Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week begins this Sunday, the 14th. We will be celebrating the theme LOL @ Your Library by having Laugh Out Loud Comedies Throughout the Decades.

Tuesday - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure from 6-8pm
Thursday - Clueless from 6-8pm
Saturday - Evan Almighty from 2-4pm

These are open to all 6th-12th graders and refreshments will be provided.

Please come and join us as we celebrate Teen Read Week.

Don't forget to vote for the Teen's Top Ten Books at:
www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten

Teen Chats

In honor of Teen Read Week, YALSA and Readergirlz will be hosting the 31 Flavorite Authors chats. There is a chat each night in October with a different teen author. All you have to do is join the Readergirlz forum on MySpace and join in on the chat at 8pm each night. For more information go to the Readergirlz site. The authors are:

Week One

October 1st: Meg Cabot

October 2nd: Tiffany Trent

October 3rd: Brent Hartinger

October 4th: Lorie Ann Grover

October 5th: K.L. Going

October 6th: Nikki Grimes

Week Two

October 7th: Ellen Hopkins

October 8th: Justina Chen Headley

October 9th: Chris Crutcher

October 10th: Ann Brashares

October 11th: Sarah Mlynowski

October 12th: Cecil Castellucci

October 13th: Kirby Larson

Week Three
October 14th: Tanya Lee Stone

October 15th: John Green

October 16th: Sara Zarr

October 17th: Deb Caletti

October 18th: Rachel Cohn

October 19th: Kirsten Miller

October 20th: Mitali Perkins

Week Four
October 21st: Sonya Sones

October 22nd: Lisa Yee

October 23rd: Carolyn Mackler

October 24th: E. Lockhart

October 25th: Janet Lee Carey

October 26th: Gaby Triana

October 27th: Lauren Myracle

Week Five
October 28th: Holly Black

October 29th: Cynthia Leitich Smith

October 30th: Dia Calhoun

October 31st: Stephenie Meyer (Special time: 9 PM PST/MIDNIGHT EST)

Good SAT site

We have a practice SAT in the Fall and Spring, but what can you do between those tests? A new website has been launched with study guides, test questions, and other materials. Check out this website by ProProfs.

www.proprofs.com/sat/

Useful College Website

The Department of Education College Opportunities Online (COOL) has launched a website to help search for colleges throughout the country. You can enter certain criteria to see what school would be the best fit for you. The information provided includes programs offered, cost, financial aid available, accreditation, and others. Use this site if you have not decided which college to attend.

The site is: collegenavigator.ed.gov

Teen's Top 10

Each year, to go along with Teen Read Week, the American Library Association has a Teen's Top Ten Books vote. Teens vote from a provided list for the books they think are the best. Any teen can vote by going to the website at the end of this blog. We will be having a movie marathon that week, but please take time to vote for your favorites. Voting begins October 14 and ends October 20. If you have not read these books, we do have them at the library to check out. The nominees are:

1. Firegirl by Tony Abbott
2. Clay by David Almond
3. Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
4. Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita
5. The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
6. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
7. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles
8. In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
9. The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
10. What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles
11. Hello, Groin by Beth Goobie
12. River Secrets by Shannon Hale
13. Shock Point by April Henry
14. Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
15. Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
16. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
17. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller
18. Prom Anonymous by Blake Nelson
19. Maximum Ride: School’s Out-Forever by James Patterson
20. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
21. Penelope Bailey Takes the Stage by Susanna Reich
22. All Hallows Eve (13 Stories) by Vivian Vande Velde
23. Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
24. The Unresolved by T.K. Welsh
25. Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog by Ysabeau S. Wilce

For more information about the Teen's Top 10, please visit
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.htm

Don't Forget

Programs begin this week. We will be having a craft day on Friday from 4-5. Refreshment will be provided and you can take home anything that you create. On Saturday, from 2-4:30, we will be showing the movie We Are Marshall. It will be in the main meeting room and refreshments will be provided. Come join us for both of these events.

Fall Programs

We will begin the fall programming in September. All movies and programs will be on the third week of the month.

In September, we will have the Clean Out the Closet Craft Day on the 21st from 4-5pm. You can make whatever you want out of the materials provided and take it home. On the 22nd, we will be showing the movie We Are Marshall from 2-4:30pm.

We will celebrate Teen Read Week in October. The theme this year is LOL @ Your Library so we will be showing comdies from different decades the week of the 14th through the 20th.
Tuesday, October 16 (6-8pm)-Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure(1989) Rated PG
Thursday, October 18 (6-8pm)-Clueless (1995) Rated PG-13
Saturday, October 20 (2-4:30pm)-Evan Almighty (2007) Rated PG

We will be having a trivia challenge in November. On the 16th, from 4-5, we will be having a pop culture challenge. On the 17th, we will be showing Spiderman 3 from 2-4:30.

Come join us for some or all of the programs. They are free and open to all 6th through 12th graders. Refreshments will be provided.