YA book I'm Reading Right Now: Naomi and Ely's No-Kiss List

I'm back into YA fiction and I'm reading the hip and heartfelt Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan, who wrote Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. This book is in the same vein with Cohn and Leviathan writing alternate chapters and star-crossed teenagers with good taste in music. This time, however, Naomi and Ely can never be a couple because Ely's gay. Since they both have similar taste in boys, they devised a Do Not Kiss List of boys that are off-limits, but Ely breaks the rule when he kisses Naomi's boyfriend, Bruce the Second. ( There's a Bruce the First, a likable, if slightly pathetic, character who has an unrequited crush on Naomi).

Naomi deals with the betrayal by cutting Ely and Bruce the Second out of her life, but it's not so easy for her to let Ely go. How does she deal with her own unfulfilled crush on Ely? How does Bruce the Second feel about his changing emotions about who he is? How does Ely earn Naomi's trust again? You have to read this fun and sweet book to find out.

Happy Teen Tech Week!

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Here's a survey you teens can fill out this week to tell me how you use technology and how you want to use it in the library. Teen Tech Week is an event held every year in libraries in March ( this week, it's March 8-14). Young adult librarians celebrate the use of technology in libraries, especially by teenagers. From downloading pictures from your camera to YouTube to promoting your own music on your MySpace page, you're using technology to make your life fun.

Speaking of MySpace, if you have your own MySpace/Facebook page, e-mail it to ya_rgpl@yahoo.com ( that's not a space in the e-mail, it's an underscore ya_rgpl)so I can post a link to it right on this blog! I'll judge the coolest site and the winner gets to be the first to play the new Guitar Hero: Metallica April 1!

The big events to celebrate Teen Tech Week are the Guitar Hero 3 tournament on Thursday March 12 ( celebrating gaming) and the Teen Movie Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ( celebrating movies and online music). I hope you participate in all these events and Happy Teen Tech Week!

Teen Movie Next Friday: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Next week on Friday at 3:30, we're showing Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist to kick off our teen movie program. Sign up or just show up next week to see it! Kids under 13, see me, Yanda to get a permission slip to give to your parents to see the movie. See you then!