Tween book club

Tween book club

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Event Type: Schoolage
Age Group(s): 7 – 12 Years Old, Young_Adults, Youth Services
Date: 6/20/2012
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:00 PM

Library: Lawrenceburg Public Library    Google map to the Lawrenceburg Public Library District
Location: Craft Room
Contact: Lauren Reade
Presenter: Youth Services
Status: Openings

We’re sorry. The first registration date for this event is scheduled for 5/30/2012.
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On the YA New Book Shelf- Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Lena lives in a world where the government requires a procedure that eliminates amor deliria nervosa (aka love). In this second book in the Delirium triology, Lena now lives in the Wilds among the Invalids—other migratory uncureds who plot to raise awareness of the evils of living without passion.

“I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.“

Newbie Knitters

Newbie Knitters

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Event Type: Teen
Age Group(s): Youth Services, 13 – 18 Years Old, Young_Adults
Date: 6/6/2012, 6/13/2012, 6/20/2012, 6/27/2012, 7/11/2012
Start Time: 10:30 AM
End Time: 12:00 PM

Library: Lawrenceburg Public Library    Google map to the Lawrenceburg Public Library District
Location: Ewbank Meeting Room 1 and 2 with Kitchen
Registration Ends: 7/18/2012 at 12:00 PM
Contact: Youth Services
Status: Openings

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The Immortal Rules by New York Times Best Selling Author Julie Kagawa

Can’t get enough of Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey series? She has a new series : The Blood of Eden and the first book,released today, is titled The Immortal Rules.  Immortal Rules much like the Iron Fey features an amazingly strong young woman who is very quickly  given a choice no one would want: Become a vampire or die.  Obviously, she doesn’t choose death. The book is fast moving, funny and you very quickly fall in love with the characters. I am becoming weary of so many of the post-apocalyptic novels but this one had a completely different spin on things than any other novel that I’ve read.  The ending provides you with just enough closure to feel good but leaves enough unanswered to make you want more. Julie Kagawa is an excellent story teller and I am eagerly awaiting the next in The Blood of Eden series. For a great  Q&A with Julie Kagawa click here.

On the Teen New Book Shelf- Bewitching by Alex Flinn

Enjoy new takes on old fairy tales? Then this one is for you!

“Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and
arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t. I go to
a new school now-one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago.
I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age. You see, I’m immortal.
And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years-except for when to
take my powers and butt out. I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I
could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread
house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal,
remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished
from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I
don’t even want to think about it. Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably
shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I
think I have just the thing to fix that girl-and it isn’t an enchanted pumpkin.
Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching“

Geek Out- Whatcha Reading? Creating Multimedia Presentations by Tamra Orr

Creating Multimedia Presentations by Tamra Orr  YA oo5.58 ORR

“A must-have how-to guide to the vast and vastly complicated world of multimedia research and presentation. This book accessibly guides the young reader through the process of searching for, obtaining, storing, organizing, arranging, and presenting multimedia sources of informationimages, audio, and video for school projects. It also imparts essential understanding about using copyrighted materials and how to safely cite sources. The entire process of synthesizing multimedia materials into a smooth, effective presentation is accessibly explored. Students learn typical teacher expectations and methods of evaluation for such a project. The book includes useful web sites and information about online tutorials and an extensive reading list and collection of resources.“

Teen Tech Tip #6- Reliable Search Engines

Finding reliable search engines for students is an ongoing battle! Having trouble finding the answers your looking for? Try these search engines:

Sweet Search: “SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students.

It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea. We constantly evaluate our search results and “fine-tune” them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.

SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines.”

Ref Seek: “RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make
academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than
one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and
newspapers.”

Wolfram Alpha: “Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—
not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.” Basically if your question involves a number, this is the place to go for an answer.

Google Scholar: “Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.” It searches court records, patent records and scholarly journals. In some cases the results will link to abstracts of books and articles that you will then have to obtain from a library or book retailer. In other cases results will link to fully viewable documents.

Geek Out- Whatcha Reading? Car Trouble by Jeanne Duprau

Car Trouble by Jeanne Duprau

“Duff Pringle has bought his first car. (Used.) He’s got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy. (Sort of.) Nothing can stop him. (Or can it?) Uh-oh . . . CAR TROUBLE. Duff’s Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down. What’s he supposed to do? He’s promised his new boss he’ll be there by Monday. But he’s also promised himself that he’ll make this journey by car, so he can really see the country. Using his laptop and some quick thinking, he pieces together a way to continue his trip. What he doesn’t plan on are the people he meets along the road. There’s Stu, a hitchhiker with a secret; Bonnie, an aspiring singer with a con artist for a mother; two thugs looking for a trunkful of cash; and Moony, the terrier prone to carsickness.“

Teen Tech Tip #5:Freegal

Did you know that Freegal has a new look? The site features an improved search engine, upgraded capacity and quicker browsing access to the most popular music. New this month, apps for your iphone and android phones.  All you need is your library card and you can download 2 songs per week and they are yours to keep!  Make sure you check out the NEWS tab, for great information on upcoming tours and albums from your favorite artists. Go to www.lpld.lib.in.us and click the Freegal link.