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Friday, March 28, 2014

Open-Mike Night at Oswego!

The Oswego Campus downtown is hosting an open-mike night on Friday, April 11th to celebrate National Poetry Month! Stop by to read your poetry or even selections from some of your favorite poets. Register on our website's event page if you're interested in performing.

Friday, April 11th 
7:00-8:30 PM
Oswego Campus




Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Abraham Lincoln Book Award Nominations

The Abraham Lincoln Award Nominations for the coming year were recently announced! This is a readers choice award, given to the book that has the most votes from Illinois high school students. Some of the books on the nomination list are also chosen from high school students' picks so perhaps one of your favorites made the cut:

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

DJ Rising by Love Maia

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern

The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Swim the Fly by Don Calame

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Winger by Andrew Smith