Teen Read Week – you decide!

I have a favor to ask you all! Teen Read Week is in October and the theme this year is “Books with Bite.” This actually leaves a lot of room for interpretation – books that have something to do with cooking? Or books that deal with monsters like vampires [...]

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – read or else!

Ack! I just finished reading this awesome book, and I wanted to let you all know how much I enjoyed it. It’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. This was the sort of book where I would read paragraphs and then want to run to my email (can you do [...]

Eoin Colfer signing

Heyo!  If any of you are Eoin Colfer/Artemis Fowl fans, the sixth book in the series, The Time Paradox, is coming out this month.  There will be a reading and book signing at Town Hall Seattle on Saturday, July 19th, at 6pm.  That gives you plenty of time to come to our cosplay program at [...]

Ranting is good for the soul!

Two posts in one day… it’s like Christmas!  Okay, not really.  Librarians love to talk to each other and teen librarians love to talk about their teens… so through the librarian grapevine, I heard about this video rant about the book Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause vs. the movie.  I thought you might [...]

Roll on into the library… get it? Hah!

Yesterday we spent the afternoon making sushi rolls. It was most definitely sticky, and a little stinky, but it was pretty cool! Everyone got really creative with their rolls, and I was surprised at how much people experimented with the hot sauce and wasabi. I hope you enjoy the pictures!
Rice, cucumbers, crab [...]