Farmingdale Library Teens

The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design has announced the winners of the 2016 Origins Awards. The nominees and winners were selected by the Academy.  Game of the Year Codenames  (Czech Games), designed by Vlaada Chvátil. Board Games Star Wars: Imperial Assault  (Fantasy Flight Games), designed by Justin Kemppainen, Corey Konieczka, Jonathan Ying. Also winner of the Origins Fan Favorite award! Card Games 7 Wonders Duel  (Repos Productions), designed by Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala.  Also winner of the Origins Fan Favorite award! Collectible Games DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light  (WizKids), designed by Mike Elliott, Eric M. Lang. Also winner of the Origins Fan Favorite award! Family Games Codenames  (Czech Games Edition), designed by Vlaada Chvatil.  Also winner of the Origins Fan Favorite award! Game Accessories Terrain Tiles  (Lost Battalion Games), designed by Becky Siebe. Fan Favorite Winner:   Ca...

Best play "The Humans" Best musical "Hamilton" Best revival of a play "A View From the Bridge" Best revival of a musical "The Color Purple" Best book of a musical Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton" Best original score Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton" Best leading actor in a play Frank Langella, "The Father" Best leading actress in a play Jessica Lange, "Long Day's Journey into Night" Best leading actor in a musical Leslie Odom Jr., "Hamilton" Best leading actress in a musical Cynthia Erivo, "The Color Purple" Best featured actor in a play Reed Birney, "The Humans" Best featured actress in a play Jayne Houdyshell, "The Humans" Best featured actor in a musical Daveed Diggs, "Hamilton" Best featured actress in a musical Renee Elise Goldsberry, "Hamilton" Best scenic de...

June is LGBT (Pride Month).  Celebrate by reading a book about a LGBT teen from our collection. Andrews, Arin.  Some Assembly Required. YA B Andrews A Barakiva, Michael.  One Man Guy.  YA FIC Barakiva Bausum, Ann. Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights. YA 306.766 B Bick, Ilsa J.  Sin-Eater’s Confession.  YA FIC Bick Burd, Nick.    The Vast Fields of Ordinary. YA FIC Burd Clark, Kristin Elizabeth.   Freakboy. YA FIC Clark Cook, Trish.   Notes from the Blender.  YA FIC Cook Danforth, Emily. The Miseducation of Cameron Post. YA FIC Danforth Farizan, Sara. If You Could Be Mine. YA FIC Farizan Farizan, Sara. Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel. YA FIC Farizan George, Madeleine.   The Difference Between You and Me.  YA FIC George Gephart, Donna. Lily & Dunkin. YA FIC Gephart; 6-8 Green, John & Levithan, David.   Will Grayso...

This last list deals with teens living or having a parent with different types of mental illnesses. Dawn, Sasha. Oblivion . Egmont, 20145. Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year. Easton, Kelly. To Be Mona . Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008. High school senior Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a popular football player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that abandoning her real friends and letting herself be manipulated by others does not make her feel better after all. Harrar, George. Not as Crazy as I Seem . Houghton Mifflin, 2003. As fifteen-year-old Devon begins mid-year at a new prestigious prep school, he is plagued by compulsions such as the need to sort things into groups of four. Hopkins, Ellen. Impul...

This week's list is books about teens living with or who has a parent with schizophrenia. next week, I'll post a list of varied books on mental illness. Anderson, Jessica Lee. Border Crossing . Milkweed Editions, 2009. Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell reality from delusion. Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Persistence of Memory . Delacorte Press, 2008. Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, sixteen-year-old Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but now must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shapeshifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire. Averett, Edward. Cameron and the Girls . Clarion Books, 2013. A boy suffering from Schizophrenia falls into a love triangle with a girl in his junior high class--and a girl in his head. ...

Minecraft by MB Do an of you readers have any game consoles? Well if your answer is yes, then you're in for a treat. The game I want to talk about is Minecraft. Let me guess, you were either shocked or surprised by this. This game however is a good game in my opinion. Many think it's lame, but to be honest it's good for an architecture project. If you actually think about it, Minecraft has many settings to help you with your gaming experience. This game has settings like survival which lets you have a real life experience of building your life but with the threat of being killed by a creature like a zombie. On the other hand though, the other setting is creative which lets you build what you want and you don't have the risk of dying. There are also settings that are more in depth like infinite, flat, and old. Infinite is when the world is never ending and goes on forever. The second setting flat is the architecture experience that I was talking about earlier, th...

Below is a list of resources  recommenced  by School Library Journal Tools To Spark Writing: Fiction NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program The Young Writer’s Program challenges kids to write a novel in the 30 days of November. The site offers workbooks and resources that will motivate your students and allow them to unleash their inner novelist. Grades 4–12 Tools To Spark Writing: Nonfiction KQED Do Now  allows students to respond to a current issue each week using social media. The issues range from politics to the arts and sciences. In this age of fractured political discourse, Do Now helps students practice constructive online conversation. Grades 8–12 National Geographic Education   Who doesn’t love National Geographic’s images, videos, and articles? Kids can use the vast resources at this site to spark their imaginations and get their writing juices flowing. Grades 1–8 Newsela   Offering daily news stories, differentiated by reading level, News...