Author Insights

Recipes for Disaster

Still looking for that Epic Costume?

or at this point - any costume?

Check out these easy, DIY costume ideas

My favorite is #3

Have You Read This Yet?

Evil has met its Match.

Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she’s shocked when one of the figures—a teenage boy who doesn’t seem to know what he is—jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Before she can return him to the factory, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop.  With the help of the wax boy, who calls himself Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Instead, she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little . . . waxy.

Published: August, 2016

Available @ La Quinta Library

Screen Time

The remastered Lego Harry Potter Collection is now available for PS4.

Let us know what you think!

For Your Consideration

Check out this weeks Teen Review - 

A Review by Rose

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Author Insights

Now that The Fever Code is out, 

check out these five Maze Runner Secrets from author

James Dashner

@ The Library Recap

This week was Teen Book Club

We read last years Teens' Top Ten Winners 

and discussed why they were voted in (and why they, maybe, shouldn't have been).  

Join us next month for

Pick up a list of books @ the La Quinta Library

Recipes for Disaster

Have your friends and family drink these

and get ready for a REAL Halloween!

Check out more Zombie ideas @ zombify.tumblr.com
(Warning - Graphic Images and Drawings)

Have You Read This Yet?

Something isn't right in this house. 

Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods, Lucy and her best friend and cousin, Margaret, know the ancient hallways inside out. Or so they think . . .

When her Aunt Penelope disappears, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has begun spending a LOT of time in the attic, claiming she can hear her mother's voice whispering from the walls.

Shut out by her cold, distant father, Lucy watches helplessly as her cousin's sanity slowly and completely unravels.

And then she begins hearing voices herself . . . 

Published: September, 2016

Available @ La Quinta Library

Screen Time

Did you know that there was a Max Steel cartoon series in the early 2000's?  And that there is toy line based on this character and his adventures?

The movie is marketed to teens and rated PG-13 - do you think they were targeting the right audience?

For Your Consideration

Check out this weeks Teen Review - 

A Review by Morgan

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Author Insights

@ the Library Recap

This week was Teen Think

We played Two Lies and a Truth and eerily ended up with a four way tie!

(pizza certificates for everyone)

Have You Read This Yet?

John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again.

Published: October, 2016

Available @ La Quinta Library

Recipes for Disaster

Check out this frightfully easy to make 

Halloween Dessert!

May We Recommend?

Check out the latest recommendation

from the Teen Librarian!

click here to read the Review!

Screen Time

Check out what's new in the world of Mario!

Read the full review from IGN here.

For Your Consideration

Check out this weeks Teen Review - 

A Review by Khai

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Author Insights

@ the Library Recap

This week was Anime Zone - 

Check out these awesome masks we made while watching

Bananya episodes 10-13

Polar Bear's Cafe episode 30

Ghost Stories episode 13 & 14

 

May We Recommend?

Check out the latest recommendation

from the Teen Librarian!

click here to read the Review!

Recipes for Disaster

This Month:

Spooky Crafts and Confections that you can make at home

Check out these spooky glow in the dark eyes - just add glow sticks!

Have You Read This Yet?

A stunning, terrifying novel about a house the color of blood and the two sisters who are trapped there by author Dawn Kurtagich.

"You have to keep putting it down, because it's so creepy; but then you have to pick it back up, it's so good!"
                                                 - Rose, 16

Published: September 2016

Available @ La Quinta Library

Screen Time

   Tim Burton's new movie, based on the best selling YA title by Riggs Ransom, Miss. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children opened last week to mixed reviews.  Check these out and let us know what you think.  Did Tim Burton do the book justice?

New York Times Review

The A.V. Club Review

For Your Consideration

Check out this weeks Teen Review - 

A Review by Kiwi

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Author Insights

Book Chat with Author: Dawn Kurtagich from LB School on Vimeo.