Do you want to build your own home library? Do you sometimes want to share books with friends? Want to avoid worrying about due dates and fines? Have I got a deal for you! Secondhand Prose, the Library’s book sale is a great place to rummage around and find great treasures and bargains. You’ll find all sorts of titles and subjects that are donated or discards from the library’s collection. Teen hardbacks are $1.00, paperbacks $ .50. The book sales are at the Library Services Center, 2450 North Meridian Street. The next one opens on Friday, November 13th, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, for members of Friends of the Library. If you’re not a Friends member, or once you have the book sale bug, try Saturday, November 14, 10-5pm, Sunday November 15, 12-4 pm.  Friday November 20, 12-7:30 is half price day and Saturday, November 21, 10-4 pm is $5 a bag day.

 Want to join a book club that goes beyond reality? The Pass the Book program @ IMCPL is just for you! It’s easy to do and you don’t need anything to participate. 

The event will kick off this Friday October 2nd at the First Friday Event at Central Library. After Friday you can get a special Pass-the-Book copy at your local IMCPL branch or–starting October 5th–at five Indianapolis schools. 

When you get your copy you log it in at www.imcpl.org/pass , read it, and pass it on to a friend. When you log and pass the miles traveled will be “logged” and you can see where the book you had has traveled and what other readers thought about it. 

The books are all by John Green, an Indianapolis native. The three titles; An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and Looking for Alaska. All three books are hilarious, quirky and wildly entertaining. Once you read one you’ll want to read the other two.

REMEMBER: The books that you’ll pass around, once the program starts on Friday, will be specially prepared paperbacks, NOT the copies that you can request off this blog page.

Protect your first amendment rights! This week, September 26th-October 3rd is Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week was founded in 1982 by the American Library Association as a way to celebrate the freedom of expression of the written word. Banning books can be very dangerous because it limit’s a diversity of opinion. If everyone read the same thing then humans would not formulate new ideas that can lead to innovations in social, civil, arts, and political spheres.

A few frequently challenged books are The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the Harry Potter series, Forever by Judy Blume, and the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey. Some of the reasons these books were challenged were for being unsuitable for age group, anti-family, occultism, and sexual content. Check out the list at http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

Here are some challenged teen books you can find at IMCPL:

 

Forever by Judy Blume

 Katie, an IMCPL patron,  had this to say about Forever:

this book is a very good book! i loved it!!! it has a lot of good advice in it and it it will grab your attention when u first start reading it!!! Judy BL\lume is one of my favorite authors too………i really enjoy her books! if u like her too then i recommend u read this book!
 

 

      

TTYL by Lauren Myracle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories by Chris Crutcher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones

No longer is Professor X the leader of the X-men. No longer is Magneto a villain.   No longer do the X-men live in the golden age of man, but struggle and fight for a better day in the Age of Apocalypse.  Everything you think you know about the X-men you can forget. In this classic, four part miniseries, the X-men struggle to find their purpose in a dangerous and unforgiving age of Apocalypse.   Guided by their leader, Magneto, the X-Men find hope that there is a better tomorrow and world without the rule of Apocalypse. This first part has all the makings of a genuine classic graphic novel; new people, exciting stories, and devastating consequences.  Looking for a page turner, this is it. Want something that you absolutely cannot put down, this is it.  I highly recommend this book for all ages; the number one graphic novel that I have read thus far, at your finger tips.

What is a graphic novel?  A “graphic novel” is a longer version of a comic book story that offers a more complex storyline, comparable to a novel. According to the ComicBookPedia website, the term “graphic novel” was first coined by Richard Kyle in 1964, mainly as an attempt to distinguish the newly translated works from Europe which were then being published from what Kyle perceived as the more juvenile subject matter that was so common in the United States.
According to the Internet Wikipedia, a “graphic novel” is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using the comics form.  The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres.  Graphic novels using the same materials and method as print books are typically bound in a longer, more durable format then comic magazines.
Don’t know where to or how to start? Try any of the titles found on the American Library Association’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

Here are a few titles to get you started:

Maximum Ride 1 by NaRae Lee   TEEN 741.5 LEE v.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Life Sucks by Jessica Abe   TEEN 741.5 ABE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventure in Japan by Aimee Major Steinberger   741.5 STE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Skim by Mariko Tamaki   TEEN 741.5 TAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Laika by Nick Abadzis   741.5 ABA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis   jB Sis, Peter Sis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Transformers. Revenge of the Fallen by Chris Mowry Teen   741.5 MOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

THE BONE SERIES:

Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith   TEEN 741.5 BONE SMI V.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith   TEEN 741.5 BONE SMI v. 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  DRAGON BALL

Dragon Ball Vol. 6 by Akira Toriyama   TEEN 741.5 TOR v. 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Dragon Ball Z Vol. 6 by Akira Toriyama   TEEN 741.5 TOR v.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

BUFFY!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Pale Reflections by Andi Watson   TEEN 741.5 Buffy W3374p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Crash Test Demons by Andi Watson   TEEN 741.5 Buffy W3374c

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

GRAPHIC CLASSICS

Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce   TEEN 741.5 BIE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft   TEEN 741.5 L8978h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

H. G. Wells by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells   TEEN 741.5 W4543h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe   TEEN 741.5 P743e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle Sir   TEEN 741.5 D7541a