Introducing YA Rotating Collection!!!

Hey readers!
I thought I'd let you in on a new installment at the Essex Library - the YA Rotating Collection.This is a new collection that will revolve in and out of our YA department every few months. This will give us a chance to sample new titles and get our hands on books we might not otherwise have.

Every week I will highlight a rotating book of the week on the blog. This highlight will include a little description, short excerpt and cover image. There will also be a link to our catalog in case you would like to order it from home.

Come check out our rotating department on the front stacks of the the YA corner today!

Come get a good book!

Many of you have been in to see our YA collection and have in fact read most of the titles in our little department. If you're in the mood for something new (and considered fabulous by other teens) stop by!

We've got our YALSA top ten nominee display up and running for the month of October. Teens around the country have nominated a slew of titles that they find award winning for 2010. There are currently multiple copies of each title - come check one out today!

YA Book Club - October

Our book selection for the next YA Book Club has been picked...

We'll be reading The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks for our Halloween book meet at Essex Books! (Oct 27th, 4pm)



10 copies of the book will be stocked in the YA department - come grab a copy today!

Great Pizza Taste Off is Under Way!

October is National Pizza Month.
We couldn't think of a better topic to celebrate.

We decided to host a pizza taste off...and even better? Four local pizza restaurants have agreed to donate giant pizzas for the cause.

By registering, you get to join the fun by sampling and voting for the best mystery pizza that you taste. Do you know your local pizza well enough to be able to identify the creator?

Stop in to discover the local first place winner on Thursday, October 7th from 4-5pm Register today! Call 767-1560 or email Jessica at jbranciforte@essexlib.org

Vote!

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
Vote now for the 2010 YALSA Teens' Top Ten!
Voting takes place through September 17. You can vote online here.

Here are the titles you'll have to choose from ...

Watersmeet
by Ellen Jensen Abbott.
Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hate List
by Jennifer Brown
Heist Society
by Ally Carter
Fire
by Kristin Cashore
City of Glass
by Cassandra Clare
The Roar
by Emma Clayton
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen
Incarceron
Catherine Fisher
hush hush
by Becca Fitzpatrick
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman
Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
Dragonfly
by Julia Golding
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
by Catherine Jinks
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
by Josh Lieb
Twenty Boy Summer
by Sarah Ockler
Witch and Wizard
by James Patterson
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
by Julie Anne Peters
Bloodhound
by Tamora Pierce
Strange Angels
by Lili St. Crow
Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
by Nagaru Tanigawa
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
City of Fire
by Laurence Yep

More than 11,000 teens voted in the 2009 Teens' Top Ten, with Paper Towns by John Green topping the list.

Hunger Games Trilogy

Hello Hunger Games fans! While we're sure you may have heard, the trilogy is now complete. Suzanne Collins has completed the three part series with Mocking Jay which is now available. Come in to borrow a copy from our shelf, or place your name on a hold list today!

P.S. Our sources say that Hunger Games the Motion Picture will be released in the spring of 2011. We've also heard that the screen play is written by Suzanne Collins herself. So far it's looking good!

Check out the author's website for more details here:
http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/works.htm

Congrats to Riley Sullivan for winning our summer book trailer competition! Check out his book recommendation below and feel free to ask if you'd like to borrow our filming equipment for your own!