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.

BEACH BAG CONTEST!

There's still time to enter the TeenReads Beach Bag Contest -- it's open until June 25th. The prize is a beach bag full of 12 great beach books plus lots of other summer goodies. Not hard to enter -- just write a paragraph about which of the 12 books you'd most like to read and why. The TeenReads site also has lots of great book reviews, author interviews, and the "ultimate teen reading list" with 300 titles.

You can read about the contest and enter it by clicking HERE.

New Vampire Series to Start Off the Summer

After you've read all four books in the Twilight series..... why not try The Morganville Vampires

by Rachel Caine

(New this week in the YA Paperback section of the New Canaan Library)

From back cover: "Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Don't stay out after dark. It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows-one that will spill out into the bright of day.

Here are the six books in the series so far:

Book 1 Glass houses
Book 2 The dead girls' dance
Book 3 Midnight Alley
Book 4 Feast of fools
Book 5 Lord of Misrule
Book 6 Carpe Corpus
Book 7 Fade Out (coming 11/3/09)

OPEN MIC NIGHT THIS THURSDAY at 7

Open Mic Night -- express yourself!

When: Thursday, April 16th, 7:00 pm
Where: Lamb Room, New Canaan Library
Why: Read your poetry or original writing, favorite poem or from a favorite work
Or play an instrument or sing a song
What else: Snacks will be provided.

Register HERE if you're interested in participating!

A fifth TWILIGHT SAGA book???

The library recently got a request for Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer. It's supposed to be a new book in the Twilight series, telling the beginning of the story from Edward's point of view instead of Bella's. When I looked around to see if I could order it, I discovered that the author started writing it but probably isn't going to finish it. However, she's posted the 12-chapter draft on her website -- take a look:

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/midnightsun_partial_draft4.pdf

Also -- when you're in the library, be sure to visit the teen area with its new bigger spaces for books and audiobooks. Lots of great new stuff this month too:

http://catalog.newcanaanlibrary.org/search~S0?/ftlist^bib53%2C1%2C0%2C130/mode=2

NEW FOR FEBRUARY

Lots of great new teen books and audiobooks this month. TAKE A LOOK.

And the 2010 Teen Nutmeg Award titles have just been announced. CLICK HERE to see them. Read one or all of them during 2009, then vote for your favorite in January of 2010.

NEW STUFF, LATE HOURS, NUTMEG VOTING!

1. CLICK HERE to see what's new for teens this month.

2. On three nights next week (NCHS midterm exam week) the Library will stay open until 10 pm for individual and group study. The late nights are Tuesday 1/20, Wednesday 1/21, and Thursday 1/22. The Library is closed for MLK Day on Monday 1/19.

3. Time to vote for your favorite 2009 Teen Nutmeg! Information and ballots are available in both the Teen Area and the Children's Room. Check the list of candidates HERE.