Open Mic Night!!!

Be there and pass it on!!!

Open Mic Night!!!!

We will be having Open Mic Night Wednesday, March 10th from 6-8:30pm.  We have three bands booked: Team Light You on Fire, The Electric Toad, and Coffee Table Marathon.  Ages 13 to Adult.  Be sure to tell your friends and come yourself.  If you have any talents you would like to share, please come.  We will have solo acts and karaoke in between the bands.  If you dont have any talents, come and sit in the audience!!!  We will see you there!!!!

Ms Laura

DDR Night!!!

Tonight we are having Dance Dance Revolution at 7:00pm!  Be here so you can hang out with the awesome Ms. Laura!!!

We're coming to where you learn!!!

To School that is!!!  Come and check us out guys!  We will be at TF South during all lunches on Tuesday, Feb. 9th.  After school at Bloom in either the library or Mr. Cyborski's room @ 3pm.  And at H-F during all lunch periods Thursday, Feb 18th!!!  Tell your friends and get excited!  We are gonna be bringing all that good new stuff!  I will also bring some oldies but goodies that I think all of you should read (And they will be from Ms. Laura's Recommended Reads Bookshelf!)  And for those that haven't been to visit me in a while at the library, come check out the awesome new programs we are gonna be having this Spring!  It kicks off Next Wednesday (Jan 27th) at 7pm for Dance Dance Revolution.  February we will have crafts and a Teen Advisory Board Meeting and in March get ready for movie night, Teen Advisory Board and our super awesome Open Mic Night!!!  (March 10th)  We will be having a couple of bands and if anyone wants to read something they wrote or share something they created, sign up with me!  I look forward to seeing all your awesome faces soon!

Ms. Laura!!!

Little Brother

So I just finished an amazing book called Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.  It's about a boy named Marcus and his three friends who are accused of being terrorist after a bombing takes out the Bay Bridge in California.  After they are held hostage for a week and tortured for information, they are set free under the condition that they tell no one what has happened.  It was awesome!  It has alot of computer tech jargon which makes it take a little while longer to read but it was totally worth it! I have put it on Miss Laura's Recommended Reads Bookshelf so be sure to come in and check it out!!!

Here is the book review for it:

Starred Review. Grade 10 Up—When he ditches school one Friday morning, 17-year-old Marcus is hoping to get a head start on the Harajuku Fun Madness clue. But after a terrorist attack in San Francisco, he and his friends are swept up in the extralegal world of the Department of Homeland Security. After questioning that includes physical torture and psychological stress, Marcus is released, a marked man in a much darker San Francisco: a city of constant surveillance and civil-liberty forfeiture. Encouraging hackers from around the city, Marcus fights against the system while falling for one hacker in particular. Doctorow rapidly confronts issues, from civil liberties to cryptology to social justice. While his political bias is obvious, he does try to depict opposing viewpoints fairly. Those who have embraced the legislative developments since 9/11 may be horrified by his harsh take on Homeland Security, Guantánamo Bay, and the PATRIOT Act. Politics aside, Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority. Teen espionage fans will appreciate the numerous gadgets made from everyday materials. One afterword by a noted cryptologist and another from an infamous hacker further reflect Doctorow's principles, and a bibliography has resources for teens interested in intellectual freedom, information access, and technology enhancements. Curious readers will also be able to visit BoingBoing, an eclectic group blog that Doctorow coedits. Raising pertinent questions and fostering discussion, this techno-thriller is an outstanding first purchase.—Chris Shoemaker, New York Public Library


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Interesting New reads!!!

To start off the school year awesomely...here is a list of interesting new reads from the School library Journal...I will definitely be ordering them soon so come on in and check em out!!!

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6696834.html?nid=4302&source=title&rid=299297222

Ms Laura

The Lightning Thief to be a Motion Picture!!!

This just in, February 12th, 2010 the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series will be made into a movie starting with the first book, "The Lightning Thief"!!!

Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd and Melina Kanakaredes have been cast in Fox 2000’s fantasy-adventure adaptation Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief as classical Greek gods Chiron (Brosnan), Medusa (Thurman), Zeus (Bean), Poseidon (McKidd) and Athena (Kanakaredes). Aries, Hades and Persephone have not yet been cast.
The film, being directed by Chris Columbus, is shooting in Vancouver for a February 12, 2010 release.

Columbus and Craig Titley have adapted the screenplay from Rick Riordan’s best-selling children’s novel. The Greek mythology-inflected book involves Poseidon’s half-human son, Percy, who’s on a quest across modern America to prevent a war among the gods.
Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson have already been cast as the book’s lead teenagers.

“Lightning Thief” is the first of five novels about Percy Jackson and the Olympians — the fifth, “The Last Olympian,” is due in stores in May. The studio hopes to spin the books into a franchise in the “Harry Potter” mold.