little girl on that horrible journey. The Final Journey.
The Absolutely True Story of Being a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Living on an Indian reservation his whole life has never been easy for Junior. He was born with a disability that makes it hard for him to speak, giving him a lisp and a stutter. He also has to wear some pretty funny looking glasses. He got beat up almost every day. When he decides to leave the reservation school to get a better education, things don't look up for him at home. Transferring to a better, richer, and most importantly, a whiter school leaves him with no respect, the loss of his one and only friend, and a whole bunch of guilt. But Junior knows that in the end, its always worth it to be on the way to having a better life. I finished this book in one night. Its impossible to put down! Sherman Alexie isn't just an author, he's an artist. His words are addictive.
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