At Long Last - Princess Diaries Vol. X: Forever Princess

As of January 6th 2009 the final chapter in Mia's life will be reveled! Make sure to stay tuned and let us know...was it worth the wait??

Winter Break

Enjoy some new titles at the library during winter break! Some new favorites include:

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

*Chalice by Robin McKinley

Gone by Michael Grant

*Graceling by Kristin Cashore

*The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green

Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauly



* Staff Recommended

And the Winner is.....

Alexandra Friscia!

Alex has won a gift card to Joe's Comics for participating in this year's "Get Graphic @ Your Library Contest." Not only did Alex win the contest but she also submitted the largest number of graphic novel reviews. Thank you!

Next summer we will be sponsoring a similar contest so stayed tuned.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!

Thanks so much to all of the teens that helped out this summer. You helped to make the summer reading program a super successful event!! Our last event will be this Thursday, August 14th from 3:00-5:00.

Breaking Dawn: Was It Worth the Wait?

This past Saturday the long awaited fourth book in Stephenie Meyers Twilight series was finally released. Since then there have been thousands of shocked and disappointed as well as thrilled and excited fans. What are your thoughts?

Was it the best book in the series, the worst? We're you happy with how the series ended? Did SM stay true to Bella and Edward's characters?

Was it worth the wait??

Feed the Frog

Thank You!

A big "Thanks" to all the teens who have been helping out this summer. It has been a HUGE help. Just a quick reminder about the BUG BLAST on Thursday, August 14th - if you are interested in helping out please let me know. You will need to be here from 3:00-5:00.

Only two more weeks to submit book reviews - read, read read! Multiple winners are drawn each week.

Get Graphic @ Wadsworth Library

The graphic novels are here! Wadsworth Library was awarded a $500 grant from Pioneer Library System allowing us to add over 40 new graphic novels. Now that they are here we want your input! Do you have favorite series, characters, or individual titles? Are there graphic novels that we didn't purchase that you would like to see here at the library? Now is your chance to give us feedback.

For each graphic novel that you read from now until the end of August fill out a graphic review form and put it in the jug. At the end of the summer we will have a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to Joe's Comics in Geneseo.

For titles of recently purchased graphic novels check out the posts below.

The more you review the better your chances to win!

Interested in helping with any of these events?

For a look at the upcoming children's events that you may be interested in volunteering for click here.

Summer Volunteers

Teen Volunteer Opportunities at the Wadsworth Library

-Summer 2008-

Are you going into grade 7 or above this summer?

Do you like working with kids?

Do you have a few hours a week free to volunteer between

June 30th and August 14th?

Volunteer opportunities include helping with and preparing for craft programs, folding programs, monitoring children at events and helping decorate for the reading program. Also, if there is interest we may begin a summer Teen Book Club.

If you have any questions you may post to the "comments" on this blog or e-mail Sarah Matthews at smatthews@pls-net.org

If you are interested there is a one-hour orientation meeting on
June 19th at 7:00 p.m. Bring a calendar!

Graphic Novels

Thanks to a grant from Pioneer Library System we were able to purchase over 40 new graphic novels. New arrivals are listed below and there are more on the way!

One Piece Vol. 1-4

Naruto Vol. 10-15

Fruits Basket Vol. 8-10

Love Hina Vol. 1-4

Hellsing Vol. 1-2

Bleach Vol. 1-5

Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 1-5

Emily the Strange Vol. 1-2

Maus Vol. 1-2

Persepolis 2

Good-Bye Chunky Rice

American Born Chinese

Heroes

Runaways Vol. 3

NEW Films and Anime @ the Library

The Golden Compass - A

The Bee Movie - C

Spirited Away - A

Princess Mononoke - A

Howl's Moving Castle - A

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - A

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children -A

Fullmetal Alchemist - The Conqueror of Shamballa - A

Hannah Montana Pop Star Profile (and others) - C


These films can be found in either the children's DVD (C) or adult DVD (A) collection.

If you have suggestions for other films you would like added to the library's collection let us know!

Calling all Volunteers!

The summer reading program is right around the corner and we are looking for teen volunteers! Within the next few weeks application forms will be availible here at the library and in the Geneseo Central Middle/High School library. If you have any questions please e-mail Sarah at smatthews@pls-net.org More information will be availible soon.

Good luck with finals!

Award Winners

This past January ALA announced the best books in Young Adult Literature.

The Michale L. Printz Award for excellence in YA literature was given to Geraldine McCaughrean for The White Darkness. Check out the other award winners and honors books at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz.cfm

What's New?

*New Titles at the Wadsworth Library*

Slam -Sam is a disarmingly ordinary 15-year-old kid who loves to skate (that's skateboarding, to you and me). But then he is blindsided: his girlfriend gets pregnant, and he lands in the middle of his mum's nightmare (she had Sam when she was 16). Sam, also has a sort-of-imaginary friend: the world's greatest skater, Tony Hawk, whose poster Sam talks to when he has problems. And the poster talks back, maybe, or maybe Sam is just reciting quotes from Tony's autobiography. And is it really Tony who is "whizzing" Sam into the future for glimpses of what is to come?


Princess Mia - A princess on her own . . .

Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Now that Michael has broken things off, Mia can barely get out of bed, and her parents are making her see a therapist. School, where Lilly still refuses to speak to her and Lana suddenly wants to be bff, is a total nightmare. What's a royal to do? Just when things couldn't get worse, Mia uncovers an old family secret, a long-forgotten diary of a teenage princess of Genovia. It could be just the thing to help Mia write her speech—but it might also change the fate of the Renaldos forever.

Safe - To Tracy, safe means having Mama close by. Years after her mother’s death, Tracy still feels her presence. But the moment Tracy is forced into a car as she is walking home from school one day, safe is ripped away. In the aftermath of an unspeakable crime, thirteen-year-old Tracy must fight her way back to safety and find comfort in her mother’s memory once again.


Tamar - It was her taciturn but beloved grandfather, William Hyde, who gave Tamar her strange name. But in 1995, when she was 15, he committed suicide, leaving her to wonder if she knew him at all. Later, when she opens the box of War II memorabilia that he left her, she's struck by the need to find out what it means, who he really was, and where she fits in. Tension mounts incrementally in an intricate wrapping of wartime drama and secrecy, in which Tamar finds her namesake and herself. Forming the backbone of the novel are intense, sometimes brutal events in a small Dutch town in Nazi-occupied Holland and the relationship between the girl's namesake, a member of the Dutch Resistance; Dart, a code operator assigned to help him; and Marijke, the love of his life.

More to come...