I WANT MY HAT BACK

I got more giggles and smiles from this book this week. It happens to be one f our Virginia Reader Book Nominees for 2012-2013 school year!

The kiddos voted and so far they find this their favorite one! {Wonder if it's because of the funny voices I did? Hmm?}

I WANT MY HAT BACK

Annabel -eBook Release - December 26th

MARK YOUR CALENDAR - another amazing eBook is heading our way just in time to stuff our stockings so to speak!

December 26, 2012 , Lauren Oliver will release the 2nd eBook in her Delirium Trilogy! 

First we had Hanna, a story told by Lena's best friend and now we will receive Annabel - and hope that this will leave us feeling satisfied until the final book  Requiem is released on March 5, 2013.

Will Annabel be enough to hold us over? 

Maybe. 

 Maybe not.

But I guess it does give us time to sit back and reread this amazing Trilogy right before the final chapter comes out.

Lena Halloway's mother, Annabel, supposedly committed suicide when Lena was only six years old. That's the lie that Lena grew up believing, but the truth is very different. As a rebellious teenager, Annabel ran away from home and straight into the man she knew she was destined to marry. The world was different then—the regulations not as stringent, the cure only a decade old. Fast forward to the present, and Annabel is consigned to a dirty prison cell, where she nurtures her hope of escape and scratches one word over and over into the walls: Love.

But Annabel, like Lena, is a fighter. Through chapters that alternate between her past and present, Annabel reveals the story behind her failed cures, her marriage, the births of her children, her imprisonment, and, ultimately, her daring escape.

October 2nd - RELEASE DATE

Lauren Oliver will release her 2nd middle aged book next week on October 2nd!!! I am counting down the days to get hold of this new book of hers!!

Watch for it's arrival in our Library! :)

One night when Liza went to bed, Patrick was her chubby, stubby, candy-grubbing and pancake-loving younger brother, who irritated and amused her both, and the next morning, when she woke up, he was not. In fact, he was quite, quite different.

When Liza's brother, Patrick, changes overnight, Liza knows exactly what has happened: The spindlers have gotten to him and stolen his soul.

She knows, too, that she is the only one who can save him.

To rescue Patrick, Liza must go Below, armed with little more than her wits and a broom. There, she uncovers a vast world populated with talking rats, music-loving moles, greedy troglods, and overexcitable nids . . . as well as terrible dangers. But she will face her greatest challenge at the spindlers' nests, where she encounters the evil queen and must pass a series of deadly tests—or else her soul, too, will remain Below forever.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

Mark your calendar for one of my favorite events of the year ... Scholastic Book Fair!!!

Our books will roll in here on Friday, November 30th and we will be open for business 

Monday, December 2-7th!!

Shop by for your favorite reader!!! We always have a super selection for the youngest of readers all the way up to us grown ups!! They make super stocking stuffers with Christmas right around the corner.

PS - If there is a Night of Carols that Wednesday night we will be open just like in the past. :)

It's Yearbook Time Again!!

I'd like you to meet the newest members of The Old Plank Yearbook Staff!!!

These Seven Super Seniors  will be capturing  the school year and mixing it all together to make the most amazing yearbook ever for all of us!!

Thanks guys and dolls - looking forward to a fabulous year!! :)

PUB it on Barnes & Noble

 PubIt! NOOK Books

Discover Independent Authors

This summer I found a great thing that Barnes & Noble is doing - exposing us to Independent Authors who are out there battling the reading world without the help of a large publishing company to help them! And what a SUPER thing for the new authors coming into the book world.

{This is where I found Colleen Hoover , the amazing new author who wrote Slammed and Point of Retreat. In the weeks since I found this author she has made a deal with a top publishing company.}

I found some amazing books to read in the YA {teen} section that actually didn't break my piggy bank as well. { I  think really what I  liked was the price tags the best - haha!} They had books for adults, teens and young readers as well.

Take a minute a click the link above and see what's out there for you to read. I think you will be pleasantly surprised!!

Point of Retreat - Book 2

Did you wonder what happened to Will & Lake after Slammed was finished? 

Did Colleen Hoover leave you wanting more?

Well, you are in luck since there is a book 2 called Point of Retreat which will carry you over into this wonderful couple's life after it got turned upside down and then some what put back together. 

The couple has a long way to go in their wacky life that brought them together. Serious decisions need to be made about ... what next???

Colleen Hoover has done an amazing job closing in that gap for not only Will & Lake about what comes next in their lives , but also in the lives of the little brothers and their friends.

She transforms your heart and tugs on it yet once again and leaves you crying for more!!! 

*****FIVE GOLD STARS*****