Since all I'm doing is planning teen summer reading these days, I thought a post about it was in order, especially since I have been slack about posting recently. Here is the 2008 teen summer reading logo!
All the fun begins Friday, May 30th--stay tuned for more info soon!
Considering the last time I posted, one might think nothing happened at the library in March. It did though-- we had a teen book discussion (Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce), a TAG meeting, a double feature movie day (Enchanted and I am Legend) and a J.A.M.S. meeting.
Now here it is April already! This month we are discussing Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan,
showing The Golden Compass, making major teen summer reading decisions at our TAG meeting, and hopefully watching some Bleach and InuYasha at our J.A.M.S. meeting . Also, April 19th is the deadline to enter films for Take One: Teen Short Film Festival and on the 25th local band Backside Forward is going to play the library again. If you missed them last time, here's your second chance! Check the calendar of events for official dates, times and places. Hope you can join us!
jamboread! was this past Saturday and it was crazy and loud and lots of fun! We made altered books, sang karaoke, played the Wii, made custom buttons and got to meet author John Green. My arms are still sore from making buttons with the button press for 5 straight hours, but there are about 400 great buttons accessorizing local teens now, so it was all worth it. :-) Below are some pictures of the fun!
Teen Haiku Contest winners posing with John Green
Making buttons!
Hiding behind altered books
Making altered books
More altered bookmaking
Just a reminder, if you've never read a John Green book, you should consider it. He has two out right now (Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines) and one out in the fall named Paper Towns. I can't wait to read it!
jamboread! is this Saturday and I've been busy preparing, so this blog entry is very late! J.A.M.S. was last Friday and we watched some of Bleach vol. 2, some of Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 1 and gave out a lot of prizes courtesy of Right Stuf! Here are some pics of the crowd posing (while engrossed in their anime)!
Friday we made our own holiday and celebrated by having an Anti-Valentine's Day Party! We made black duct tape roses, anti-valentine's and ate broken heart cookies. I totally forgot to take pictures (although the newspaper was there and they ran some in the paper the next day), but one very sweet teen posed afterwards with her anti-valentine for me!
Monday was our Read & Feed meeting where we discussed An Abundance of Katherines by jamboread! author John Green. We had a great time and can't wait to meet him March 1st!
