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Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Publisher: London: Faber and Faber, 2009 Call Number: English GOL <all rights reserved, London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1996> Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of English school boys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during [...]

Title : The 7 habits of highly effective teens: the ultimate teenage success guide Author: Sean Covey Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998. Call Number: Y English 158.0835 COV <all rights reserved, New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.> Habits are things we do repeatedly often subconsciously. Most of the time we are [...]

Title: Jia Author: Kim, Hyejin. Publisher: San Francisco, Calif.: Midnight Editions, c2007. Call Number: English KIM <all rights reserved, San Francisco, Calif.: Midnight Editions, c2007.> The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile.Hyejin Kim’s Jia follows [...]

Title The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian Author Alexie, Sherman 1966 – Publisher London: Andersen, 2008 Call Number Y ALE <All rights reserved, London: Andersen, 2008> The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tells the story of Junior, a teenage boy living on an Indian reservation. He’s ambitious and bright, and he [...]

(All rights reserved, Smashwords, 2009.)  Title: Winged: A Novella (Of Two Girls) Author: Joyce Chng Available at: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3229 Winged is a self-published electronic novella containing two coming-of-age stories with the theme of flight: The Basics Of Flight and Phoenix With A Purpose. The Basics Of Flight is a steampunk short story about a girl in [...]

There is a new Youth Reading Club! Read on to find out more… A group of young people gathered at Bishan Public Library to talk about books from the READSingapore! 2009 Series. Session 1 on 27 September 2009  Books on the table, all ready to be read.  All listening intently… A lighter moment shared with the speaker [...]

Pseudo Book Club     What happened at our Pseduo Book Club last Saturday? Well … … a group of teens Said Yes! to participating at our book club. The choice of book for discussion was none other than Yes! Man.   Title : Yes Man Author : Daniel Wallace Publisher : New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, [...]

Calling all young people aged 12-16 years old! Interested in discovering new reads? Join us at Bishan Public Library’s Programme Zone every last Sunday of the month from 5pm-6.30pm. For more information, contact showteens@nlb.gov.sg. Session Date Story – Short stories from Read!Singapore 2009 1 27 September 2009 Mirage (Tamil) N. Palanivelu 2 25 October 2009 1 [...]

Calling all Teens aged 13 to 19 years old. Take a break from your reading and studying for some Food. Fun. Games. Jurong Regional Library VAT, Level 4 15 August 2009 (Saturday) 3.00pm – 4.30pm   3.00pm – 3.30pm Ice-breaking session 3.30pm – 3.45pm Games 3.45pm – 4.00pm “Oh, Xiang Xue Tie Ning” book sharing* [...]

  Magnet made during the session Are you wondering what is in the picture? Those bright pictures are the magnets participants made at the Pseudo Book Club (PBC) session last Saturday. Also, “No Looking Back” by Robert Shearman was the topic of discussion during the Pseudo Book Club. There were games such as a name [...]