http://brookline.ehclients.com/teen-blog/entries/ en rbrenner@minlib.net Copyright 2010 2010-08-26T13:47:48+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/meet-hunger-games-author-suzanne-collins/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/meet-hunger-games-author-suzanne-collins/#When:14:47:48Z Meet Suzanne Collins! Celebrate the release of MOCKINGJAY, the final book of The Hunger Games Trilogy. Tuesday, August 31st, 1:00pm. Ms. Collins will be giving a brief reading from Mockingjay and then will stamping (see note below about signing!) copies of the book for interested readers. PLEASE NOTE: This event will be first come, first serve. Tickets will be handed out starting at 12noon to maintain order for the line. ...Due to an existing hand strain, Ms. Collins will not be able to sign books but she will be stamping books with her one-of-a-kind Mockingjay stamp only available during this author tour. There is a limit of one book per customer and Ms. Collins cannot personalize any books. Ms. Collins cannot pose for pictures, but taking photographs is allowed. 2010-08-26T14:47:48+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-diary-of-pelly-d/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-diary-of-pelly-d/#When:04:50:39Z When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs. 2010-08-02T04:50:39+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-running-man/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-running-man/#When:20:47:25Z The year is 2025. The Running Man is America’s favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program’s latest contestant-and the Hunters’ latest target in a rigged game of death… 2010-08-01T20:47:25+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/epic/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/epic/#When:20:43:25Z Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your community, and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing.When Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends find themselves up against with the ultimate masters of the game: the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying Epic’s tyranny over New Earth. But if they lose… 2010-08-01T20:43:25+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-knife-of-never-letting-go/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-knife-of-never-letting-go/#When:20:37:44Z Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is. 2010-08-01T20:37:44+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-adoration-of-jenna-fox/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-adoration-of-jenna-fox/#When:20:34:36Z Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson’s vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication. 2010-08-01T20:34:36+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/life-as-we-knew-it/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/life-as-we-knew-it/#When:20:30:53Z Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter,Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Mirandas struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. 2010-08-01T20:30:53+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/mortal-engines/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/mortal-engines/#When:20:27:42Z It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea ... The great traction city london is on the move again. It has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, as its great mountain of metal lumbers along in hot pursuit of its quarry, the sinister plans it has harbored for years can finally start to unfold behind its soaring walls ... Thaddeus Valentine, London’s Head Historian and most famous archaeologist, and his daughter, Katherine, are down in The Gut when the young assassin with the black scarf strikes. Only the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly third-class apprentice, prevents Valentine from being stabbed in the heart. Madly racing after the fleeing girl, Tom suddenly glimpses her hideous face: scarred from forehead to jaw, nose a smashed stump, a single eye glaring back at him. “Look at what your Valentine did to me!” she screams. “Ask him! Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!” And with that she jumps down the waste chute to her death. Minutes later Tom finds himself tumbling down the same chute and stranded in the Out-Country, a sea of mud scored by the huge caterpillar tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon. 2010-08-01T20:27:42+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-forest-of-hands-and-teeth1/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-forest-of-hands-and-teeth1/#When:20:25:57Z In Mary’s world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—-between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death? 2010-08-01T20:25:57+00:00 http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-dead-tossed-waves/ http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/teen-blog/entries/the-dead-tossed-waves/#When:20:24:25Z Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves. 2010-08-01T20:24:25+00:00