TeenFusion @ the GDL

Twilight was the most popular movie this weekend.  If you had the opportunity to see the film, was it good, bad or so-so?  Let us know!!  Pictures from the Twilight Party at the Grand Blanc-McFarlen Branch will be coming soon.  If you have photos you would like to share, send them to teenfusion2008@thegdl,org.

 

TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer, the biggest book/movie event of the year begins in Grand Blanc at the NCG Trillium Cinemas with a special screening at 12:05 AM on November 21st. (Thursday night).  Tickets are on sale via the box office, telephone or web page.  Later show times at the Trillium will be 11:30 AM, 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 and 11:55 PM. 

 

Courtland Center’s first show will be on November 21 at 1:00 PM.  Daily shows are scheduled for 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, and 9:35 PM.

 

Showcase Cinemas Flint West offers eight daily performances.  Show times are 1:00, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30 and 9:35 PM.

 

To verify show times and prices click on the link to the theater of your choice.

Trillium Cinemas

Courtland Center

Showcase Cinemas Flint West

 

You can look forward to more Bella and Edward on the big screen.  The remaining three books have been optioned and are in development.

Each year YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Associations) gives teens the opportunity to select and vote for their favorite books published over the past year.  It’s time to vote for your favorite teen read of 2008.  Click here to go directly to the YALSA ballot.  Don’t worry about titles you haven’t read, just choose from the titles you have enjoyed reading.  To locate or request a featured title, visit the GDL online catalog.

Are you It?  TAG stands for Teen Advisory Group and the GDL needs you to help plan, promote and present events, rate your reads, voice your opinion on library materials and meet other teens who share your interests.  On September 18, the TAG for Grand Blanc-McFarlen and Goodrich will meet in Grand Blanc at 7:00 PM.  Last month, attendees agreed to write book reviews for the blog.  Discussion focused on programming and what TAG members thought about current GDL program offerings.  Signup is easy.  Just click on the TAG Signup Page on TeenFusion and fill in the blanks.  Make sure to include a valid email or contact number.  Click submit once.  Watch for a personal invitation to a regional TAG meeting in your library service area.  Regions are:  Montrose/Clio/Flushing; Headquarters/Genesee Valley/Beecher; Burton/Davison; Gaines/Linden/Fenton; Grand Blanc/Goodrich; Baker Park/Flint Township/Swartz Creek; Mt. Morris/Johnson/Otisville.  Take GDL TAG challenge!!!

Have you been or are you going on Vacation this summer?  Are you staying close or traveling great distances?  In August, I am taking my niece and nephew with me to California round trip on Amtrak.  What sounds like fun to you?

Thanks to the teens who noticed missing schools on Your School page.  If you would like a link to your school on the TeenFusion @ the GDL blog, comment to this posting or on the Your School page.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By Alexie, Sherman

Wins the 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.  
Find out why this book has the attention of critics and readers.  This is an amazing story of breaking out of the confines of tradition to explore the possibilities of life outside the reservation. 

So I recently returned from a weekend trip to Cedar Point where I really tried to push my limits. I managed to get enough courage to get on the Maverick there and managed to survive!  Cedar Point has a fairly new attraction called Top Thrill Dragster.  It’s CRAZY!  It shoots you out of the gate at 120 mph, rockets you straight up 420 feet in the air, and then straight down again.  The whole ride takes about 8 seconds! One of my friends is operating that ride this summer, so I figured it would be insulting not to try it.  Oh wow…what a rush! I bought the picture of myself afterwards and I’ll post it up here, if I can get it scanned in properly. You can see how scared I was as the thing shot forward…I’d definitely do it again, though.

Do you have a favorite Cedar Point Ride?  What is it?  Why do you like it so much?

The Michigan Library Association’s Teen Services Division would like to know your favorite books from 2007.  Twenty titles recognizing the excellence and uniqueness of teen/young adult fiction or non-fiction have been placed on the ballot.  Visit the Thumbs Up! Book Award web site to vote for your favorite title.  Instructions for filing your vote are on the ballot.  Polls close on May 30, 2008. 

On this day of pranks and fools, share with us your favorite April Fool frivolity.