What food in your refrigerator makes the best fake blood? How should you angle the camera if you want someone to appear menacing and creepy? These are the types of questions that preoccupied Alfred Hitchcock, the masterful director of macabre, tightly-plotted, classic suspense films like The Birds, Rear Window, and Strangers on a Train. Hitchcock [...]
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Hitchcock Workshop: Creepy and Delicious
Posted: November 5, 2009 by jdapier in The LoftTags: Alfred Hitchcock, film effects, Psycho, Rear Window, teen read week, Vertigo, yalsa
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Voting For Teens’ Top Ten Closes In Two Days
Posted: September 16, 2009 by jdapier in Links, Young Adult BooksTags: City of Ashes, Daughter of the Flames, Frankie Landau Banks, Identical, teens top ten, yalsa
Have you voted yet for the Teens’ Top Ten? If not, you only have two more days to make it happen! Be a part of shaping a bang-up reading list created entirely by teens that will be used to help other teens find great books for years to come. Voting closes on September 18th. Here’s [...]
Songwriting Contest & Friday Afternoon Gaming
Posted: January 11, 2008 by Christie in Programs, The LoftTags: eaudiobook, guitar hero, IM, songwriting contest, wii, yalsa
Tune in @ the Loft and enter YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) songwriting contest. Teens Only! Submit a song no longer than 3 minutes that promotes libraries and the technological resources that libraries offer Enter individually or in a group (maximum of 4 teens) Upload your entry in MP3 format to the www.archive.org tagged as [...]
Best Young Adult Books of 2007
Posted: December 18, 2007 by Christie in Read On!, Young Adult BooksTags: Best Books for Young Adults 2007, Kirkus, SLJ, ya, yalsa
Here are some Best Books of 2007 lists. What are your favorites? Let us know! Kirkus Reviews – Best Young Adult Books of 2007: Editor’s Choice from Karen Breen. School Library Journal’s (SLJ) Best Adult Books for High School Students 2007 by Francisca Goldsmith. School Library Journal’s (SLJ) Best Books of 2007: Book Review Editors [...]
The Results Are In!
Posted: October 25, 2007 by lawilliams in Read On!Tags: books, teen read week, top ten, yalsa
Teens all across the country voted last week for their Top 10 Books. Here are the results: 1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006). 2. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (Viking Children’s Books, 2006) 3. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles (Flux, 2006). 4. Maximum Ride: [...]
