Thursday, February 21, 2008

March is Teen Tech Month!


At the Twin Falls Public Library, we know how important technology is to teens. That’s why we are celebrating TEEN TECH MONTH this March! Join us all month long for fun events, including an album cover scavenger hunt and digital photography contest.

March 3- March 8: How well do you know your music?
Test your music knowledge with an Album Cover Contest. Stop by the Library to pick up a contest sheet. Fill in the name of the artist and the name of the album for the 10 CD covers on the sheet. The person with the most correct answers is the winner, and will receive a $15 gift card to Hastings.

March 10- March 15: Heard Any Good Books Lately?
When you listen to an audiobook, you experience that book in a whole new way. The voices make the story come alive feel more real. As part of Teen Tech Month at the Twin Falls Public Library, you can win an audiobook of your very own! Tell a librarian if you check out and listen to an audio book any time from March 10-March 15. You can also sign up for Net Library to download audiobooks to an MP3 player. (The Library’s reference department even has MP3 players that you can check out!) Either way, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble good toward an audiobook of your choice.

March 17 – March 24: Capturing the Moment

Show off your camera skills and enter the Library’s Teen Tech Month Photography Contest. Pictures will be placed in one of two categories: unaltered photos, and photos that have been altered with an editing program like Photoshop. Photos can be submitted all month long, but the last day to get your pretty pictures in is March 24. The winners in each category will receive a digital photo keychain. For more information about submitting photos, please contact a Youth Service Librarian.

March 27: The small screen comes to life

Members of the Teen Advisory Board will perform scenes from some of their favorite TV shows at the TAB meeting on March 27 at 6:00 p.m. All are welcome, and we’ll provide the popcorn!

For more information,
email TAB!

The February TAB meeting is going to be a Chocolate Fest!


Chocoholics, unite! Come join us for chocolate tasting and chocolate fondue on Thursday, February 28th at 6 p.m. We will also be discussing Teen Tech Month and the 2008 Summer Reading Program.

Saturday, January 19, 2008


Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Shakespeare’s classic retold from another perspective Rosaline won’t let anyone or anything get in the way of her future as a healer. That is, until she meets Benvolio. Where Romeo’s words had been hollow and unfounded, Benvolio’s are filled with sincerity and true love. Now Rosaline finds herself caught between her feelings, her ambition, and her family’s long-standing feud with the Montagues. When Romeo turns his affections toward Ros’s cousin, Juliet, their relationship brings the feud of the two houses to a new level. Rosaline and Benvolio hatch a plan to bring peace to the two families. But will they succeed?





Seventeen-year-old Emily and her best friend Reese can't wait for summer vacation on Cape Cod. Every year, it's the same thing: high hopes that they may finally hook up with some cool guys...and it never happens. But this year, they're sure it's going to be different. So it's totally amazing when out of nowhere they meet two unbelievably adorable boys who are just too cute to be true! Which, they soon discover, may be the case. A lot of odd things happen when Steve and Dave are around. Reese figures it's because they're not from around here. So where are they from, France? Well, not quite... Summoned from the depths of the sea by the dire threat of global pollution, friendly aliens "Steve and Dave" have manifested themselves in human form and come ashore in a last desperate effort to save the oceans.




Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger. It's 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobody outside the palace knows that Alexei suffers from a terrible bleeding disease, hemophilia, which threatens to finish him off even before the family's enemies can. The only person able to help Alexei is the evil and powerful religious mystic Rasputin -- and now Rasputin is trying to kill him too! Desperate, Alexei flees through time to New York City in 2010, using a method taught to him by the mad monk himself. In New York, Alexei meets smart and sassy Varda Rosenberg, and discovers she is a distant cousin. Varda is working on a gene therapy cure for hemophilia, as the disease still runs in the family. When Alexei learns that history shows that his entire family will be assassinated in 1918, he and Varda travel back in time to the Russian Revolution, with Rasputin hot on their heels. Will they be able to rescue Alexei's family before it's too late?




It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of American Idol. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules. As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself. Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.



What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be—in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part for the chance to work with his godfather and learn more about his parents. What he uncovers, however, is a secret that will make this his darkest and most dangerous mission yet . . . and that his old nemesis, Scorpia, is anything but out of his life.
From the slums of Bangkok to the Australian Outback to the middle of the Timor Sea, Snakehead is Alex Rider's most action-packed adventure yet.






After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world...for spies.Cammie may have a genius IQ , but there are still a lot of things she doesn't know. Like, will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble is she really in after what happened last semester? And most of all, why is her mother acting so strangely?Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. She and her best friends learn that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests--code name: "Blackthorne. Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top-secret status at risk. Soon Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear Cammie's name. Even though they have confidence in their spy skills, this time the targets are tougher (and hotter), and the stakes for Cammie's heart--and her beloved school--are higher than ever.





Friday, October 19, 2007

October 14-20 celebrate humor in literature!