Upcoming Events

Have you seen the Upcoming Events for November and December?

There are lots of exciting programs, including the Teen Book Club, Duct Tape, Pie, and Movies.

Call us to register at 860-742-7606 or register online using our Facebook Page.

Saturday November 13th from 10:30am-2:30pm

Drop-In or Come to Stay and Play

All of our Great Video Games, Plus Board Games, Tournaments and

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

 

Teen CookingTuesday, November 16th from 3:00pm-4:00pm
What’s More Fall than Apples and Sugar?
Come in a make a scrumptious Apple Pie to take home and bake.
Plus some other fall favorites!

What Can’t You Do With Duct Tape?

Thursday, December 9th from 3:00pm-4:00pm

Join our quest to find out. We will have lots and lots of duct tape and some great ideas for things to make.

Movie Night
Tuesday, December 28th at 5:30pm
We’ll provide the pizza and popcorn,
Movie Title will be chosen the first week of December. Vote online or at the library.

Mag-Bags

Thursday, December 30th at 4:30pm

Woven bags from magazines are super green, fairly water-proof, fun to make and absolutely unique.

Be a designer and make your own bag.



It Just Got Easier

Searching the Library Catalog Just Got Easier.

Check out our new Library Catalog here. It looks something like this:

• Do A Quick Search Right From the Home Screen
• Use Advanced Search for a More Detailed Inquiry
• Scroll Down to See the New Teen Fiction Books
• Click on the Right to Read the Newest Teen & Young Adult Zone Blog Posts
• Use the Kid's Catalog to Search for Items Downstairs
• Log In on the Left at Any Time to Request a Book

Have Questions?
Don't Hesitate to call the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library
or Drop In and Ask at the Teen/Adult Reference or the Main Desk for a Quick Tutorial.

NANOWRIMO

Huh?

NANOWRIMO

National Novel Writing Month is November

 

Check it out

All the resources you need to start and write a novel in one month. The idea is that you will write and only write for 30 days (that doesn’t mean you can’t sleep, it means you don’t edit or worry about spelling or anything like that until you are done or midnight on November 30th—whichever comes first).

The word count goal for adults is 50,000, but the Young Writers Program lets you choose your own word-count goal. If you reach your personal word count goal you “Win,” receive a web icon, certificate and bragging rights.

AND…

This year, if you reach your word-count goal, you can get a paperback proof copy of your manuscript provided by CreateSpace. Find out more.
The NANOWRIMO website gives you tools to help set your schedule, handle writers block, provides a way for you to connect with other NANOWRIMO authors and even has pep talks from published authors such as John Green and D.J. MacHale.

So give it a try and join hundreds of thousands of people around the world and write!

Read For The Fun Of It

Happy Teen Read Week!

This week is the yearly celebration to read for the fun of it. What better way to celebrate than with brand new booklists!



Teens Top Ten 2010

Books That Rock

Novels in Verse

If You Like the Hunger Games Triology Try These

Books the Teen Librarian Read and Loved

What Else Are We Doing for Teen Read Week???

Recommend a Book for our Teen Picks Booklist/ Display and You Will Be Entered Into the New Book Drawing. Just drop off the title on the Teen Services desk or send a message. Don't forget to add your name!

Plus...

TAB Meets This Tuesday from 2:30pm-4:00pm

and

The Gaming Club Meets This Thursday from 3:00pm-5:00pm

Take the Bus Straight From School

The Book Club is Here!

Our first book is going to be

Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu

We are meeting on

Wednesday, November 17th, Time TBA

Books will be avaliable for pick soon

Read About It:

"Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s is bigger and dirtier than most. It’s one she’s been hiding for years—that her mom’s out-of-control hoarding has turned their lives into a world of garbage and shame. She’s managed to keep her home life hidden from her best friend and her crush, knowing they’d be disgusted by the truth. So, when her mom dies suddenly in their home, Lucy hesitates to call 911 because revealing their way of life would make her future unbearable—and she begins her two-day plan to set her life right."

Have You Seen: The YA Rotating Collection

I’m going to try and showcase different parts of the Teen Zone each week.

This week is the YA Rotating Collection

Located above the Large Print Books and around the magazine cubes, this collection includes Fiction, Audio Books, Large Print and Graphic Novels.

Here is a complete list of what titles are in the collection right now. More are added every month and some will disappear. Grab them while you can!


Audio:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Runaway by Meg Cabot
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Peak by Roland Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Graphic Novels:
King Lear by Gareth Hinds based on William Shakespeare
Cairo by C. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker

Large Print:
Fire by Kristen Cashore
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Au Pairs by Melissa de la Cruz
Bounce by Natasha Friend
Rash by Pete Hautman
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

The Rest:
Earth Girl by Jennifer Cowan
Just Another Hero by Sharon M. Draper
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Beautiful Darkness by Jami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Dark Song by Gail Giles
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus
Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
WTF by Peter Lerangis
The Tension of Opposites by Kristina McBride
After the Kiss by Terr Elan McVoy
The Bad Queen by Carolyn Meyer
Triskellion by Will Peterson
Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick



New to the Teen Zone

Have You Seen Our New Giant Connect Four Game?

Stop and Play a Quick Game Next Time You are at the Library.

Manifesto ~ Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins' poem was used during Banned Book Week 2009. You can see the original flyer here.

 

To you zealots and bigots and false

patriots who live in fear of discourse.

You screamers and banners and burners

who would force books

off shelves in your brand name

of greater good.

You say you’re afraid for children,

innocents ripe for corruption
by perversion or sorcery on the page.

But sticks and stones do break

bones, and ignorance is no armor.
You do not speak for me,

and will not deny my kids magic
in favor of miracles.

You say you’re afraid for America,

the red, white and blue corroded

by terrorists, socialists, the sexually

confused. But we are a vast quilt

of patchwork cultures and multi-gendered

identities. You cannot speak for those

whose ancestors braved

different seas.

You say you’re afraid for God,

the living word eroded by Muhammed

and Darwin and Magdalene.

But the omnipotent sculptor of heaven

and earth designed intelligence.

Surely you dare not speak

for the father, who opens

his arms to all.

A word to the unwise.

Torch every book.

Char every page.

Burn every word to ash.

Ideas are incombustible.

And therein lies your real fear.

— Ellen Hopkins,