Next meeting of ULTRA ...

ULTRA's next monthly meeting will be held on TeenTuesday, September 18th . . .

Please come prepared to:

• discuss something you've read in the past month!
  

  
  
  
  
• volunteer to help at this year's Friends of the Library Book Sale and/or ULTRA bake sale!
  
  
• plan ULTRA's 2nd Annual Book Store Field Trip! For info about last year's trip, click here!
  
  
• check out the NEW books in the Young Adult section!
  
  
  
  
  
• eat pizza and chat with your friends!!!

TeenTuesday is Today!

Today is TeenTuesday, and also the one-year anniversary of ULTRA!
Come to tonight's meeting and find out what's in store for the fall ...
We'll be planning for our 2nd annual book-buying field trip!

Friends of the Upton Town Library BookSale: September 22-23: help at the ULTRA BakeSale and Face Painting tables!

Free Food!
See you soon,
Lisa
:)

Summer Reading Program

Come to the library to find out about the Teen-Only weekly raffles,
and see how you can enter to win a prize ...
just for READING!!!

Thank you to . . .

Emma, Brianna & Jay,
who represented ULTRA recently at the
Teen Book Talk at B&N!

Getting Ready to "Catch the Beat"

Hey ULTRA!
Sorry I haven't posted lately, I've been REALLY busy with school (yes, I'm going to school to learn how to be an even better librarian ... !) and with planning events for this Summer ....
including a Harry Potter Party on June 20th, 4pm-Midnight in the Library! Keep checking back here for more info!

New Books!

Here are just a few of our new books ...

"Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood."

"Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship."

The 3rd installment of Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series has arrived!

Eragon DVD --- released today!

The movie based on the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini was released on DVD ... and became a part of Upton's growing collection ... TODAY!
To request it, click here and enter your library card number!


For info about the book and movie ....

http://www.eragonsite.com/

http://www.eragonmovie.com/

http://www.alagaesia.com/

Book Blogs to check out!

Here are a few blogs I found that have some book recommendations for teens . . .
http://informationgoddess29.com/

http://yabooks.blogspot.com/

http://yaarc.blogspot.com/

for guys:
http://www.guysread.com/

for Manga fans:
http://librarygoddesses-manga.blogspot.com/

Let me know if any of these lists is helpful to you, and if you end up reading a book that you discovered on one of the blogs!

Happy Reading!
~Lisa
:)

Upcoming Events....

Mark your calendar and get ready to Catch the Beat for Your Library at Barnes and Noble on April 20-21, 2007! Click here for more info on this statewide fundraiser, and plan to attend the Teen Book Talk on Friday night! The customer-relations manager at the Millbury Barnes&Noble store heard about ULTRA from another Librarian, and called me this week to extend a special invitation to ULTRA!!

Book-of-the-Day Blog ....

I just wanted to share this link w/you all for a great blog I discovered recently,

Renee's Book-of-the-Day Blog

Check it out!
Happy Reading!

TeenTuesday: This Week!

The next TeenTuesday is this week, March 13. Stop by the library between 4-5pm to meet members of ULTRA and learn more about what the library has to offer teens and young adults! Open to all Upton teens, ages 12-17. Free pizza and snacks for all participants.

Just in: more Scott Westerfeld books!!!

Fans of Scott Westerfeld will be happy to know that Upton finally has this super-popular trilogy: UGLIES PRETTIES SPECIALS!!!
(and, even though this is a 'trilogy'.... I just read that there's actually a 4th book in the works, called EXTRAS, due out in October 2007!)
Read more about it here: WesterBlog!

And the sequel to PEEPS, The Last Days, has also arrived!

TeenTuesday .....

is THIS week! February 13th .... see you at the Library (4pm)!

On-line Book Chats ...

I just rec'd an interesting email about a new way to hold a book discussion group:

Online (live) Book Chats!

The book to be discussed on February 21st is SANDPIPER by Ellen Wittlinger.

(Yes, we have this book in Upton, and can request more copies!)

Read on for all the details.....

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David Gill and C.J. Bott of ALAN (the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) are starting an online young adult book group on the ALAN website.

Here is the plan. Each month on the third Wednesday at 9:00PM/EST (to accommodate all the time zones), they will have a discussion on a previously selected YA book. People would sign on to the ALAN website (www.alan-ya.org/) and then follow the path to the Book Chat. And then on the following Wednesday night, the fourth of the month, there will most likely be an interview with the author of the "chatted" book.

The book up for discussion on February 21 at 9:00 PM/EST is SANDPIPER (2005) by Ellen Wittlinger. Ellen has agreed to be interviewed on the following Wednesday, February 28 at the same time.

We hope you can join us, and feel free to spread the word.

By the way, David Klass's FIRESTORM has been arranged for March!

There's going to be a great line-up of YA books and authors! The more people who can join in the discussion, the better.

If anyone has any questions, you can direct them to C. J. Bott at Bottcj@aol.com.

ALA Book Awards Announced Today

ALA Announces Award Winners today!
Check out this link to see this year's winning books!

Update of Babysitters' Training Class

UPDATE!! New session added! Call for info or stop by to register! (posted 1/24/07)

The RedCross Babysitter Training Class is currently FULL, but we're hoping to add another session. You may call the Library to be put on a waiting list.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Book #4

It's Here!!

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

NEW Books!!

We just added a bunch of new books to our collection this week ... here is just a sampling of the new arrivals!!!

Tamora Pierce fans will be glad to know that I ordered Terrier ... and Brian Jacques fans will want to check out Voyage of Slaves: A Tale from Castaways of the Flying Dutchman.

Do you like Pirates? How 'bout Vampires?
Check out Piratica II and Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean!!


Terry Pratchett's 3rd installment in a series about a young witch-in-training, named Tiffany, received a Booklist Starred Review:
Wintersmith follows The Wee Free Men (2003) and A Hat Full of Sky (2004).

Volume 8 in Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series has arrived, entitled Princess on the Brink.
As always, if anyone is feeling up to writing a ~brief~ review of any of these books, PLEASE DO!!!! We can post it here and/or on the bulletin board in the Library!!

Generation Next

Check out this link to read more about this, and watch the documentary this Friday night at 9pm on Channel 2!
Generation NEXT: Speak Up ~ Be Heard!

January's TeenTuesday

Happy New Year, Everyone!
Quick reminder that this month's TeenTuesday will be held on the 16th, and that our discussion of the book Flipped got postponed from last month, so that will be happening this time. There are still a couple of copies on reserve at the Library, so please pick one up at the circulation desk if you'd like to read it before the 16th! We also need to work on the ULTRA bulletin board display, (you can kinda see the bulletin board in the background of this picture) so bring your ideas along w/any pictures (photos or original artwork) and book reviews, etc. to put on there. Thanks to all of you who have contributed to the display so far! Thanks, also, to those of you who keep the graphic novels slatwall organized! Great job!

Be sure to check out the pictures of the ULTRA Gingerbread House!!
Hope to see you all soon!
~Lisa
:)