Join the SLO Library for National Gaming Day - Play a board game at your library and try to break the Guinness Record for most people playing a game on a single day!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
College Football Is Upon Us
So there are other sports, and then…there is football. Since bowl games ended last January, we have waited months for the pigskin’s return. Packed stadiums, marching bands, and mascots all fire up tomorrow night as the 2008 college football season gets under way. Whether you’re a Cal Poly Mustang, Aggie, Fighting Irish, or Hawkeye fan the football season brings regional and national rivalries. As the season progresses and you find yourself watching game after game, grab one of these fine books enjoy the love of grass, gridiron and pigskin.
Tim Green’s Football Genius
Elena Yates Eulo’s Great Receiver
Tiki Barber’s football series Go long, Kickoff
Pat Flynn’s Out of His League
Chris Lynch’s Inexcusable
John Madden's John Madden's heroes of football : the story of America's game
My greatest day in football : the legends of football recount their greatest moments
Pat Palmer's The ESPN pro football encyclopedia
Friday, November 07, 2008
Free College Practice Tests
Check out the following websites for free SAT, ACT, GRE test prep and more!testprepreview.com - practice tests and questions for every entrace test imaginable
Number2.com - Free SAT, ACT, and GRE tests online
collegeboard.com - Sample tests and questions
Saturday, November 01, 2008
World War II Books for Teens
A boy at war : a novel of Pearl Harbor / Harry Mazer
A foreign field / Gillian Chan
B for Buster / Iain Lawrence
Don't talk to me about the war / David A. Adler
Don't you know there's a war on? / Avi
Elephant run / Roland Smith
Fire in the hills / Donna Jo Napoli
For freedom : the story of a French spy / Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow / Susan Campbell Bartoletti
My chocolate year : a novel with 12 recipes / by Charlotte Herman
On the wings of heroes / Richard Peck
Postcards from no man's land / by Aidan Chambers
Room in the heart / Sonia Levitin
Slap your sides : a novel / by M.E. Kerr
Soldier X / Don Wulffson
Tamar / Mal Peet.
The book thief / by Markus Zusak
The gadget / Paul Zindel
The green glass sea / Ellen Klages
Under a war-torn sky / L.M. Elliott
When my name was Keoko / Linda Sue Park
A foreign field / Gillian Chan
B for Buster / Iain Lawrence
Don't talk to me about the war / David A. Adler
Don't you know there's a war on? / Avi
Elephant run / Roland Smith
Fire in the hills / Donna Jo Napoli
For freedom : the story of a French spy / Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow / Susan Campbell Bartoletti
My chocolate year : a novel with 12 recipes / by Charlotte Herman
On the wings of heroes / Richard Peck
Postcards from no man's land / by Aidan Chambers
Room in the heart / Sonia Levitin
Slap your sides : a novel / by M.E. Kerr
Soldier X / Don Wulffson
Tamar / Mal Peet.
The book thief / by Markus Zusak
The gadget / Paul Zindel
The green glass sea / Ellen Klages
Under a war-torn sky / L.M. Elliott
When my name was Keoko / Linda Sue Park
Great Scary Books for Teens
Acceleration by Graham McNamee - While working during the summer a young man finds a journal of a serial killer
Coraline by Neil Gaiman - Did you ever wish for different parents?
Finding Daddy by Louise Plummer - When Mira finally tracks down her birth father, she doesn't get what she expected.
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy - Three children walked away from the cottages on Berwick Waters, only two of them came back...
My swordhand is singing by Marcus Sedgwick - What happens when the dead return?
The Dreaming by Queenie Chan - You never knew Manga could be so frightening
The haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding - Thaniel and Cathaline must rid the streets of London of a dangerous infestation
What Janie found by Caroline B. Cooney - What can you find out when your parents aren't who you think they are.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman - Did you ever wish for different parents?
Finding Daddy by Louise Plummer - When Mira finally tracks down her birth father, she doesn't get what she expected.
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy - Three children walked away from the cottages on Berwick Waters, only two of them came back...
My swordhand is singing by Marcus Sedgwick - What happens when the dead return?
The Dreaming by Queenie Chan - You never knew Manga could be so frightening
The haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding - Thaniel and Cathaline must rid the streets of London of a dangerous infestation
What Janie found by Caroline B. Cooney - What can you find out when your parents aren't who you think they are.
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