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December 27, 2007

Teen Volunteer Projects @ the Library

The Children's Room is looking for some responsible teens to help out with our annual Nutmeg @ Nite trivia contest for students. Details about our decorating workshop and for team captains during the game can be found below. Register by phone at 655-1234 x117.

Nutmeg @ Nite Teen Decorating Party
Thursday, January 10 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Grades 6 and up
Help us make the Children's Room into a Lightning Thief theme mythological extravaganze for our annual quiz show, Nutmeg @ Nite! Registration begins January 2. Please register by calling 655-1234 x117.

Nutmeg @ Nite Teen Volunteers
Tuesday, January 22 or Wednesday, January 23 from 4 to 8 p.m.
Grades 7 and up
Help with our annual trivia contest for children, Nutmeg @ Nite. Registration begins January 2. Please register by calling 655-1234 x117.

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December 21, 2007

Favorite Teen Books from 2007

Here are some of our favorite teen books from last year!

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
In this first volume of a planned triology, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray finds herself running from a mysterious band of teenagers called the Shadowhunters, after she develops the ability to see demons and other supernatural creatures.

Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

I am Rembrandt's Daughter by Lynn Cullen
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a weathy suitor.

Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

Alabama Moon by Watt Key
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.

Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.

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