For those of you who enjoy ghost stories, check out Mary Downing Hahn’s All the Lovely Bad Ones. Two prankster teenagers spending the summer at their Grandma’s Vermont inn, find out that it is listed in Haunted Inn’s of Vermont. They decide to let the guests have a ‘ghost’   experience but never dream that they might wake the real ones.

I also read (finally) Linda Sue Park’s Keeping Score. For baseball fans, learn how to keep score while listening to (or watching) a game. You can get the flavor of what it was like before TV’s (or the internet) were everywhere. You can also get a little history as a character goes off to Korea for the war and the main character tries to understand just what the fighting is all about.

I came across this in a blog I check from time to time. The deadline is looming (very near) so if you want to submit your favorite title, go to the site now. You will be able to vote in September and again through the fall until Election Day once they narrow down the list. If you missed the deadline, leave a comment with your favorite book of all time. (If you can narrow down it to one, I’ll be amazed!)

Once again, we have new books that have been displayed for the past week. Yes, I hear you grumbling, but if I didn’t do it this way the books would all disappear by Tuesday and most of you wouldn’t have had a chance to look at them. I could just leave pictures of covers somewhere but I don’t think that helps you know what you want.

 What’s been interesting (and a little irritating but mostly interesting) has been which books have been hidden by folks trying to be the one who gets to read it first. I’ve been asked to hold books, keep books, get more copies, etc. of the following titles:

These books are all part of series. Does anyone read any fiction that ISN’T part of a series any more? I challenge some of you to read the following new and newish books (or others)that are not in a series. Then YOU can be a guest blogger on Library TWEeeter and tell us all about it!

Not in a series:

The Bad Luck Chair by  Sue Wilkowski (FIC WIL)

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (FIC SEL)

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (FIC HAH)

How To Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor (FIC OCO)

On October 26th, which is a half day at school, we are having a reading celebration! Scare Up a Good Book! will mean a free new book for every student who comes to school that day, guest readers, Reading Buddies, and more! Ask your teacher about your class plans for the day. We’ll be featuring mysteries in the library so be sure to check them out during the week. Tell us about your favorite mystery, or your favorite event of the day! You can even comment about your new book! Let’s just get excited about reading!

I finished two books this weekend. I finished The Blue Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer and The Ghost’s Grave by Peg Kehret. Both of these books are on the Bluebonnet list and they both feature kids who have a ghost communicate with them. Students are always asking for scary books which, of course, are not in a separate section of the library. What is scary to one person is not scary to another. I know the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books are popular but what are your favorite scary books?

Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix is on the Bluebonnet List for 2007-2008. This is a cross between mystery and science fiction. If you don’t read a summary of the book or talk to someone who has already read it, you might be very surprised at the outcome. We just got 2 copies so check it out! What other mysteries kept you guessing right up to the end?