WHERE THINGS COME BACK by John Corey

Another book I just couldn't put down.

Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children

Once I started reading this title, I couldn't put it down.....bizarre and captivating!!

Teen Summer Reading Program

Join the South Orangetown Teen Summer Reading Program. Record you summer reading for cool raffle prizes. June 22 thru August 3rd, 2012. Earn one raffle ticket for every 350 pages read. Go to http://bit.ly/LM72Ci to create your account & sign up for the Arcade to Go Kickoff Party. Start logging pages read on Fri., June 22, 2012.

Follett eBooks

This is the link to the Rockland County School Library System eBook Collection. This eBook Collection is shared by Rockland Country and has over 400 books you can use read on-line, on your tablet or smart device. To check out a book from this collection use the following information:
username: rsls
password:guest
If you have any question, contact me at : peyer@socsd.org
Happy Reading!

YALSA Teen Book Finder APP

The YALSA Teen Book Finder is a available for free download from the Apple App Store. The YALSA Teen Book Finder is the first app created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association.Teen.

The free app, which highlights books and media from YALSA’s awards and selected book and media lists, can be run on an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. YALSA’s Teen Book Finder is available thanks to generous funding by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

This week I teamed up with the Teen Services public librarian to begin talking about summer reading. Allowing the students to come to the library with their smart phones in order to download this app is going to be an awesome way to get those teens engaged. The Teen Book Finder is a great way for teens, parents, teachers and librarians to get suggested titles from our wonderful recommended lists and awards for teens. I just wish it located the book in local libraries...it doesn't :(

Visit the Apple App Store and download the free Teen Book Finder now.

The Teen Book Finder’s features include:
■books and media from all of YALSA’s awards, including the Alex, Edwards, Morris, Nonfiction, Odyssey and Printz;
■the past three years of YALSA’s selected book and media lists;
■all books selected for the Teens’ Top Ten;
■three Hot Picks, featuring different titles from the database, refreshed each day;
■the ability to search for books by author, title, award or list year, genre, by award and by book list;
■a Find It! button, powered by the OCLC WorldCat Search API, that will show users where to find the book in a nearby library and a book’s available format, including audiobook and e-book;
■a Favorites button, to create an individualized reading list;
■the ability to share books from the Teen Book Finder on Twitter and Facebook.

2012 Teens' Top Ten

Grimm Book Club At Tappan Library

2012 South Orangetown Summer Reading Intro & Titles

2012 Summer Reading Teen Video Challenge Winner

CONGRATULATIONS TO KAI!

NEWBERY AND CALDECOTT AWARDS FOR 2011

The 2011 Newbery Award

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2011 Medal Winner

The 2011 Newbery Medal winner is Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc.Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
The town of Manifest is based on Frontenac, Kan., the home of debut author Clare Vanderpool’s maternal grandparents. Vanderpool was inspired to write about what the idea of “home” might look like to a girl who had grown up riding the rails. She lives in Wichita with her husband and four children.

“Vanderpool illustrates the importance of stories as a way for children to understand the past, inform the present and provide hope for the future,” said Newbery Medal Committee Chair Cynthia K. Richey.

2011 Honor Books
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm, published by Random House Children's Books, a div. of Random House, Inc.
Sassy eleven-year-old Turtle finds her life turned on end when she is sent to live with her aunt in Depression-era Key West. With vivid details, witty dialogue and outrageous escapades, Jennifer Holm successfully explores the meaning of family and home… and lost treasures found.

Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, published by Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams.

Shipwrecks, whaling, a search for home and a delightful exploration of cultures create a swashbuckling adventure. This historical novel is based on the true story of Manjiro (later John Mung), the young fisherman believed to be the first Japanese person to visit America, who against all odds, becomes a samurai.


Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen, published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Welcoming her readers into the “wild, enchanted park” that is the night, Joyce Sidman has elegantly crafted twelve poems rich in content and varied in format. Companion prose pieces about nocturnal flora and fauna are as tuneful and graceful as the poems. This collection is “a feast of sound and spark.”

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The voices of sisters Delphine, Vonetta and Fern sing in three-part harmony in this wonderfully nuanced, humorous novel set in 1968 Oakland, Calif. One crazy summer, the three girls find adventure when they are sent to meet their estranged poet-mother Cecile, who prints flyers for the Black Panthers.

What Should I Read Next?

What Should I Read Next is this really cool site that gives you suggestions about "What to Read Next”! You simply enter the title or the ISBN of a book you like and the site will analyze their database of real readers' favorite books.

The site currently has more than 75,000 different titles and more than a million reader recommendations that is analyzed to provide you a book recommendation or suggestion.

You can register for free on the bottom of the results page and build your own favorites list. Watch the video below to learn more about "What Should I Read Next".

 

Free SYNC Downloads

2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week This SummerJune 14 - August 22, 2012

Teens and other readers of Young Adult Literature will have the opportunity to listen to bestselling titles and required reading classics this summer.   Click here to visit SYNC
SYNC Titles
Summer 2012
June14 – June 20, 2012
The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch, Read by Dan Bittner (Scholastic Audiobooks)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Frank Galati [Adapt.], Read by Shirley Knight, Jeffrey Donovan, and a Full Cast (L.A. Theatre Works)
June 21 – June 27, 2012
Irises by Francisco X. Stork, Read by Carrington MacDuffie (Listening Library)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Read by Wanda McCaddon (Tantor Media)
June 28 – July 4, 2012
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud, Read by Simon Jones
(Listening Library)
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, Read by Toby Stephens
(Naxos AudioBooks)
July 5 – July 11, 2012
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, Read by August Ross (AudioGO)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Read by Ian Holm (AudioGO)
July 12 – July 18, 2012
Guys Read: Funny Business by Jon Scieszka [Ed.] et al., Read by Michael Boatman, Kate DiCamillo, John Keating, Jon Scieszka, Bronson Pinchot (Harper Audio)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Read by Norman Dietz (Recorded Books)
July 19 – July 25, 2012
Cleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter, Read by Kirsten Potter (Oasis Audio)
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Read by a Full Cast (AudioGO)
July 26 – August 1, 2012
Pinned by Alfred C. Martino, Read by Mark Shanahan (Listen & Live Audio)
TBA (Brilliance Audio)
August 2 – August 8, 2012
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Read by Khristine Hvam (Hachette Audio)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Read by Simon Prebble (Blackstone Audio)
August 9 – August 15, 2012
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, Read by Rupert Degas (Harper Audio)
Dead Men Kill by L. Ron Hubbard, Read by Jennifer Aspen and a Full Cast
(Galaxy Press)
August 16 – August 22, 2012
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, Read by Jay Laga’aia (Bolinda Audio)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Read by William Roberts (Naxos AudioBooks)