Cast your 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! Nominators are 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. Readers ages twelve to eighteen can vote at www.ala.org/teenstopten anytime between Aug. 24 and Sept. 18; the winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week.

Note: You can't vote yet, but you can check out the list of nominations.

September programs

Summer's almost over, but we are still planning teen programs for you! Patterson will have a different fun activity every Thursday in September at 4 p.m. Groves is starting a new book club called BLTs--that stands for Book Lovin' Teens--which will meet on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. Come to the kickoff party on Thursday, September 10 at 4:30.

Sponsors

We just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the sponsors of the 2009 Teen Summer Reading Program.

Friends of the Library (be sure to check out their sale in November)
Taco Villa
Rosa's Cafe
Freebirds
Jimmy John's
Keva Juice
Sonic
Main Event
Movies 16
50th Street Caboose

Prize Winners

Here are a list of the prize winners for the Main Event Extravaganza:

Staples gift card:
Sernia W.
Elyssa O.
Caleb D.

Game Stop gift card:
Zack S.
Mackenzie O.
Austin A.

Main Event gift card:
Zack W.
Matthew M.
Alexandra H.

Barnes & Noble gift card
Mariah C.
Victoria C.
Brenna S.

Mall Money
Mykala G.
Jakefee F.
Nathan K.

IPOD shuffle
Joseph W.
Elisabeth B.
Zipporah-Jo W.

Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you all so much for participating in our Teen Summer Reading Program. Good luck in school.

Main Event Extravaganza

Thursday, August 13 will be our last Teen Extravaganza. If you have not turned in your third game card, be sure to do that by noon on Wednesday (8/12) in order to receive a pass to Main Event. For those who have received a pass to Main Event, we will meet at the tables near the bowling lanes. We are going to start bowling at 11 a.m. After we bowl for an hour, we will eat pizza and follow that up with games (each teen will receive a $10 game card). You will want to bring additional money if you are going to play laser tag, golf, or play additional games. We will also have our last prize drawing for main event gift cards, mall money, and more. See you then.

Family Fun Day!!

Join us at the Patterson Branch library tomorrow (August 11) for Family Fun Day!!!! Everyone is welcome to attend their end of summer bash. There will be a project from Home Depot starting at 5:30 p.m. Bounce obstacle courses, food, and games will start at 6 p.m. Call 767-3300 for more information.

Video Game Vortex: The Return

Join us for video games and refreshments Tuesday, August 11. We will meet in the Mahon Community Room from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. There will also be board games but feel free to bring any PS2 or Wii games from home to share with your friends.

Thursday programs

Create friendship bracelets at Patterson at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Groves has the mysterious-sounding "Dino-licious" program, also at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Movie this afternoon at Mahon

Maybe "Spiderwick Chronicles," maybe "Kung Fu Panda." Starts at 2 p.m.