Book Bag: Friendswood Youth Services Blog

Welcome to the Final Four! Just two weeks left of this tournament of pets and familiars! In a lot of the categories it was a close race! Come in to the YA section for the final scores.  So here is your tough decision for this week! Crookshanks VS. Iko Cranky cat or hilarious android? Saphira VS. Hedwig DRAGON or AWESOME OWL This is too difficult. I might abstain from voting (just kidding, I'm totally voting)...But you shouldn't! Come in to vote or vote in the polls to the right of this post! DFTBA, Sti

Hey y'all! It's Week Three of our annual YA March Madness and I'm only now blogging about it. That's mostly because I've been out of town, and a little because until this week there were SO MANY characters to talk about.  But now that's we've moved onto Week Three there are only 8 contenders to worry about, and many of my favorite have been dropped (*sobs*) so I'll spend less time trying to sway your vote if I write about them! So this year we've gone a new route. All our contestants are Pets/Familiars/other not human sidekicks in our favorite YA books (with a few children's and adult books thrown in). The Teen Advisory Group and I had a lot of fun coming up with all of these characters and I hope you see some of your favorites up on the bracket when you visit the YA area! Now, let's get down to who you can vote for this week! Cat VS. Cat Starting off, we have two fierce felines.  Hermione Granger's Crookshanks or Pr

Speaking of resolutions for 2016, here's are my Reading Resolutions (which I take both very seriously and not seriously at all).  Do you have book related resolutions for 2016? Share them in the comments!

Hey there! Long time, no write. I think one of my resolutions for 2016 is to blog here more often. I wanted to post something really quickly about an opportunity I have for my young adults to see an advance screening of a really fun movie. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a great movie if you like Jane Austen and/or zombies. Seriously, you don't need to have read the original books (either Pride and Prejudice (though you REALLY should so we can be better friends) or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ) to enjoy this film. It's a perfect blend of humor, romance, and gore. Seriously. I made a video review about it:  If this sounds like a movie you'd like to see (FOR FREE) on Wednesday January 20th, here is the link for the RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ticVFAt6SiMnwTSIi-ftQKPbpBevzEmGnrOpPCmi7K8/viewform?c=0&w=1 DFTBA, Sti