Hunger Games Trilogy

We all can’t wait for the HG movie in 2012!!

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs bizzar book of collected images mixed with a spine tingling tale of mystery and suspense has caught the highest buzz factor.  A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A high concept book full of vintage photographs that would attract anyone to its insides.  The levitating girl on the front cover was enough to get us to meetup and share this Teen Talk title for the new year.  Full of creepy photos, some snarky moments and the endearing voice of Jacob as he sorts through what his grandfather used to tell him of the second world war.  Were his grandfather’s stories really clues to why the hidden house was a quarantine for forgotten peculiar children?  “Something snapped beyond the trees.  I wheeled around to look and, through a screen of branches, caught a flash of blurred
movement – the hem of a white dress.  It was her. [the girl in the photograph]  I crashed into the woods, sprinting after.  She took off running down the path.” p.119

Inheritance

 The long-awaited conclusion to the tale of a dragon rider named Eragon and his dragon Saphira – Book 4 

A bit of a slow go, filled with one battle scene after another and Eragon’s progress toward mastering magic, skills with fighting and his own maturity.  The world of Alagaesia and the Varden meet in the onslaught toward finally defeating Galbatorix and the hopeful return from near extinction of the dragon and rider!

Flip

What would you do if you awoke in someone else’s bedroom with someone else’s mother calling you for breakfast and your own family miles away believing you are near death in a coma?  Body switching with a lot of laughs, some coming of age experiences for a 14-year-old Alex and real sentiment of what one truly values in life.  A great guys read for middle school and high school.

Why We Broke Up

Super star author Daniel Handler of Series of Unfortunate Events and other novellas novels, tries his hand at young adult literature with this romance.  Reviews from SLJ call Why We Broke Up : A romance gone wrong, a wannabe director drama queen, and a quirky assortment of relationship mementos are all part of this wickedly clever, surprisingly soulful look at young love.

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Teenburgh is celebrating Teen Read Week   “Picture It!”

Pictures of your favorite book in front of our framed Teenburgh Read background will promote teen reading.  Any book, DVD or audio favorite will also be featured.

Votes will be gathered for this year’s YALSA Teen Top Ten.  Vote on the 25 nominated 2010 – 2011 titles and the top ten picks will be added to the national vote for the Top Ten Teen Reads!

May all your wand wishes come true!

Hermione Granger and Percy Jackson are both winners!

Email your picks for each group to greenteen@greenburghlibrary.org with the subject Heroes Tournament.

Teenburgh Heroes Tournament

Heros Spec Sheets

Vote for one Hero Per Group:

Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins.  Release Date: TBA from Lions Gate

Beastly by Alex Flinn.  Release Date: July 2010 from CBS Films  

 Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson.  Release date: 2013  from Columbia Pictures; directed by Catherine Hardwicke of Twilight fame. 

TALES OF DYSTOPIAN FUTURES ~ Steampunk ~ SCI-FI

M. T. Anderson: Feed  

Set up with an implant microchip to the brain it’s all Titus can do to function while during spring break on the moon the main feed short circuits and real truths are revealed.

Melvin Burgess: Bloodtide

Two hundred years in the future London is obliterated and its ruins are left to be controlled by two mob families and a few shape shifting felines.  Sequel: Bloodsong.

Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game

In 1985 this classic sci-fi space adventure about a boy named Ender who fights the world of machines and bugs has spawned several sequels that range from young adult literature to adult.  A parallel novel entitled Ender’s Shadow written in 1999 is told at the same time of the first novel but from another character’s point-of-view named Bean.  Series: Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, A War of Gifts, Ender in Exile.

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games

Nothing of the world remains except for twelve of the thirteen districts of Panem in what used to be North America.  To commemorate the destruction of thirteenth colony, a ritual celebration is televised each year when two tributes are picked to represent each district in a game to the death.  The sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay (8/10) are and inspire to be equally fabulous page turners!

James Dashner: The Maze Runner

No one knows how they got to the glen but every thirty days another teen arrives.  After Thomas arrives the first girl is brought and she comes with an important message for Thomas.  His only problem is he can not remember where he came from and why he is in the maze.  The sequel: The Scorch Trials (10/10).

Cory Doctrow: Little Brother

A group of teen computer geeks take on the government / homeland security after a terrorist attack in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Watch for another techie Doctrow title: For The Win.

Catherine Fisher: Incarceron

Welcome to a prison where the inmates do not know they are incarcerated – nor do their descendants.  Finn believes there is another world and his answers begin to be unlocked when he finds a crystal key.  Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron also finds a similar key and somehow they are connected.  The sequel: Sapphique (USA edition 12/10) – the suspense for survival continues between two worlds.

Patrick Ness: The Knife Of Never Letting Go

Imagine a world where you are the last child ruled only by men and are told that on your thirteenth birthday something special will happen to welcome you into the world of men.  Then imagine this same world where every thought spoken or not is heard by every person living in your village.  A village that dwindles by the day because each resident is slowly going mad.  Chaos Walking Series: The Ask And The Answer, and book #3 Monsters Of Men (9/10).

Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines

A series featuring a dystopian world where machines rule by devouring other smaller cities.  Tom, Kate and Hester are connected through their association with the diabolical Thaddeus Valentine.  Tom is a lowly apprentice in the Guild of Historians, Kate is the daughter of the head Historian T. Valentine, and Hester is the hired assassin who tries to kill T. Valentine only to be stopped by Tom.  The Series: Predator’s Gold, Infernal Devices,  A Darkling Plain, and just released  book #5 Fever Crumb. 

Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan

The map of Europe on the eve of the first world war plays out as history tells us however our world is now run by machines called Clankers and those loyal to the opposing group called Darwinists who are into tinkering with the DNA of species.

The Uglies

Tally Youngblood is ready for her make over when every sixteen-year-old is cosmeticaly altered to become a conformed version of what is considered beautiful.  She meets Shay who questions the concept of beauty and those who control the social norm.  Together they launch a revolution.  Series: Pretties, Specials, and Extras.

If you still want more check out the Hennepin County Library’s Book Space “Welcome To Dystopia”

What the Reviewers Think:  

From School Library Journal

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