Book Bag: Friendswood Youth Services Blog

Oof! Round Two has officially closed and boy was it a tough round! I know that many of you were faced with the moral dilemma of choosing between two favorite books, and I'm sorry about that, but rest assured that means you have awesome taste in books! Here are the final scores: Shiver: 50.90909% Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie: 40.0901% Lightning Thief: 71.4% Maximum Ride: 28.6% Little Brother: 19.6% Hunger Games: 80.4% Artemis Fowl: 45.6% Eragon: 54.4% Round 3 pits Shiver vs. Lightning Thief and Hunger Games vs. Eragon May the best book win!

Well, Round 1 ended yesterday, I hope you were all able to come in and vote for your favorites! There were some EXTREMELY close calls, but these are the winners and who they will go up against each other in Round 2 (which will end March 27th). Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater 65% vs. I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusack 35% Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick 57% vs. Graceling by Kristin Cashore 43% Cezanne is Missing by Frank McMillan 4% vs. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 96% Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson 58% vs. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 42% Paper Towns by John Green 47% vs. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow 53% Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 71% vs. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 29% A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 25% vs. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 75% Eragon by Christopher Paolini 77% vs. Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock 23% Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater vs. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick The Lightning...

Thanks for reminding me Anjali!

"It's exciting! You should participate!" ~Lisa, our video editing guru Here's how it goes, the Teen Advisory Group has chosen their 16 favorite YA books and we're going to find out which is the rest of the library's favorite! The books are paired up, vote for your favorite of each pair and turn it in in the ballot box. If you haven't read the books, no worries! We've got 'scouting reports' with some info about the books as well as some reviews by TAG members for you to watch (I'll be posting those here soon)! So come in and vote every week as the books battle it out! Here's the list of contenders for this week: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater vs . I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick vs . Graceling by Kristin Cashore Cezanne is Missing by Frank McMillan vs. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Maximum Ride: The Angel Experi...