Category: Young Adult

Book ReCover Contest

In honor of this year’s Teen Read Week theme “Picture It @ Your Library,” Teen Services is hosting a Book ReCover Contest!

What does this mean? Think of one of your favorite Young Adult books. Did you ever think that you could design a much better cover? Here’s an example:

The Giver by Lois Lowry, Published Copy

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The Giver as interpreted by Lucy Knisley

Guidelines:

* Artist must be a resident of the Cold Spring Harbor Library district

* Open to artists in the sixth through twelfth grades

* Only one entry per participant

* All artwork must have been created between now and October 31, 2011

*Winners will be notified by November 7, 2011

* Winning ReCovers will be displayed in the Teen Services area of the Library.

What type of artwork are we looking for?

* Original artwork that you have created yourself

* The ReCover must be a book cover that you designed yourself, for an already-published Young Adult novel

* Artwork must measure 8×11 inches

* Artwork can be created with PhotoShop, mixed media, collage, watercolour, pencil, charcoal.

* Artwork will be accepted at the Youth Services desk and via email, cshrya [at] suffolk [dot] lib [dot] ny [dot] us until October 31, 2011.

* The Title and Author of the published work MUST be on your ReCover!

Halloween Reads for Teens

Looking for something spooky to read this October? Check out both our Creepy Reads display in the Young Adult area, ask Miss Kate whatever she’s reading (trust us, the creepier the book, the happier she is), or … check out any of the books listed below.

The Summoning (Darkest Powers Trilogy) – Kelley Armstrong

Chime – Franny Billingsley

White Cat (Curse Workers) – Holly Black

Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendra Blake

Beastly – Alex Flinn

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Tighter – Adele Griffin

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin

Devilish – Maureen Johnson

Blood and Chocolate – Annette Curtis Klause

The Betrayal of Maggie Blair – Elizabeth Laird

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer – Lish McBride

The Wager – Donna Jo Napoli

Firespell (Dark Elite) – Chloe Neill

Rampant – Diana Peterfreund

Die for Me – Amy Plum

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

Vampire Crush – A.M. Robinson

We Hear the Dead – Dianne Salerni

Cirque du Freak – Darren Shan

Misfit – Jon Skovron

Peeps – Scott Westerfeld

Blood – K.J. Wignall

The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff

Banned Books Week

Celebrate Banned Books Week!

September 24 – October 1

Celebrate Banned Books Week!

September 24 – October 1


Books challenged or banned in 2010-2011.

 

 



Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane

Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Push by Sapphire

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives by Paul Shaffer



Babysitting Class, 9/17

The Library is hosting a Babysitting Skills Workshop on Saturday, September 17 from 1-4 pm.

This course is designed to help teens develop the skills necessary for the responsibility of being a sitter – child safety, developmental stages of children and how to plan activities that are age-appropriate. Hands-on activities and course certification are included.

If you have never babysat before, and are planning to, it’s a really good way to prepare yourself. Additionally, if you’re thinking of being a camp counselor during the summer months, this will look very good on your job application.

You can sign up here.

007, Watch Out: Spies and Spying

Ever thought of being a secret agent? A spy? The next James Bond?

Here are some awesome stories, some true, some … possibly untrue, of spies.

Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick. The best way to describe this … is a cross between Ferris Bueller’s Day Off … and the Girl With a Dragon Tattoo. Perry just wants to play with his band, but when his mom forces him to take the Lithuanian-exchange student, Gobi, to the prom … he winds up in way more trouble than he ever thought possible.

Can I See Your I.D.?: true stories of false identities by Chris Barton. These quick and easy sketches give the somewhat true story of each impostor. The writer puts you in the imposter’s seat, and you can see what each person did in order to hide their true identity.

The Gallagher Girl Series by Ally Carter. Cammie Morgan is not only a girl genius, but she and her BFFs go to an elite boarding school … for future spies. Read these in order so you fully know what’s going on.