laneteenzone.org

It’s true! You can down­load any three of thou­sands of songs avail­able on Free­gal every week for FREE. That includes “Til the World Ends” by Brit­ney Spears, “From the End of the World” by ELO, “Truck Stop at the End of the World” by Bill Kirchen…you get the point.

Do you draw? Paint? Sketch? Sculpt? Pho­to­graph?  We want to see it!

Laneteenzone.org is accept­ing art­work sub­mis­sions. If you’d like to see your art­work dis­played on our teen page, you can scan it or take a pic­ture of it, then email it to artwork@lanepl.org, or bring your cre­ation to the Fair­field Lane Library and we’ll do the rest. Then look for it right here on laneteenzone.org!

If you’ve never heard of Thor (as he per­tains to the Mar­vel uni­verse), or even if you just want to brush up on the back­story before see­ing him on the big screen, the Lane Libraries have you cov­ered. Click here to request some rel­e­vant Thor comics!

If you like David Cook’s cover of Sim­ple Minds’ “Don’t You (For­get About Me),” you’ll love Free­gal. Why? Because Free­gal lets you down­load that and thou­sands more songs for FREE. If you have a library card and know your pin num­ber, you’re set!

There’s Star Wars Uncut, which invited fans to claim a 15-second snip­pet of the orig­i­nal movie and film it how­ever they saw fit, then stitched all the best iter­a­tions of each scene together as a full-length ver­sion of the film. There are a thou­sand and one Star Wars mash-ups out there. It’s been par­o­died by Mel Brooks, Fam­ily Guy, and Robot Chicken. But, just when you thought it had all been done, now you can see Star Wars, Episode IV, as inter­preted with…icons?

Regard­less of whether any­one thought it should be done, Wayne Dor­ring­ton, designer and illus­tra­tor extra­or­di­naire, has told the entire arc of Star Wars, Episode IV with no words (aside from “SOS”) — only icons. Not only that, but he’s com­pleted Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as well.

If you’d never seen the movies, would Dorrington’s retelling still make sense? What other sto­ries could you tell using noth­ing but icons?

Who likes free music? Per­haps some­one like you? Maybe, more specif­i­cally, some­one like you would like a free down­load of “Some­one Like You” by Adele? Luck­ily for some­one like you, the Lane now offers Free­gal, which has music by Adele and thou­sands of other artists that can, in fact, be down­loaded for free. By some­one like you.

Pac­ing and endurance are half the bat­tle when tak­ing the ACTs. Teens 13 — 18 are invited to the Lane Libraries for free ACT work­shops that will pro­vide tips and help­ful information.

ACT Prac­tice Test

Pre­pare for the real thing by gaug­ing your test readi­ness with a full-length prac­tice test. Results will be emailed within 48 hours and accom­pa­nied by a detailed analysis.

Sat­ur­day, May 7, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. (Fairfield)

Sat­ur­day, May 14, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. (Oxford)

ACT 101 Review

An instruc­tor will review impor­tant math and Eng­lish con­tent and teach effec­tive test tak­ing strate­gies and time sav­ing tips. Don’t for­get to bring a cal­cu­la­tor! Par­ents are wel­come to attend with their teen.

Sat­ur­day, May 14, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. (Fairfield)

Thurs­day, May 19, 6:00 — 7:00 p.m. (Oxford)

Reg­is­tra­tion is required for both pro­grams. Call 858‑3238, ext. 358 for Fair­field and 523‑7531, ext. 215 for Oxford.

For more infor­ma­tion about these and other pro­grams at the Lane Libraries, please
call 894‑6557 or visit the Lane Web site at www.lanepl.org.

The ALA has released its top ten most fre­quently chal­lenged books for 2010. How many have you read?

1. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Par­nell and Justin Richardson

2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sher­man Alexie

3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

4. Crank by Ellen Hopkins

5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

6. Lush by Natasha Friend

7. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones

8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Get­ting By in Amer­ica by Bar­bara Ehrenreich

9. Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie

10. Twi­light by Stephanie Meyer

Last week, the blog YA Book Reads came out with their list of Young Adult Literature’s top ten villains.

Noth­ing helps make a good book bet­ter than a vil­lain that we all love to hate.

Click on the links to access our cat­a­log to request the books in which these strong char­ac­ters shine. (If they’re not in the cat­a­log, try using the M.O.R.E. ser­vice).

1. Lord Volde­mort, The Harry Pot­ter series by J.K. Rowling

2. Valen­tine, The Mor­tal Instru­ments series by Cas­san­dra Clare

3. Pres­i­dent Snow, The Hunger Games tril­ogy by Suzanne Collins

4. Bela­trix Lestrange, The Harry Pot­ter series by J.K. Rowling

5. Alisi­tar Knight, Witch series by Car­olyn Mac­Cul­lough (com­ing soon!)

6. Ismus, Danc­ing Jax by Robin Jarvis (com­ing soon!)

7. Reyad, Study series by Maria V. Snyder

8. The Vol­turi, The Twi­light Saga by Stephe­nie Meyer

9. The Killer, The Body Finder by Kim­berly Derting

10 – Bas­t­ian – Angelfire series by Court­ney Alli­son Moul­ton (com­ing soon!)

Click on the link below to read the full post (rated PG):

http://yabookreads.com/blog/2011/03/23/yas-top-ten-villains/

Are there any char­ac­ters who you should add to the list? Any that don’t think should be there? Feel free to com­ment below!