Your mission:

• join one of two teams (your name will be listed in the front of the team notebook) to create reading tracks and race to win

Your Strategy:

• obtain and read pages of evidence in book form

Your Rewards:

• read 500 pages, complete a puzzle mission correctly, and receive a prize; next puzzle is at 2,000 pages
  
• 1st place highest reader receives a Creative Zen mp3 player; also, 2nd and 3rd place receive gift certificates


• operatives of the winning team receive, even yet, another prize

Don't forget that Special Agent Bratcher is also assigned this mission and will be making reading tracks of his own.

June 4 Sign-up begins

June 28 OPERATION: READ gathering @ 6:30 p.m.

July 20 Last day to make reading tracks

July 26 Mystery dinner award ceremony 6:30 p.m.

Notes from TAB

Change was the topic of TAB on April 19, 2007. Over pizza it was announced that the YA Librarian Abby Littleton would be leaving and Anna Turpin would be taking over the Young Adult area. The TAB members got to know Anna and gave her their wisdom on what to avoid doing in TAB. The board looks forward to working with Anna in the many areas that TAB participates in. Summer reading was also discussed. Reminiscing about last your summer reading, the board suggested improvements as well as many new ideas to look forward to this year. Summer reading sign up begins June 4th, 2007. The next TAB meeting will be May 31, 2007 at 6:00.

I (Abby) also want to thank all the TAB members who I got the privilege to know and work with. Each one of you has brought so much to TAB and the Library. Thank you all. Abby

New Titles @ the Library

Beka Cooper: Terrier a Tortall Legend
by Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, an amazing young woman who lived 200 years before Pierce's popular Alanna character. For the first time, Pierce employs first-person narration in a novel, bringing readers even closer to a character that they will love for her unusual talents and tough personality.

Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat that's about to get tougher, as Beka's limited ability to communicate with the dead clues her in to an underworld conspiracy. Someone close to Beka is using dark magic to profit from the Lower City's criminal enterprises--and the result is a crime wave the likes of which the Provost's Guard has never seen before.

Sold
by Patricia McCormick

Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in a mountain village in Nepal. Her life is made up of simple pleasures like going to school and spending time with her loving ama and baby brother. But these happy times are undercut by the desperate poverty that threatens the lives of the villagers.
Then one day, Lakshmi's father brings her to a shopkeeper in town and tells Lakshmi that she is going to go work as a maid in India so that her wages can be sent home. Glad to help support her family, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon discovers the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.

An old woman named Mumtaz rules the house with an iron fist. She informs Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt. And of course, crooked Mumtaz will make sure that that never happens.

Lakshmi life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. But gradually, she forms friendships that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Until the day comes that she has to make a decision -- one that will cause her to risk everything to for a chance to reclaim her life.

Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel chronicles the story of one girl's struggle to maintain her sense of self against all odds.

Tamar
by Mal Peet

The Carnegie Medal winner comes to the U.S.!
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever.

From acclaimed British sensation Mal Peet comes a masterful story of adventure, love, secrets, and betrayal in time of war, both past and present.

TAB's Play Lists

These titles were selected by the Twin Falls Public Library's Teen Advisory Board as thier favorite books, movies, cds, websites, and games.

Books We Like...
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Follow the River
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
Shattered Mirror by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
The Naruto Series
Phyllis Renoylds Naylor Books
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
The Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz

Movies We Like...
Legally Blonde
Pirates of the Carribean 1 2 and 3
Spiderman 1 2 and 3
Ringer
Finding Nemo
Scary Movie 4
I Robot
Save the Last Dance
Pay It Forward

Music We Like...
High School Musical Remix
Breakaway-Kelly Clarkson
Let Go-Avril Lavigne
Good Charlotte
Pillar
Kutless
Red

Websites We Like...
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.hotmail.com/
http://www.tagged.com/
http://www.bebo.com/
http://www.redjumpsuitapparatus.com/
http://www.msn.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.runescape.com/

Games We Like:
Nascar '07 on Xbox
NFSU2 on Xbox
Project Gotham Racing on Xbox
Halo 2

Book Trailer!!!

Produced, directed and edited by the Teen Advisory Board.