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.

I recently checked out Jango by William Nicholson.  The first few chapters are not holding my attention.  If you have read this book, your opinion would be appreciated.  Jango is one of twenty titles on YALSA’s selection list for the 2008 Teen Top Ten.  Vote for your favorite title during Teen Read Week, October 12-18, 2008.  Click here For the selection list with brief descriptions.

                                                                                                                                                                                

                               

 

Need homework help?  GDL online resources are available 24/7.  Links can be found on TeenFusion under Issues or Study Tools.  From the GDL homepage look for the word Research near the top center of the page.  Don’t forget to search the digital library or netlibrary for ebooks or audio books.  Over the weekend, I listened to a collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories downloaded from Overdrive, our digital library.  Feedback on our homework help database would be appriecated.

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?

Over the past week, firework tents have been showing up in parking lots and street corners.  Will you and/or your family be making firework purchases for the upcoming holiday weekend?  If so, are you at all concerned about the safety issues for handling fireworks?  Before lighting the fuse click here to look at the National Council of Firework Safety website.

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?

How often would you use a digital library with ebooks, audiobooks, music and videos?  The GDL Overdrive digital library is ready for checkouts.  To access Overdrive, log in to the GDL webpage.  Select digital library under the word Service or the word Overdrive on the TeenFusion blog.  Choose up to seven titles to check out, download them to your computer then sync them to your MP3 player or other portable media device compatible with Windows Media Player for entertainment where and when you want it.  Click here to go directly to the GDL Overdrive catalog and more details on going to the library without leaving home, then take your personal library to your favorite places.

I have received the third book of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series without reading the first or second book.  Should I wait for them or read number three now?  Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse are extremely popular and have long waiting lists.  Coming this summer the fourth and final book of the Twilight series, “Breaking Dawn”.  Log in to your GDL account and place your hold today.