You must turn in your volunteer application prior to attending the orientation. Stop by the PLS Reference Desk on the first floor of the library to get an application or download it here. If you have any questions, click on Volunteer FAQ , or call Jamie, the Teen Volunteer Coordinator, at (954) 262 – 5477.

Enjoy a behind the scenes look at the ballet as 22 costumed dancers perform excerpts from ‘The Nutcracker,’ including an interactive Q & A at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center. Seating begins at 1:30 p.m. FREE tickets are available at the Public Library Services Desk in the Alvin Sherman Library until December 11, while supplies last. Please call 954-262-5477 for availability.

For ages 4 and up with an adult.

Live Homework Help provides free tutoring in math, science, social studies, and English for grades K-12, introductory college, and adult learners. Available between 2PM and 10PM every day.

Remember, you will need your NSU library card ID number to log in.

You must be present at this meeting to run for office and/or vote for officers. Only current and active TAB members may vote or run for office.

Candidates will briefly campaign at the meeting to introduce themselves. Then, voting ballots will be distributed and collected, results will be tallied (majority wins the position), and the new officers will be announced at the meeting. The change of office will take place January 1st.

TAB Offices (& the minimum requirements / expectations of each position):
• In general, all officers will be required to attend TAB Meetings
• All officers are expected to be reliable and committed to their position
• Candidates may suggest idea possibilities to contribute to the position if elected

President - An officer appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of persons
Mandatory Duties in TAB:
- Calls meeting to order
- Serves as a discussion leader, introduces topics of discussion to the members and keeps discussions on track

Vice President - An officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president’s absence
Mandatory Duties in TAB:
- Assumes the role of the president in his/her absence

Secretary – An officer who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization
Mandatory Duties in TAB:
- Takes detailed notes of each meeting and keeps all meeting notes organized
- Assists Historian and maintains all records as necessary

Historian – An officer who writes or compiles a chronological record of events
Mandatory Duties in TAB:
- Organizes all photos taken at events, identifies participants in photos, keeps track of photo release forms (only photos featuring participants that have all provided a photo release form may be released for others to view)
- Assists the Secretary and maintains all records as necessary

Treasurer - An officer in charge of the receipt, care, and disbursement of money
Mandatory Duties in TAB:
- Keeps record of TAB budget / funds and expenses
- Keeps record of total funds obtained from fundraisers

How to Run for Office
Sign-up to run for office by posting a comment to this blog and/or emailing novalibraryvolunteers@yahoo.com
Nominee Deadline – Sunday, Oct. 26 by midnight

Also on the meeting’s agenda: Discussion of Winter Break Party, possibly a Winter Break Formal / Dance

Teen Volunteer Orientation
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2:00-4:00

You must turn in your volunteer application prior to attending the orientation. Stop by the PLS Reference Desk on the first floor of the library to get an application. If you have any questions, click on the Volunteer FAQ link, or call Jamie, the Teen Volunteer Coordinator, at (954) 262 – 5477.

Teen Read Week: October 12-18, 2008

Check out these books with bite:

“Another One Bites the Dust” (Vampires)

• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

In the fourth and final book in the #1 bestselling teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed. Also by Stephanie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse.

• Masquerade : A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz

Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.

• Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar

Meet Ferdinand, a vampire who bites his victims with only one tooth in order to pass as a mosquito, who loves the music of dead folk singers, and who has no end of trouble trying to make sense of his relationships – some with the living, some not — Book description. (Graphic novel)

Bite Me! (Teen Drama)

• Dramarama by E. Lockhart

Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.

• It Had to be You : The Gossip Girl Prequel by Cecily von Ziegesar

Reveals the effects on a trio of bright, attractive, fifteen-year-old friends–Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald–when Serena considers leaving their seemingly-perfect life of luxury in New York’s Upper East Side for boarding school.

• Quad by C.G. Watson

Interweaves the stories of Muir High School’s various groups of students–from the “jocks” to the “drama queens”–as they clash over everything from cheating on tests to cheating in relationships, with the ultimate clash that comes when one student reaches the breaking point.

Bite Guards (Sports)

• Football Genius by Tim Green

Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.

• Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. As the Tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want his coach, Cal, to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. As the last seconds of the game tick away Lonnie and Cal must make a decision- are they willing to blow the chance of a lifetime?

• Open Court by Carol Clippinger

A thirteen-year-old tennis prodigy grapples with her seemingly incompatible desires to be an exceptional athlete and a normal teenager.

Megabytes (Sci-Fi, Technology)

• Car Trouble by Jeanne DuPrau

Early one August morning, seventeen-year-old computer “nerd” Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there. He’s got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy. (Sort of.) Nothing can stop him. (Or can it?) Uh-oh . . . car trouble. Duff’s Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down. What’s he supposed to do? Using his laptop and some quick thinking, he pieces together a way to continue his trip.

• Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

• Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.

Bite-sized (Short Stories)

• Destination Unexpected : Short Stories / edited by Donald R. Gallo

Something old, something new / Joyce Sweeney — Brutal interlude / Ron Koertge — Bread on the water / David Lubar — My people / Margaret Peterson Haddix — Bad blood / Will Weaver — Keep smiling / Alex Flinn — August lights / Kimberly Willis Holt — The kiss in the carryon bag / Richard Peck — Mosquito / Graham Salisbury — Tourist trapped / Ellen Wittlinger

• Dreams and Visions : Fourteen Flights of Fantasy / edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss
Blocked / Joan Bauer — Jameel and the House of Djinn / Suzanne Fisher Staples — Dharma / Charles de Lint — Dry spell / Michael O. Tunnell — Allegro / Rich Wallace — Depressing acres / Patrice Kindl — Red sky / S.L. Rottman — Abra-ca-Deborah / David Lubar — Ryan and Angel in the green room, a heavenly fantasy; or, the ultimate in high-stakes testing / Mel Glenn — The youngest one / Nancy Springer — Baseball in Iraq (being the true story of the ghost of Gunnery Sergeant T.J. McVeigh) / John H. Ritter — An interview with the actress Celeste; or, the dreamer and the dreamed / Sharon Dennis Wyeth — Majority rules / Neal Shusterman — The hidden girl / Tamora Pierce

• Make Me Over : 11 Stories of Transformation / edited by Marilyn Singer

Some people call me Maurice / Joyce Sweeney — Not much to it / René Saldaña, Jr. — Bedhead red, peekaboo pink / Marilyn Singer — Vision quest / Peni R. Griffin — Wabi’s ears / Joseph Bruchac — Honestly, truthfully / Terry Trueman — The resurrection / Jess Mowry — Bazooka Joe and the chaos kid / Norma Howe — The plan / Marina Budhos — Lucky six / Evelyn Coleman — Butterflies / Margaret Peterson Haddix

Take a Bite Out of Crime (Mystery, Crime)

• Being by Kevin Brooks

“It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith’s throat, what they discover doesn’t make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons’ shocked comments: ‘What the hell is that?’ ‘It’s me,’ Robert thinks, ‘and I’ve got to get out of here.’ Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan’s violent odyssey to find out exactly who–exactly what–he is”–Book description.

• Brothers, Boyfriends, & Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie

While living on the same block as several members of the Mafia does have the advantage of a lower crime rate, fourteen-year-old April and her brother find there are times when it is also a major disadvantage.

• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

Nail-biters (Horror, Thrillers)

• Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance

Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying–and deadly–night with him in a haunted house.

• Prom Nights from Hell / Meg Cabot [et. al.]

The exterminator’s daughter / Meg Cabot — The corsage / Lauren Myracle — Madison Avery and the dim reaper / Kim Harrison — Kiss and tell / Michele Jaffe — Hell on Earth / Stephenie Meyer

• Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith

When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family’s vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

This Bites (Disappointment, Reality, Coping)

• Deep and Meaningful Diaries from Planet Janet by Dyan Sheldon

Presents two previously-published tales of sixteen-year-old Janet, who keeps a diary of her efforts to find herself during and beyond her “Dark Phase,” as she copes with annoying family members, a quirky best friend, school, and romance.

• Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks

Four students, who have formed a study group to prepare for the SAT exam, sustain each other through the emotional highs and lows of their junior year in high school.

• November Blues by Sharon M. Draper

A teenaged boy’s death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.

Bitten by the Love Bug (Romance, Relationships)

• Love is a Many Trousered Thing : Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

In a series of diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson describes her continuing romantic woes as she is pushed toward a decision about the three boys in her life.

• My Desperate Love Diary by Liz Rettig

High school student Kelly chronicles her year of family problems and the pursuit of the guy she has a crush on, while not realizing that she herself is the object of pursuit by Chris, her closest male friend.

• Secrets in the Shadows : Bluford Series by Anne Schraff

When Roylin Bailey falls in love with a new girl in his history class, he finds that his life starts to fall apart.

Good to the Last Bite (Teen Picks)

• Extras by Scott Westerfeld

Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity–a status she’s not prepared for.

• The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.

• Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Bite the Bullet (Interpersonal Relations)

• Deadline by Chris Crutcher

Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life’s purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as “Hey-Soos.”

• Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson

High school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.

• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

Bite Back (Teen Drama)

• Ex-rating : A Dating Game novel by Natalie Standiford

Three sophomore girls at the Rosewood School for Alternative Gifted Education decide to protest when their blog, The Dating Game, is banned from the campus website because of inappropriate content.

• The Pretty Committee Strikes Back : a Clique novel by Lisi Harrison

While on a seventh-grade school trip, Claire attempts to mend her relationship with Cam while Massie seeks to maintain her high social standing and receive her first kiss.

• Pretty Little Devils : a novel by Nancy Holder

Life seems rosy for the Pretty Little Devils, the most popular girls’ clique in high school, until its members begin to experience threats and assaults.

Sound Bites (Audio Books)

• Here, There be Dragons by James A. Owen

Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.

• In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother’s diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.

• Undercover by Beth Kephart

High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher’s recognition of her talent, a “client’s” desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent’s marital problems draw her out of herself.

Bite Off More than You Can Chew

• Glass by Ellen Hopkins

Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.

• Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale by Holly Black

As the possessor of Roibin’s true name, sixteen-year-old Kaye returns to Faeryland to try and complete a nearly-impossible quest that will release him from the spell of the faery queen who holds him in thrall.

• Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

Bite My Head Off (Anger, Frustration)

• A Friend at Midnight by Caroline B. Cooney

After rescuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father, fifteen-year-old Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels.

• Rash by Pete Hautman

In a future society that has decided it would “rather be safe than free,” sixteen-year-old Bo’s anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

• What I Meant by Marie Lamba

Having to share her home with her demanding and devious aunt from India makes it all the more difficult for fifteen-year-old Sang to deal with such things as her parents thinking she is too young to date, getting less than perfect grades, and being shut out by her long-time best friend.

Frost Bite

• Open Ice by Pat Hughes

Hockey has been Nick Taglio’s life since he was five years old, so when a massive concussion benches him–possibly for good–everything seems to fall apart, including his schoolwork, his family relationships, his friendships, and his love life

• Serenity : Those Left Behind / story by Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews

In a universe filled with hearts and minds as cold and dark as the reaches of space, one small Firefly-class starship named Serenity takes its ragtag crew of mercenaries, outlaws, and fugitives in search of a job, any job, that’ll earn them enough cash to afford that most elusive commodity–peace. (Graphic novel)

• The White Darkness : a novel by Geraldine McCaughrean

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone–a troubled fourteen year old–discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme’s Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

Here are two upcoming chances to earn DOUBLE HOURS:

- Saturday, October 11, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm for the DisAbility Expo

- Saturday, October 18, from Noon to 4:00 pm for the Flamenco, Art of the Dance Event

Only a limited number of volunteering positions are available, so email novalibraryvolunteers@yahoo.com or call 954.262.5469 to sign up. Be sure to tell us what days and times you would like to volunteer.