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Creative Writing Workshop

Creative Writing Workshop with Jen Calonita
Wednesdays, December 7, January 11, & February 8
4:15 - 5:15 pm
Learn how to write like a journalist. The best article will be published in The Merrick Patch. Registration has begun.

Contribute to Our Book Blog!

If you like reading and writing this is your chance to help us build our Book Blog. Read five books from our Young Adult collection, email us your book reviews and receive community service credit. Registration begins on November 1st. Sign up at the Teen/Media Desk and receive additional program details.

Authors Cassandra Clare & Melissa Hodkin

@ Barnes & Noble Wednesday, December 7 @ 7 pm
91 Old Country Road, Carle Place, Ny
516 741-9850

Teen authors Cassandra Clare and Michelle Hodkin will be reading, discussing and signing copies of their books. Cassandra Clark is the author of The Mortal Instrument Series and The Infernal Devices Series. Her new book, Clockwork Prince, will be released on December 6th. Author Melissa Hodkin is the author of Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. Wristbands will be handed out starting at 9:00 am on December 7.

Contribute to our Book Blog!

If you like reading and writing this is your chance to help us build our Book Blog. Read five books from our Young Adult collection, email us your book reviews and receive community service credit. Registration begins on November 1st. Sign up at the Teen/Media Desk and receive additional program details.

Finals Week at the Merrick Library

November 23, 25, 26 & 17

The meeting rooms at the Merrick Library will be transformed to a study hall where students can prepare for exams with their friends or on their own. No reservation necessary.

Programs This Week....

Monday, November 14, 2011

Breaking Dawn Party
Thursday, November 17 @ 5:30 pm

Attention all fans of the Twilight Saga! Prepare for the release of Breaking Dawn by joining us for this themed party!! Win prizes, play bingo, and make a necklace. Pizza will be served. Please register in advance. No fee.

Creative Writing Workshop
November 16th @ 4:45-5:45
We are happy to announce that our BFF author Jen Calonita is back to conduct her popular teen workshop. Jen will provide you with instructions, professional feedback and information on how to become a writer and even publish your work. Your own personal reading journal and snacks will be supplied. Participants have already registered for this program.

Halloween Cake Decorating Enjoyed by All!

Programs This Week....

Holiday Baking
Classes are on Wednesdays, Oct. 26 & Nov. 9
@ 6:30-7:30 pm.
Fee $3.00 per class.
Get prepared for the holidays by making delicious treats! Classes are limited to 15. Sign up early.

Beach Bag Book Club: Fall Session
Friday, October 28 @ 7 pm
Beach Bag Book Club takes over fall with this Halloween Treat! Join us at the North Merrick Public Library to met author Gitty Daneshvari and talk about her book,
School of Fear: Class is Not Dismissed!
We will be meeting after dark and after hours. Bring your flashlight. This program is sponsored by Merrick, N. Merrick, Bellmore, and N. Bellmore libraries.

Last Class!
SAT Preparation Workshop
Mondays, September 19, 26 and October 3, 10, 17, & 24
6:30 - 8:30 pm.
$80 per student/checks only. Learn tricks and techniques for taking the SATs. Enhance your math and verbal skills while learning test taking strategies that can help you get a higher score. Students must purchase the Study Guide, 2nd edition, by The College Board.

Programs This Week

SAT Preparation Workshop
Mondays, September 19, 26 and October 3, 10, 17, & 24 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
$80 per student/checks only. Learn tricks and techniques for taking the SATs. Enhance your math and verbal skills while learning test taking strategies that can help you get a higher score. Students must purchase The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition, by The College Board. Please make checks payable to Merrick Library. No refunds.

TAG (Teen Advisory Group)
September 22, October 20, November 10, 4:15-5:00 pm
We are looking for enthusiastic and creative TAG members. Want better teen programs and events at the library? Want to have a say in how things are run? Then join TAG! Receive Community Service Credit, too! If you would like to participate in TAG meetings sign up at the Teen/Media Desk.

Realistic Fiction

Bauer Joan
Hope was Here (2000)

Benoit, Charles
You (2010)

Billerback, Kristin
Perfectly Dateless: a universally misunderstood novel (2010)

Calame, Don
Beat the Band (2010)

Caletti, Deb
The Six Rules of Maybe (2010)

Colasanti, Susane
When It Happens ( 2006)
Waiting for you (2009)
Something Like Fate (2010)
So Much Closer (2011)

Dessen, Sarah
Along for the Ride (2009)
Dreamland (2004)
Just Listen (2006)
How to Deal (2003)
Keeping the Moon (1999)
Lock and Key (2009)
Someone Like You
That Summer
This Lullaby
What Happened to Goodbye
The Truth about Forever (2004)

Eulberg, Elizabeth
The Lonely Hearts Club (2010)
Prom & Prejudice (2011)

Finn, Katie
Top 8 (2008)

Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater

Gelbwasser, Margie
Inconvenient (2010)

Goldbach, Veronica
Deep in the heart of High School (2009)

Laser, Michael
Cheater (2008)

Lipsyte, Robert
Center Field (2010)

Schumacher, Julie
Black Box (2008)

Scott, Kieran
She's So Dead to Us (2010)

Sones, Sonya
What my Girlfriend Doesn't Know (2007)

Tayleur, Karen
Chasing Boys (2009)

Williams Garcia, Rita
Jumped (2009)

Mystery/Thriller

Abrahams, Peter
Down the Rabbit Hole, Echo Falls Mystery (2005)
Behind the Curtain, Echo Falls Mystery (2006)
Into the Dark, Echo Falls Mystery (2008)
Reality Check (2010)

Carman, Patrick
Trackers (2010)

Cooney, Caroline
Code Orange (2005)

Duncan, Lois
Killing Mr. Griffin (classic 1978)

Feinstein, John
Last Shot (2006)
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open (2006)

Ferguson, Alane
The Angel of Death (2006)
The Christopher Killer (2006)

Giles, Gail
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters (2003)

Green, John
Paper Towns (2009)

Grisham, John
Theodore Boone:Kid Lawyer (2010)

Haddon, Mark
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003)

Henderson, Lauren
Kiss Me Kill Me (2008)

McNamee, Graham
Acceleration (2004)

MacCready, Robin Merrow
Buried (2007)

Meldrum, Christina
Madapple (2008)

Nixon, Joan Lowry
Silent Secret Screams (classic 1988)

Raskin, Ellen
The Westing Game (classic 1978)

Reiss, Kathryn
Blackthorn Winter (2006)

Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones (2006)

Sorrells, Walter
Fake ID (2005)

Stolars, Laurie Faria
Deadly Little Secret (2008)

Trueman, Terry
Stuck in Neutral (2000)

Van Tol

Knifepoint (2011)

Velde, Vivian Vande
Never Trust a Dead Man (2000)

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Armstrong, Kelley
Darkest Powers series:
The Summoning (2008)
The Awakening (2009)

Bacigalupi, Paolo
Ship Breaker (2010)

Bray, Libba
Gemma Doyle series:
A Great and Terrible Beauty (2004)
Rebel Angels (2005)
The Great Far Thing (2007)

Bunce, Elizabeth C.
Starcrossed

Cashore, Kristin
Graceling (2008)
Fire
Bitterblue (release date tba)

Collins, Suzanne
Hunger Games Trilogy:
The Hunger Games (2008)
Catching Fire (2009)
Mockingjay (2010)

Dashner, James
The Maze Runner (2009)

Fisher, Catherine
Incarceron (2007)

Gray, Claudia
Evernight
Stargazer
Hourglass (2010)
Afterlife (2011)

Marr, Melissa
Wicked Lovely series:
Wicked Lovely (2007)
Fragile Eternity
Radiant Shadows (2010)
Darkest Mercy (2011)

Meyer, Stephanie
Twilight
New Moon (2006)
Eclipse (2007)
Breaking Dawn (2008)

Ness, Patrick
The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008)
The Ask and the Answer (2009)
Monsters of Men (2010)

Patterson, James
Maximum Ride Series:
School's Out -- Forever (2006)
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (2007)
The Final Warning 3/2008
Max (2009)
Fang (2010)
Angel (2011)

Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Life As We Knew It (2006)
The Dead and the Gone
This World We Live In (2009)

Riordan, Rick
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series:
The Lightning Thief (2005)
The Sea of Monsters (2006)
The Titan's Curse (2007)
The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008)
The Last Olympian (2009)

Ryan, Carrie
The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009)

Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials series:
The Golden Compass (1996)
The Subtle Knife (1997)
The Amber Spyglass (2000)

Shusterman, Neal

Everlost - Skinjacker Trilogy

Everwild - Skinjacker Trilogy

Everfound (2011) Skinjacker Trilogy
Unwind (2007)

Westerfeld, Scott
Uglies (2005)
Pretties (2005)
Specials (2006)
Extras (2007)

Historical Fiction

Anderson, Laurie Halse
Yellow Fever, 1793 (2003)
Forge (2010)

Avi
Crispin: the Cross of Lead (2002)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)

Blundell, Judy
What I Saw and How I Lied ( 2008)

Bondoux, Anne-Laure
A Time of Miracles (2011)

Boyne, John
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2006)

Bray, Libba
A Great and Terrible Beauty (2004)

Couloumbis, Audrey
Summer's End (2005)

Cooney, Caroline B.
Goddess of Yesterday (2002)

Dahme, Joanne
The Plague (2009)

Elliott, Patricia
The Pale Assassin (2009)

Fletcher, Christine
Ten Cents a Dance (2008)

Geras, Adele
Troy (2001)

Hearn, Julie
Hazel (2009)
The Minister's Daughter (2005)

Hemphill, Stephanie
Wicked Girls: a novel of the Salem Witch Trials (2010)

Hughes, Dean
Search and Destroy (2006)

Ingold, Jeanette
Hitch (2005)

Kadohata, Cynthia
Weedflower (2006)

Klein,Lisa
Cate of the Lost Colony (2010)

Meyer, Carolyn
Mary, Bloody Mary (1999)

Morpurgo, Michael
Private Peaceful (2004)

Myers, Walter Dean
Sunrise over Fallujah (2008)

Napoli, Donna Jo
Breath (2005)

Paulsen, Gary
Woods Runner (2010)

Peck, Richard
The River Between Us (2003)

Rees, Celia
Witch Child (2001)

Sedgwick, Marcus
Revolver (2010)

Chic-Lit

Billerbeck, Kristin
Perfectly Dateless: a Universally Misunderstood Novel (2010)

Brian, Kate
Ex-mas (2010)

Caletti, Deb
The Six Rules of Maybe (2010)

Calonita,Jen
Secrets of My Hollywood Life (2006)
Sleepaway Girls (2009)
Reality Check (2010)

Cook, Eileen
The Education of Hailey Kendrick (2011)

Clark, Judith
One Whole and Perfect Day (2007)

Dessen, Sarah

How to Deal (2003)
The Truth About Forever (2004)
Just Listen (2006)
Along for the Ride (2009)

Eulberg, Elizabeth
The Lonely Hearts Club (2010)
Prom & Prejudice (2011)

Hawthorne, Rachel
Snowed In (2010)

Karasyov, Karen
Bittersweet Sixteen (2006)

Lockhart, E.
The Boyfriend List (2006)

Mackler, Carolyn
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things (2003)
Guyaholic (2007)
Tangled (2010)

Mlynowski, Sarah
How to Be Bad (2008)
Gimme A Call (2010)

Myracle, Lauren
Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks (2009)

Scott, Elizabeth
Something Maybe (2009)
The Unwritten Rule (2010)

Van Draanen, Wendy
Confessions of a Serial Kisser (2008)

Vivian, Siobhan
Not that Kind of Girl (2010)

Zarr, Sara
Sweethearts (2008)

Books That Won't Make You Blush

Abbott, Hailey
The Bridesmaid (2005)

Bauer, Joan
Peeled (2008)

Cabot, Meg
All American Girl (2002)

Carter, Ally
I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you (2006)

Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard Book (2008)

Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Uprising (2007)

Harrison, Mette
Mira, Mirror (2004)

Henry, April
Girl, Stolen (2010)

Kadohata, Cynthia
Weedflower (2006)

Larson, Kirby
Hattie Big Sky (2006)

Le Vann, Kate
Things I know about Love (2010)

Lubar, David
Dunk (2002)
Sleeping Freshman Never Lie (2005)

Meyer, Carolyn
Loving Will Shakespeare (2006)

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Princess Ben (2008)

Schmidt, Gary
Wednesday Wars (2007)

Shaw, Tucker
Flavor of the Week (2003)

Tayleur, Karen
Chasing Boys (2009)

Westerfield, Scott
Uglies(2005)

Guys Read

http://www.guysread.com/
http://www.booksforboys.com/
http://www.boysread.org/books.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/features/great-books-boys.asp

Alexie, Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)

Bradbury, Jennifer
Shift (2008)

Bradley, Alex
24 Girls in 7 Days (2005)

Bruchal, Joseph
The Dark Pond (2004)

Calome, Don
Swim the Fly (2009)
Beat the Band (2010)

Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games (2008)
Catching Fire (2009)
Mockingjay (2010)

Crutcher, Chris
Whale Talk (2001)

Dashner, James
The Maze Runner (2009)

Deuker, Carl
Gym Candy (2007)
Payback Time (2010)

Ellis, Deborah
No Safe Place (2010)

Feinstein, John
Cover-Up (2007)

Fergus, Maureen
Exploits of a Reluctant (but Extremely Goodlooking) Hero (2007)

Gantos, Jack
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (2000)
Joey Pigza Loses Control (2002)

Gutman, Dan
The Million Dollar Kick (2001)


Jenkins, A.M.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007)
Repossessed (2007)

Korman, Gordon
No More Dead Dogs (2002)
Son of the Mob (2002)
Jake Reinvented (2003)
Born to Rock (2006)

Laser, Michael
Cheater (2008)

Lubar, David
Dunk (2002)

Lupica, Mike

The Big Field (2008)
Hero (2010)

Lynch, Chris
Inexcusable (2005)

Myers, Walter Dean
Slam! (1997)

Nelson, Blake
Paranoid Park (2006)
Rock Star, Superstar (2004)

Riordan, Rick
The Lightning Thief (2005)
The Red Pyramid (2010)

Paulsen, Gary
Brian’s Hunt (2003)
Lawn Boy (2009)

Sachar, Louis
Holes (1998)
The Cardturner (2010)

Sones, Sonya
What my Girlfriend Doesn't Know (2007)

Van de Ruit, John
Spud (2007)

Beach Bag Book Club Picks

Beach Bag Book Club Picks

Bell, Cathleen
Little Blog on the Prairie (2011)

Calonita, Jen
Secrets of My Hollywood Life (2006)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: On Location (2007)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Family Affairs (2008)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Paparazzi Princess (2009)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Broadway Lights (2010)
Secrets of My Hollywood Life: There’s No Place Like Home (2011)

Colasanti, Susane
Something Like Fate (2010)

Eulberg, Elizabeth
The Lonely Hearts Club (2010)
Prom & Prejudice (2011)

Hurley, Tonya
Ghost Girl (2008)

Kraut, Julie
Slept Away (2009)

Mynowski, Sarah
Frogs & French Kisses (2006)
Spells & Sleeping Bags (2007)
Bras & Broomsticks (2008)
Gimme A Call (2010)

Ostow, Micol
So Punk Rock (2009)
Fashionista: A Bradford Novel (2009)
Golden Girls: A Bradford Novel (2009)
Scandalicious (2010)

Palmer, Robin
Cindy Ella (2008)

Philbin, Joanna
The Daughters (2010)
The Daughter’s Take the Stage (2011)

Scott, Kieran
She’s So Dead to Us (2010)

Sheinmel, Courtney
All Things You Are (2011)

Shepard, Sara
Pretty Little Liars Series (2006 - 2010)

Banned Books

Anonymous
Go Ask Alice (1971)

Chbosky, Stephen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)

Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games (2008)

Cooney, Caroline B.
The Face on the Milk Carton (1990)

Cormier, Robert
The Chocolate War (1974)

Crutcher, Chris
Athletic Shorts (1991)
Whale Talk (2001)

Dessen, Sarah
Dreamland (2000)

Going, Kelly L.
Fat Kid Rules the World (2003)

Hinton, S.E.
The Outsiders (1967)

Keyes, Daniel
Flowers for Algernon (1975)

Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter (series)

L'Engle, Madeleine
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Lowry, Lois
The Giver (1993)

Mackler, Carolyn
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things (2003)

Meyer, Stephenie
Twilight (series)

Myers, Walter Dean
Fallen Angels (1988)

Myracle, Lauren
ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r (series)

Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Sones, Sonya
What My Mother Doesn't Know(2001)

von Ziegesar, Cecily
Gossip Girl (series)

Walker, Alice
The Color Purple (1982)

Zindel, Paul
The Pigman (1968)


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