Dragon Training 101!

A screening of How to Train Your Dragon

in the Teen Lounge

at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7 (TODAY!)

Here are the following TEDxDarien Sunday sessions you can look forward to:

*December 5th, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. =Cancelled*

December 19th, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

January 9th, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

January 23rd, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

February 6th, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

When Finnikin was nine years old, he was warned that he must take a blood oath to save his kingdom, Lumatere.  He and his friends, the Prince, and Lucien of the Monts, shed blood and swore: 

The Prince to die defending the Royal House;

Finnikin that he would be the protector and guide to the Royal Family;

and Lucien that he would be the light toward whom they would travel in times of need.

Then the unspeakable happened: the Royal Family was massacred and the people separated.  Thousands of Lumaterans are now spread out across the neighbor kingdoms, starving and sick, unable to return to their homes.  Those remaining inside Lumatere have not been heard from in ten years.  Finnikin is travelling with his foster-father from refugee camp to refugee camp, when they are summoned by a rumor: the Prince may be alive.  If Finniken can find the Prince, together they may be able to take his people home.

Finnikin of the Rock is a fantasy, an adventure and a really well written story.  You'll love it.     

 

Jack Perdu is a Classics geek, a ninth grader who spends his free time helping a Yale professor translate the Metamorphosis.  After he’s hit by a car, he begins to see ghosts.  When his worried Dad sends him to a doctor in New York, Jack gets led down into the New York underworld: the home of New York ghosts beneath the city.  Remembering the Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempted to travel to the underworld to return his dead wife Eurydice to life, Jack begins to search for his mother, who died when he was a child.  He is accompanied by Euri, a ghost who becomes his friend as the two work to find Jack’s mom and elude the Underworld guards.

There is a lot to The Night Tourist: Jack’s sadness over losing his mom and his hope that he may soon find her, his friendship with Euri, who has her own sadness, the mythology that colors the story, as Jack recalls the myths that have been his obsession.  It’s a really good adventure, and a fun read.  The audio version is also available, and is a really great listen!  You can check out the sequel, The Twilight Prisoner as well.