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The competition between Steampunk and Dystopian fiction was a lot closer and fiercer than I expected. You Steampunk fans really came out of the woodwork to support your genre! The final result was:  Steampunk :        53%                       Dystopian: 47% And the results for the books were: The Compound:      21%                          Bumped: 15% Matched:                30%                             Divergent:   33% Airborn:      18%   ...

Welcome to the 2012 YA March Madness! This year we're pitting different genres against one another. Our first week features the ever popular Dystopian genre (think The Giver) against the not-so-well-known Steampunk genre (imagine Victorian England with modern gadgets). Which genre catches your fancy? Vote in the sidebar ----> To make things even more interesting, you are also invited to vote on a book within each genre. It doesn't matter which genre you voted for, you're allowed to vote for books in both categories. Our selections this week are(click a cover to get to the library catalog): Vote in the sidebar----> Dystopian  Steampunk If you haven't read any of the books, vote for the one that looks the most interesting and then check it out! And if I'm missing your favorite Steampunk or Dystopian book, let me know in the comments and I'll highlight it later! And stayed next week when Fant...

If you've been to a TAG meeting recently you've heard us talking about Halloween already (it's never too early to talk about Halloween, in my opinion), you've probably heard mention of this year's theme which is steampunk book pirate or "Book"aneersas I like to call us. Curious about what steampunk is? I love this description: "It's imagining a direction that the Universe took, it's kind of Victorian and yet you have these futuristic steampowered contraptions." which is from a great video from PBS: I hope this gives you some ideas about the steampunk genre and gets you excited about creating a costume for the TAG Halloween in the Park booth! A great (very advanced) examplefrom Steampunkpictures.net! DFTBA, Sti