Banned Books Week!

Hey All,

For those of you who don't know, Sept 26 - Oct 3 is Banned Books Week. It is a national event held by bookstores and libraries across the nation. It is held to promote our freedom of speech and right to read.

I'm not stupid of course. I know that some books are banned because they are, in all ways, inappropriate for the young readers that they were published for. I'm all for this. What I'm not all for is the banning of perfectly good fiction or classics. Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, and the list goes on.

Check at your local libraries and see if there are any events and get out there to support our right to read what we want to read!

-Jeremiah

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For more info visit:

http://www.pla.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

Another Fun Quote

"You can draw,
You can paint,
You can imagine anything.
Put it on paper, and its your's forever."
- Ann Harvuot

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A friend of mine gave this to me the other day...I wasn't able to obtain any information about Ann Harvuot, but its still a great quote!

E.T. House Threaten by Wildfires

Okay, so quick explanation...for Geography and World Studies we have to keep a news journal. I usually read the paper and check on line. Today while I was checking I found this:

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The home that E.T. was shot in is being threatened by the wildfires in California.
For the full story check out:

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-et-home-evacuated,0,4910844.story

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Image obtained from link above.

Farewell Bobby Pendragon

I know its a little late in the coming, but Farewell Bobby Pendragon. For those of you out there who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's some info...

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Bobby Pendragon is a fictional character created by D. J. MacHale. He is a traveler which means he has the ability to travel between the ten territories of Halla. Halla is basically everything. Each territory (or world) is unique in its own way. One is completely covered in water, another is a desert. One is a future Earth. One is its past. There is a traveler from each one and togethor they fight to stop a traveler gone bad, Saint Dane.

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For more information about this amazing book series (because to be honest, what I just typed barely scratches the surface) visit:

http://www.thependragonadventure.com/

or better yet, go to your local library and check out the first book, Pendragon: The Merchant of Death.

Warsaw Community Public Library Teen Blog

Great blog to follow if you live in or around Warsaw, Indiana and frequent the library often:

http://warsawteen.blogspot.com/

Note About the Picture in the Title Bar

The picture that is used in the title bar of this blog is a photo that I took when we had this big freeze. Everything was covered in ice, and it was pretty cool.

Awesome Writer's Blog

Hey,

I like to read TeenInk, which is this really awesome magazine that publishes written and drawn works by teens. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Opinion, Sci-Fi, you name it, they got it. Anyway there is this really cool blog that I follow on there site. It offers tips for writers and also reports on different mythological and fictional characters. Enjoy:

http://scifi-fantasy.teenink.com/blogs/2009/04/