By now you should be falling into your summer routine – stay up late, get up later, eat, lounge around, shoot some hoops, eat, lounge around, eat some more, hang out with friends, eat, read a hot, fun book til 2 in the morning, and start all over again.
Or maybe you’re one of those teens that has camps, jobs, volunteer gigs, babysitting and a mom or dad that has signed you up for everything they can find to keep you from being in the first category.
In any case, I hope you are enjoying your summer and are looking for something to read. Now’s the time to get in those fun books that you didn’t have time for during the school year because you were reading the Odyssey, or Julius Caesar, or some other heavy-duty book for your English class.
We have lots happening at the Library this summer – get involved in the Summer Reading Program, where you can win gift certificates to The Candy Store on Main, Paradise Hamburgers & Ice Cream, and iTunes. Our grand prize drawing for an iPod Nano will be on August 7th. Check out how to enter the drawings.
Join our brand new Teen Book Club – for teens 6th grade through 12th grade who LOVE TO READ!
The Book Club is reading a goodie this month – The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. It’s one of those page-turners that you just can’t put down. Here are some other popular books to check out this summer:
Graceling - In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Project Sweet Life - When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.
Generation Dead - When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
Absolutely Maybe - When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
The Juvie Three - Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
House of Night series - A vampyre series about Zoey Redbird and her trials and adventures at the House of Night school.
Mortal Instruments series - Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
If you're going to be a couch potato this summer, or if you're making the most of everything you can, don't forget to READ! And don’t forget to participate in the Summer Reading Program or the Teen Book Club!
Stop by any time to say hi and get help finding the perfect book.
