TeenZone Blog

November 17, 2009

Read Any Good Books Lately?

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I don't know if any of you have seen the Cirque du Freak: Vampire's Assistant movie yet. It was based on Darren Shan's book, Cirque du Freak.

I thought the book was okay. The movie trailers look pretty good. There is another series by Darren Shan, Demonata, book 1 is Lord Loss. I have read all 9 books in the series. The most recent one is Dark Calling.

So tell me what books you are reading and give me suggestions for my next read. Just comment below.

Posted by Dymphna Harrigan at 02:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

October 31, 2009

Awesome Teen Volunteers

Thank you so much for helping with the Halloween Party at the Library. I know some of you had not signed up, but we sure were able to put you to work!

Merry will load all the pictures to our Flicker account so you might want to check that out. There were not many pictures of teen volunteers.View image Probably because we were pretty busy the entire time.

But here are some more pictures. View image View image

Again thank you so much for helping. We could not have done this without you.

Posted by Dymphna Harrigan at 04:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

October 19, 2009

Teen Read Week October 18-24, 2009

This year Teen Read Week is October 18-24. This week is also when the winning "Teens Top Ten" books for 2009 are announced. Have you read many of them? Since we are no longer an official Galley Book Group, I don't seem to read as many of the nominated titles, but I did read 5 of the winning 10. Hey, did any of you read "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman? I would love to know what you think.

Also, there is this great site from the Eastern Connecticut Young Adult Roundtable. Not only is there a great list broken into genre, but there are lists of book trailers, books to movies listed by Author, and new YA books.

And don't forget the TeenZone site. Click on Read It and there are lots of links including the list of new YA books at the Danbury Library.

REMINDER, Thursday is a Galley Book Discussion in the LTC Conference Room from 5:30 to 7:00. See you then. Email (dharrigan@danburylibrary.org) or call (797-4528) if you have any questions.

And the Twilight Program is filling up fast.

Posted by Dymphna Harrigan at 01:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

October 07, 2009

Altered Books II

When I had the Altered Book Program in June, there were many of you who asked me to have another program and to have it soon!

Well, Altered Books II, is next Thursday, October 15th from 4 to 6. If you are interested you must call 797-4528 to register.

Remember, if you did the program in June, bring your book with you and continue working on the inside. All supplies are included and the program is free. But there is a limit. So, call today and reserve your place.

Posted by Dymphna Harrigan at 02:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Who needs drawing skills???

Holy cow! I was surfing some of my favorite tech blogs when I came across PhotoSketch, a web-based program that can turn rough blob sketches into amazing photos:

Watch the video below to see a demonstration. Pretty amazing stuff.

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

The website for PhotoSketch is currently down to try it out (presumably since a few hundred thousand people tried to access it in a 24-hour period), but hopefully, it'll be back up soon so you all could try it too. Keep an eye for it! What images would you create with PhotoSketch??

Posted by Merry at 12:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)