QUICK READING SURVEY

Please tell us about what you like to read! This quick survey is easy, anonymous, and maybe even fun -- and your opinions will help the New Canaan Library pick out new books and other materials. Thank you for participating.

Click Here to take survey

2009 TEENS' TOP TEN ANNOUNCED

More than 11,000 teen voters chose Paper Towns as their favorite book in the 2009 Teens' Top Ten! The online poll took place from Aug. 24 through Sept. 18, with the winners announced during Teen Read Week by WWE Divas Brie Bella and Nikki Bella, with a special appearance by John Green. See the video.

Here are the top ten, chosen from the 25 nominated books. Come to the teen section of the New Canaan Library or click here to see what's available right now.

Paper Towns by John Green
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Wake by Lisa McMann
Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Graphic Novels RSS!

Now you can be notified of all the latest graphic novel additions through RSS feeds, or just check out the titles we've added in the past month!

Go to our recent acquisitions page to see an alphabetical list of our newest graphic novels. If you have a feed reader like Bloglines, Google Reader, or My Yahoo, etc., click on the orange RSS box : and add it to your subscriptions.

No more repetitive title searches to see if we have your latest favorites -- there are even links to the catalogue records to see if the books you want are available!

TEENS' TOP TEN: VOTE ONLINE NOW

The polls are open from now until September 18th.

CLICK HERE to vote online for your favorites. You can vote for up to 3 of the 25 nominated books. If you want to see a list of the books, HERE is a pdf file with authors, titles, and summaries.

QUICK SURVEY, ANYONE?

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TEENS' TOP TEN VOTING Aug. 24-Sept. 18

In the back corner of the New Canaan Library's teen area there is a large shelftop display of the 25 books that are nominated for the 2009 Teen's Top Ten award. Each book has a bright yellow label on the spine saying "2009 TTT nominee." If you are between the ages of 12 and 18, you can cast an online vote for your favorite between August 24th and September 18th.

Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country.

CLICK HERE for an annotated pdf list of the nominated books for 2009.

Click on this box to find out how to cast your vote.

SUMMER READING 2009

Come to the expanded teen area of the library to find lots of summer reading choices -- we have the books from the New Canaan Public School lists, plus lots more. Here are some links to get you started:

SAXE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Incoming 7th Grade: Required List

Incoming 8th Grade: Book-Film Project

Incoming 7th & 8th Grades: Recommended Summer Reading List


NEW CANAAN HIGH SCHOOL (all grades):

Visit the NCHS Library website for a video message and an interactive list of summer reading choices. Multiple copies of these books are available at the New Canaan Library all summer. Click here to see what's available right now.