Welcome to our teen blog. This blog will keep you posted on the latest books, movies, music and happenings at the Library. We'll also connect you with games, mind puzzlers and random pieces of information. Enjoy! Make comments! Let us know you're out there!
With bitstrips, a website that allows you to author your own comic strip. Go on and create your own cartoon world that you can share with friends, family, or publish for the public. Check out the site not only to create your own, but to see the hilarious strips created by others. Wired magazine calls it "Awesome!". So visit bitstrips...your strip could be the next Calvin and Hobbes!
On Friday, November 21st, Edward & Bella appear on the big screen.
Stop by the Teen Office by 11/21 to enter your name to win the soundtrack for Twlight.
Because you feel like you aren't needed in the kitchen? Or, you don't like what's in the kitchen? Well with the help of the internet you can add your own special touch on the Thanksgiving table, painlessly. Epicurious and All Recipies are two recipe sites that have cooks rating each recipe and giving their own advice, so you know what you are getting into before you even start grocery shopping. And Reader's Digest has a section just on Thanksgiving appetizers that are quick and easy. So score big points with your family and get what you want this year by making your own contribution. Watch out cranberry sauce, this may be your last year on the table!
Don't despair, the Wilton Library will come to your rescue. We have all kinds of research tools for you to use, either in the library or from home. Click here to go to our reference page and resource links, including databases, general magazine indexes, business and health indexes, newspaper indexes, phone directories, and more. Access to most of these databases requires that you enter the number from your library card (that long number under the barcode).To find out which magazines are available in which databases, check out our periodical title searches. So now you don't even have to get out of bed to research that paper - provided your laptop cord is long enough.
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!
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!
What does that mean? Well, textorize means to create an image just using text. Are you thinking I could never do that? Well the nice people at flickr have read your mind and have software that does it for you. Enter text into the program, and it will use that text to create your image. Impress your friends (parent, pet) with your own text picture of them. How cool!
Poetry in Motion is a teen program at the Wilton Library that gives you the opportunity to showcase your performance art. This year's theme is Life's Challenges. . . . Tell Me About It! and is a two-performance poetry and arts event centered on the theme of the trials and tribulations of teenage life--the ups, the downs, the obstacles to overcome and the moments of joy. wnt to know how to apply or learn more? Hit this link or email Susan Lauricella, teen librarian, to find out!
Well the US government has a website www.students.gov designed for college students and their families. Their mission is to provide you with easy access to information and resources from the U.S. government – all the info you need, in one place, from all parts of the government. Just some of the interesting information includes: volunteer opportunities, applying online for financial aid and scholarships, finding summer internships or jobs, learning about careers that interest you, getting a passport and registering to vote. So with just one click you can get info from the OFFICIAL source! Who knew!