New Arrival!

From the Destiny summary of Hottie by John Bernstein:

"When a power surge during experimental plastic surgery turns fourteen-year-old Alison into a human flamethrower, she drops from popular Beverly Hills princess to social outcast, but with the help of a comic-loving "geek," she becomes a real-life superhero."

Library Tip of the Week

The holiday break is just around the corner! Swing by the library and check out some books so you have something to read over the long break.

BotW: The City of Ember

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau opens with a mystery. The beginning chapter entitled "The Instructions" discusses a city built by some mysterious engineers and a set of secret instructions that they locked in a safe and entrusted with the city mayor to keep safe for more than 200 years. Generations of mayors passed the safe to their replacements. All but one. And so the safe, and the instructions inside it, were lost.

The very next chapter focuses on the book's protangonist, Lina Mayfleet. It's job assignment day for the City of Ember and Lina hopes she gets messenger. Instead, she is horrified when she gets Pipeworks, an engineering job working underground Ember maintaining the cities plumbing system.

Why does Lina hate the job of Pipeworks so much? More importantly, why does a fellow student, Doon Harrow, volunteer to switch jobs with her? Check out The City of Ember and find out!

New Arrival!

Confetti Girl by Diana López is about a Texas girl trying to deal with the recent death of her mother and the gradual withdrawal of her father.

Library Tip of the Week

Get your overdue books back to the library! Overdue notices get sent to advisory classes every Monday. If you get a notice, be sure to come to the library and either renew the book(s) or turn them in.

Don't forget, you get to keep a book for two weeks and a magazine for three days.

BoTW: Me, Evolution, and Other Freaks of Nature

Based on the book's long title, you might have a tough time gleaning the meaning of Me, Evolution, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande. Don't let the rambling title deter you from reading a great book.

Mena, a high school freshman, angers both her parents and church congregation when she writes a letter. What could she have written to make so many people upset with her? You won't find that out until the end of the book and I'm not going to spoil it here. But I can tell you that Mena is a conflicted young lady, torn between her religious faith and her own unique sense of morality; the two don't always line up.

Does she ultimately reconcile the teachings of her church with her own sense of right and wrong? You'll have to read the book to find out! Be warned, however, that the book tackles whether or not evolution or "intelligent design" should be taught in schools.

New Arrival!

We recently got a new shipment of books, including a wide assortment of graphic novels of Spider-man and Superman.

Peter Parker finding the alien symbiote suit is probably one of the most interesting story lines in the Marvel universe. Read about Spidey's endless struggle with his own costume!

Library Tip of the Week

Don't forget, holds that you put on books don't last forever. Holds by students last 45 days and then expire.

Today, more than ten such holds expired for the book Unwind. To double check to see if you still have a book on hold, log into Destiny and check the "My Info" tab. It will have a listing of all the books you currently have on hold. If one of your holds expired, simply look up the book and place it back on hold.