Thursday, June 30, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

Poetry Events at HPL

Poetry Events at HPL
Several poets are featured. Outspoken Bean of MetaFour Houston will perform too!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Book Recommendations: Humanities Texas

Summer reading recommendations from Humanities Texas

Thank you Barbara Rivas, Librarian at Ortiz MS for sending this to us.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Meta-Four Houston's Youth Slam

Meta-Four Houston's Youth Slam Team performs Friday at Coffee Groundz, 7:30p.m.

Do not forget MetaFour's fundraiser, next week. MetaFour needs your help in sending the team to the Brave New Voices 2011 International Youth Poetry Slam Festival in San Francisco, the largest ongoing spoken word event in the world!

Location

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Book Recommendation: Twelve Angry Men


This classic by Reginald Rose forces one to consider one's own integrity, prejudices, and sense of self. After reading this short play, you will see what makes Twelve Angry Men "timeless".

This is also a Name That Book book and has also been adapted into movie versions. We have copies of the play in our library and the movies are on DVD. Check out the movie trailer on Youtube.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Book and Movie Recommendation


Here is another one! Water for Elephants, both, the book and the movie is available. We have several copies of the book in our library and the movie has been released on DVD. Water for Elephants is also a past Name That Book book.

Teen Reads book review
Movie Trailer

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Book Recommendation: The Help


The Help by Kathry Stockett


The Help was one of last year's Name That Book reads and is incontrovertibly this summer's must read!

Here are a few quote from Stockett's synopsis:

"Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, ... she would normally find solace in her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared"

"Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way."

"Minny, Aibileen's best friend... finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own."

Our library has several copies. Pick one up and read it before the movie premieres in August.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Book Recommendations: Contemporary Titles

Contemporary Titles from Stacked Books.
Six of these eight are available in our library. Check out our catalog to find them.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Welcome Summer Program Students

The Hazel Hainsworth Young Library welcomes incoming freshmen participants of our Transitional Summer Program! Pop by the library to learn how you can use the catalog at school and at home; learn about our information centers; get book recommendations; update your Tweets; join the Millionaire Club; or just come meet the librarian.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Book Recommendation: Blackthorn Winter

Blackthorn Winter by Kathryn Reiss
Hopefully, this one with "winter" in the title will cool you off.An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.

Several copies of this past Name That Book selection are available in our library.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Book Recommendation: Incantation


Incantation, by Alice Hoffman brings to life the Spanish Inquisition. Here is a quote from the book: "A monster is hard to see and even harder to kill. It takes time to grow so huge, time to crawl up into the open air."

Teen Reads review

Check it out this summer. We have several copies, including MP3 audio book.