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I am fresh from the 11 hour hip-hop concert Rock the Bells. This concert brings together some of the best names in hip-hop to put together an unforgettable show. I feel like I have truly lived now that I have seen A Tribe Called Quest perform live. We have many cds of artists featured in the show which will de la your soul.
Featuring De La Soul
Life is Good
Mos Def
True Magic
The New Danger
Mind Control
Method Man
4:21: The Day After
Tical O: The Prequel
Murs
Murray's Revenge
The Teen Summer Reading club begins Saturday, June 21! The theme this year is environmentalism so the program is called: Turn Over a New Leaf@Your Library. You can go to any Pickering Library to register and then read! If you want a great environmental book to read, check out these titles:
California Blue by David Klass
John Rodgers, has to face three troubling facts. First, his father has been diagnosed with leukemia. Second, John has discovered a new species of butterfly and wants to preserve it but is up against the opposition of his entire town, including his parents. And finally, John has fallen in love with his high school biology teacher, who does not entirely rebuff his attentions.
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
Nyle Sumner, 13, and her grandmother are completely surrounded by the grotesque results of an accident at a nuclear-power plant. Because of the accident, Nyle's cousin Bethany has radiation poisoning. Then Gran does the unthinkable: she takes in two fugitives who were exposed to the worst of the radiation, Miriam Trent and her son, Ezra.
Z for Zacariah by Robert O’ Brian
Ann Burden is sixteen years old and the sole survivor of a nuclear war. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire is shows that someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Adams has recorded the adventures of the most endangered animals in the world like the komodo dragon, northern white rhinoceros and the rodrigues fruit bat. He moves rapidly from informal, laugh-out-loud descriptions of his travels to serious pleas for awareness and conservation of all animals.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos.
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The government’s Wildlife service believes that wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the assigns naturalist Farely Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study them. Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young.
Dead Water Zone by Kenneth Oppel
16-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it.
The Golden Aquarians by Monica Hughes
Walt Elliot goes with the father he hasn't seen for years to the planet Aqua, where he discovers that his father's project threatens the existence of a highly intelligent native species.
River Rats by Caroline Stevermer
Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.
Eva by Peter Dickinson
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
Spud Sweetgrass by Brian Doyle
Torn between his mother's continuing grief over his late father and his own happiness about a new romance, Spud Sweetgrass becomes involved in a group endeavor to expose the person who is polluting the Ottawa River.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
Nausica, a young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant insects that evolved as a result of the ecosystem's destruction. Growing up in the Valley of the Wind, she learned to read the soul of the wind and navigates the skies in her glider. Nausica and her allies struggle to create peace between kingdoms torn apart by war, battling over the last of the world's natural resources.
The Beasties
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
Memory Boy by Will Weaver
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
For all of your who participated and read 4 or more White Pine and/or Red Maple books, gives yourself a big hand! The White Pine and Red Maple awards continue to do an excellent job of bringing teen books the exposure they deserve. If I was in a forest full of Evergreens, I couldn’t pick out a White Pine myself but I did enjoy reading all of the White Pine nominees. Okay, so I don’t love all of them but what is more fun than the great discussions that arise from books? And best of all, your opinion counts because you get to decide which are the best books. So here are the winners that you choose:
2008 White Pine Award Winner:
Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Honour Books:
1. The Droughtlanders: Book One in Triskelia Series by Carrie Mac
2. Grist by Heather Waldorf
3. Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
2008 Red Maple Winner:
Safe as Houses by Eric Walters
Honour Books:
1. Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel
2. Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence
3. Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
Congratulations to the Senior Battle of the Books team from William Dunbar Public School, who took home gold medals in the Durham Region Libraries 2008 Battle of the Books senior division. The grade seven and eight students from William Dunbar School in Pickering competed with students from Cadarackque Public School in Ajax, Jack Minor Public School in Whitby, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in Oshawa, the Pines Public School in Clarington and St. Joseph Catholic School in Uxbridge, at the Whitby Municipal Building on Thursday, April 24. After reading through thirty-six books and answering questions based upon those books, William Dunbar Public School won first place, St. Thomas of Aquinas (Oshawa) won the silver medals and Jack Minor Public School (Whitby) won the bronze medals.
The Libraries wish to thank TD Canada Trust for their support in providing the medals and trophies for the Battle of the Books.
The Battle of the Books will return in the fall of 2008 with new lists of books to challenge readers in grades 4-8. All schools in Pickering are welcome to get involved. To learn more about the Battle of the Books visit the Myplus website.
Pickering Public Library now has a facebook page headed by our beloved Turkey. It features all the latest news from the library including what programs we are offering. Plus, there is new music posted, ireads recommended books, video posts, website suggestions and more.
Please add us!
Name: Liverpool Cranberry
URL: http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=697395161
Congratulations to our winner of the teen turkey naming contest. Our winner came up with the name 'Liverpool' for our beloved turkey who resides at the library a stones throw away from Liverpool road and speaks with a Liverpoolian accent. However, he does not appreciate any reference/jokes made about turkey livers, especially so close to Thanksgiving.
Co-creators of The O.C. , Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have come out with the Gossip Girls T.V. show. Like the books, it will be about into the world of privileged teenagers on an elite private school in New York City. There are a couple differences though. First the language will be toned down considerably from the books. Also Blair Waldorf is more of a bad girl (with some redeeming qualities), and Serena van der Woodsen will be more of a good girl (with a couple secrets). Also, Serena's brother, who was older in the books will be her younger brother "cause she needed a understanding and impressionable sibling" according to Savage. Are Serena and Blair the blonde and brunette female versions of Ryan and Seth? Will the series be true to the books or just The O.C. in New York City? For all those fans that wish for it to be the real thing, I hope that it is not fake like that Chanel bag I saw by Landsdowne station that had 3 C's.
Highly Recommended! This book is about Edith and her family that is running/hiding from the Nazi's because they will kill and hurt the jewish family's and they captured the father and the 2 younger kids were sent to mossic a place where jewish kids are safe.And so the mother and therse are staying at home and Gaton and Edith are at Mossic. Due to that the Nazi's were coming so the girls went for a couple days ut in the woods. After that Sarah and Edith ahad to go to a Christan school and pretend that they were Christan.
Rash by Peter Hautman
Rash is a chilling satire of the year 2076 where it is illegal to litter or be obese in the newly named “Safer States of America”. Bo, a 16 year old with 5 family members in jail, allegedly spreads a rash through the school, then hits a classmate. As punishment Bo is sent to a remote jail-like work camp where he has to make fast-food pizza. He is given the option to reduce his sentence if he plays the illegal sport of football.
Check out the honour titles were selected by the 2007 Thumbs Up! Award committee:
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Previous Thumbs Up! Award Winners:
2006
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie - David Lubar Scott hilariously documents in his journal (not a diary!) the trials and tribulations of his first year in high school—falling in love, drifting apart from his friends, dealing with his mothhttp://www.picnet.org/node/877/edit
Thumbs Up! Award for Best Teen Novel of 2007 Announced | picnet.orger's pregnancy, and learning more about himself than he expected.
2005
Airborn – Kenneth Oppel - Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
For more Thumbs Up! Award Winners and Nominees, visit their website:
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/tsdpastthumbsup