Steampunk, Vampires and Jane Austen with Sea Monsters. It's All Here!

Check out these awesome book trailers. I don't know about you, but these videos make me want to read each and every one of these books.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld



Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz


Sense and Sensiblity and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters


Thanks for checking this blog out during Teen Tech Week!
Feel free to

Fun with Words

How many of you have created a Wordle?

I created this one based off a great book I read recently called Paper Towns by John Green. It won the 2009 Teen's Top Ten through YALSA this year. If you click on the image, you can see it larger.



Once you add the text that you want to appear for your Wordle (I just wrote up a short synopsis of the story for this one) you can view the image. You can

Check out Glogster

Have you heard about Glogster? It's a site that lets you create interactive posters on the Web on any topic you want.  You can add music, video, images and text to your poster.

Preston T. created a great one about his favorite book, Breaking Dawn. Check it out here.

You can even create a glog about glogs like one of our teen volunteers did here one day as he was testing it out.

Try it out for

Roll out the Red Carpet

Today's Cool Tech-y Thing is book trailers and short films created by teens at the Pima County Public Library in Arizona.

Click here to see some videos made by more than 50 teens who learned filmmaking techniques through workshops led by professional filmmakers. How fun would that be?

Great Picks for Teen Tech Week

Unfortunately, we had no elligilble entires in our contest which means we have no projects to vote on. :(
But I'll still be keeping the Teen Tech Week spirit alive here on the blog throughout the week.

First up, be sure to come into the library to check out the tech-related books we've got on display.


Invisble I by Stella Lennon


Feed by M.T. Anderson

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

A $20 Best Buy Gift Card could be yours!

Remember, the final deadline for the Teen Tech Week project of creating a "digital booktalk" is this Sunday, March 7. For more information, click here.

Be sure to get your project e-mailed to melaniefeyerherm@gmail.com by that night and I'll put the entries on this blog the next day so that people can vote on them! The winner gets a $20 gift card to Best Buy!

If you have questions, leave a

Teen Tech Week - Digital Booktalk Contest

Enter for a chance to win a $20 Best Buy Gift Card!
Using programs online, create a "digital booktalk" that promotes one of your favorite books. It could be a video, picture or cartoon book trailer using Web sites like Animoto or Toon Do; a soundtrack playlist using sites like Project Playlist; a Glogster page; a Wordle image; or anything else you think would best show off your book.

The