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Teen Summer Reading Club & Programs

Express Yourself @ the GFJ Library this summer and participate in the Teen Reading Club….

Read a book, fill out a review sheet and enter to win a $10.00 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble. Three wininers will be picked each week from June 29 thru August 3. Pick up your reading packet in the Teen Dept. of the library.

Attend one of the following programs and get a free paperback!

Registration has begun  in the Teen area of the library and the Youth Services Dept.

Sign-Up for teen programs in the youth services dept. – all programs are free!

Book Discussion Group: July 6, 13, 20, and 27 from 6:30 -8:30 PM. in the Library Meeting Room. Sara-Jo Sites, the original teen librarian will lead this group through 4 exciting books. We supply the books. Registration is required.

Street Art with Eric Maruscak – Tuesday, July 7 – 1-4 outside on the library sidewalks. Create some great chalk art with cartoonist Eric Maruscak. Bring a picture you would like to draw. Registration is required.

Game Nights @ the Library – July 9 & 16, August 6 & 13 – 6-8 PM in the library meeting room.  Keep cool this summer and bring a favorite game or play one of the library’s. Refreshments and prizes will be available. No registration is required.

6th Annual Teen Mystery Night – Thursday July 30-6-8 PM in the library meeting room. Once again a murder haunts the library. Be the detective wh0 nabs the murderer…and win a prize. Registration is required.

Dance Workshop with Erin – Wednesday, July 15 – 1-4 in the library meeting room. Learn dance styles from every era. no experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothes. Be prepared to have fun! Registration is required.

Crafts with Lisa – Tuesday, August 4 – 6-8 in the library meeting room. Old books become something new. Registration is required.

Twilight Read-alikes and other Vampire Stories @ the GFJ Library

Erin, one of GFJ’s children’s librarians has compiled  a list of Twilight Read-alikes: Here’s some from her list (complete list is available in the Teen Section of the library)

These books are all in YA Fiction section (filed by author’s last name first):

The Band by Carmen Adams

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

Midnight Predator by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Tithe by Holly Black

Bloodline: Reckoning by Kate Cary

Boys That Bite by Marianne Mancusi

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

Suck it up by Brian Meehl

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Paperback series)

Dangerous Girls (paperback series) by R. L. Stine

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Award Winning Books for Teens @ the GFJ

Here are some of 2009’s  award winning books for teens available here at the GFJ library for your reading pleasure:

John Newbery Award – “for the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature”

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (YA Fic)

Honor Books include:

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (J Fic)

Savvy by Ingrid Law ( J Fic)

After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (YA Fic)

Michael L. Printz Award – “for excellence in literature written for young adults” :
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (YA Fic)

Honor Books:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing (Vol I & II)  by M.T. Anderson (YA Fic)

Tender Morsels by Margaret Lanagan (YA Fic)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (YA Fic)

Happy New Year! Welcome 2009…

Hope you all had a great holiday and are ready to begin the new year. Here at the GFJ we are busy planning the year ahead. Story times for preschool, toddlers and infants begin next week. February will bring back the BARK therapy dogs. Come and read to your favorite dog. They will be here on Saturday mornings starting in Feb.

A look ahead for the teen programs – April will bring a new Saturday program called “Movie Afternoon”. I plan on showing a DVD downstairs in the library meeting room and/or playing games. BINGO was  a big hit this past summer, so maybe we will have a BINGO afternoon! Of course there will be snacks and prizes.  Please let me know what you all would like….

And as always check out the new book display in the teen section – we are always updating our collection.

Thanks.

Happy Holidays!

Hi – Hope you are having a nice holiday season. When you’re done shopping and want a good book to relax with, why not check out some new stuff we just got in:

Lucky by Rachel Vail (YA Fiction)

As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family’s security–as well as Phoebe’s social status–but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship.

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (YA Fiction)

Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off- except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller- a race against time.

The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Catherine Hapka (YA Fiction)

In this holiday installment of the Simon Pulses Romantic Comedies series , Lexi decides she doesn’t want to date Cameron anymore, so she sets him up with another girl and then is free to pursue her interests. But she has second thoughts and gets nervous when her best friend tells her the 12th date cements the relationship. Camreron is planning on going on his 12th date with Jaylene to the Christmas ball – can Lexi renew her relationship before there is no turning back?

Girl v. Boy by Yvonne Collins (YA Fiction)

Sixteen-year-old Lu Perez epitomizes her school’s lack of spirit, but as an anonymous columnist reporting on a fundraising competition that pits school against school and boy against girl, she and her co-columnist engage in a battle of the sexes with huge ramifications.

New Teen Page @ the GFJ

Teen Room @ the GFJ Library

Hi everyone! This is the new Teen page at the GFJ Memorial Library. It is now a blog and can be updated quite easily and hopefully will be interactive with all you teens out there who love our library.

So I’ll be adding info and programs and whatever is happening at our library. So make sure you bookmark this page or add it to your RSS feed.

Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Cathy Seary, YA librarian