Award Winners

This past January ALA announced the best books in Young Adult Literature.

The Michale L. Printz Award for excellence in YA literature was given to Geraldine McCaughrean for The White Darkness. Check out the other award winners and honors books at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz.cfm

What's New?

*New Titles at the Wadsworth Library*

Slam -Sam is a disarmingly ordinary 15-year-old kid who loves to skate (that's skateboarding, to you and me). But then he is blindsided: his girlfriend gets pregnant, and he lands in the middle of his mum's nightmare (she had Sam when she was 16). Sam, also has a sort-of-imaginary friend: the world's greatest skater, Tony Hawk, whose poster Sam talks to when he has problems. And the poster talks back, maybe, or maybe Sam is just reciting quotes from Tony's autobiography. And is it really Tony who is "whizzing" Sam into the future for glimpses of what is to come?


Princess Mia - A princess on her own . . .

Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Now that Michael has broken things off, Mia can barely get out of bed, and her parents are making her see a therapist. School, where Lilly still refuses to speak to her and Lana suddenly wants to be bff, is a total nightmare. What's a royal to do? Just when things couldn't get worse, Mia uncovers an old family secret, a long-forgotten diary of a teenage princess of Genovia. It could be just the thing to help Mia write her speech—but it might also change the fate of the Renaldos forever.

Safe - To Tracy, safe means having Mama close by. Years after her mother’s death, Tracy still feels her presence. But the moment Tracy is forced into a car as she is walking home from school one day, safe is ripped away. In the aftermath of an unspeakable crime, thirteen-year-old Tracy must fight her way back to safety and find comfort in her mother’s memory once again.


Tamar - It was her taciturn but beloved grandfather, William Hyde, who gave Tamar her strange name. But in 1995, when she was 15, he committed suicide, leaving her to wonder if she knew him at all. Later, when she opens the box of War II memorabilia that he left her, she's struck by the need to find out what it means, who he really was, and where she fits in. Tension mounts incrementally in an intricate wrapping of wartime drama and secrecy, in which Tamar finds her namesake and herself. Forming the backbone of the novel are intense, sometimes brutal events in a small Dutch town in Nazi-occupied Holland and the relationship between the girl's namesake, a member of the Dutch Resistance; Dart, a code operator assigned to help him; and Marijke, the love of his life.

More to come...

Volunteer This Summer

Are you going into grade 7 or above this summer?

Do you like working with kids?

Do you have a few hours a week free to volunteer between July 1st and August 16th?

If you answered "yes" to the above questions stop in at the library and pick up a volunteer form! There will be a one-hour orientation meeting on June 21st at 7:00 p.m. Don't forget to bring your calenders!

Volunteer opportunities include working on the Teen Blog, helping and preparing for craft programs, folding flyers, straightening books, monitoring children at summer reading events, and taking pictures of events throughout the summer.

Teen Survey - Fall 2006

A total of 125 teens participated in our Fall Teen Survey.

• 45% of teens surveyed visit the library more than once a month.
• 61% of teens surveyed come to the library to find a book for fun, 43% come to do research for school and 42% come to check out video's and DVD's

• The top five programs that teens were interested in attending were:
• a DDR Competition
• Jewlrey making classes
  
• Cooking classes
• Red Cross Babysitter's training
• Henna Body Art

• The top three magazines teens wanted added to the collection were:
• Teen People (Which is no longer avaible in print form only online at: www.teenpeople.com)
  
• Cosmo Girl (we are hoping to add soon!)
• Game Pro (we have purchased a subscription for the library!)
• We have also purchased Shonen Jump and Seventeen based on popularity in the teen/YA area.
  

We have recently added over 90 new/popular titles to the YA collection. Come on in and check them out!

Teen Blog Under Construction

Due to hosting complications the Teen Blog will be undergoing major renovations over the next few weeks. Unfortunately, we lost our previous posts so we will be re-posting any current information as soon as we can. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and we hope to be back online ASAP!