Bytes and Books

In two revealing prequels to Red Queen, Queen Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life. Meanwhile, Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance--and stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to an attack on the Nortan capital: Mare Barrow.

It's All Your Fault - Paul Rudnick

Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Singleberry is a proper Christian teenager and member of a family singing group, but today she has been given a truly impossible assignment--keep her cousin Heller Harrigan, Hollywood wild child, out of trouble for the last weekend before her first big movie debuts.

Truthwitch - Susan Dennard

On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a 'witchery,' a magical skill that sets them apart from others. Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. Iseult is a Threadwitch, seeing the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her-- but not those that touch her own heart. With the help of Prince Merik, a Windwitch-- and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge-- the friends must fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Newt Scamander

A description of beasts, believed by Muggles to be mythical, like the Quintaped, the Puffskein, and the Knarl. Presents a facsimile edition of a book from the world of Harry Potter--the text for Hogwarts' Care of Magical Creatures class.

The Dark Days Club - Alison Goodman

In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago.

March 2016

Post date: Mar 11, 2016 6:37:29 PM

For our Teen Tech Week Bytes and Books program, MCL youth librarian Danielle Jones shared the following BYTES:

Getting Started with Zinio and Hoopla

Here are links to the topics that were covered during her presentation:

Getting Started with Zinio

Zinio is a collection of current digital magazines on a wide range of topics. Multnomah County Library card holders can download as many magazines as they want, when they want them, for as long as they want — no limits, no holds, no loan periods!

Getting Started with Hoopla

Hoopla, a Netflix-like service for library card holders, is a way to stream and temporarily download movies, music, audiobooks, digital comics, and TV shows ,on demand and for free through the Multnomah County Library.

and the following BOOKS:

Lucky Day and Newly Added Titles for the Month of March

Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling - Tony Cliff

When globe trotting troublemaker Delilah Dirk and her friend Selim are accused of espionage against the British crown, they must clear their names, even if it means returning to respectability.

Unbecoming - Jenny Downham

Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

Symptoms of Being Human - Jeff Garvin

A gender-fluid teenager who struggles with identity creates a blog on the topic that goes viral, and faces ridicule at the hands of fellow students.

Girl from Everywhere - Heidi Heilig

Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end.

Up to This Pointe - Jennifer Longo

Devastated when her dream of becoming a professional ballerina falls through, seventeen-year-old Harper Scott takes a job as a research assistant, wintering over at McMurdo, a U.S. science station at the tip of Antarctica where, for the first time, she considers other possible futures.

You Were Here - Cori McCarthy

On the anniversary of her daredevil brother's death, Jaycee breaks into Jake's favorite hideout, an abandoned insane asylum, where her eccentric friends challenge her to rediscover buried parts of herself.

Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys

As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.

Thanks for the Trouble - Tommy Wallach

Parker hasn't spoken since he watched his father die five years ago. He communicates through writing on slips of paper and keeps track of his thoughts by journaling. A loner, Parker has little interest in school, his classmates, or his future. But everything changes when he meets Zelda, a mysterious young woman with an unusual request: 'treat me like a teenager.

The Steep and Thorny Way - Cat Winters

A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet.