Williston Park Public Library Teen Blog

Take a peek at all of these new books:

Confessions of a Hollywood Star by Dyan Sheldon
In this sequel to the popular Confessions of a Hollywood Star, Lola has finally graduated from high school and can't wait to get out of New Jersey and into a career in the Theater. But it turns out that there's a movie filming in her home town, and she winds up bragging that she's in the movie. Will Lola leave the Theater behind for a career as a Hollywood star?

Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox by Bennett Madison
In this next book by Bennett Madison (Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls), Lulu has to solve the mystery of missing celebrity Isabelle Dark, who is also her mother. When she finds a note in her mother's things from a mysterious person known as the Fox, she soon finds herself crossing paths with a teen screen queen, a dodgy director, and a fleet of muscle-bound maids! Will Lulu ever discover the Fox's real identity and find her mother?

You Never Did Learn to Knock: 14 Stories About Girls and Their Mothers selected by Bel Mooney
Read about real mothers and daughters in this true-to-life collection of short stories by contemporary writers, such as Adele Geras, Betty Hicks, Cathy Hopkins, Candice Ransom, and Jean Ure. Like mother, like daughter? Not necessarily!

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
This Newbery Honor book is a funny and courageous tale based on African mythology. In this futuristic society, Tendai, Rita, and Kuda are children of General Amadeus Matsika, the country's Chief of Security. Unfortunately, this makes them the ideal victims for kidnapping. Can the detective agency Ear, Eye and Arm save the children?

When It Happens by Susane Colasanti
Now that Sara is in her senior year in high school, all she wants to do is to get into a top college and to find true love. Tobey also wants two things: to win Battle of the Bands and to get Sara to fall in love with him! But popular jock Dave also likes Sara. Can a slacker rock-star wannabe win the heart of a pretty class brain like Sara?

Pendragon Book Seven: The Quillan Games by D.J. MacHale
In this latest book in the popular Pendragon series, Bobby Pendragon finds himself on Quillan, a territory where people have to play the Quillan Games to survive. The game masters, Veego and LaBerge, force the people to enter competitions where they might die, all for their own amusement. Can Bobby beat these two at their own games, save this troubled territory, and discover the truth of what it really means to be a Traveler?

Specials by Scott Westerfeld
In this final volume of the Uglies trilogy by popular author Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters series, Peeps), 16-year-old Tally Youngblood has become an elite fighting machine and made to work as a Special Circumstances agent for the nameless city that she fled. Will she decide to save her world or destroy it?

Alternacrafts: 20+ Hi-Style Lo-Budget Projects to Make by Jessica Vitkus
Looking for cool things to make? This book tells you how to layer paper scraps to make a beautiful CD custom cover, turn old T-shirts into a shaggy rug, turn an old sweater into a hat, old jeans into a new skirt, make lockets out of bottle caps, flowers out of funny papers, wallets out of snack wrappers, and other creative and simple projects!

Special Effects: An Introduction to Movie Magic by Ron Miller
Ever wonder how special effects in movies are done? Find out how technicians have dazzled audiences with fantastical visions for more than a century in this book about thrilling movie creations such as dinosaurs, alien monsters, spaceships, and exploding planets!