The Library's teen advisory board met last Thursday, Dec. 1 (next meeting is in February), for pizza, and, well, to meet, and eat pizza. We talked about what the 2012 poetry contest theme might be (good ideas were generated), discussed movies, and books, ate pizza (Thank you, Friends of the Library!), and whether a homework/writing drop-in program was something people would come to here at the library (members all said no). While we ate more pizza, eleven members of the TTT wrote down their favorite reads from 2011, which I have posted below (all linked to the online catalog, of course).
To solidify that reading mood here is a video from...Julian Smith, I'm Reading A Book:
THE TEEN THINK TANK’S
TOP 44 READS OF 2011
Fiction :
Young Samurai: Ring of Earth, by Chris Bradford
A Clockwork Orange
Hush, by Eishes Chayil
Nightshade, by Andrea Cremer
Elixir, by Hilary Duff
Hush Hush, by Becca Fitzpatrick
Ranger's Apprentice series, by John Flanagan
Beastly , by Alex Flinn
Tyger, Tyger, by Kerstan Hamilton
Magic the Gathering : Lorwyn, by Cory J. Herndon
Seekers series, by Erin Hunter
Need, by Carrie Jones
Iron King, by Julie Kagawa
A Dragon's Awakening, by Aya Knight
The Power of Six, by Pittacus Lore
Pendragon series, by D.J. MacHale
Wildwood Dancing, by Juliet Marillier
The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie, by Jaclyn Moriarty
A Step From Heaven, by An Na
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
Heroes of Olympus series, by Rick Riordan
Holes, by Louis Sachar
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Skinjacker trilogy, by Neal Shusterman
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, by Susan Vreeland
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Skin, by Adrienne Vrettos
Graphic Fiction and Manga :
The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman
Naruto, by Masashi Kishimoto
Bleach, by Tite Kubo
Maximum Ride, by NaRae Lee
Death Note, by Tsugumi Ōba
One Piece, by Eiichiro Oda
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
Graphic Format Biography :
Smile, by Raina Telgemeier
Non-Fiction :
The Anthology of Rap, by Adam Bradley
