Join us for a six week SAT review workshop. Certified teachers will be covering both the Math and Verbal sections of the test. The library will be providing a workbook to all those registered. A $50 non-refundable check made payable to the Freeport Memorial Library is due at registration.
Registration begins August 1 in the Children's Room.
Dates:
Saturdays 12-2pm
Sept. 13
Sept. 20
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
The N
The N provides tv shows just for teens. If you enjoy watching the shows on The N, then visit their official website where you can post your thoughts and opinions, read up on your favorite shows, and take fun quizzes.
SmartGirl
SmartGirl provides an online community for pre-teens and teens to express themselves and voice their opinions.
TeenInk.com
Magazine, blogs, book series and website written entirely by teens. An excellent resource for teen writers and artists.
Speak Up Press
This national art and literary journal features writing and art by teens around the world.
Ryan is a typical freshman. He attends school events such as football games, he hangs out with his friends, and like most teen boys he has a crush on the hot new teacher. Ryan was happy with his daydreams of dating an older woman as gorgeous as his teacher. Never in a million years did he imagine that his teacher would want to date him. It started off with Ryan doing extra credit assignments for Lori, his teacher. Then Lori made her move, she invited Ryan to her apartment to help her move furniture. From there it went to secret meetings at a coffee shop. From there Ryan and Lori's relationship begins to move way beyond a student teacher relationship.
Check the catalog to see if it's in. Prey
Miss. Michelle
YA Librarian
It's that time of year again! The YA summer reading club has begun again. This year the theme is Metamorphosis @ Your Library. Here's your chance to get some great prizes while doing your summer reading. After you read your book you can either send us an email telling us about your book or you can come into the library and fill out a short report form. Then you get your prize. Don't know what to read? Check out some of the books on this blog or visit the Young Adult Librarian at the library for a suggestion.
Hanna had figured out who A was and was about to tell her friends when A ran her over with a car. Even though Hanna has awakened from her coma and will be fine, now she can't remember anything that happened right before the accident. Aria, Spencer, and Emily don't know what to do. A's still threatening them and now they know she means business. On top of that Hanna's best friend Mona has also started receiving threatening texts from A. It seems the girls will forever live in fear of A until a simple phrase that Emily says to Hanna brings her memory back. "Don't believe everything you hear", suddenly Hanna remembers who A is; great news right? It would be if Spencer wasn't with A when Hanna remembers. Will the girls be able to get to Spencer before A realizes that they know who she is? To find out read Unbelievable.
Do you believe in witches? Well Kyle Kingsbury didn't until he was turned into a beast by one. Kyle was the type of guy that every girl wanted. He was cute, had a famous dad, and knew how to charm a girl. Even though every girl liked Kyle, Kyle did not like every girl. He only liked the girls who were as gorgeous as him. He treated the girls who he thought were not so cute terribly. Well one of those girls that he treated horribly turned out to be a witch and she wanted to teach Kyle a lesson. So she turned him into a beast and the only way he could be turned back to his old self was by falling in love with someone, have them fall in love with him as well, and kiss him; but he only had two years to do this. Kyle couldn't believe what had happened to him. He looked hideous, how was he going to get a girl to fall in love with him and kiss him. A year passes and Kyle has been living in a brownstone in Brooklyn with only his housekeeper and blind tutor. He has just about given up hope of ever breaking the curse until an intruder breaks into his home. In order to avoid being arrested the intruder offers his teenage daughter to Kyle and Kyle accepts. To find out if this girl will be the one to finally break Kyle's curse read Beastly.
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It's lunch time and Adam is having lunch with Zoe in the hallway at school. He's finally gotten the nerve up to make a move and kiss her when the alarm bell goes off and the teacher's run into the hallway yelling "LOCKDOWN". Someone's in the school with a gun and everyone is scrambling to get into the classrooms and lock the doors. Adam and Zoe try to make their way out of the building but the crowd of students is too thick to get through. So they try and make a dash for one of the classrooms but one by one doors are slamming in their faces. Until they find themselves alone in the hallway with nowhere to hide from the gunman. The only place they can find to hide is in the boys bathroom. There they hide with two other students in one bathroom stall until they hear the door open and the sound of a gun clicking. Will Adam and Zoe make it out alive? Who is the gunman? To find out read Lockdown by Diane Tullson. Check the catalog to see if it's in. Lockdown
Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
YA PB HOR Duncan
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
PB Fic Matheson
Bloodline: a novel by Kate Cary
YA HOR Cary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Series)
YA PB Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cirque du freak (Series) by Darren Shan
YA PB Series Cirque du freak
The Restless Dead: ten original stories of the supernatural
YA SS Restless
Lessons from a dead girl
By. Jo Knowles
Leah is dead and Laine isn't broken up about it. Laine hated Leah. Leah forced Laine to do things she didn't want to do. Things she knew other girls didn't do. Now that Leah is gone Laine is left wondering why Leah chose her and dealing with the painful memories.
Game
By. Walter Dean Myers
Drew is the star of his basketball team. That is until the new kid comes along and steals all the attention. Drew tries not to let this get to him because he needs basketball to get to college. He doesn't want to loose this opportunity like he's seen other great players before him do.
Rhymes with Witches
By. Lauren Myracle
Invisible Jane is suddenly beginning to be noticed by the group of girls who are her schools "royalty". This is the break that Jane has been waiting for, or so she thinks. Can Jane handle the price they ask for popularity?