APOCACON: It's the end of the world as we know it.

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Friday, July 20, 2012
APOCACON: It's the end of the world as we know it.
by: michelle.beebower

 The final Wrath of Cons event for our Teen Summer Reading Program is next week!

APOCACON will be held at the Yarborough Branch on Friday, July 27 from 6 - 8 p.m.

APOCACON is a celebration of one of the hottest trends in teen lit today: some catastrophic or apocalyptic event shatters life as we know it on Earth (with or without zombies) and then what comes after: the new dystopian society.

It’s so much nicer to worry about meteors, bombs, viruses and corrupt governments in books than in real life.  But, we want to get you ready in case the worst happens.

 Some of the highlights of the event:

  • Apocalyptic Self-Defense Demonstration
  • Make Your Own Mini-Survival Kit
  • End of the World Photo Booth
  • Live Action Worst Case Scenario Game
  • Forest of Zombie Bears
  • Zombie Make-Up Tutorial
  • Trade Your Canned Goods for Snacks at the Dead Drink Cantina Trading Post & Bar
  • Anime Viewings

 

To get in the proper mindset for APOCACON, check out the related books below and don’t forget to bring your library card to the event!

Related Books:
Cover of the book The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
By by Suzanne Collins.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Cover of the book Divergent
Divergent
By Veronica Roth.
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Cover of the book Delirium
Delirium
By Lauren Oliver.
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
Cover of the book Ashes
Ashes
By Ilsa J. Bick.
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
Cover of the book The enemy
The enemy
By Charlie Higson.
After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
Cover of the book Life as we knew it
Life as we knew it
By Susan Beth Pfeffer.
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Cover of the book Rot & Ruin
Rot & Ruin
By Jonathan Maberry.
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.
Cover of the book Highschool of the dead
Highschool of the dead
By [original story] Daisuke Sato ; [illustrations] Shouji Sato ; translation, Christine Dashiell.
"A mysterious illness is spreading rapidly through the halls of Fujimi High School. In a matter of hours, the campus is transformed from a place of learning into a hive of nightmares, as the infected students collapse and are reborn as flesh-hungry zombies! Only a handful of students escape the initial outbreak-- among them Takashi Komuro and his childhood friend, Rei. He manages to protect Rei from the initial onslaught, but how long can Takashi and the other students hope to survive when the whole school-- maybe the whole town-- is out for their blood?!" -- from publisher's description [v.1].
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