New Young Adult Magazines??

We're thinking about adding some new titles to our teen magazine collection .... What do you think?
Please let us know your suggestions! Some suggestions so far include Dirt Bike Magazine , Seventeen, and Anime Insider.
We'd love to hear other suggestions as well!

TeenTuesdayTomorrow!

Reminder: TeenTuesday is this week, May 13th. Come find out how you can help with plans for this year's Summer Library Adventure!

DVDs ... free for a week!

I just saw the coolest movie over the weekend .... Tin Man on DVD .... it's like a whole new version of Wizard of OZ ... check it out ... or request it with your library card!
Also:
Here's a list of the new DVD's we'll be getting at the library soon!

Library Closing Early for Annual Town Meeting

The Library will close at 6pm this Thursday for Upton's Annual Town Meeting.
Click here for more info.

TeenTuesday: Next Week!

The next TeenTuesday will be held on
Tuesday, May 13th
in the Upton Town Library, beginning at 4pm.
Come and hear about plans being made for this Summer,
and find out how you can help, with some volunteer opportunities ...

Pizza and snacks provided for all participants!

ULTRA book group . . . .

On May 30th, the ULTRA book group will be discussing the book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Several copies of this book are currently available at the circulation desk. Please check one out, read it, and plan to join us on May 30th! This book won an ALEX AWARD in 2008, being named a top-10 adult book with special appeal to Young Adults.

From School Library Journal
Adult/High School—This gripping story by a children's-rights advocate recounts his experiences as a boy growing up in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, during one of the most brutal and violent civil wars in recent history. Beah, a boy equally thrilled by causing mischief as by memorizing passages from Shakespeare and dance moves from hip-hop videos, was a typical precocious 12-year-old. But rebel forces destroyed his childhood innocence when they hit his village, driving him to leave his home and travel the arid deserts and jungles of Africa. After several months of struggle, he was recruited by the national army, made a full soldier and learned to shoot an AK-47, and hated everyone who came up against the rebels. The first two thirds of his memoir are frightening: how easy it is for a normal boy to transform into someone as addicted to killing as he is to the cocaine that the army makes readily available. But an abrupt change occurred a few years later when agents from the United Nations pulled him out of the army and placed him in a rehabilitation center. Anger and hate slowly faded away, and readers see the first glimmers of Beah's work as an advocate. Told in a conversational, accessible style, this powerful record of war ends as a beacon to all teens experiencing violence around them by showing them that there are other ways to survive than by adding to the chaos.—Matthew L. Moffett, Pohick Regional Library, Burke, VA
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For more info about the topic of child soldiers, and similar experiences to what is described in this book, check out InvisibleChildren.com or see the DVD, Invisible Children.