Teen Events Schedule for January and February

The schedules are up on the web at:

www.fletcherfree.org/programming.html

(You can download a calendar for the fridge, too.)

Want to read for fun this winter and gather with friends and food to talk about good books?
Join a book club!

Gamers: Save the Date: The first Saturday of February break will be the Open-Play Tournament.

Help plan, create publicity, paint the space, make bulletin boards, write reviews...
Join the Teen Advisory Board! Open to grades 7-12. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.

Games? In the Library?

Fletcher Free Library would like to host monthly open-play gaming tournaments! We're looking for volunteers to lend their console or game for a few hours, to help set up the event, and to spread the word! Give Cara a ring if you'd like to help make this happen: 865-7228. The tournaments will take probably place on a weekend late afternoon, once a month. They will be free and hopefully include food and prizes. Once we get a few going, it will be easier and easier to make game nights a regular event.... Click "comment" to give feedback!
To read about popular gaming programs at other libraries, check out: http://libgaming.blogspot.com/

The Golden Compass is in theatres! See it for cheap with other fans!

If you can wait 'till Wednesday, Dec. 12 to see it, the library is leading a group to see the film at the Roxy Cinema. We'll meet at the library at 3:30, head across the street and watch the movie and eat popcorn, all for $4 due to the generosity of Merrill's Roxy Cinema! Then we'll head back to the library by 6pm. Call me or email with your name and number to sign up by Monday, Dec. 10. (Contact info at left)
Enjoy this cinematic event with other Golden Compass fans!


Get psyched by going to the official website, www.goldencompassmovie.com, where you can choose daemons and read the alethiometer. Or, turn to any news site to read about the controversy surrounding the book and its symbolic representation of the Catholic church.
What do you think about that controversy? Do you have high or low expectations about the movie in general? What do you think would be most difficult to adapt from the book? Comment!

What's Coming In...

Place your holds: these books are hot stuff!

Either newly released or on bestseller lists, these books or on order or in demand at Fletcher Free:

Extras by Scott Westerfield

-- new in a series, lots of holds!

Slam by Nick Hornby

-- a hit, on order

Rhett Butler's People,

a sequel to Gone With the Wind -- on order

The The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick -- so popular!

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman --

the movie's out this friday,

so everyone wants to read it first!

The Nixie's Song

(Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles #1)

by Holly Black -- on order

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Halloween's long gone, but vampire fandom

definitely isn't...

Books to Escape In...

When the winter dreariness sets in, sometimes there’s nothing better than curling up with a book so absorbing that you read it in one sitting and don’t even notice that your foot is in pins and needles. Here are some of our favorites to escape the gray chill…

Which reads keep you comatose on the couch? Click "comment" to share your own picks so others can enjoy them!


East by Edith Pattou

If you like fantasy and folklore, this retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon will satisfy and entertain! --Christine


Joy School by Elizabeth Berg


Katie is so loveable because she notices all the right details. It's a quick read about her first true love. (Sequel to Durable Goods because the author loved the character so much) --Cara





I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak



Mystery, humor, romance, and a big stinky dog. --Beth

The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple
An adventure, a romance, and a fascinating slice of 13th-century medieval European life! --Christine



The Beduin's Gazelle by Frances Temple
Medieval Arabia in all its glory! Plus a romance and thrilling adventure! (Companion to The Ramsay Scallop) --Christine




Someone to Run With by David Grossman


Another big dog, pulling Israeli narrator Assaf along a mysterious path through the back streets of Jerusalum. Imagination meets difficult realities of life for young street performers, but hope prevails! --Cara

New Position just for the Teen Area

Hi, I'm Cara, the new Americorps*VISTA at Burlington's library. I studied English at Middlebury College, and in the two years since I left Vermont I have been teaching environmental education in gorgeous places across the Western hemisphere.
And now I’m here to enable your every wish! Well, not quite fairy-godmother style, but I’ll do my best…
My job will be to see what ideas you have for Young Adult materials and programming, and then to raise money and other resources to make it happen.
I'm psyched about lots of possibilities, including gaming nights, internet searching contests, book groups, decorating the teen space, printing a magazine, and programs to learn computer applications. (And that's just the beginning...)

Come check out the new space, post a quick review on the bulletin board, or make a request for a book, audio book or DVD you don't see in our catalog.

You can get involved now! Sign up at the library or email me to join the Teen Advisory Board and get control over what happens with teen services! (clovell@ci.Burlington.vt.us)
Or, put your name on a list to volunteer (and get community service credit) shelving books in the youth section.
Hope to see you soon...