Summer Reading Has Begun!

This is what's happening for teens this week at the Coshocton Public Library:

Monday: Pick up program flyers and book rating slips in the YA room.

Tuesday: Teen Writers Club 4-5 pm.

Wednesday: Plugged and Unplugged 2-5 pm, Animanga Club 5-7 pm.

Thursday: Movie and a Craft 2-4 pm. this week featuring Waterhorse and Hardwear Jewelry.

Friday: Teen Book Club 2-4 pm.

See you @ the library!

Coming this Summer!

Metamorphosis @ your library

Summer Events Just for Teens!

Teen Writers Club– a club for writers
June 3, July 8, 4-5 pm
Animanga Club– a club for manga and anime fans
June 4, July 2, 5-7 pm
Anime Marathon on June 14, noon to 8 pm
Plugged and Unplugged– gaming and Internet, refreshments
June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23
Teen Movie and Craft Days– stay cool with crafts and movies
June 5, 12, 19, 26 July 3, 10, 24, 2-4 pm
Teen Book Club– a club for real readers, books and prizes
June 6, 20, July 11, 25 2-4 pm
Teen Monopoly Tournament– win prizes, free pizza lunch
July 18, 10 am—2:30 pm
PLUS
Rate Your Reads for weekly prize drawings!

Bookletters

If you would like to know what new books we have in the YA room each month, you can subscribe to receive Bookletters in your email. You will get an email once a month for each newsletter you choose. The newsletters have a picture of the book, a short description, and a link to the catalog if you want to reserve it. Click here to see the list of newsletters available and how to subscribe. Under "Custom Bookletters" you will find the New YA Fiction and New YA Nonfiction links.

Have you tried Good Reads?

If you love books and sharing reading ideas, you might like Good Reads!
my 'read' shelf:

Free Books!

http://www.harperteen.com/firstlook/
Check this out... you can sign up to get a chance to receive ARCs, Advanced Reader Copies, of brand new books not yet published!

Duane M. Abel, cartoonist for ZED comics, will be leading a comics drawing workshop this evening at 7 pm at the Coshocton Public Library. After the workshop, Duane will autograph his comics, available for only $4 each. One lucky teen will win a whole set! Click here to sign up now!
This program is part of our Teen Read Week celebration!

Teen Read Week

Libraries all across the nation (including Coshocton Public Library!) are celebrating TEENS and READING and LIBRARIES during October! LOL @ your library!

Take the Smart Girl Reading Survey! (IT's for Guys, too!)

You can chat to 31 authors in 31 days at ReaderGirlz. Look at this awesome schedule!
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)

You can vote for Teens Top Ten books at Teens Top Ten . Voting begins October 14.

Come to "Cartooning with Duane" at the Coshocton Public Library on Thursday October 18, 7-8 pm for a cartooning lesson with Duane Abel, the cartoonist for ZED comics!

Check out the display case!

Fill out a survey in the YA room, give it to the reference librarian, pick out a prize!

Back to School

Two days left and then school is back in session! Let the library help you make this the best school year ever!

We have high speed Internet access and databases for researching and homework. You can reserve computer time by calling the library at 622-0956.

We have the books you need for book reports and book discussions, plus Cliff Notes and Masterplots.

We have Plugged and Unplugged after school on Wednesdays, 2-5 pm, in the large meeting room where you can do homework, visit with friends, snack, and hang out. Board and video games, movies, and Internet will be ready and waiting.

We have magazines, graphic novels, comic books, music, and movies for when you need a break at home.

Make visiting the library part of your school schedule!

Teens Talk Books

Here's what the Teens Talk Books Club chose from the new books:
Runaway
Going Nowhere Faster
Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake

Here is what they've been reading:
Arieona: eight Orca Soundings books!
Arien: the SASS series
Arieanda: Hell Phone
RoseMary: Twilight on CD

Everyone is going to choose an Agatha Christie book at the next TTB meeting for our mystery YNK SRP read.

What I am reading at GoodReads

Beautiful City of the Dead

On Zee's first day in a new school, she meets Relly, a guitarist in his own band. Zee joins the four member band, Scorpio Bone, as the bass player and their own kind of music, Ghost Metal, comes together. Music isn't the only magic happening in the band and soon Zee understands she is the god of water that the band needed to be complete. But three other people are looking for her to complete their fire, earth, wind and water four and no more... a creepy biology teacher, the threatening principal and Scratch, who appears in different forms. A supernatural rock and roll thriller.

Teens Talk Books

The Teens Talk Books Club met at the library Thursday to talk about books and have pizza. the group looked over a stack of new nonfiction books and some new paperbacks and discussed what they're reading:

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Chase saw the movie and decided to read the book afterwards. He says the book is much better as there are many details not in the movie and the ending is different. Aaron agreed the movie wasn't nearly as good as the book. Eragon is the first of the Inheritance Trilogy.

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Chase also read this one by the author of the Lemony Snicket books. Flannery Culp, 19, is incarcerated for murder. She is rewriting her high school journals, annotating them to tell the real story. The Basic Eight, Flannery and her seven friends, begin experimenting with adulthood by throwing dinner parties and carrying flasks and then drugs.

The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White

Aaron is reading this tale of young Wart who is destined to pull Ex Calibur from the stone to become King Arthur of England. Aaron is also rereading all the Harry Potter books in preparation for the new one!

A Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart

Arieanda says this one was weird! Gretchen attends an art school and one day wishes to become a fly on the wall. The next morning, she is just that and she hangs around the boys' locker room discovering more than she ever wanted to know about boys!

The Holy Bible

Arieona was cleaning her room and began browsing the Bible and found several interesting stories to read.

Arien hasn't had a chance to read a book this week, but did listen to her young neighbor, who is learning to read, read the same book three times! Way to go, Arien! :)

Insomnia by Stephen King

Travis loves Stephen King and other horror writers but has had a hard time getting through Insomnia. He says he is half way through and nothing has happened except the guy can't sleep! He and Chase both agreed that the Gunslinger was way better.

The Teens Talk Books Club will meet again on May 31 in the large meeting room at 4 pm.

American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is this year's Printz Award winner. I read this graphic novel on our snow day this week and really didn't expect to like it so much! There are three story lines, including a fable of the Monkey King, carried through until they are all tied together at the end. American Born Chinese delivers a message of not only being happy with what you are, but making the most of what you are.

Try it, I think you'll like it, even if you aren't a graphic novel fan.

What Happened to Cass McBride?

Cass McBride has been buried alive with only a walkie talkie to communicate with her kidnapper. Who kidnapped her? Why was she kidnapped? Will she escape? Gale Giles has written a edge of your seat suspenseful novel once again. I read this novel in one evening!

Harry Potter News

For all you Harry Potter fans, the release date for the next book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is July 21st at midnight!

Check out the Official Harry Potter Web Site for more news!