Book Talk: Just One Year by Gayle Forman

Just One Year by Gayle Forman

Just One Year
by Gayle Forman
Call Number YA FOR
WVPL - BB

Did you read Just One Day back in January? Here's the story you've been waiting for: Willem's.

Willem wakes up in a hospital. He's disoriented, confused, but knows he has to get back to something. He's forgetting something. The details start to come back and he has to get back to her, but he can't remember where she is. So he tries to find her, gives up, and tries again with help. Luck, fate, accidents. That's how he's lived. Is that how he should continue living now?


This is not the story of what happened at the end of Just One Day. Instead, this is the story of Willem and what happened when he disappeared, stranding Allyson/Lulu and sparking her journey. For him, his journey is slightly different. He's searching for her, but at the same time, he realizes he's searching for himself. Willem will travel to Mexico (so close to her!), India, and home again trying to learn about himself and the family he came from over the course of a year.


A portion of this review is on our Shelfari page here.

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.

 

Fresh Picks for Teens (Dec. 20)

We have a few new titles for you to check out this week! We'll be open on Saturday and Sunday, normal hours (if you need a place to hang out for a little or to pick up reads for winter break). We'll be closed Monday (Dec. 24) and Tuesday (Dec. 25).

New Fiction

• Pinned by Sharon Flake - YA FLA
• This is not a drill by Beck McDowell - YA MCD
• Zom-B by Darren Shan - YA SHA

New Graphic Novels (or comics)

• Wrapped Up in You : or Mummy Can't Buy Me love : or Mummy dearest : or True Love Waits Five Hundred Years : or A Run For Her Mummy : or Love Incan-tation : or How to Preserve a Relationship (My Boyfriend is a Monster, 6) by Dan Jolley; illustrated by Natalie Nourigat - YA GN JOL

Fresh Picks for Teens (Nov. 30)

New books just for teens! Only two this week made it to the shelves. A few more that came out went out into the world all ready. One such example is Reached by Ally Condie.

Fiction

• The Secret Prophecy by Herbie Brennan - YA BRE
• This Is Not Forgiveness by Celia Rees - YA REE

Fresh Picks for Teens (Nov. 17)

New reads just for you. Check them out today!


Fiction

• The Dark Unwinding:  by Sharon Cameron - YA CAM
• The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke - YA CLA
• Beta:  by Rachel Cohn - YA COH
• The FitzOsbornes at War: by Michelle Cooper - YA COO
• Pirate Cinema  by Cory Doctorow - YA DOC
• The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde - YA FFO

Fresh Picks for Teens (Nov. 9)

New books! All fiction this week. Popular titles too you may have missed the first time around. Grab them quickly though!

Fiction

• Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan - YA BRE
• The Last Apprentice: Lure of the Dead  by Joseph Delaney - YA DEL
• Palace of Stone  by Shannon Hale - YA HAL
• Tilt by Ellen Hopkins - YA HOP
• Fourmile  by Watt Key - YA KEY
• Holding on to Zoe by George Ella Lyon - YA LYO
• Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry - YA MCG
• Shadow on the Mountain ; a novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy:by Margi Preus - YA PRE
• The Other Normals: by Ned Vizzini - YA VIZ

Keep on Reading!

Banned Book Week 2012

Did you see our display in the YA Fiction area yet? If not, there is still time! Banned Book Week 2012 is winding down (from September 30 to October 6), but we'll leave our display up a few more days. Banned Book Week isn't just a special, one week issue. The issue of censorship and banning books is a 24/7 occurrence. We have this week in the fall to bring awareness to the fact it happens and that someday, we hope, no one will face these issues.

Until then, let's celebrate our freedom to read what we want!

By the way, you can check out those books, take them home, and happily tear away the paper covering the book to free the book (Just don't rip the book)! Can you recognize the center book there? See which favorites have been banned in the past from the links below.



Want to learn more about Banned Book Week? Check out these links:

• The Top 100 Banned Books from 2000-2009, in a really awesome infographic.
• The Official Banned Books Week page, with a lot of great information.
• The American Library Association's Banned Book Week page.

Keep on reading!
Miss Tegan

Fresh Picks for Teens (October 4)

We have a few new books today! Click the title to be taken to our catalog.

New Fiction

• The Demon Catchers of Milan by Kat Beyer - YA BEY
• Department 19: The Rising by Will Hill - YA HIL 
• A Certain October by Angela Johnson- YA JOH
• The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna - YA MAN

Keep on reading!

Fresh Picks for Teens (September 27)

We're mixing things up over here and trying out something new: a blog dedicated just to teens! Here you'll find posts on teen reads, teen library news, and more. Be sure to check back at least once a week where I'll try to post the latest, newest books hitting the shelves.

Also, sign up for WOWbrary, for more about what's new including movies and video games.

New Fiction

• Guitar Notes by Mary Amato - YA AMA
• Between You & Me by Marisa Calin - YA CAL
• Over You by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - YA MCL
• Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel - YA OPP
• The Girl With Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti - YA ROS

New Non-Fiction

• Animals Welcome : A Life of Reading, Writing and Rescue by Peg Kehret - 

That's it for this week. Stop by the library to pick one of these new titles up or click on the title to place a request online.

Keep reading!