Teen Advisory Board meeting

TAB is planning something BIG!  Come be a part of it!  Our next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 1 from 5-6 pm.  We meet in the reference room at the library.  And we always have snacks.  Always. 

Everyone in grades 6-12 is welcome. 

Click here for a PDF flyer.  print it and share it.  email it to a friend.  :)

webstuff

Just an FYI - the “teen page” on our website (www.elreno.lib.ok.us) has been done away with.  If you click the “Young Adult” link, you’ll come straight to this blog.  :) 

Waddaya think about that??

Gocks…sorta

We created some weird sock puppets yesterday at “Gocks:  The Goth Sock Puppet Experiment.”  I don’t know how goth they were…but they were certainly strange and wonderful! 

check pics out at our flickr page. 

New books!

Here’s a list of new books in the Teen section (and a few non-fiction ones you might like too!)  If they’re checked out - we’ll put them on hold for you and call you when they come back in!

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie

Guyaholic
by Carolyn Mackler

Deadline
by Chris Crutcher

Girl at Sea
by Maureen Johnson

The Crow
by Alison Croggon

Hero
by Perry Moore

The Land of the Silver Apples
by Nancy Farmer

Good Ghouls Do
by Julie Kenner

Confessions of a Blabblermouth
by M. Carey and L. Carey (a father/daughter team!)

Football Genius
by Tim Green

Extras
by Scott Westerfeld

A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray

Hellphone
by William Sleator

Glass
by Ellen Hopkins

and Non fiction titles:

Math Doesn’t Suck
by Danica McKellar (off of the show the Wonder Years)

The Dangerous Book for Boys
by the Igguldens

Gocks: The Goth Sock Puppet Experiment

Who:  Teens in grades 6-12
What:  Gock creation
When:  Thursday, Oct. 25, 4-5 pm
Where:  El Reno Carnegie Library
Why:  Do you really need a reason to create a gock?

Check this out to see a gock.  Socks and some goth apparel provided but feel free to provide your own studded collars and black eyeliner. 

Have some Fall Break Fun!

Come by the library between NOW and Monday, Oct. 15 to enter the FALL BREAK FUN DRAWING for fabulous (no cash and) prizes! 

Open to 6-12th graders

Prizes include:
 - two passes to the Oklahoma History Center
 - $1.00 movie passes
 - a 3month family pass to Redland’s Fitness for Life program
 - local fast food coupons
and more!

You can enter every time you come to the library so drop in and see us! :)

TAB/PP!

Some dangerously dastardly decisions were made at the last TAB meeting.  If you feel left out - don’t fret.  We’ll have another TAB meeting Sept. 20 from 5-6 pm & we’ll be planning a Pirate Party!

Yes, a Pirate Party!  To celebrate Banned Books Week (Sept. 29 - Oct. 6) TAB is hosting a Pirate Party on Sept. 28.  Click HERE to vote for your favorite pirate/book slogan. 

There’s no school that Friday, so start preparing now for some serious swashbuckling between 3 and 4 pm that day.

Free Pizza!

What’s the catch?  You’ve got to come to the Teen Advisory Board meeting to get it!  That doesn’t sound too scary, now does it?

Who:  Everyone in grades 6-12
Where:  At the library
When: Thursday, August 30 from 5-6 pm

We’ll start planning all kinds of fun stuff for this fall - so come with great ideas!  If you don’t have great ideas then we’ll end up making Gocks.  Yes, those are gothic sock puppets.

 :) 

School’s no longer out for the summer

Some of you are already back in class, some of you start Friday.  It’s crazy how fast summer is ending. 

 For the 10th - 12th graders at EHS - we’ll pick up with Thursday lunches right where we left off.  Every Thurs. you can grab lunch and bring it over to the library.  We eat, we read, we gossip…it’s great fun.  We usually get a great turnout of both guys and gals. 

We got a bunch of new YA books - as well as some new fantasy stuff in this week.  A few highlights:

Dramarama by E. Lockhart (of Boyfriend List and Boy Book fame)
Boot Camp by Todd Strasser (this looks pretty gritty…need someone to read it and let me know how upsetting it is…)
2 new ”Alice” books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
…and lots of other stuff!  Come check them out! 
 

 Happy (ok, at least not disgustingly horrible) new school year!

Harry Potter Party!

Hey Muggles!  We’re having a Harry Potter party to celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! 

Who:  Everyone!
What:  Snacks!  Activities!  Plot discussion!
When:  July 14 from 11 am to noon
Where:  @ your library!
Why:  We’re having the party before the book releases so that no one will spill the beans about what happens to Harry!

 The library will have copies (books and audio) of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows available for check out after the July 21 release date!