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Teen Reading Buddies Needed
We are now accepting applications for Teen Reading Buddies, which is a great way to share your love of reading with a young kid while earning community service hours for high school. Teen Reading Buddies meet once a week with their Little Buddy to read aloud together, play games, and make reading fun! Here are the details:
Dates: February 22nd – April 26th
Days/Times: Either Wednesday or Thursday from 4:00 – 5:00pm (you can specify which day works best for you)
Ages: Must be 14 -18 years old for this volunteer opportunity
To Participate, you can download the Teen Application, fill it out, and drop it off in the Aloha Teen Tower or the Children’s area at the Philip S. Miller Library. We will not be able to accept applications after February 17th. If you have any further questions, please email Cliff Davidson or Kathleen DiLeo. You can also give either of us a call at 303-791-7323.
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App, Book, & Music of the Week
This week’s app is Flixster. It’s a great way to see what movies are playing and watch trailers. If you have the app and are a member you can rate movies, see what your friends are saying about the movie, and check out the Rotten Tomatoes. We love it. It works for Apple and Android devices.
We just read Bumped by Megan McCafferty it was a little weird but in a good way. Here is the scoop: In 2036 New Jersey, when teens are expected to become fanatically religious wives and mothers or high-priced Surrogettes for couples made infertile by a widespread virus, sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony find in one another the courage to believe they have choices. Click here to put the book on hold with you DCL library card.
The song that we love, love, love is The Kids From Yesterday from Danger Days by My Chemical Romance. It’s the last single they are releasing from the CD and it’s the last video. We wish they would make a video for every song on the CD, but you can’t always get what you want. Click here to watch the video.
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High School Book Club
This month we are reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Stop by the Aloha Teen Tower to sign up for the book club and pick up a members only copy of the book. We will meet on Thursday February 6th at the Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock to talk about the book. (Must be in 9th-12th grade to join).
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2011 Teen Photo Contest Winners
The winners for our 2011 Teen Photo Contest were announced tonight at our Award reception in the Aloha Teen Tower. A special thanks goes out to one of our amazing judges, Justin Balog of Hossedia.com, who was in attendance to provide a professional perspective and some great positive feedback on all of the photos. We are always impressed with the level of talent represented in our annual Teen Photo Contest, and this year continued that tradition. Here are the winners of the Honorable Mention, the Popular Vote, and the top Three prizes:
Honorable Mention – Josh Kumpf
#23
Honorable Mention – Colette Worcester
#4
Honorable Mention – Kammer Strachan
#7
Popular Vote Winner - Aspen Haggan
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Third Place – Samantha Haverly
#21
Second Place – Gabriela Rodriguez
#14
First Place – Elisha Knight
#24
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Want A Job This Summer?
Want a job this summer? Then come learn great interview skills and strategies to last a lifetime.
Arapahoe/Douglas Youth in the Works! is offering a few FREE work readiness workshops.
The Workshops Are:
How to get a job!
April 19 3:30 p.m.
May 18 3:30 p.m. (Time correction.)
How to keep a job!
April 26 3:30 p.m.
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New Books – 4th Week of Nov.
Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings by Helene BoudreauFourteen-year-old Jade feels like a freak of nature when she finally gets her first period in the mall. But freak takes on a whole new meaning when hormones bring on another metamorphosis, complete with scales and a tail. When Jade learns she’s inherited her mermaid tendencies from her late mother, it raises the question: if Mom was a mermaid, how did she drown?
Fantasy / Mystery
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Trance by Linda GerberEach time something bad is going to happen, Ashlyn Greenfield knows what’s to come–a trance. She’s pulled in, an unwilling witness to a horrible upcoming event. As her trances escalate, it’s up to her to save Jake from near-certain death.
Fantasy
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Arizona by Eden MaguireDarina, a teenager with the ability to see the dead, helps Arizona, who drowned in an apparent suicide, find peace before her time is up.
Fantasy
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When I Was Joe by Keren DavidAfter Ty witnesses a murder and helps the police identify the culprits, he’s forced to live in a witness protection program with his mother. Over the coming months Ty becomes Joe, takes on a new look, and starts at a new school. But danger is never far away.
Realistic Fiction
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Wish by Joseph MonningerWhile trying to help her eleven-year-old brother who suffers from cystic fibrosis get his greatest wish, fifteen-year-old Bee discovers that she has some special wishes of her own.
Realistic Fiction
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Fixing Delilah Hannaford by Sarah OcklerDelilah Hannaford comes to realize that even the most shattered relationships can be pieced back together again.
Realistic Fiction
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Blank Confession by Pete HautmanA new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
Realistic Fiction
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Her and Me and You by Lauren StrasnickStruggling with family problems but determined to make new friends after moving and missing Evie her best friend since childhood, Alex is attracted to Fred and he to her despite the jealous meddling of Fred’s twin sister Adina.
Realistic Fiction
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War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World’s Worst War Zones by David AxeThe war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan’s mountains. Long patrols on the sandy wastes of southern Iraq.
Graphic Novel
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Mindblind by Jennifer Rozines RoyFourteen-year-old Nathaniel Clark, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, tries to prove that he is a genius by writing songs for his rock band, so that he can become a member of the prestigious Aldus Institute, the premier organization for the profoundly gifted.
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New Books – 3rd Week of Nov.
Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love by Chris Roberson“Fabletown’s top agent must stop illegal trafficking in supernatural artifacts. But can Cindy foil the dark plot before Fabletown is exposed to the mundy world?”
Fantasy Graphic Novel
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Crazy by Han NolanFifteen-year-old Jason has fallen upon bad times. His mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance
Realistic Fiction
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The House of Dead Maids by Clare DunkleEleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.
Fantasy
My Ultimate Sister Disaster by Jane MendleFourteen-year-old Franny barely copes with high school, having a crush on the school newspaper’s editor, and practically being parentless, and then her sister, a promising ballerina, breaks her leg and complicates everything.
Realistic Fiction
Shutout by Brendan HalpinFourteen-year-old Amanda and her best friend Lena start high school looking forward to playing on the varsity soccer team, but when Lena makes varsity and Amanda only makes junior varsity, their long friendship rapidly changes.
Realistic Fiction
Two the Hard Way by Travis HunterWith an authentic voice that reflects the reality of urban life, Hunter provides a compelling, vividly realistic look into life in the housing projects as seen through the eyes of two brothers trying to get by.
Realistic Fiction
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Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by Greg NeriA graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, an 11-year-old gang member from Chicago’s Southside who was killed by his own gang members.
Realistic Fiction / Graphic Novel
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New Books – 2nd Week of Nov.
Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn by Christopher Pike.When 5,000-year-old vampire Alisa discovers Teri, a long-lost descendant of her human family, all she wants is to get closer to her. But Alisa discovers an undeniable connection with Matt–Teri’s boyfriend.
Horror
The Miracle Stealer by Neil Connelly.In small-town Pennsylvania, nineteen-year-old Andi Grant will do anything to protect her six-year-old brother Daniel from those who believe he has a God-given gift as a healer–including their own mother.
Realistic Fiction
The Fledgling Handbook 101 by P.C. CastThis indispensable handbook will aid readers in their transition from human to fledgling as they journey through the ancient halls of the House of Night. Within these pages readers will find invaluable information about the history of vampyres.
Horror
The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon by Sara BeitiaWhen seventeen-year-old Albert Morales’s girlfriend Lily goes missing and he is the main suspect in her disappearance, he must deflect the worries of his angry parents, the suspicions of the police, and Lily’s dangerous stepfather as Albert desperately tries to find her, with her sister as his only ally.
Mystery
Tyger, Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book by K.R. HamiltonSoon after the mysterious and alluring Finn arrives at her family’s home, sixteen-year-old Teagan Wylltson and her disabled brother are drawn into the battle Finn’s family has fought since the thirteenth century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered the goblin king.
Fantasy
Jumpstart the World by Catherine HydeSixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down
Realistic Fiction
Dark Water by Laura McNealFifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live California, where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn’t pay much attention to them–until Amiel.
Realistic Fiction
The Other Side of Dark by Sarah SmithSince losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders.
Horror
The Second Base ClubSixteen-year-old Elroy will do almost anything, from joining the wrestling team to forming a band, in order to get a girlfriend, until he finally realizes the truth of a girl friend’s words about being himself.
Realistic Fiction
The MockingbirdsWhen Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds.
Realistic Fiction
A Girl, A Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills by Lizabeth ZindelWhen the ghost of Holly’s mother claims she was murdered by Holly’s aunt, Claudia, Holly must decide how far she will go to get revenge.
Mystery
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November Teen Book Club
Join the Teen Book Club at the Philip S. Miller Library on November 6th at 1pm. We will have snacks, play games, and discuss The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. We will also be handing out the next Book Club Book SilverFin by Charlie Higson. Sign up in the Teen Tower to get a members only copy of the book.
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New Books – 4th Week of Oct
Prompted by her love for the seemingly-doomed Sebastian, sixteen-year-old Evie Johnson returns for another term at the strangely sinister Wyldcliffe Abbey School where she and two close friends try to develop and combine their newly-discovered powers to save Sebastian and themselves from the encroaching forces of evil.
Fantasy
Book of love: Knight Angels #1 by Abra Ebner When seventeen-year-old Jane Taylor witnessed her father’s death, something happened to her. Ever since, her thoughts have been consumed by death, going so far as to foresee the ever-changing deaths of those around her.
Fantasy
Draw the Dark by Ilsa J. BickSeventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter’s last surviving Jew.
Horror
Enchanted Ivy by Sarah Durst
To achieve her dream of attending Princeton University, sixteen-year-old Lily Carter accepts the challenge of seeking the Ivy Key to a magical realm, where she finds herself caught in a power struggle between two worlds, with her family at its center.
Fantasy
Freefall by Mindi ScottA bass guitar player in a teen rock band deals with alcoholism, his best friend’s death, and first love.
Realistic Fiction
Karma Bites by Stacy KramerUsing the power of a magic recipe box belonging to her hippie grandmother straightens out some of the problems in twelve-year-old Franny Flanders’ life.
Fantasy
The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball by Risa GreenWhen Erin Channing’s favorite aunt dies, she inherits a pink crystal ball and a set of weird instructions. Soon Erin and her friends are convinced that the crystal ball holds the key to their future, or at least the key to getting dates.
Fantasy
Violence 101 by Denis WrightIn a New Zealand reformatory, Hamish Graham, an extremely intelligent fourteen-year-old who believes in the compulsory study of violence, learns that it is not always the answer.
Realistic Fiction
You Wish by Amanda HubbardKayla McHenry’s life is transformed when a wish on her sixteenth birthday comes true–along with all of her previous birthday wishes, beginning with the appearance of a pink pony.
Fantasy
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