August 2006 Archives

Move over Alex Rider(see STORMBREAKER), meet Cameron, Cammie, Morgan, daughter of two professional spies. Since it is in her blood, Cammie attends the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school to the rest of the world, but behind its gates it is a school for spies. The students are taught the martial arts in physical education, study chemical warfare in chemistry and everyone is fluent in many, many languages. Cammie is fluent in fourteen, and her martial art training has enabled her to kill in seven different ways.

The students, for the most part, are geniuses or unusually smart, but they are also teenage girls. So an accidental meeting with a cute boy from the local town sends Cammie and her friends on a covert mission. They manage to tap his phone, hack into his email and examine the family’s garbage. Cammie has never had a boyfriend; she doesn’t even know how to talk to them. Is it possible that a genius studying to be a spy, fall a regular boy?

This is a fun read to a rainy Saturday afternoon for girls in grades 7 to 10. According to the jacket cover Ally Carter is hard at work on her next Gallagher Academy Girls adventure.

Submitted by Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services

FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION HAS SPONSORED THE TEEN TOP TEN BOOKliST. THIS IS LIST IS NOMINATED, REVIEWED AND VOTED ON BY YOUNG ADULTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. THE VOTING TAKES PLACE DURING TEEN READ WEEK ON THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TEEN READ SITE.

YOU CAN VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS AT www.ala.org/teenread DURING TEEN READ WEEK OCOBER 15-21, 2006

THE NOMINEES ARE

Bowen, Asta WOLF: THE JOURNEY HOME
Bray, Libba REBEL ANGELS
Brian, Kate MEGAN MEADE’S GUIDE TO THE MCGOWAN BOYS
Dowswell, Paul POWDER MONKEY: ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG SAILOR
Sally Gardner, Sally I, CORIANDER
Hart, J. V, CAPTAIN HOOK: THE ADVENTURES OF A NOTORIOUS YOUTH
Johnson, Maureen 13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES Blog review dated August 18.
Jones, Patrick NAILED
Kantor, Melissa IF I HAVE A WICKED STEPMOTHER, WHERE’S MY PRINCE?
Krovatin, Christopher HEAVY METAL AND YOU
Meyer, Stephanie TWILIGHT
Noel, Alyson ART GEEKS AND PROM QUEENS
Oppel, Kenneth SKYBREAKER
Paolini, Christopher ELDEST
Peters, Julie Ann FAR FROM XANADU
Reiss, Kathryn BLACKTHORN WINTER
Rowling, J. K. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Thal, Lilli MIMUS
Westerfeld, Scott PEEPS
Whitcomb, LauraA CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT
Wooding, Chris POISON
Zevin, Gabrielle ELSEWHERE

AN ANNOTATED LIST IS AVAILABLE AT THE YOUNG ADULT SERVICES DESK.

Submitted by Mrs.Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services

Here is an adventure every girl would love to take. Ginny, 17, receives a letter instructing her to visit a favorite restaurant in New York City.The unusual thing about the letter it's from her favorite Aunt Peg who died three months earlier. At the restaurant she receives llittle blue envelope 1 with $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket. In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat. The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist. Each envelope gives Ginny a new opportunity to learn about the world and this European adventure eventually helps Ginny piece together family mysteries and discovers herself.

THIS IS A REALLY FUN READ FOR GIRLS IN GRADES 8 AND UP. Maureen Johnson has also written THE KEY TO THE GOLDEN FIREBIRD.

Submitted byMrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services

Tom is short, frizzy hair, big glasses and a bigger nose, no girl will look at him, a real creep, or so Tom thinks.Tom wants to jump off the George Washington Bridge, but it is 1963 and big noses and frizzy hair are in because of folksinger, Bob Dylan. All the girls in his New Jersey high school are crazy for folksingers, so Tom decides to visit Greenwich Village, buy a guitar and become a folksinger. He learns one chord, meets Angelina and his whole world turns upside down.

A poem, the Ed Sullivan Show and a creep can change the world.

This is a funny story for boys in MIDDLE SCHOOL who need a book report about friendships with girls. It was written by the head writer of SPONGEBOB SQUARE PANTS.

Submitted by Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services

Meet the world's most successful 14-year-old spy, Alex Rider. After the death of his guardian, his uncle, Alex is coerced to continue his uncle's work. It is working for MI6, the British Intelligence Agency. This time Alex must infiltrate Herod Sayle's compound. this is the man who invented the amazing Stormbreaker computer. But what's hiding in the software…

Move over James Bond, there is a new spy in town.

YOU CAN FIND THIS ALEX RIDER book, along with his other adventures, POINT BLANK, SKELETON KEY, EAGLE STRIKES, SCORPIA and
ARK ANGEL at the East Meadow Public Library. They are RECOMMENDED FOR GRADES 6 TO 10.

Submitted by Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services