Summer’s finally here, but school still has a grip on you because of summer reading.  This year, the library is easing your pain by offering you a chance to win some great prizes just by doing your summer reading! Here’s how it works:
1. Come to the Teen Library and fill out a passport. Each week, [...]

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Of course !  You know it is your secret dream.  But…how to go about actually getting a book published?  Not to mention writing it.  Well one secret to writing a book that no one talks about (probably to scare off talented young authors like yourself) is that you don’t actually have to write the entire book before [...]

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Yes, sad but true.  Every year books are “challenged”, meaning someone attempts to ban them, or sometimes actually does.  Check out this map that Google has compiled of where across the country this has happened.  Maybe they have not read our Bill of Rights?  But the American Library Association is fighting back by celebrating their “Banned [...]

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Well of course you are. You wouldn’t want to be left in the dust!  Searching on Amazon under “teen” can give you their bestsellers, but some other sites are YALSA and assorted blogs, like teenreads and teen book review. So don’t just wait until a pile of books to fall on you, go out and find [...]

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Wait, you don’t know what YALSA is? Well that’s the Young Adult Library Services Association and they have published their (excuse me, your) Teen Top Ten list for 2008. Over 8,000 teens voted for this year’s winners!
YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten:
1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
4. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
5. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
6. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
7. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
8. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
9. Before I Die by Jenny Downham
10. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

About the Teens’ Top Ten:
Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and
choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are
members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries
around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National
Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite
titles each year during Teen Read Week. Readers aged twelve to
eighteen can vote right here, online, anytime that week. Be sure to keep checking the dates for next year so you too can vote for your favorites!

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If you think this doesn’t happen in the US, think again. Every year libraries and booksellers are challenged to remove titles they make available to the public. Join the WLA in reminding Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom of choice for granted by celebrating Banned Books Week, an annual ALA event. Observed since 1982 this year marks BBW’s 27th anniversary. Find out more about what others don’t want you to read, and to support the American Library Association by going to their website. Read a banned book during September 27th through October 4th, or anytime, to show that you won’t let your freedom be challenged!

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The new Teen Nutmeg Nominees are here! Come check them out and let us know your favorite. I already know mine…

* Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

* Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

* The Schwa Was Here by Neale Shusterman

* Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

* Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos

* Al Capone Does My Shirts by Jennifer Choldenko

* Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer

* Heat by Mike Lupica

* Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

* Day of Tears by Julius Lester

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Did you know the most poisonous animal is not a snake or a spider, it’s a beautiful little frog! Here’s a link to some real stunners. Here’s another to some outrageous looking moths, including the Deaths Head Moth, who really fits into this upcoming Halloween season don’t you think? Anyone in the mood for Silence of the Lambs?

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That just next door in Ridgefield, CT, the school board in 1972 banned this book, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko from the high school reading list, claiming it “downgrades police departments.” I haven’t checked to see if they are carrying it now, but I can tell you that we are if you want to come check it out and celebrate Banned Books Week here at the Wilton Library.

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This summer we’re looking for teens to contribute to our blog. We’re hoping for editorial reviews of the books you are currently reading – new releases, popular or classics. We want it all!



Use your own opinions for the reviews – just like on Amazon.com – so we know what YOU really think! For each review we publish, you can select a $5.00 gift certificate to a local ice cream, pizza or coffee shop. At the end of the summer we’ll award a larger prize to the person with the most published reviews. We haven’t yet decided what the prize will be, but we promise you’ll like it!

So write your review right here, right now.

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