Food Fear Factor Challenge

Friday, June 20th 7 pm at the Library...test your skills and see if you can endure the gross, disgusting foods at Food Fear Factor. Prizes will be awarded to the bravest eaters. This is the first program of the Teen Summer Reading Program open to any 7-12 grade North Beach Students. See you there!

Teen Summer Reading!!

Coming soon...Fun programs, great books, awesome prizes. Sign up starting June 13th.

TAB Meeting

There is a Teen Advisory Board Meeting this Saturday, April 26th at 3 p.m. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend. Being on the Library's TAB looks great on job resumes and college applications. You can even count your meeting time for volunteer hours. See you there

NEW MUSIC!

Your library rocks! Check out these new titles. If you have a suggestion for music that we just have to get because it is so so so good, let us know, we want to hear from you.

New Books!

"The complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi: Here, in one volume, Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming--both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.

"Bad Kitty" By Michele Jaffe: Jasmine Callihan, her father, and stepmother are vacationing in Las Vegas at the posh Venetian Hotel. All the 17-year-old really wants to do is sunbathe by the pool, write in her journal, and attempt to be a Model Hallmark Card daughter, all the while avoiding her perfect cousin Alyson and her Evil Hench Twin, Veronique. Her plans go awry, however, when a small boy and his cat make Jas a central character in a murder investigation. Soon Jass best friends come from LA to join her adventure and all attempt to solve the murder of Len Phillips, business manager of world-famous photographer Red Early. "Poison Apples" by Lily Archer: Alice, Reena, and Molly meet at an elite boarding school in rural Massachusetts. It takes them a while to realize that they've all landed there primarily because of their wicked stepmothers, but once discovered, this fact binds them in friendship and their shared desire to exact revenge on the new women in their lives during Thanksgiving break.

More New Music!!

TAB Meeting

Where are the coolest kids in Ocean Shores going to be on Saturday, January 26th at 3 p.m.? At the Ocean Shores Library Teen Advisory Board Meeting! Anyone grade 7-12 is welcome to attend. We will be discussing upcoming programming ideas and much more. See you there!

Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament

On Thursday, January 3rd...local teens come to the Ocean Shores Library to battle...Super Smash Brothers style! Congratulations to the winners, 1st place; Tyler Cole, 2nd place; Robby Ramiskey, and 3rd place; Andrew Hoang.

New CDs at your library!

TAB Meeting

The next meeting of the Teen Advisory Board will be on Saturday, December 15th at 3 p.m.
If you like the library and would like to see more teen programming and services, you are welcome to attend.

Library Closed

Your library will be closed Thursday, November 22nd through Saturday, November 24th for the Thanksgiving holiday....enjoy your turkey day!

Attention **New Books**

**Staff Pick** I read this book and I LOVED it! If you like creepy, suspenseful, exciting, books with a little humor thrown in, read this book. It is the story of 17 year old Duncan. He just got a job in a subway lost and found. It is a boring job, and not the way he wants to pass his last summer of high school. One day while working, he finds a strange leather book, with no title. He looks inside and finds out, its the journal of a psychopathic killer! This killer is using the subway to stalk women that he plans on killing. Duncan decides he can find the women and warn them. When that doesn't work, he thinks maybe, with the help of his friends, he can find the killer and stop him. What if the killer finds him first? "Acceleration" by Graham McNamee. If you like to listen to books on CD, we have this one in that format also. ----Michelle Olson

"Beyond cool" by Bev Katz Rosenbaum. This is the sequel to "I was a teenage popsicle" Apparently being frozen for ten years hasn't made Floe any cooler... The next in the hot series about a girl whose life is really on the rocks. Floe Ryan was frozen at sixteen because of a rare disease. Now she's been thawed back to her normal self-but everything else has changed: her little sister's older than her, her teachers are holograms, and she's learning to drive a hovercar. Plus, with her boyfriend acting distant and having to deal with all the cliques, high school is becoming an even colder place. She's also learned that those who were frozen are susceptible to illnesses, and the one doctor who can cure them has gone AWOL. Floe must find him. But she's learning that someone might be hunting for her too-and she could be iced for good this time.

Can't get enough of vampire books? Then try, "Eight grade bites: the chronicles of Vladimir Tod" by Heather Brewster. Junior high really sucks for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: his mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with his blood cravings and his enlarged fangs. When a substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely, Vlad worries that his cover is about to be blown. But then he faces a much bigger problem: he’s being hunted by a vampire killer.

TAB Meeting

The next Teen Advisory Board meeting is on Saturday, September 22nd at 3 p.m. This meeting is mandatory for anyone who wants to be a part of the TAB for the 2007-08 school year. We will discuss the TSRP, what was a success, what we want to change, etc. We will also schedule for group photos! See you then.

Teen Summer Reading Program Auction

Friday, August 24th, the last program of the TSRP was held. We had an auction of all the prizes donated by local businesses. Everyone had a great time bidding and there were some bidding wars. It was Michelle's first time as auctioneer and she appreciated everyone's patience! The auction was a hit and we will do it again next year! This year 36 teens signed up and read over 120 books!

Reviews from Teen Summer Reading!

Here are some book reviews from North Beach teens...

Name Chelsey
Title: "Chew on this"
Author: Eric Schlosser
Review: "The book told me everything I don't want to know about fast food and it was pretty informative"
Rating: three fingerprints

Name: Savannah
Title: "Sloppy firsts"
Author: Megan McCafferty
Review: "It was good, it leaves you hanging at the end so you want to read the sequel"
Rating: four fingerprints

Name: Chloe
Title: "Princess in the spotlight"
Author: Meg Cabot
Review: "I loved this book and I can't wait to read the next books in the series"
Rating: Three fingerprints

Name: Rachel
Title: "Elsewhere"
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Review: "It's a fun story about a girl named Liz who hates Elsewhere at first but learns to love it!!!!
Rating: Four Fingerprints

Murder Mystery Solved!

Everyone had a great time Saturday Night solving the "Cracks in the Wall" Murder Mystery. Congratulations to the winners who followed the clues, and brought a killer to justice. Special thanks to Evan, Skyler, Robby, Dana, Navarre for playing 'suspects' you did a great job! Big thanks also goes out to the Ocean Shores Police, especially Officer High, for helping us out and Bill and Shannon at North Beach TV for filming the 'suspects' interviews. The next TSRP event is the finale Auction on Friday, August 24th at 3pm. Bring your library cash and bid on awesome prizes. See you @ the Library.

Murder at the Library!

Saturday, July 28th at 9p.m join us at the Library for a Murder Mystery Night, "The Cracks in the wall"
The cracks in the foundation lead to a body. Is it a man who's been missing for five years? And is it an accident...or murder? Help us solve the mystery! Win prizes! Open to all 7th-12th grade North Beach Students. This event is part of our Teen Summer Reading Program

New Books!

"Dramarama" by E. Lockhart
"Sadye and Demi are two teenagers who are tired of their non-razzle-dazzle lives in Brenton, Ohio and decide to apply to the Wildewood Academy for the Performing Arts Summer Institute, run by a well-known Broadway director. Both are fans of Broadway musicals and Liza Minelli, whom they both adore. Their summer is one of friendship, jealousy, and new love. From "Cats" to "Guys and Dolls," this book tells all of the ups and downs of their summer, their new relationships, and just how hard the kids must work to be the actors they want to become in order to leave boring old Ohio behind them once and for all. "

"The Off Season" by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

"This sequel to Murdock's Dairy Queen (Houghton, 2006) catches readers up with narrator D.J. Schwenk as she hits her stride in her junior year of high school. She's playing linebacker for her high school football team, hanging out with Brian (the rival high school's quarterback), earning passing grades, and pulling her weight on her family's struggling dairy farm. But "a whole herd of trouble" is coming her way. First, D.J. and, by extension, Brian become the unwitting subjects of a People magazine article. Then D.J. suffers a shoulder injury that threatens her sports career, her gay best friend runs away with an older girlfriend, and D.J. notices that Brian isn't too keen on being seen with her in public. "Epic" by Conor Kostick

"Where fantasy and video games meet, there is Epic. In a society where violence is banned, people must settle their disputes in Epic, at the same time that they are trying to stay alive in order to accumulate wealth and status in both the game world and in reality. Impulsively, Erik creates his new Epic character to be female, and spends all his allocated start-up funds on beauty and attitude for Cindella rather than weapons, but something tells him that this is the way to go. She and his friends' characters use a succession of unusual methods to save Erik's father from exile and to challenge Central Allocations, the representatives who run the game, and thus, the society. " "Beauty shop for rent" by Laura Bowers

"Abbey Garner, 15, has learned a lot from her hardworking great-grandmother, with whom she lives in rural Maryland. They run a beauty shop together, but Granny Po would like to retire and rent it out for profit. Abbey has mixed feelings when Gena arrives in town and arranges to turn Polly's Parlor into a successful day spa, but her ambivalence is quickly overcome when she reaps the benefits of learning about marketing, design, and finances from the newcomer while earning an increased salary. " "Camp Creepy time" by Gina Geshon.

"Einstein P. Fleet is shipped off to summer camp against his will for a summer of fun and fresh air. Stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the eccentric boy soon discovers that the haunt is little more than an alien-run smuggling operation run by the counselors who are turning his fellow campers into monsters, with plans of selling them to an intergalactic zoo. Unable to convince anyone of the dire situation, it's up to Einstein to save the others and himself in the process.

Teen Summer Reading Kick Off Party!

On Friday June 30th the TSRP started off with our annual Kick Off Party. Games were played, food was consumed, prizes were won, everyone had a great time. The next event is the Murder Mystery Night, Saturday, July 28th at 9pm. It will be at the library and the participants will help solve a 'murder' to win prizes.

Harry Potter party!

Friday, July 20th at 10:30 p.m. the Ocean Shores Public Library is having a party to celebrate the release of the 7th and final Harry Potter book. We will have books for sale at midnight for $25.00. There will be games, like a "Bertie Botts beans" tasting contest. There will be a costume contest...and of course refreshments. Everyone is invited. See you there!