Vote to bring a YA Author to Pawtucket

There's a contest going that you can vote in to bring a YA Librarian to Pawtucket!

http://ya2u.blogspot.com/p/contest-entry-form.html

That's the entry form. Feel free to vote for a second choice city as well (I recommend Providence). Happy voting!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! Have you made your New Year's Resolutions yet? If you haven't, maybe consider to add "read more" to your goals for the year?

Or maybe you're like thousands of others who resolve not to make a resolution!

Anyway, I thought I'd mention some of the programs coming up this month at the library.

Anime Club is January 10th at 6pm. We've been watching a lot of great anime during the past couple of months. This month we'll be watching a live-action adaptation of a very well known anime!

Teen Trivia night is January 16th at 6pm. We'll be playing this Jeopardy style! Come win some prizes and show off all that knowledge you have.

Game Day is January 22 at 2pm. We have a new xbox! Come and check it out or play one of our board games.

Teen Advisory Board's first meeting will be January 29th at 3pm. Want to have a say in what goes on for teens here at the library? This is the place to help us out!

December Book Display

Still looking for a way to get into the Holiday spirit? Or maybe you're sick of the Holidays and you're looking for a good Christmas horror story? Well, I have the answer for you! Take a look at the books on display next to the Reference Desk. Some are naughty and some are nice!

You'll also notice that there is a binder up there filled with all sorts of other reading recommendations. Do you have a book you'd like to recommend to others? You'll want to submit a book review! 

We're on Pinterest!

I love Pinterest for how visual it is. That makes it perfect to put together lists of similar titles. So far I've put together boards for the 2012 Rhode Island Teen Book Award nominees, Strong Female Characters, Dystopias, Urban Fiction, and some other miscellaneous stuff I found over the site. I'll be adding to it regularly.

Click either the big P above, or the Pinterest button to the right. 

Have a book you love? Don't forget that you can submit a review through this website! 

Next Anime Club meeting is December 20th

I hope everyone that came to the first Teen Anime Club meeting had a great time! For those that couldn't make it, we watched 3 different shows: Bleach, Azumanga Diaoh, and Soul Eater. They are three very different shows, but all three were a lot of fun to watch. A lot of anime programs were first a manga series. Here at the library we own quite a number of volumes of Bleach.

The series follows Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper (or, as it's called in Japanese, a Shinigami). He is basically like what we would call the Grim Reaper. His new powers allow him to protect humans from evil spirits as well as guiding souls into the after life. It's a pretty action-packed series. 

Bleach is still ongoing and has 51 volumes in English so far! Here at the library you'll find them shelved with the other manga under the letter "K". 

Sign up for the Teen Advisory Board

Interested in helping your Library become even more awesome? Join the TAB. Fill out this form and I'll let you know when the next meeting is.

I've gone survey crazy!

I've made some changes to this site with the hopes that it will become more collaborative. You may notice a new tab up at the top called "Submit a Review." That's right, I want YOU to tell me and other readers what you think about books, movies/tv, and games. Tell us about the ones you loved and the ones you hate (or love to hate). Your review will be published here and I'll link to it on our Facebook page as well. Do you have other suggestions for either this website, Facebook page, or the actual Teen Zone itself? Click the button to the right that invites you to fill out a survey about what we could do better or differently. Every opinion is valid and I promise to listen to whatever you suggest. And finally, I put up a poll. Right now it asks about what your favorite Thanksgiving dish is. Once we pass Thanksgiving and work our way into December (and creep up to Christmas Vacation!) I'll swap it out with a different question. Want to see a certain question appear as one of the polls? Then fill out the survey I mentioned above! The Library will be closed Thursday November 22 and Friday November 23. Be sure to come in before then to check out books and videos to get you through Thanksgiving!