Teen Summer Reading '09!

Teen Summer Reading ’09: Express Yourself @ Your Library!

How do you express yourself? With music? With art? With theatre? With technology? However you like to get your feelings across, you can do it this summer at the Twin Falls Public Library’s Teen Summer Reading Program!

Here’s our schedule so far:

June 10: Rock and Roll Murder Mystery
Use your detective skills to follow clues across the library and solve the mystery before the other groups.

June 15-20: Create an Avatar Contest
What would you look like online? Make an avatar and find out! When you’re done, add it to your MySpace or Facebook page!

June 24: Open Mic Night
You can read your favorite poem, sing a song, play the guitar, or do your standup comedy routine—just express yourself!

June 29-July 4: Famous First Lines Contest
Match up famous first lines to the books they come from.

July 8: Melted Crayon Art
You’d be surprised at the amazing art you can make with melted crayons! Come make a bookmark, key chain or a card.

July 13-18: Make Your Own Masterpiece Contest
Make your own version of a classic painting like the Mona Lisa or Starry Night.

July 22: ArtsMania Workshops
Come for an afternoon of 4 different workshops— writing, theatre, dance and art— all under one roof.

July 29: Guitar Hero World Tour Tournament
Check out the library’s new Wii and battle it out on the guitar, drums and mic.

Saving Juliet

Saving Juliet - Suzanne Selfors

Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford's stage fright and fight with her mother on the closing night of Romeo and Juliet are nothing compared to the troubles she faces when she and her leading man are transported to Shakespeare's Verona, where she decides to give the real Juliet a happy ending.

97 things to do before you finish high school

97 things to do before you finish high school - Steven Jenkins and Erika Stalder

Discover new places, new people, new hobbies, and open your eyes to the world. Learn about the stuff they don't teach you in high school like how to host a film festival, plan your first road trip, make a podcast, spend a day in silence, or shut down a house party before the police do. Interest, amuse and educate youself--because your life doesn't stop at 3 PM each day, it just gets started.

Keeper of the Grail

Keeper of the Grail - Michael P. Spradlin

In 1191, fifteen-year-old Tristan, a youth of unknown origin raised in an English abbey, becomes a Templar Knight's squire during the Third Crusade and soon finds himself on a mission to bring the Holy Grail to safety.

Happy New Year- the best books of 2008

2008 is just hours from being over, and it’s been a great year in the book world. To celebrate, we have a “Best Books of 2008” display in Yscapes. Teens can come in and vote for the best books they read this year, and we post their choices on the display. Here are some of the books that have been picked so far, in no particular order. (Click on the links to get more information on the titles from our online card catalog.)

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Stop! In the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison
The Final Warning by James Patterson
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
Ana’s Story by Jenna Bush
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelley
My Bonny Light Horseman by L.A. Meyer

There’s still time to come in and add your own choices and see what other teens have been reading, so come check it out.

Happy New year, and we’ll see you in 2009!