don’t watch if you haven’t read it

beanie baby hunger games

new books hitting the shelves soon

Croak by  Gina  DamicoA delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business

Farsighted  Emily  Chand No catalog description but — About a blind high school boy whose life gets harder when he discovers he can see the future

The  Statistical  Probability   of  Love at First Sight by  Jennifer  E  Smith Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day

Buried Linda  Joy  Singleton Goth girl Thorn and her family move to Nevada where Thorn meets a mysterious masked young man and follows psychic vibrations from a locket to a shocking, long-buried secret

Katana by  Cole  Gibson When seventeen-year-old Rileigh Martin discovers she may be harboring the spirit of Senshi, a samurai, she is torn between continuing as an ordinary, shoe-loving girl and embracing the warrior inside, with help from a handsome martial arts instructor, Kim

Truth  by  Julia  Karr  Follow-up to XVI – At fifteen, Nina Oberon leads a pretty normal life that includes family, friends, and school. However, Nina lives in a totalitarian future society in which all girls are required to get a Governing Council-ordered “XVI” wrist tattoo on their 16th birthdays, announcing to the world that they are ready for sex. Becoming a “sex-teen” is Nina’s worst fear until, right before her birthday, her mother is brutally attacked and reveals a shocking truth to Nina with her dying breaths that changes everything Nina thought she knew about her life. Now, alone but for her younger sister, Nina must try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step ahead of her mother’s killer

Starters  by Lissa  Price To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it

The  Survivors  by  Will  Weaver Sequel to: Memory boy . Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home

Emmy Noether

In  yesterday’s  NYT there was  an  article on Emmy Noether. They claim that she is a mathematician that no one has ever heard of. Well, I didn’t know her name. We don’t have a singgle book just on her, but she is in a lot of our books. Did you know her name?

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Do you qualify?

hawai’i chamber of commerce of Northern California scholarship

Due March 31st

I  found  out about  this  today – and  thought I’d  spread  the word.

hunger games

reviews, no not mine, just some links to some of the more interesting reviews I have read

here is one and another.

the fun we had

Here are  some photos  from  our friendship  bracelet  workshop:

fun

Reminder – Friendship bracelet workshop

So if you were up after midnight – or  up very  early – this is  a reminder

from  2-4  today  we  are making friendship  bracelets  at the  Fremont  Main  library – we  have  the materials  and some basic stitches ( knots ) so  come  an relax for a  few hours.  Craft  making is  a productive way  to relax and  make  your brain  ready  for the hard work  of studying.

movie out the 30th

By now you all know – give me a retelling of a fairy tale and I am Happy. so if you aren’t into the Hunger Game – How about Mirror, Mirror?

Get Active! Contest

Here is  another contest with over  1000.00 in  prizes. Get Active contest!This contest is sponsored by the East bay regional Park district.

Go to your local park and have fun – then turn your fun into ART !

Here is a sample video:

If you are a resident of Alameda or Contra Costa county between the ages of 12 – 18 you can enter this contest. Read the rules here.