O’Connor Library

Create a book trailer for Susan Taylor Brown’s book Hugging the Rock, and you could win $1,000! Deadline is Dec. 15. Click here for details (must be viewed off campus).

Stop by the library this week as we count down the days until the New Moon movie premiere with a new trivia question each day.  Each right answer you submit will be another chance to win the New Moon prize package (the New Moon movie guide and soundtrack).

Enter the Free Book Friday contest for a chance to win a copy of P.C. and Kristin Cast’s latest House of Night book, Tempted.

Be the first person to mention this blog post to one of the library staff and win a (small) prize!

Last week was Teen Read Week, and we had a “name the book” trivia contest in the library. Prizes were books and gift cards for Half Price Books. Here were the quotes and the answers:

MONDAY:
“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.  Being a half-blood is dangerous.  It’s scary.  Most of the time it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.”
from The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

TUESDAY:
“Listen, Bella!  Whether we are in time or not, we will be in the heart of the Volturi City.”
from New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

WEDNESDAY:
“He had been thwarted, both in his attempts to find out what Malfoy was doing, and in his efforts to start a conversation with Slughorn that might lead, somehow, to Slughorn handing over the memory he had apparently suppressed for decades.”
from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

THURSDAY:
“Life was good before I met the monster.  After, life was great–at least for a while.”
from Crank by Ellen Hopkins

FRIDAY:
“We both know they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers’ faces. They’d have failed the Capitol.”
from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Teen who voted in the Teens’ Top Ten poll voted John Green’s Paper Towns their favorite book of 2009.  See the entire list here.

Enter the HarperTeen Fall Fiction Sweepstakes for your chance to win free books.

Pitch Black “Books With Bite” contest

The San Antonio Public Library is holding its annual teen poetry contest. If you are 18 or younger, you can enter the Young Pegasus competition before December 15. Click here for all the details. Winners will be published in the Young Pegasus Anthology.

If you’re a writer interested in sharing your work, reading the work of others, spotting new talent, getting writing tips, and/or winning prizes, check out publisher HarperCollins’s Inkpop.

Write a letter to an author, living or dead, whose work has significantly influenced your life or way of thinking.  You could win state or national honors from the Library of Congress.

Click here for details.

Win an autographed copy of Tithe or Valiant by Holly Black courtesy of Melissa Marr (author of Wicked Lovely and others).  Click here to enter.