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Did you virtually attend last Tuesday's "An Evening of Awesome" with John and Hank Green? The crowd was sold out, which no author has done since Norman Mailer's memorial service, which was almost five years ago!

If you missed the big night, don't worry! You can still watch the evening's events on YouTube! (Scroll to minute 35:12; that's when the good stuff begins.)

Enjoy, nerdfighters!

How about some dancing books? Watch this video and see it happen!



The video (on Yahoo) was made by Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife, who spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating. I love it!

The Hunger Games trailer is up! Check it out below:



What do you think?

If you lost power this weekend, chances are you missed the MTV Video Music Awards. In typical MTV Award Show Fashion, there was a pretty important movie trailer premier. Last night, we got our first glimpse at The Hunger Games movie!

Unfortunately, it was a little disappointing, all that anticipation to see Jennifer Lawrence run for a few seconds and the mockingjay logo rotate a few times. But never the less, take a look and get a feel for the much-anticipated Hunger Games movie:



And don't forget, if you still haven't read the book, there's plenty of time! Reserve a copy of The Hunger Games now.

Every year since 1922, the American Library Association has awarded the very prestigious Newbery Medal. Now that we've already learned of our 2011 winner, a quick calculation tells us that there are 89 Newbery Medal books in all! That's a lot! Have you read them all?

Me neither.

But wouldn't it be nice to say that you did? Well, it might not be exactly the same as reading the book, but check out a 90 second reenactment of the 1963 winner, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle:



Get it? Want to make your own? Check out: 90secondnewbery.com for more information about the program, which is run by teen author James Kennedy.

Happy acting!

On this first snow of the season, I thought it was the perfect day to cozy up in the heat and read. And if you're looking for something new, why not check out (two!) book trailers for one of my favorite books of the year: The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson.

In the book, seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, is deeply affected by the sudden death of her big sister, Bailey. As she attempts to cope, Lennie finds herself in a series of interesting situations, including unresolved feelings and curiosity about her absentee mother, a reluctance to box up her sister's things, guilt, drama in band, conflict with Gram, awkwardness with her best friend, Sarah, and most prominently, a struggle to balance two boys, despite her nonexistent relationship history.

Watch these amazing trailers to find out more:





To reserve a copy of The Sky Is Everywhere, click here!

You've got to see this! Artist Joshua Allen Harris has created amazing street art right in New York City, using only plastic garbage bags and a lot of creativity.

This is such a tease, but awesome none the less...

It's a 10-second trailer for the Eclipse movie, from book number three in Stephenie Meyers' Twilight series. The FULL preview comes out tomorrow (we'll post it), but for now, enjoy this tiny preview of the trailer. Exciting!

So, I'm sure you've all seen the Surprise Kitty video by now, right?

(Here it is just incase you haven't.)

BUT have you seen the skateboarding dog?

This is a video project all about libraries! We love it! Library 101...are you in?

Over the summer summer young kids and a few teens participated in this summer's video reporting program, "Lights, Camera, Action, READ!"

Watch the montage of our participants below:

This is a really interesting video I found about the current state and future of technology:

Check out the latest from Scott Westerfeld (author of the Uglies series, Peeps and the Last Days, the Midnighters trilogoly, and more)...

Leviathan!



Click here to reserve your copy now!

The sequel to Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, came out September 1st. Haven't gotten your hands on it yet? Here's a little trailer:



Click here reserve your copy today!

We found this really fun website called XtraNormal the other day. It allows you to make your own cartoon movie, using their characters and their text-to-speech software. Here is a teen room ad we made for an example:



Like it? :)