Posts filed under ‘Books’
What to read next…
What to read next after the Hunger Games?
Here’s a book list of dystopian suggestions: list
Here’s an interesting info graph from Goodreads.
Catching Fire
Who should direct the second movie in the Hunger Games trilogy?
Gary Ross, who directed the Hunger Games is not returning.
Hunger Games
Have you seen the movie verison of the Hunger Games?
What did you think? Do you like the movie or book better? How does it compare to the books?
October 14
On October 14, 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Mile was first published.
Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet
A Poem
Bookmobile
I spend part of my childhood waiting
for the Sterns County Bookmobile.
When it comes to town, it makes a
U-turn in front of the grade school and
glides into its place under the elms.
It is a natural wonder of late
afternoon. I try to imagine Dante,
William Faulkner, and Emily Dickinson
traveling down a double lane highway
together, country-western on the radio.
Even when it arrives, I have to wait.
The librarian is busy, getting out
the inky pad and the lined cards.
I pace back and forth in the line,
hungry for the fresh bread of the page,
because I need something that will tell me
what I am; I want to catch a book,
clear as a one-way ticket, to Paris,
to London, to anywhere.
Old Bookmobile
Greater Rochester Teen Read Week
Teen Librarians across Monroe County Library System are encouraging everyone to read the same teen book in Celebration of Teen Read Week!
The entire Greater Rochester community is encouraged to read
A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park. A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hour walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way. Based on the true story of Salva Dut, who later came to Rochester, A Long Walk to Water is a powerful and inspirational story and will have readers of all ages eager to talk with Linda Sue about the book and Salva’s organization, Water for Sudan. Water for Sudan is based in Rochester, NY and is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 2003 by Salva Dut. Their mission is to drill borehole wells which bring safe drinking water to Southern Sudan’s remote villages, transforming lives in the process.
Copies of A Long Walk to Water are available at all libraries in the
Monroe County Library System.
Meet Linda Sue Park: Schedule of Event
Kick-off event:
Monday, October 17th, 3:30 – 5:00pm
Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County
Kate Gleason Auditorium
115 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604.
For more information call Teen Central at 585-428-8450. No registration necessary. Sponsored by The Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County.
The Central Library is handicapped accessible. To request specific accommodations, contact Deborah Nevin at 428-8304 ten days prior to the program.
Wednesday, October 19th, 6:30 – 8:00pm
Seymour Library, Brockport
161 East Avenue, Brockport, NY 14420. To register for this event, visit or call the Seymour Library at 585-637-1050.
Thursday, October 20th, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Penfield Public Library, Penfield
1985 Baird Road, Penfield, NY 14526. To register for this event visit or call the Penfield Public Library at 585-340-8720.
First day of August
It’s August 1! Have you read any of your required summer reading? We have reading lists and are here to help! Check out here for more summer reading lists.
2011 Eisner Awards
The 2011 Eisner Awards have been announced.
What is the Eisner Awards?
It is named for the famous cartoonist Will Eisner and the awards are presented to the best comic books published the prior year.
Blink and Caution
Here’s a book trailer for one of our new books:
Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
Forgot your summer reading list?
Have you lost your summer reading list for school? Did your dog eat it?
Nope. I would never do that.
