My sentimental pick of the week!

Wizards.
Magic.
Friends.
Epic!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Picks Of The Day From Mrs. Jane!

Hold Still by Nina LaCour

Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Make Sure To Check Back Again As We Round Off The Rest Of Our Picks For 2010!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Pick Of The Day!

Today's Pick Is From Ms. Laura!

Countdown by Deborah Wiles

Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear.

Keep Checking Back All Month For More Great Reads!

Picks Of The Day From Mrs. Lenore,
Ms. Laura, and Ms. Erin!

Favorite Books To Movies From 2010!

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Letters to Juliet

Alice in Wonderland

Keep Checking Back All Month Long For Our Favorites From 2010!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Pick of the Day!
Today's Pick Is From Mrs. Lora!

Three Rivers Crossing: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood
by Jame Richards

Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown.

Keep Checking Back For More Of Our 2010 Picks!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Picks Of The Day!
Today's Picks Are From Ms. Lora!

Zombies vs Unicorns
Twelve short stories by a variety of authors seek to answer the question of whether zombies are better than unicorns.

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.

Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol wants revenge ... and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe!

Keep Checking Back For More Of Our Favorites From 2010!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Picks Of The Day!

Today's Picks Are From Ms. Nancy
and Ms. Erin!

What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson

Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate is tied to hers through a series of past lives.

7 Souls by Barnabas Miller

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday. By the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

After being hit by a bus and killed, a high school homecoming queen gets stuck in the land of the living, with only a loser classmate--who happens to be the only one able to see and hear ghosts--to help her.

Keep Checking Back For More Great Books!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Staff Picks!
Today's Picks Are From Ms. Nancy and Mrs. Jane!

Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow student to whom she seems strangely connected.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.

Holding up the Earth by Dianne E. Gray
Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.

Keep Checking Back For More Of Our Favorites!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Picks Of The Day!
Today's Books Were Chosen By Ms. Erin, Mrs. Becky, and Mrs. Jane.

Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
& David Levithan
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
In a polygamous cult in the desert, fourteen year old Kyra sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as a punishment for having read books and for kissing a boy, both which are in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings. She becomes torn between facing her fate and being married or running away from all that she knows. What choice should she take?

Life of Glass by Jillian Cantor

Throughout her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold onto memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend, Ryan.

Epitaph Road by David Patneaude

In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.

Keep Checking Back For More Of Our Picks!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Picks Of The Day!

Today's Books Were Chosen By Ms. Lora and Ms. Nancy!

Night Shade by Andrea Cremer
Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shape-shifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world.


Firelight by Sophie Jordan
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shape-shifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.

Keep Checking Back For More Staff Picks!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Staff Picks Of The Day!

Today's picks are from Mrs. Amy and Mrs. Jane!

As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynn Rae Perkins
A teenage boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.

Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan

High school juniors and best friends Finn and Chloe hatch a daring plot to fake Chloe's disappearance from their rural New Jersey town in order to have something compelling to put on their college applications, but unforeseen events complicate matters.

The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin

Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

Once by Morris Gleitzman

After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Keep checking back for more great books!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Staff Picks Of The Day!
Today's Picks Are From Mrs. Jane and Ms. Lora!

Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
(A favorite Zombie book!)
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, and June by Robin Benway
After their parents' divorce, teenaged sisters April, May, and June gain special powers and use them to cope with moving to a new home and high school, but they wonder if the gifts have a greater purpose.

The Clearing by Heather Davis

(A favorite romance!)
Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the country in Washington to live with her great-aunt. There she discovers a mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer of 1944.

Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen D. Bell
Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises. She reports all of her adventures to her friends back home on the cell phone she smuggled into camp, and they in turn, add all of them to a blog.

Keep Checking Back All Month Long For More Of Our Favorites From 2010!

The Best Of The Best 2010

Picks of the day!
Here are some of Mrs. Becky's and Mrs. Mary's favorite books from 2010!

You by Charles Benoit

Kyle wonders how he got himself into the dire situation he's in. He joined the hoodie crew and got himself into some trouble. When he meets Zack though, his life looks like it's going to get better. After losing a job opportunity, a potential girlfriend, and the respect of a teacher, Kyle begins to suspect that he's being sabotaged. Could Zack be trying to ruin his life?

Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu

Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s is bigger and dirtier than most. It’s one she’s been hiding for years. She’s managed to keep her home life hidden from friends, knowing they’d be disgusted by the truth. So, when her mom dies suddenly in their home, Lucy begins her plan to set her life right.

Pop by Gordon Korman
When Marcus begins school, he meets the starting quarterback on the team: Troy Popovich. Right from the beginning, Marcus and Troy disagree about everything including: football, Troy's ex-girlfriend, Alyssa, but most of all about what's good for their friend Charlie. Marcus is betting that he knows what's best for the King of Pop. And he is willing to risk everything to help his friend.

Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
Is absorbing someone’s pain a gift or a curse? Tennyson hates that his twin sister, Bronte, is dating Bruiser, but soon finds out that Bruiser isn't as bad as he seems. The twins start to notice something odd that happens around Bruiser. Their cuts and bruises disappear overnight while Bruiser is a mass of new hurts. Somehow he takes on the pain, both physical and emotional, of the people he cares for.

Keep checking back for more of the library's favorites from 2010!