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Summer Library Program

Teen Read '08is sponsored jointly by the South Central Library System and participating member libraries. The goal is to give teen readers the opportunity to share their impressions of 16 selected books with peers throughout the seven-county area served by SCLS. The centerpiece of the program is a blog that provides a forum for teens to discuss contemporary books. The blog is moderated by teen services librarians who have read all the discussion titles and enjoy talking and blogging about great books.

Teen Read ‘08 provides a safe forum for teens to discuss these contemporary books because it is moderated by SCLS member librarians who review all messages before they are posted to the site. This is the primary difference between a blog and a chat format, which occurs in real time with no delay in the posting of messages from participants.

E-mail addresses, names and personal information are never exchanged. A librarian even approves all registrations before participants are allowed to post or reply to messages. Blog participants will be unsubscribed from the blog if any of the rules are broken.

Materials available for the program will include a sample press release (Microsoft Word), a poster, bookmarks, and fliers with descriptions and without descriptions. SCLS will print any of these PDF files for you free of charge. Just let us know how many you need.

Selected Books

(for descriptions of each, visit the Teen Read '08 website)

• “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie
  
  
• “A Crooked Kind of Perfect”
  
  
• “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”
  
  
• “Epic” by Conor Kostik
  
  
• “Gregor the Overlander”
  
  
• “His Dark Materials” trilogy
  
  
• “Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac”
  
  
• “Miss Spitfire”
  
  
• “Silenced”
  
  
• “Story of a Girl”
  
  
• “Thirteen Reasons Why”
  
  
• “Twisted”
  
  
• “Unwind”
  
  
• “Uprising”
  
  
• “Wintersmith”
  
  
• “Twilight”

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