Want to explore how connected we are to places around the globe?
Want to win $10,000 and a trip to New York?
Create a video, animation or written piece about a connection we have with another place in the world and enter in the Goldman Sachs Prize for Excellence in International Education!
Entries are due by July 11. Come by the library for more information or help with your project!
Today is the National Day of Silence. Find out more here.
It’s National Library Week and to celebrate, we’d like to know your favorite books!
What books made a big impression on you or have influenced your life?
In thinking back to high school, I think some of my favorites had to be Catcher in the Rye, Farewell to Arms, and Slaughterhouse Five. I also really liked the Pigman by Paul Zindel.
What are your favorites? Post your list here! Or come by the library and help us build our display and put your favorite book out!
At a conference yesterday, I got to hear Melissa de la Cruz(author of the Blue Blood books) and Stephanie Meyer(Twilight and New Moon) talk about their writing and their new books.
So here’s a little of the “inside scoop”!
Stephanie Meyer is working on Book 4, and has to finish by June so it will come out in August of 2008. She’s working on two projects at once, so she’s hoping she can finish it in time. She talked about how covers for the books are chosen by the editors, and so it’s hard for the author when the cover is designed and the author doesn’t “love” it. She wished that New Moon had a cover more appealing to guys than a flower.
Melissa de la Cruz is also working on her next book, Revelations, which is set in Brazil, and another entitled Apocalypse. She shared a funny inside story about her book covers. The book cover on Blue Buzz is her editor’s neck, and the cover of her new book Masquerade features her art director’s eyes.
We also heard Isabel Allende, author of Paula, House of Spirits and Ines of my Soul. She was surprisingly funny, though she did talk poignantly about her daughter Paula and about leaving Chile. I haven’t read Paula yet–have you? After hearing her talk about her experiences after Paula’s death and how writing the book was a healing process for her, I’d like to read it.
