TEEN READ WEEK!
Happy Teen Read Week! To get things kick-started, I have three bookends for you (the first and last go perfectly with this year's theme: It's Alive @ your library!):

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
When a crazed orphan runs directly into wych-hunter Thaniel's arms while he's hunting a Cradlejack, he takes her home -- only to discover that she has been possessed by a spirit that attracts evil and is the key to opening a gate that will let loose all varieties of monsters and demons and wych-kin. Thaniel, with the help of his friends, must figure out how to defend humanity before the whole world is taken over. This is a dark suspense set in post-Goth London; a combination story of Jack the Ripper, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Edgar Allan Poe. It's a great page-turner and wonderful nighttime reading! You'll root for Alaizabel, Thaniel, and Cathaline and wonder how they'll possibly survive the powerful opposition. Enjoy!
Y FICTION Wooding

Shaolin Soccer, vol 1&2 by Andy Seto
Based on the movie (which I haven't seen yet), Shaolin Soccer tells of six men who studied shaolin kung fu, but after leaving the temple and heading out into the world, have had nothing but bad fortune. Sing, the final disciple to leave the temple, is honor-bound and determined to share shaolin kung fu with the world -- and he devises what appears to be the perfect plan when he decides to form a soccer team -- but all is not as easy as it seems. Pages packed with action and glaring with colour, make this a fun read for soccer lovers, manga appreciators, and movie fans.
Y GRAPHIC NOV Seto

The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Sometime in the future... Cosmo Hill, orphan, escapes the testing lab called home. But the unaccustomed to the wide-open world, he almost dies before he is rescued by an motley group of youth -- the Supernaturalists -- those who can see creatures that regular people can't. He joins them in their fight against the Parasites, strange blue creatures that suck the life out of ailing humans. After one of these fights, they find themselves captured by the world's most powerful company. Their lives teetering on the edge, they discover a web more tangled than they ever imagined. Colfer delivers a typical Colfer story -- excitement, plot twists, good characters. Fun reading.
Y SCI FI Colfer

VOTE! -- Teens' Top 10
Don't forget to vote this week on your favourite books from the year. Ballots with books-in-the-running can be found in the teen area (and at McA). Fill out the ballot and stick it in the yellow box for your vote to be counted and to be entered in the prize drawing. You can also join thousands of teens across the nation and vote online at: https://cs.ala.org/teenread/survey.cfm. For more information on how the books are chosen, visit the YALSA website.