Check out Sharzad’s playlist for The Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable, by clicking the pop-out player button below.
Click here to find The Singer of All Songs in the Library and find out why Sharzad selected these songs for her playlist.
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Listen to This–Sharzad’s Playlist for Singer of All Songs
Listen to This–Taylor Swift’s New Song for the Hunger Games Soundtrack
According to Teen.com, Taylor Swift with the duo Civil War released their song for the Hunger Games soundtrack via Twitter. The song is entitled “Safe & Sound”. Listen to it below:
Listen to This — Emily’s Playlist for Hoot
Check out Emily’s playlist for Hoot by Carl Hiassen, by clicking the pop-out player button below.
Click here to find Hoot in the Library and find out why Emily selected these songs for her playlist.
Listen to This–Emily’s Playlist for The Lightning Thief
Check out Emily’s playlist for the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, by clicking on the pop-out player below.
Click here to find The Lightning Thief in the Library and find out why Emily selected these songs for her playlist:
Listen to This–Katie’s Playlist for Once Upon a Marigold
Check out Katie’s playlist for Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris, by clicking the pop-out player below.
Click here to find Once Upon a Marigold in the Library and find out why Katie selected these songs for her playlist.
Listen to this– Rahul's playlist for Notes from the Midnight Driver
Checkout Rahul’s playlist for the character of Sol, from Jordan Sonnenblick’s Notes from the Midnight Driver by clicking on the pop-out player below. Rahul also wrote a great review of the book:
Notes from the Midnight Driver is about Alex. Alex has gotten arrested for drunk driving and now has to go to a retirement home and help a man named Sol Lewis. This book is a great read for any age.
Click here to find the book Notes from a Midnight Driver in the Library and find out why Rahul selected these songs for the character of Sol for his playlist. And here’s his playlist for Sol:
By Colleen, Teen Services Librarian on October 5, 2011 Categories: Fiction, Music, Realistic Fiction
Listen to this–Emily's playlist for the book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
As part of the summer reading program this year, we asked teens to create playlists for books they read. A book playlist is just a list of songs that either the main character would listen to, or that just fit with the different aspects of the book. This is the first time we’re posting one of the playlists, and it’s Emily’s playlist for the book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Click here to find Stargirl in the Library to see why Emily chose these songs for her playlist. To listen to Emily’s playlist, just click on the pop-out player below:
The Gray Wolf Throne
If you’re a fan of Cinda Williams Chima’s Seven Realms series, be sure to checkout The Gray Wolf Throne, the lastest installment of the series. If you can’t get your hands on a copy, click here to read the first chapter. Also checkout the music video that was made for the novel below:
It Gets Better Project
It September 2010, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage and his partner Terry made a YouTube video for LGBT teens and youth as a reaction to the number of young people who took their lives the past year because of being bullied.
Following this posting, they began the It Gets Better Project, which accepts YouTube videos with inspiring messages for those who need it. Click here to check out the site. Celebrities and everyday people have posted more than 10,000 videos. In March 2011 they were also able to publish a book that contains inspiring essays and other materials, and all the proceeds from the book are being donated to LGBT youth charities. It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living can be found on our shelves in the Library.
Recently, the band Rise Against has collaborated with the It Gets Better Project to use clips from the video submissions in their newest music video for their song Make It Stop (September’s Children), and the video was released this week. The song draws its inspiration from the rash of suicides of bullied teens. Make It Stop (September’s Children) is on their latest album Endgame, which you can find in the Library’s collection. Also, an interesting note, the band filmed the music video at lead singer Tim McIlrath’s former high school, Rolling Meadows High School.
By Colleen, Teen Services Librarian on June 22, 2011 Categories: Music, Nonfiction
Audrey Wait! by Robin Benway
Audrey is a loud music lover, big word user, fashion forward, your average high school student… and followed by paparazzi, called by gossip columnists, wanted for a reality TV show, stalked by reporters, asked for autographs, analyzed on messages boards, and a trend setter. Okay maybe not your average high student anymore.
In Audrey Wait!, Audrey tells her side of the story, a story that began when she broke up with her boyfriend Evan because it just wasn’t working. Evan just so happened to be part of a band and Audrey breaking up with inspired him to write a song “Audrey Wait!” He debuted the song at a local concert, that was attended by a big record label exec, zoom a couple of months forward and cue to Audrey working at Scooper Dooper the local ice cream shop. Then on the radio she hears “Audrey Wait!” and suddenly nothing is private. There are always cameras, people observing, people misquoting, other musicians looking for inspiration, or people just making stuff about her. Luckily, she has her always supportive and spunky best friend Victoria, like the queen, to help her navigate. But as the fame seeps more and more into her life, the affect it’s having on her life, her friendship with Victoria, and a budding romance become more and more apparent and Audrey doesn’t want to wait, she just wants it all to STOP.
Reviewed by Renee-Teen Outreach Librarian
By MPPL on June 14, 2011 Categories: Fiction, High School, Music, Realistic Fiction