Books under the bed?  In a box?  Squashed up under your car seats?  Bring them in this week and PAY NO FINES!

Come in this week (National Library week!) and bring in your long-overdue books and we’ll charge you Nothing.  Nada.  Zilch.  (Unless the book is damaged so badly that the pages fall out, dog spit drips off of it, etc.  Then you owe us big bucks!  ;)

The books miss their home at the library.  Bring ‘em back!  You only have until this Saturday (April 19) to do it FINE FREE!

I dare you guys to come in and ask wacky questions like this guy!  Bet you can’t stump us!

For those who hate, loathe, distrust, or are generally jaded by *shudders*  love, we’re here to help.

 Friday, February 15 (lucky El Reno-ites are out of school!) we’re toasting “Cupid’s Revenge!  Enough Love Stuff!”  We’ll eat broken heart cookies, write “tell the truth” valentines, and re-write love scenes.  We’ll be cranky, bitter, and not care one bit that Single’s Awareness Day has come and gone!

 The particulars: 

Friday, Feb. 15
3:30-4:30 pm
6-12 Grades
@ the library

Questions?  comment or call 262-2409 and ask for Kate!

The library is giving away 2 Wrestlemania Reading Challenge t-shirts and two “Great American Bash 2007″ DVDs this month!  Come by the library to enter the drawing.  Contest open to teens in grades 6-12. 

February 18’s People magazine features the “I Hate Valentine’s Day” playlist. 

Beyonce - “Irreplaceable”
Kelly Clarkson - “Since U Been Gone”
Justin Timberlake - “Cry me a River”
Bon Jovi - “You give love a bad name”
Tina Turner - “What’s Love Got to Do with it”
Carrie Underwood - “Before He Cheats”
Amy Winehouse - “Love is a Losing Game”
Joy Division - “Love will Tear us Apart”
Alanis Morissette - “You Oughta Know”

What else could we add to the list???  Leave a comment with your suggestion.

NEW BOOKS!  If its not on the shelf when you come in, we’ll put it on hold for you and call you when it comes back. 

Grimpow by Rafael Abalos
Snakecharm by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Miss Educated by Hobson Brown
The Adventures of Michael MacInnes by Jeff Carney
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
I’m Expliding Now by Sid Hite
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
Bittersweet Sixteen by Carrie Karasyov
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Bloody Jack:  Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy by L.A. Meyer
Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet by Kashmira Sheth
Sweep by Cate Tiernan
Violet on the Runway by Melissa Walker

These films hit screens in 2008!  Read them (and their sequals now) before the rush! 

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.  Here’s the IMDB link. You’ll see that it stars Kristen Stewartwho was excellent in the HBO adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak.  (We’ve got the book and the dvd of Speak here at the library!)  …and just to throw one more tidbit at you - L. H. Anderson keeps up an amazing blog here and also on her myspace page.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2(based on the novels by Ann Brashares) The girls are back!  Since the first movie, Blake Lively (Bridget) has gone on to Gossip Girl fame, Alexis Bledel (Lena) finished up her 7 season run of Gilmore Girls, America Ferrera (Carmen) made it big on Ugly Betty, and Amber Tamblyn (Tibby) has made a ton of movies. 

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter is also in development! 

I can see already we’ll have to give away lots of free movie passes this year as prizes!  :) 

New Years Resolution (1/2 a month late…):  Update this blog!

 What’s coming up?  Teen Advisory Board meeting @ a new time!  We’ll meet Monday, January 28 from 5-6 pm.  On the agenda: 

1.  Anime/manga club?  waddaythink?

2.  Summer reading - a sneak preview of programming and some prizes!

3.  Let’s put it to a vote - Happy Valentine’s Day get together or Anti-valentine’s day somber celebration? 

4.  If the library were buying movies, which movies should it buy?

As always, TAB is open to all of y’all in 6-12 grades.  Bring a friend!

We’re having pizza and good times at our TAB meeting THIS THURSDAY!  Come by at 5, stay til 6 and we’ll have a blast!

Online pronunciation guide.  With a British accent.  Type in “aluminum”  I dare you! 

 http://www.howjsay.com