Book News! Link Roundup

Lots of awesome stuff going on in the book world lately, especially for teen readers.

• YALSA's 2013 Teens' Top Ten Nominations have come out (YALSA is part of the American Library Association). These are books nominated by teens and chosen by teen groups around the US. We'll have a display in October with Teen Read Week with all the nominations and a list of the Top 10 winners. Might be handy if you are looking for something new to read.
• Veronica Roth's Divergent Book 3 set to come out this fall now has a title. Visit the link for more (which also have a small bit on movie news)!
• Free Comic Book Day is on May [the] Fourth (May 4). Get your free comics! It is an awesome event where you get free comics and sometimes some extra free goodies.
• Hunger Games: Catching Fire Trailer came out. What do you think?
• Lastly, Happy National Library Week!

That's it for now. For more links, follow us at WVPLYouth on Twitter. 

Join the Foce! Volunteer Force for Teen Volunteers

• Are you between the ages of 14-17?
• Do you want to volunteer at the library but you are short on time?
• Join our Teen Volunteer Force forming now!

The Teen Volunteer Force is made up of teen volunteers, like you, who are short on time, but want to volunteer either for credit hours or just to give a few hours here and there. Are you interested in joining? Sign up now by downloading and dropping off a volunteer application at WVPL in Blue Bell!

The Teen Volunteer Force will have regular meetings as well to keep everyone up-to-date.  Our first meeting will be this Saturday, March 2 at 11 AM. Anyone who makes this meeting can help out at our Star Wars Event that day (this is a full event). Make sure we get your application in advance!

New Teen Space at Ambler!

Those chairs are AWESOME.

Have you been to our Ambler Branch recently (you know, the one on Race Street by the fire house)? If not, you should at least stop by and check out the new teen space seating (especially if you didn't know this library was there!). Some shelving was taken out in order to make room for a table and chairs.This area is just for teens and is a great study spot. We'll be adding a rug soon. Check it out!

Tween/Teen Crafternoon - Marble Magnet Fun!

Our first Tween/Teen Crafternoon, on January 26 at Blue Bell, was a success! We had 3 teens all together participating in making lovely magnets. We introduced ourselves and chatted about music, books, and helped each other find various pictures. I basically said, "we'll craft until we run out of supplies." We ran out of magnets first...at about 3:30 PM...

Anyway, check out some of the awesome creations!

Join us in February for Tween/Teen Crafternoon. We have two dates and two locations:

• Saturday, February 16, @ 2 PM @ Ambler
• Saturday, February 23, @ 2 PM @ Blue Bell

Oh, right. Pics or it didn't happen.

Eyes are really cool for this project.

There's a blue marble in there.

The glue wasn't done drying when the photo was taken, but check out the assortment!

"All You Need Is Love"...And a Good Book!

We've got a new display in the teen area just for you. Pick up a story with a little bit of romance for February. On the other hand, if Valentine's isn't your thing, check out the bottom shelf for some of the most talked about books of the past year.

Go ahead, stop by and check out one of these books.

Tween/Teen Crafternoon: Make This on Jan. 26!

Recognize a certain character or certain book cover?

Have you been wondering what a "Marble Magnet" is? Well, look no further! I finally made a few examples to show you exactly what they are. We'll actually have the larger sized "marble" available for the event (that's the rooster). The small ones were some I had laying around. Do you recognize a few of the examples?

These simple to make magnets are addicting. Once you get started you can see all kinds of possibilities for your own magnet art.

Our first Tween/Teen Crafternoon* is meeting this Saturday, January 26 at 2 PM at Blue Bell. Join us! Registration requested.



*Tween/Teen Crafternoon is a new series of events just for the crafty tween and teen! We'll make a different craft each month (as the schedule allows). There will be a meeting at Ambler and a meeting at Blue Bell. Join in to suggest new crafts.

Just One Day by Gayle Forman (Who visits THURSDAY!)

Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Just One Day
by Gayle Forman
Call Number: YA FOR
WVPL - BB (coming soon)

Europe. Traveling. The summer before college. Anything can happen, except Allyson doesn't want to change. She didn't want the bob haircut her best friend talked her into and she doesn't exactly want life to reinvent itself.

Except there's the boy. There's also this thing called "Guerrilla Will" which features the mysterious boy in a Shakespeare play that takes the crowd with them on scene changes. Allyson and her friend follow and the mysterious boy gives her a coin.

Chance, luck, or fate, throws the mysterious boy, Willem, with Allyson and for one day, she agrees to follow him to Paris, the real Paris and enjoy Europe. There are ups and downs, adventures and action, but for Allyson, it is a whirlwind day that is so perfect, that maybe she can extend that day further.

Except Willem disappears without a word.

Can one day really change a person? For Allyson, something about that one day did and she spends one year, with a little help from  Shakespeare and "accidents," facing truths known and unknown, learning about herself, and questioning the limits of her life.


Author Gayle Forman will be visiting Wissahickon Valley Public Library in Blue Bell on Thursday, January 24 at 4:30 PM to talk about her works, including Just One Day. Request it now and stop by to meet this NY Times Best Selling Author of If I Stay and Where She Went.