August Teen Readers Unite: Finding Famous by Candice Jalili with the author joining via Zoom!

Date: Wednesday, August 14th, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Location: 2nd Floor Board Room With Author Candice Jalili joining via Zoom

Who can sign up?: Teens Grades 7-12.  The first 12 teens to sign up AND pickup their book will get a copy to keep! The books are in!

How does it work?

Sign up and pick up your copy of the book from the 2nd Floor Kid’s Desk: (When the book becomes available, we will send an email!)

Read the book and show up to the in person discussion and you get to keep the book!

To be fair, if you don’t show up, you have to return the book.

Due to high demand for this title, we ask that you pickup your book within 5 days of receiving our email or your book to keep might go to another teen.

What is the book about?

The Princess Diaries meets reality television in a story about fame (the kind you definitely didn’t ask for), first love (the kind you didn’t even know you wanted), and most importantly, family (the kind you can’t live without).

Ever since her mom died, Josie Lawrence has been content with her safe, predictable life. She hangs out with exactly two people: her best (and only) friend, Louise, and her stepdad, Matt. She has exactly one (unrequited) crush on resident high school himbo, Isaac. And she’s fully prepared to spend the end senior year preparing for Stanford and actively avoiding anything that reminds her of her mother.

But when Josie discovers that her biological father is the recently deceased Ali Mashad—patriarch of America’s original reality TV family, dripping with wealth, fame, and Vogue magazine covers—Josie’s “predictable” life is gone quicker than you can say “you’re doing amazing, sweetie.”

Being a Mashad means that the entire world is now at Josie’s feet—desperate to dress her, to photograph her, to know her—opening a door to a world that Josie never expected to find: one with a cute guy who just might be her soulmate, three ridiculous but wonderful sisters, and answers to all the questions she wishes she could ask her mom. But the biggest question of all is: If being a Mashad is the chance of a lifetime, will Josie be brave enough to take it?

About the Author:

Candice Jalili is an Iranian American writer whose work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Rolling Stone, Elite Daily, and more. Candice lives in New York City with her husband, where she is a convenient walk away from her cousins and childhood best friend. She grew up in the Bay Area and spends hours of her days FaceTiming her parents there.

 

Announcing the 2014 Nutmeg Nominees

Which one will YOU read first?

The 2014 Nutmeg Books arrived on the shelves of the Avon Free Public Library Wednesday May 1st!!!! 

The new Nutmeg Books have titles that are funny, sad, scary and full of adventure.

 The Candymakers by Wendy Mass



Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn




The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman by Meg Wolitzer



The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan Long-Shang



Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai



Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel by K.A. Holt



Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper



Saving Armpit by Natalie Hyde



Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff 



and Wildfire Run by Dee Garretson.



These ten new titles are for children in grades 4th-6th.

Each book can be found on the Nutmeg Shelf in the fiction section of the Library.

The 2014 nominees were chosen by kids from Connecticut  just like you, we will vote in April of 2014 for the best book and that book will become the 2014 Winner.

On May 15th the 2013 Winner will be announced.

The kids from Avon voted the best book  Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

It’s Nutmeg Time! Let’s Meet Mrs. Moody!

Mrs. Moody is our Nutmeg Expert Extraordinaire.  Let’s find out what she’s been up to:

Q.  Hello Mrs. Moody.  What have you been reading for the Nutmeg Book Discussion?

A. Where the Mountain meets the Moon. It’s about this girl, Minli, who is trying to find the old man in the moon so that she can bring fortune to her family. 

Q.  What kinds of things did you do in your book discussion?

A.  We ate oolong noodles with chopsticks and we drank green tea and ate swedish fish.  We answered round robin trivia based on the book and we had a raffle!

Q. Who is that in the glass bowl?

A. It’s my pet fish –  Jeffrey.  He was at the booktalk. 

Q. Grace Lin is a wonderful author, what other books has she written?

A. She wrote The Year of the Dog, The Year of the Rat, Dumpling Days and now she has a new book called Starry River of the sky.  

Q. Wow, what book will you be discussing next?

A.  We will be discussing The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick. On March 14th we will have our discussion (and pizza too, Jeffrey will be there).

Goodbye Mrs. Moody!