Chicopee Public Library Teen Space

Teens’ Top Ten “where teens voice their choice for their favorite books” is sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association.  Teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Books are nominated by  members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year from the end of August to Mid-September. Voting opens on August 22 this year at www.ala.org/teenstopten The winners are announced during Teen Read Week in October.

The list of nominations can be found here, with links to their availability here at the Chicopee Public Library.  In the young adult section, you’ll see bookmarks with instructions for voting and the full list of nominations  sticking out of our copies of the nominated books.  These same bookmarks are also available near the circulation desk.

This year’s nominees include:

click a book cover above to check the book’s  availability in the library catalog.

Summer Reading is coming up in June.  This year’s theme is “You Are Here.” If you start in Massachusetts, you can travel anywhere in books. The Massachusetts winner of the You Are Here Teen Video Challenge was just announced.  Remi Lamothe of Palmer won $250, and $100 for his library for this video promoting summer reading:

And here’s another video made by Pembroke, MA resident Zach Johnston.

Next year’s summer reading video challenge will begin in the fall.  Will you make a winning video for 2012?

Happy Monday, Everyone! Here are four interesting things you want to know about:

To kick off National Library Week a bunch of local librarians had a flash freeze mob at the Holyoke Mall on Sunday.  75 people froze in place reading a book, leaving mall goers to wonder, “What are they doing?” Check out this video:

Spring break is right around the corner. On Wednesday April 20 at 1:00, professional artist, Andy Fish, will be here giving a presentation on manga art and a drawing lesson.  If you like manga, if you like drawing, or if you just want to do something different with your Wednesday, you should definitely check this out. Learn more about Andy here: http://www.hebsandfish.com/Andy.html

Figment.com continues their celebration of School Library Month, with another contest.
This week’s writing prompt is: Romance happens in unusual places. Write a story or poem in fewer than 750 words (short and sweet!) about two people who meet in an unusual or downright bizarre location.
This week’s judge is Alyson Noel, author of the Immortals series (Evermore, Blue Moon, etc.)For more info and to enter this contest, go here: http://blog.figment.com/category/contests/

Last, but not least, Young Adult authors Cassandra Clare and Holly Black will be speaking and signing books at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley on Friday April 22 at 7 pm. Each has just released a new book, City of Fallen Angels, and Red Glove, respectively. If you’ve read anything by either of these fantastic authors, you should come to this event. I’m planning to go!

April is National Poetry Month!

To celebrate, we’re having two poetry programs for teens:

Newspaper Blackout Poems
inspired by the work of Austin Kleon
Wednesday April 13 @ 3:00
Check out Austin Kleon’s website to get inspired!
http://www.austinkleon.com/blog/

Book Spine Poetry
Wednesday April 27 @ 3:00
Check out this gallery of book spine poems by 100 Scope Notes:
http://100scopenotes.com/2011/04/01/2011-book-spine-poem-gallery/

Here’s a book spine poem I made.

In addition to these two programs, I will be linking poems and other poetry related things all month here on the website and on our Facebook Page.  If you love poetry, stop by and say so, or friend the Facebook page and post on the wall!

Poetically Yours,
Teen Librarian, Erin Daly

Wednesday March 30 @ 3:00

Come watch this laugh-out-loud funny special effects spectacle from last summer.  Jay Baruchel plays Dave,  a geeky guy who loves science and never gave much thought to magic.  Nicholas Cage plays Balthazar a hundreds of years old sorcerer who shows up to train Dave as his apprentice.  This movie has action, humor, explosions, old man shoes, Tesla coils, and even a little romance.

Balthazar: “This is the Merlin Circle. It focuses your energy. Helps you master new spells. It is where you will learn the Art. Step inside, you leave everything else behind. Once you enter, there is no going back. ”
Dave: “So I should probably pee first?”

Check out a trailer on The Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi780142105/