Moviegoers Assemble! The Avengers From Comics to Film

Over the weekend, Marvel’s “The Avengers”  passed $1 billion in worldwide box office. After raking in $207.4-million last weekend (a record for the biggest opening — not adjusting for inflation) the comic book adaptation piled up an additional $103.2 million in its second weekend of domestic release. (Kaufman, Los Angeles Times) What’s more, The Avengers [...]

Calling All Comic, Graphic Novel, and Manga Readers!!!

The nominations for YALSA’s 2012 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list have been finalized!  All year I’ve been reading all the new graphic novels, superhero stories, and manga I can get my hands on to evaluate and nominate titles, because last year I was selected as a committee member for this list.  But the committee [...]

Summer Means Graphic Novels

Okay, so I read graphic novels all year.  But I think they’re perfect for those hot, lazy days when a plain wall of text would put me to sleep.  Since half (or more) of the story is in the illustrations, I can usually follow along even when my brain is melting.  I can read most [...]

21: The Story of Roberto Clemente

21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago If you’re a teenager, you’ve never seen The Pittsburgh Pirates finish better than .500. Sad, but true. I barely remember the ‘Bucs being competitive when I was a kid. Since Jose Lind’s error in game seven of the 1992 NLCS it’s seriously all been downhill. Not [...]

My First Post

Hi everyone, I’m Denise.  Like Michael, I’m new to CLPTeensburgh, but I’ve been working at the library for a while.  For the last few years, I’ve been a part of the Job and Career Education Center (JCEC), where you can get help with standardized tests, the college application process, starting a job search, and more.  [...]

buzz buzz with Burgh Bees and other Bee resources

Bees get a bad rap. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that the “killer bees were migrating from Mexico” and that they’d reach us soon and KILL US, I’d probably have around 85 cents (which is about enough for a modest tip at the coffee shop). Unfortunately, I don’t know how to collect [...]

Lovely library book discussion groups

I know, I know, you don’t have any free time–what with all of the homework, extracurricular activities and whatnot, there is absolutely no time for something like a book group, right? After all, you have tons to read for school as it is. Well, I’m not going to dispute that you’re busy. Being a teenager [...]

Graphic Novels: Writing Your Own

During the last few years, CLPTeensburgh has included a lot of reviews and recommendations for fantastic Graphic Novels.  If you really like to read Graphic Novels, have you ever thought about writing one? Here is a short list of “How To” books that you can find at your local library: You Can Do a Graphic [...]

Six Degrees of Michael Cera

Lately I’m noticing that Michael Cera is connected in a lot of ways to exciting developments in movies that are connected to exciting books (not coincidentally for teens).  And the people that he’s connected to are also exciting.  And the best part is that all of these developments have some kind of creative and funny [...]

Take Home One of Our Tragically Overlooked Graphic Series! (A-M Edition)

One of the saddest things for a librarian to see is an awesome title languishing on the shelf. They might have a great cover, an awesome story, or great writing, but we see them begging day after day for somebody to check them out. This happens often in our Teen Graphic Series section, where it’s [...]