The Games Are On!

Readbox

Here's our new Readbox—created by Lakota and Cameron, our UL library aides. So many movies of YA books are coming out soon. We are pretty excited for the Nov. 22 premiere of Catching Fire. There will be a reaping in the UL courtyard on Nov. 21 for 7th-12th graders. Put your name in the bowl if you think you can survive the Quarter Quell!

Hot Chocolate Friday

The weather has turned cold (well, cold for Atlanta) so we celebrated with free hot chocolate in the library today. We gave away 160 cups of hot chocolate and 5 bags of marshmallows. We also enjoyed some guitar music from Samuel P. Donovan D. summed it up by saying, "Hot chocolate warms the soul." Thanks everyone for coming by. We will have a poetry reading in November and more hot chocolate in December.

Teens Top 10

Every year the American Library Association announces the "Teens Top 10" list of books. Teens all over the country recently voted for their favorites. The list was announced this week and we have most of them in the library (some are brand new and are on the shelves by the copiers in our library and others are in the catalog and on the regular bookshelves). Take a look at the website to learn more about them. http://www.ala.org/yalsa/reads4teens/read4teens

Unbound

The Unbound Book Club has fantastic weekly meetings, insightful book discussions, and amazing snacks (as you can see from this photo). Yesterday we had our first official book discussion of The Familiars, Because of Mr. Terupt, and Maximilian. I was so impressed with my group's strong opinions and their ability to be respectful of differing viewpoints. We argued and laughed and varied widely in what we thought of The Familiars, but I think we all understood why others felt differently about the book. If you want to know more about our book club, see the Unbound Book Club website.

New Releases

Lots of new books are being released in October and we are getting them in as they are published. We already have House of Hades by Rick Riordan, Unsouled by Neal Shusterman, The Grimm Conclusion by Adam Gidwitz, and The Eye of Minds by James Dashner. We are also buying them for our Kindles, so come check them out!

Gene Yang

It was a big week for authors at Galloway. Yesterday we hosted Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese. He is on tour promoting his new books, Boxers and Saints, but he spent most of the time telling us how he came to write American Born Chinese. He was funny and fascinating and now everyone wants to read his books. Thanks again to The Little Shop of Stories for arranging this visit.