Teen Volunteering at the Library

1. Teen Advisory Group
We have two great volunteer opportunities for teens. The first is the Teen Advisory Group where you plan and run a program at the library. If you would like to apply for the Teen Advisory Group, fill out this form and return it to the library:
TAG Application

The lists of the Red Maple and White Pine nominees for 2010 are now available! You can find them at the forest of reading site here: Forest of Reading

You can also check our catalogue to see which titles are available:

Red Maple Nominees

White Pine Nominees

Enjoy!

Well, hopefully this is the news you have all been waiting for. Our "Why do You love the Library" contest has finished, and all the contest entries have been judged. And so, without further ado, we would like to announce our winners!


In first place Axel and crew with their look at all the things they love about the library:

To them, goes the first place prize of $100 gift certificate to the Pickering Town Center.

In second place, we have Sarah and Keara's montage of all the things they like:

The girls will share the second place prize of copies of each of the Twilight books!

Congratulations to the winners! And thank you to everyone who submitted entries to the contest!

TORONTO, ON – Today at Harbourfront, a crowd of more than 3,000 readers aged 5 – 18 cheered for their favourite authors and illustrators at the Ontario Library Association (OLA) Forest of Reading®, Festival of Trees award event.

And the winners are ….

The Red Maple Fiction Award:
Out of the Cold by Norah McClintock
The Red Maple Non-Fiction Award:
Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of the Ten Sovereigns by Elizabeth MacLeod
The White Pine Award:
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Click on the titles below to read the stories that won the Library's Short Story Contest! The files are in PDF format.

Grade 7 to 8
by Leah

Grade 9 to 12
The Future King by Brianne

Taken from: Teen Services Librarians, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17909771584

The following list of books teens love, books teens should read, and books adults who serve teens should know about was compiled IN ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC MANNER and should be taken with a very large grain of salt.

Instructions:
Put an "X" next to the books you've read
Put a "+" next to the books you LOVE
Put a "*" next to the books you plan on reading
Tally your "X"s at the bottom
Share with your friends!

1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams X
2. Kit's Wilderness / David Almond
3. Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian / Sherman Alexie
4. Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Feed / M.T. Anderson
6. Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews
7. 13 Reasons Why / Jay Asher
8. Am I Blue? / Marion Dane Bauer (editor)
9. Audrey Wait! / Robin Benway
10. Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block X
11. Tangerine / Edward Bloor X
12. Forever / Judy Blume X
13. What I Saw and How I Lied / Judy Blundell
14. Tyrell / Coe Booth
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares X
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty / Libba Bray *
17. The Princess Diaries / Meg Cabot *
18. The Stranger / Albert Camus
19. Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card X
20. Postcards from No Man's Land / Aidan Chambers
21. Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky *
22. And Then There Were None / Agatha Christie
23. Gingerbread / Rachel Cohn
24. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist / Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
25. Artemis Fowl (series) / Eoin Colfer *
26. The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins
27. The Midwife's Apprentice / Karen Cushman X
28. The Truth About Forever / Sarah Dessen X
29. Little Brother / Cory Doctorow
30. A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly
31. Tears of a Tiger / Sharon Draper
32. The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer
33. Breathing Underwater / Alex Flinn
34. Stardust / Neil Gaiman *
35. Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden *
36. What Happened to Cass McBride / Gail Giles
37. Fat Kid Rules the World / K.L. Going
38. Lord of the Flies / William Golding X
39. Looking for Alaska / John Green
40. Bronx Masquerade / Nikki Grimes
41. Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
42. Hoot / Carl Hiaasen *
43. The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton X+
44. Crank / Ellen Hopkins
45 The First Part Last / Angela Johnson
46. Blood and Chocolate / Annette Curtis Klause
47. Arrow's Flight / Mercedes Lackey
48. Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson
49. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee X
50. Boy Meets Boy / David Levithan *
51. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks / E. Lockhart
52. The Giver / Lois Lowry X
53. Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
54. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie / David Lubar
55. Inexcusable / Chris Lynch
56. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things / Carolyn Mackler *
57. Dragonsong / Anne McCaffrey X++++
58. White Darkness / Geraldine McCaughrean
59. Sold / Patricia McCormick
60. Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta
61. Wicked Lovely / Melissa Marr
62. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer *
63. Dairy Queen / Catherine Murdock
64. Fallen Angels / Walter Dean Myers
65. Monster / Walter Dean Myers
66. Step From Heaven / An Na X
67. Mama Day / Gloria Naylor
68. The Keys to the Kingdom (series) / Garth Nix *
69. Sabriel / Garth Nix *
70. Airborn / Kenneth Oppel
71. Eragon / Christopher Paolin *
72. Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
73. Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer
74. The Golden Compass / Phillip Pullman *
75. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging / Louise Rennison X
76. The Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan *
77. Always Running: La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez
78. how i live now / Meg Rosoff
79. Harry Potter (series) / J.K. Rowling X
80. Holes / Louis Sachar *
81. Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger
82. Push / Sapphire
83. Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi *
84. Unwind / Neil Shusterman
85. Coldest Winter Ever / Sister Souljah
86. Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli X
87. Chanda's Secrets / Allan Stratton
88. Tale of One Bad Rat / Brian Talbot
89. Rats Saw God / Rob Thomas
90. Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien X
91. Stuck in Neutral / Terry Trueman
92. Gossip Girl / Cecily Von Ziegesar X
93. Uglies / Scott Westerfeld *
94. Every Time a Rainbow Dies / Rita Williams-Garcia
95. Pedro and Me / Judd Winick
96. Hard Love / Ellen Wittlinger
97. American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang X
98. Elsewhere / Gabrielle Zevin
99. I am the Messenger / Markus Zusak
100. The Book Thief / Markus Zusak

Twilight Spoof done by Cartoon bunnies. Click Here:
Twilight

Congratulations to Mary who won the ipod contest. We also extend a Happy Birthday to her as she got the call that she was the winner on her 16th birthday.
The ipod contest was a part of our ePLUS program. In 2007 we received grant money to visit schools and education students on how to use our electronic products. We included an entry form for an ipod nano at the bottom or our evaluation forms and received over 500 entries! So again, congratulations to our lucky winner.

I am fresh from the 11 hour hip-hop concert Rock the Bells. This concert brings together some of the best names in hip-hop to put together an unforgettable show. I feel like I have truly lived now that I have seen A Tribe Called Quest perform live. We have many cds of artists featured in the show which will de la your soul.

NAS
Illmatic
Hip-Hop is Dead

Featuring De La Soul
Life is Good

Mos Def
True Magic
The New Danger
Mind Control

Method Man
4:21: The Day After
Tical O: The Prequel

Murs
Murray's Revenge

The Teen Summer Reading club begins Saturday, June 21! The theme this year is environmentalism so the program is called: Turn Over a New Leaf@Your Library. You can go to any Pickering Library to register and then read! If you want a great environmental book to read, check out these titles:

California Blue by David Klass
John Rodgers, has to face three troubling facts. First, his father has been diagnosed with leukemia. Second, John has discovered a new species of butterfly and wants to preserve it but is up against the opposition of his entire town, including his parents. And finally, John has fallen in love with his high school biology teacher, who does not entirely rebuff his attentions.

Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
Nyle Sumner, 13, and her grandmother are completely surrounded by the grotesque results of an accident at a nuclear-power plant. Because of the accident, Nyle's cousin Bethany has radiation poisoning. Then Gran does the unthinkable: she takes in two fugitives who were exposed to the worst of the radiation, Miriam Trent and her son, Ezra.

Z for Zacariah by Robert O’ Brian
Ann Burden is sixteen years old and the sole survivor of a nuclear war. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire is shows that someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Adams has recorded the adventures of the most endangered animals in the world like the komodo dragon, northern white rhinoceros and the rodrigues fruit bat. He moves rapidly from informal, laugh-out-loud descriptions of his travels to serious pleas for awareness and conservation of all animals.

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos.

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The government’s Wildlife service believes that wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the assigns naturalist Farely Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study them. Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young.

Dead Water Zone by Kenneth Oppel
16-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it.

The Golden Aquarians by Monica Hughes
Walt Elliot goes with the father he hasn't seen for years to the planet Aqua, where he discovers that his father's project threatens the existence of a highly intelligent native species.

River Rats by Caroline Stevermer
Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.

Eva by Peter Dickinson
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

Spud Sweetgrass by Brian Doyle
Torn between his mother's continuing grief over his late father and his own happiness about a new romance, Spud Sweetgrass becomes involved in a group endeavor to expose the person who is polluting the Ottawa River.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
Nausica, a young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant insects that evolved as a result of the ecosystem's destruction. Growing up in the Valley of the Wind, she learned to read the soul of the wind and navigates the skies in her glider. Nausica and her allies struggle to create peace between kingdoms torn apart by war, battling over the last of the world's natural resources.

The Beasties
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.

Memory Boy by Will Weaver
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.