Teen Read Week!

Hey Hey! It’s Teen Read Week, and we have a lot going on for teens and tweens!  Drop by the Norco Branch to receive a free book this week and watch “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” (PG) on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.!  Play Monster Stunt Racer 4X4 for Wii at West Regional Library on Thursday at 6:00 p.m.  Tuesday at East Regional Library at 4:00 p.m. join us for “Chatter and Splatter” — paint a canvas while drinking punch and hanging with your friends!  Or, just for tweens, drop by East Regional Library on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. to make an awesome Fibonacci book.  Hahnville Branch will be showing “The Monster Squad” (PG-13) on Thursday at 3:00 p.m.  St. Rose Branch will have an Art Attack on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. and a Game Daze on Friday at 3:00 p.m.

Looking for something new to read? Try one of the Teens’ Top Ten titles!

YALSA Teens’ Top Ten.

Teens’ Top Ten

This week is officially Teen Read Week! Going with the theme “Books With Beat”, here are some good books about music and musicians. 

The winners for Teens’ Top Ten have been announced!  This is a list of books voted on by teens each year.  Just go to the Young Adult Library Service Association’s website to watch WWE’s Eve Torres announce the winners for you.

The Teens’ Top Ten 2010 is: 

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
3. Heist Society by Ally Carter
4. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
5. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
6. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
7. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
8. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
9. Fire by Kristin Cashore
10. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Vote for the Teens’ Top Ten!

Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year!

Vote here!

Voting is open Aug. 23 through Sept. 17, 2010. Winners will be announced in a webcast at www.ala.org/teenstopten during Teen Read Week, Oct. 17-23.

Teens’ Top Ten Winners

Teen Read Week: YALSA Announces 2009 Teens’ Top Ten Winners

The Young Adult Library Services Association has just announced this year’s Teens’ Top Ten. Over 11,000 teens voted online for their favorites from August 24 through September 18. And the winners are …

1. Paper Towns by John Green

2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

4. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins

6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

7. Wake by Lisa McMann (on order)

8. Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast

9. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

10. Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Teen Read Week is all about reading for fun, so take a break from homework by checking out one of these great books. Most of them come as audiobooks so can also listen to them!