Mid-Season Finale?

If you are a fan of the shows The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle, then you know as well as I do that this week is their "mid-season finale".  Never heard of  a mid-season finale?  Neither have I!  Apparently, after this week there will not be any new shows airing for The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle until January 2012.

So, what do we do in the meantime?  Well, you can catch up on past seasons of The Vampire Diaries by checking them out at the Library.  Or you can also pick up the books that the two shows were based on.  That is my plan!  I am such a fan of the TV shows, but I have not yet read any of the original L.J. Smith novels.  I am dying to know how they differ from the show, and I am also curious if there is anything in the book that the TV shows haven't covered yet--this may not be true for The Vampire Diaries, but I think I can get some kind of preview if I read The Secret Circle series.  Click here to find the first book in The Vampire Diaries series and click here to find the first book in The Secret Circle series.

posted by Colleen, Teen Services Librarian

Did you catch the premiere of The Lying Game yesterday?

Last night The Lying Game premiered on ABC family.  The TV show is based on the book, The Lying Game by Sara Shepard.  (Click here to find The Lying Game in the Library!)  Shepard also wrote the Pretty Little Liars series, that is also a TV series on ABC family.

MTV.com is reporting that the TV show is going to stray from the book's original story line.  Click here to read the full article that includes the author, Sara Shepard's, point of view on the changes that have been made for TV.  Also, check out the video below to see the actors' points of view on how the TV show will be different from the book:

 

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Movie and TV News-- Updates on Teen Books in Pop Culture

	Promotional posters for the CW's new fall TV program, The Secret Circle, have been released.  Click here to get to the original article and take a look at the other posters.  Also, if you haven't read L.J. Smith's The Secret Circle series, the book series this new CW TV series is based on, click here to find it in the Library.
	Andrea Cremer's second book in her Nightshade series, Wolfsbane, was just released on Tuesday.  Click here to find Wolfsbane at the Library.  If you've already finished the sequel, or just want to read ahead, EW's Shelf Life has the exclusive look at the first chapter in the third book of the series Bloodrose.  Bloodrose won't be released until February 2012, so click here and take an exclusive look!
	Scott Westerfeld announced on his blog on Monday that Uglies trilogy will be made into a movie!  Click here to find Uglies at the Library.

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Movie and TV news--updates on Teen books in pop culture

The first official images of Edward and Bella's wedding in the first part of Breaking Dawn have arrived.  They have surfaced on an ad for MTV's Movie Awards.  Check it out:

Tags: 2011 MTV Movie Awards, Movie Main, Twilight: Breaking Dawn

 

Jace has been cast in the movie adaptation of Cassandra Clare's first Mortal Instruments book, The City of Bones.  Deadline is reporting that the role has gone to Jamie Campbell Bower, who you may recognize as the actor who portrays Caius from New Moon and the young Gellert Grindlewald from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

 

Finally, if your a fan of The Vampire Diaries, based on the book series by L.J. Smith, then prepare to have another favorite.  MTV.com has reported that the CW has picked up another of Smith's series, the Secret Circle series, and plans to air it right after The Vampire Diaries.  The Secret Circle series centers on a coven of witches.  Check out the first book at the Library, The Initiation, now and finish reading the series in time for the fall!  Here's the promo trailer for the new show:

 

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Movie News--updates on Teen books being made into movies

Is it old news already?  Last Thursday Lionsgate confirmed that Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) has been chosen to play Katniss Everdeen in the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games.  So, now that there's a Katniss, who will play Prim, Haymitch, Rue, and Cinna???  And more importantly, who will play Peeta and Gale?  According to EW.com, Josh Hutcherson (The Kids are All Right) is one of the frontrunners for the role of Peeta.

 

 

 

This book already has a movie deal!  Divergent, by Veronica Roth, hasn't even been published yet so check out Roth's blog and take a look at the cool cover art and summary of the book.  Divergent will be on shelves in May 2011 and many are comparing it to The Hunger Games (which may be one of the reasons it already has a movie deal).  Set in a futuristic dystopian Chicago, the main character Beatrice has turned 16 and must decide which of the 5 society groupings she will spend the rest of her life with.  However, to join the group that she chooses she must survive the initiation...

 

 

With the unveiling of the third cover in the Caster Chronicles series by Kim Garcia and Margaret Stohl, came an update on the progress of the movie adaptation.  Variety reported back in 2009 that Warner Brothers had picked up Beautiful Creatures to make it into a movie, but there hasn't been much updates until now.  Apparently the screenplay has been written, so now we'll have to wait and see who gets cast as the leads of Ethan and Lena.

 

 

 

There's some small screen news, too.  Just Jared, Jr. is reporting that Sara Shepard's latest novel, The Lying Game, is being turned into a televisions series by ABC Family.  You may know Shepard as the author of the Pretty Little Liars series, which has experienced huge success as a TV show on ABC Family.  The Lying Game is also about secrets, but instead of a death it centers on a case of mistaken identity.  Emma, a foster kid, has found that she has an identical twin sister, Sutton, who was adopted by a wealthy family.  Sutton wants to track down their birth mother and in order to do so asks Emma to pretend to be her while she goes off to follow a lead.  However, Sutton never returns and Emma struggles with what to do--reveal her true identity in hopes of finding Sutton or try and figure out what happened to Sutton on her own.

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Glee Returns

 
 
All of you who were excited for Glee’s return last night, here are some books that you might be in to.  Just click on the link to find them in the Library's catalog:

Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castelucci
Authors Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best-selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature.

Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
Freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.

Diva by Alex Flinn
Despite her mother’s objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.

Deep In the Heart of High School by Veronica Goldbach
Three freshmen girls meet in band practice and become good friends.  Together they navigate through the ups and downs of their first year in high school.

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
When sophomore Jessie’s best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie’s would-be boyfriend, Jessie finds true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.

Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Theater-mad teens Sadye and her best friend Demi find their bond of friendship sorely tested when they encounter love, rivalry, and a vast array of unforgettable characters while spending the summer at drama camp.

Glee: the beginning by Sophia Lowell
Based on the TV series, this prequel novel that gives you a look at what life was like at McKinley high before glee club.

Election by Tom Perrotta
Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High School. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all. But her teacher Mr. McAllister persuades Paul Warren—a good-hearted jock—to also run for the student council elections.

Queen Geek Social Clubby Laura Preble
It’s chic to be geek! Becca wants to shake things up at school and look for “others of our kind” so she decides to form the Queen Geek Social Club.

Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To Do List by Janette Rallison
Jessica dreams of being a star, so when a new guy arrives at school whose father is a famous actor, Jessica plots a way to get the actor to attend the high school's production of West Side Story.

The Four Dorothys by Paul Ruditis
The students at the Orion Academy put on a musical based on the Wizard of Oz. Due to their egotism, four of them have the part of Dorothy, but as opening night approaches, the Dorothys drop out of the show one-by-one.

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself “Lola,” sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.

Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
Fifteen-year-old Andrew, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush.

posted by Colleen, Teen Services Librarian