We Can’t Get Enough!
Are you pumped for the upcoming release of The Hunger Games movie? We can’t stop thinking about it, so join us for these two awesome HG events!
The Hunger Games Debate
Wednesday, February 22, from 5:30-6:30pm
It’s almost time for the movie! So let’s talk about what you love and hate about The Hunger Games trilogy and what you’re expecting from the movie. We’ll even make Mockingjay pins!
Please register for this program.
Hunger Games Arena Challenge
Friday, March 16, from 6:30-8:30
Teens in grades 6-12, join us as we head to the training grounds. Come dressed as your favorite tribute and discover your District as the game makers put you to the test with contests in archery, camouflage, plant identification, knot tying, and more. Craft stations, photo opportunities, a scavenger hunt, trivia, and giveaways will also be part of the event.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
Registration is mandatory.
This program is a collaboration between the Moon Township and Sewickley Public Libraries. It will be held at the Moon Township Public Library.
Keep Your Eyes Open…
…For these new items in the Teen Room!
Books:
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin
My Awesome/Awful Popolarity Plan by Seth Rudetsky
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
Tempest by Julie Cross
Diabolical by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Pretty Little Secrets by Sara Shepard
Bleach, vol. 38 by Tite Kubo
XXX Holic, vol. 15 by Clamp
Black Butler, vol. 8 by Yana Toboso
Make It: Felt Fortune Cookies
Make It: Felt Fortune Cookies
Thursday, February 9, from 4:30-5:30pm
Who wants to give/get boring heart-shaped cards? Think up quirky fortunes to put in these unique, felt Valentines! We’ll also have M&Ms and Hershey Kisses to hide in the fortune cookies!
Please register for this program. Bring a friend!
Keep Your Eyes Open…
…For these new items in the Teen Room!
Books
Black Butler vol. 7 by Yana Toboso
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Dead to You by Lisa McMann
Don’t Breathe a Word by Holly Cupala
The Edumacation of Jay Baker by Jay Clark
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Heartless by Sara Shepard
Lenobia’s Vow (A House of Night Novella) by P.C. and Kristin Cast
Never Eighteen by Megan Bostic
Pendragon Book Six: The Rivers of Zadaa by D.J. MacHale
The Rivals (Mockingbirds Book 2) by Daisy Whitney
Soul Searching by Sarah Stillman
Speaking Out (edited by) Steve Berman
The Survivors by Will Weaver
Switched by Amanda Hocking
There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones
Two Truths and a Lie (A Lying Game Novel) by Sara Shepard
Untamed by P.C. Cast
You Don’t Even Know Me by Sharon Flake
DVDs
Keep Your Eyes Open…
For these new items in the Teen Room!
Books:
Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler
Case Closed vol. 41 by Gosho Aoyama
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
The Death Cure by James Dashner
Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri
The Gift by James Patterson
Hush by Eishes Chayil
Irises by Francisco X. Stork
Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
Love & Leftovers by Sarah Tregay
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Pregnancy Project: A memoir by Gaby Rodriguez
Promise the Night by Michaela MacColl
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
Stick by Andrew Smith
There is no Dog by Meg Rosoff
The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook by Emily Baines
Wandering Son vol. 2 by Shimura Takako
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
CDs:
A Very She and Him Christmas [soundtrack]
The Muppets [soundtrack]
Metals by Feist
Finally Famous by Big Sean
The Tain by The Decemberists
Another Book Review by the Awesome Emilie
“In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. When the lights were on, they cast a yellowish glow over the streets; people walking by threw long shadows that shortened and then stretched out again. When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds.”
A bit before the city was born, a chief builder and his assistant decided on leaving the city residents a box of instructions for when the lights began to dim. They left it in the hands of the mayor, who passed it to his successor, and so on and so on. But one mayor decides he wants to open it. So he whacks it with a hammer unsuccessfully, got frustrated and left it in his closet. Then he passed away; not in enough time to tell his successor or return the box to it’s original hiding place. So the box remained there, until it clicked open of it’s own accord, as planned by the chief builder and assistant, but nobody heard or acknowledged it.
Years later, Lina Mayfleet finds a box with paper in it. Unfortunately, her sister Poppy has already ripped and chewed bits of it. Lina doesn’t know what these are, and she and her friend, Doon, are trying to figure it out. Could they be important?
Could the mayor be holding a secret?
Could these be the instructions?
-Emilie S.
If you like City of Ember, be sure to check out the rest of the books in the series and the movie!
Keep Your Eyes Open…
For These New Items in the Teen Room!
Books:
The Coming of the Dragon by Rebecca Barnhouse
In Darkness by Nick Lake
CDs:
Stronger by Kelly Clarkson (#221)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (#271)
Glee: Season Three (#336)
Sewickley Public Library Needs Your Input!
Teens, the Sewickley Public Library Board of Directors is creating a strategic plan, or vision, for the library. We need your input to help shape the future of the library. Please take the time to answer our survey.
The Children’s Survey is for patrons ages 12 years and younger and the other has been designed for Teens and Adults.
“Anyone can take the survey, even if they don’t use the Library. In many ways, why someone might not use the Library can be enlightening to us,” committee member Larry Castner said.
The Board is hoping to collect some helpful data regarding the current state of the library and what changes the community might want to see.
Click here to take the Teen survey.
Thank you!
Reminder: BOB Team Registration Sheets Due

Just a friendly reminder that your Battle of the Books team sign-up sheets are due by 5pm on Friday, January 27!
Drop your completed form off at the Sewickley or Moon Township Public Library.
If the Teen Librarian isn’t around, leave your form at the Circulation Desk.
A Book Review by Emilie
I’d Tell You I Love You,
But Then I’d Have to Kill You
by Ally Carter
A short synopsis of a long(and very good) book
“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that’s me – Cammie the Chameleon. But I’m luckier than most because, at my school, that’s considered cool.
I go to a school for spies.” [Carter, Ally, I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You]
For her whole life, Cameron Ann Morgan has always been hiding. Hiding for a school assignment, hiding because she doesn’t want to see anybody, or even hiding from cute boys because they’re normal, she’s not, and her mother(and not to mention the CIA) would kill her if she even so as talked to them(It’s against the law). But when she’s on an assignment to tail a teacher, and she’s trying to hide, the least she expects is to be seen. And she is. By a boy. Cammie knows she’s not supposed to, but before she knows it, she’s going out with the boy, whose name is Josh. She realizes it’s going to go too far, and she cuts it off before anything can happen. But when Josh sees something he shouldn’t have seen, does Cammie have the will to let him go, or will she explain everything to him?
**** This book has been rated 4 out of 5 stars by Emilie S.
Want to listen to the book? You can get the eAudiobook version here.
If you like this book, check out the rest of the series and Carter’s Heist Society series here!


