Milwaukee Public Library Model Search!

If you are creative, love books and secretly (or not-so-secretly) have dreams of seeing your face (well, part of it at least) on an ad campaign - here is your chance!

The Milwaukee Public Library is holding a model search for teens to be the faces of their 2013 Summer Reading Program Bookface ad campaign.  To be eligible, you have to be between 13-18 years old and be a Milwaukee County resident. 

It's kind of hard to describe exactly what a Bookface picture is, so check out the link below for contest rules and ideas of how you can make your Bookface picture the winner and be the next face of MPL's Summer Reading Program!

http://www.mpl.org/file/ya_modelsearch_index.html

Miss Keri

Are You Pinterested? You Should Be.

If you have not discovered the wonderful world of Pinterest, you do not know what you are missing!  Pinterest is a fabulous social media website where people "pin" (aka save) pictures of craft ideas, recipes, fitness tips, really anything you can imagine, with links to the websites they originated on, to "boards". The boards are the organizational structure of Pinterest; you personalize your boards with subject headings or themes, such as food, crafts, books, etc.  Think of it as putting post-it notes on a bulletin board of great ideas for things you want to do in the future.

Pinterest has revolutionized bookmarking items on the internet. Instead of having a long list of websites or links that you have no idea why you bookmarked in the first place, you can go on Pinterest and look through the pictures of your pins.  For a visual learner like myself, it is fantastic.  I never looked at my bookmarked websites before and now I go to Pinterest all the time for library program ideas and crafts that I pinned.

All you teens who are new to Pinterest, have just started to use it or just plain love it like I do, come to our Pinterest Party here at the library during Teen Tech Week!  But before the party, check out the Franklin Public Library Teens Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/fplteen/. Then go and vote for your favorite craft and snack pins on the Teen Zone website - www.franklinpubliclibrary.org, click on Teen Zone. Finally, on Tuesday, March 12 at 6pm we will have our Pinterest Party and make the crafts and snacks that received the most votes! No registration is needed, but your votes are!  Please go and vote today and I hope to see you at the party on the 12th!

Miss Keri

OMG, You Must Read This! Book Review: Shadows by Ilsa J. Bick

Shadows is the second book in the Ashes trilogy and it picks up right where the nail-biting, scream-your-head-off "NOOOO!!!!", the-next-book-can't-come-soon-enough ending of Ashes left off.

If you haven't read the first book in the series you should stop reading this NOW.  SPOILER ALERT!

Alex encounters a tribe of Changed almost immediately as she leaves Rule behind. But these changed are organized, with a good stash of weapons and seem to almost share a form of unspoken communication amongst themselves. Instead of killing her, they add her to their cadre of captives, all old people who look close to death in the first place. She will be dragged through unspeakable horrors as the tribe travels, picking up more humans, alive and dead to add to their food stash.

Alex has figured that Tom has been long dead after the rescue party came back and Tom was not at the gas station.  But he was rescued days after Alex left by a kindly couple.  Jed, a Vietnam vet, and Grace, his wife, whose brain had all but turned to mush before the zap and was now back to her former analytical self, nursed Tom back to health in secret.  It was dangerous for any Spared young people to be out in the open, unprotected. Jed and Grace knew they took a risk by harboring Tom.  The bounty hunters would do anything to get a live Spared and they paid a hefty price for one that was alive and kicking.

Tom knew Alex was still alive and he knew he had to get to her. He was strong enough now. His destination: Rule.

Chris is the supposed next leader of Rule, but he knows nothing of the inner workings of the Council. After Chris tries to go after Alex as she leaves Rule, he is arrested by the Council.  But when freed by other "concerned citizens" of Rule and sent off to find Isaac Hunter, a enigmatic man that may not even be alive, Chris may finally realize just how devious the old folks of Rule can be...that is if he ever makes it back.

With complex zombies unlike any other, bounty hunters grabbing up young Spareds and delivering them to whacked out milita members and the village politics of Rule, you will not want to put this book down! I literally felt my chest ready to burst with anxiety over some of the amazing scenes in the book!

Check out Shadows at your Franklin Public Library today.

Miss Keri