Happy Teen Read Week!

Celebrate reading for fun, Chaska High!  Stop in to the Media Center and pick up a great new book, and while you're here enter our prize drawings.  What's your favorite way to read?  Book?  Magazine?  Newspaper?  Audiobook?  Ebook?  If you win one of our fabulous prizes - Barnes and Noble gift cards, iTunes cards, or an autographed copy of Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - you'll get a choice in what you want to read for pleasure.  Stock up for the long EdMN weekend!

Vote soon for Teens' Top Ten!

There is still time (until Sept. 16th) to participate in the voting for YALSA's Teens' Top Ten books for 2011.  Click on this link to let your voice be heard:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm

Maggie Stiefvater author visit at the Wild Rumpus!

I could hardly wait to meet Maggie Stiefvater, author of my latest favorite books, Shiver, Linger, and Forever!  Imagine my surprise and delight to see some Chaska High School students gathered at the Wild Rumpus book store in Minneapolis, as well!  After hearing Maggie address the crowd in the first few minutes of her presentation, I could easily see how she is such a super writer - she is a major story teller!  She shared several humorous anecdotes with us, including a fascinating story of how she traveled to Hungary to spend time with wolves trained for movies.  She arrived in Minnesota in her infamous blue Camaro with Shiver license plates as she traveled the country on her book tour "road trip" with author friend, Tessa Gratton.  Gave her a copy of this posted photo I took of her book "lingering" in the paws of the bronze wolf sculpture at the MN Landscape Arboretum.  Definitely looking forward to having brunch with Maggie at the upcoming AASL Conference in Minneapolis in October.

Welcome back to school!

Get ready for a great year of reading and researching, Hawks!