Facebook and Bookface!

We've got a great line up of activities this week and next week, so please feel free to join us for any of the events listed below. Also, please note that we now have a teen page on facebook to make seeing programs, new blogs and announcements that much easier. We are DPL Teen Space!

Stop by for our upcoming programs!

Writing Group: Wednesday, October, 12, 6-8:30. We will come up with our group name, hear some wonderful writing and hang out! Join us UPSTAIRS IN THE YA SECTION for this.

SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy: Saturday, October 15th, 1-3:00pm. Join us to talk about SAT Essay tips and tricks. We will also run through two practice essays before the day is out!

Teen Read Week
October 16-22




Book Trailer Class: Wednesday October 19th, 7:00-8:00pm. What are book trailers? How can we make our own? Join us to make book trailers/movies, like this. Bring a laptop or work with one of our computers. This program does require registration. To register: click here!

We will also be holding a Book Cover Re-Design Challenge in the teen area! Drop by to recreate your favorite book cover on some oversize paper. Winner will be displayed in the teen area.


Lastly, we are doing a Bookface Photography Challenge.

What is a bookface? When a person obscures or augments any part of their body with a book cover causing an illusion.

1) Find a book that will work for you!
2) Take a Picture
3) Email the picture to Erin at erinr@derrypl.org
4) Vote for winners on our facebook page--- DPL Teen Space

Entries are accepted October 16-22nd

Winner will receive an Author-Signed Tantalize: Kieren's Story Postcard set and $10 iTunes Gift Card!

Book Trailer of the Week!

Need By Carrie Jones

From Publishers Weekly:

It's not hard to see Twilight in the DNA of this novel: Zara's stepfather has died, her mother isn't capable of caring for her, and she has been sent to live with her grandmother in a small remote town in Maine. When her car spins out of control (Calling Stephenie Meyer!), she's rescued by sexy Nick (who turns out to be a werewolf), and something might be cooking with her overachieving classmate Ian. Too bad she's being followed by someone dark and dangerous—a pixie king. This pixie is no harmless sprite: when not mated with a queen for an unspecified amount of time, Zara learns, the pixie kings will demand... young human men, who they kill after using them for their blood-hungry pleasures. Will Zara sacrifice herself to this vampire stand-in or let him destroy everything she loves? Jones (Love {and Other Uses for Duct Tape]) easily wins readers to Zara's side, portraying her as a funny, globally conscious teen who also collect[s} fears like other people collect stamps (obscure phobias serve as chapter titles). Genre fans will enjoy the sizzle between Nick and Zara as well as the paranormal cast. Ages 12–up. (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Sound good? We have it in our collection. Come on over and pick it up!

Flume Awards

Nominate your favorite reads today! No adult contribution allowed! Teens only!

The Flume award is a teen choice award done here in NH! Each year, students get the chance to nominate their favorite titles for The Flume award. This title must be a book that has been published within the last two years. From the massive list that comes in, librarians narrow it down to 13 titles and then teens vote on the winning title! They are currently taking nominations! If you go to the teen section, you will find nomination slips on the board. Feel free to take one and then put your vote in the glass jar on the shelf next to it. I will collect and mail the votes. Teens may nominate their favorite reads until January 13th, 2012.

In April, we will put out a vote to see who the overall winner is, so watch for more in the spring! In the meantime, make sure your favorite book that has been published in the last two years is on the list! Who will you be voting for?

For more information, or to vote online visit: http://www.nashualibrary.org/YALS/Flume.htm

Fun Stuff!

A few updates to the Derry teen area and programming

Montooth Challenge: We have cataloged the first two books in the Montooth series by Robert Jay and now you have a chance to enter for an intriguing prize. What's the prize, you ask? Let me tell you! If you read books one and two and then send in an entry form with a plot idea for the third novel, and if your idea is accepted, then you will have your name in A BOOK! Drop by the teen section to take the books out and pick up an entry form!

Teen Book Group: We will be holding our first teen book group meeting on November 10th, from 3:30-5:30. Join us to do projects, talk about books, hang with friends. To join us for this group, register on line at www.derrypl.org and click on the calendar on the left or call the reference desk at 603-432-6140. Please register for this round by October 18th!

SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy: We had our first SAT Essay session this past Saturday. If you are taking the SAT in the upcoming months and want to have some time to practice the essay component as well as learn strategies and tips, please join us for the next sessions on October 15th, November 12th and 26th, from 1:00-3:00. Don't miss a free opportunity to get ahead of the curve!

Watch for pick up projects and more games in the teen area coming soon!

Upcoming Programs:

Anime Club: October 11th, 3:30-4:30
Writers Club: October 12th, 6:30-8:00
SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy: Oct. 15th, November 12th and 26th, 1-3:00
Teen Book Club: November 10th, 3:30-5:30( register by October 18th)

Banned Book Trailer

As you most likely know, this week is banned books week! Please feel free to drop by the library and take a look around the teen section to see what books in this area have been challenged or banned, make an I Read Banned Books, bracelet, necklace or key chain, and read the banned books week proclamation. In addition to this, we will be featuring titles and reviews of banned and challenged books this week on the blog. Today we will take a look at a book trailer of the novel SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Banned Books Week

This week is Banned Books Week. Watch for banned and challenged books in the teen area marked with Caution and Danger tape. The Caution tape indicates that a book has been challenged and the Danger tape indicates if a book has been banned. Please feel free to take these books out! They can cut the tape off at reference or at circulation. In addition to the book displays, we will also have an ongoing activity this week in the Teen Section. Students are welcome to come in, hang out in the teen area (as always) and create "I READ BANNED BOOKS," bracelets, key chains and necklaces with the beading supplies on hand. We will also be featuring book trailers and reviews on banned or challenged books this week on the blog.


Upcoming Events:
Anime Club: Tues, Sept. 27th, 3:30-4:30pm
Teen Writers Group: Wed, Sept. 28th, 6:30-8:00pm
SAT Prep/Essay: Sat. Oct. 1st, 1-3pm

Drop Ins for these programs are welcome!

Pick Up Project: I READ BANNED BOOKS key chains, bracelets etc.

New Teen Section and Upcoming Events!

We are excited to announce the unveiling of the newly remodeled upstairs along with the beautiful new Teen section. I am so excited to be the Teen librarian in this brand new space. Let me tell you a little bit about it.

The upstairs has a gorgeous Robert Frost theme with lots of poetry and paintings lining the walls. If you look to the back left corner after entering the building you will see a birch tree mural on the wall. That is the teen section. Go that way! We have fiction, new releases, graphic novels and short stories in this section. The teen nonfiction and multimedia are still going to be interfiled with the adult materials. But you will be able to identify them with the handy purple dot that is on the spine.

Another new thing to look for is the activities cupboard. This cupboard has materials for beading, storyboards for creating your own anime, graphic novels or comics, writing materials to write. reviews for this blog, card games and more. You'll also find a featured book, something that has a lot of buzz right now. Feel free to take it home and have a read. I will just replace it with another popular one! There are a few games on the bottom shelf and we will be collecting more as time goes on.

Be sure to check out the bulletin board for upcoming programs. I will be posting information about programs here as well!

Things to watch for in the upcoming week!

September 25th marks the beginning of Banned Books Week! Watch for Banned Books Week displays throughout the library as well as beading supplies to make I READ BANNED BOOKS bracelets, necklaces and key chains. Also, I will be sure to place out lots of banned books, so you can go ahead and start reading these bad boys. Granted, you've probably already read some of these...does The Hunger Games sound familiar?

PROGRAMS!!!

Sept. 27th, Anime Club 3:30-4:30
Sept. 28th, Writers Group 6:30-8:00pm
Oct. 1st, SAT Prep/Essay Made Easy 1:00-3:00
To register for these programs, please go to www.derrypl.org, click on the calendar on the left hand side, find the program and click REGISTER. Drop ins are also welcome!

We'll see you in the stacks!