Enjoy little or no wait for these new Advantage e-books when you log in to MyMediaMall by Overdrive with your Vernon Area Library card number and PIN (the last 4 digits of your phone number).

Even if the waiting list appears long, as a Vernon Area Library cardholder, you will jump to the front of the line (or close to it), thanks to extra copies we have purchased exclusively for our patrons. The newest Advantage titles added to our catalog include:

Fiction

• Benediction, by Kent Haruf
• Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walters
• Best Laid Plans, by Sidney Sheldon
• The Dinner, by Herman Koch

Attention aspiring young authors! The Vernon Area Public Library is pleased to announce that we will be publishing the second annual Write Away! Literary Magazine, which gives authors in grades 3-8 the chance to be published and share their writing with family, friends, and the community.  If you'd like to look at the 2012 Write Away! Literary Magazine, click here. 

Submissions will be accepted March 11 through April 8 by 9 pm.  Please click here for more information and guidelines. 

Need help editing? Schedule an individual session to polish your writing. 

Vernon Area Library cardholders enjoy shorter wait times for popular e-books thanks to extra "Advantage" copies reserved just for you. To view or download our Advantage titles, you'll need to first log in to MyMediaMall by Overdrive with your Vernon Area Library card number and PIN (the last 4 digits of your phone number).

Even if the waiting list appears long, as a Vernon Area Library cardholder, you will jump to the front of the line (or close to it), thanks to extra copies we have purchased exclusively for our patrons. The newest Advantage titles added to our catalog include:

Fiction

• All She Ever Wanted, Rosalind Noonan
• Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, Darien Gee
• The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The 2013 Youth Media Award winners have been announced.

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate won the John Newbery Medal.

This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen won the Randolph Caldecott Medal. 

Congratulations to all winners! For a complete list, please visit the ALA Awards web page.

Located in the Youth Services Department near the computer alcove are two new AfterSchool Edge AWE computer stations.  These computers are pre-loaded with fun, educational games suitable for kids in elementary school. Among the 48 games are Diego's Safari Adventure, Kid Pix 3D, Oregon Trail, Sammy's Science House, World of Goo and many more. These computers join our two already popular Early Literacy Station AWE computers that are loaded with fun preschool-level games.  
A Vernon Area Library card is not required to use these computers.

When it comes to downloading e-books, our patrons have the Advantage. Look for titles marked with the Advantage symbol for items exclusively for our patrons with shortened hold times. New Advantage titles added this month include: 

Biography

• Heads in Beds, Jacob Tomsky
• Thomas Jefferson, Jon Meacham

Fiction

• Arcadia, Lauren Groff
• The Blackhouse, Peter May
• Calling Invisible Women, Jeanne Ray
• Life Among Giants, Bill Roorbach
• Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
• The Racketeer, John Grisham
• True Believers, Kurt Andersen
• The Undertow, Jo Baker
• World War Z, Max Brooks