Movie Trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I'm SO EXCITED! Are you??

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Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Remember when Teen Room Staffer Lydia reviewed Unwind? Click here to see her review.







Check out this fan-made video on YouTube that also features Unwind.


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Pssssst!

Guess what! The Waupaca Area Public Library is hard at work organizing the first annual Waupaca Book Festival! The festival will be October 1st and 2nd, 2010. I'm so excited to tell you that we have confirmation from JOHN GREEN and PATRICK JONES. They will be here!

John Green is the author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and Let it Snow (with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle). He has just finished writing another book, with David Levithan, which will be available in April. Keep your eyes open for Will Grayson, Will Grayson. You can find John online in many different places. He and his brother Hank Green have been communicating by video for the past three years, and you can watch their interactions on YouTube--they even have their own channel (VLOGBROTHERS). They also have an online community, called Nerdfighters, a worldwide group that works towards both having fun and eliminating worldsuck. Anyone can create an account on Nerdfighters to follow along.

Nerdfighters (John and Hank Green's online community): http://nerdfighters.ning.com/

John's Website: www.sparksflyup.com

John's Blog: www.sparksflyup.com/weblog.php

John and Hank Green's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers




Patrick Jones is a former librarian for teenagers who now concentrates on writing fiction for teens. His books include: Nailed, Chasing Tail Lights, Cheated, Stolen Car, The Tear Collector, and Things Change. You can find Patrick on Facebook, Myspace, and Wikipedia!

Patrick's Website: http://www.connectingya.com/




Stay tuned to the blog for more details!

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Hunger Games Trilogy News

Check out the cover image I found online! The third Hunger Games book finally has a title! Now doesn't that make waiting until August 24 so much harder?

Keep watching the blog for news about our Hunger Games events this summer!

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New Percy Jackson Trailer!

A new trailer for the Lightning Thief Movie coming in 2010!!

Lightning Thief Movie!

Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief is being made into a movie! Check out the website here, and look for the movie in theaters next February!!

Here's the trailer!!



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Where the Wild Things Are

Check it out! One of the most beloved books of all time, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, is being made into a movie, set to release this fall.

Wordle Website

Here's a very cool website that allows you to create your own tag cloud! Check it out!

http://www.wordle.net


This is the site we used in our April SLAG meeting to illustrate our thoughts on The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Click on the image above to view in a larger format.

*Just remember to be careful! This website doesn't do any filtering so you might run into rather grown-up content.*