Start the Reading List: Pick up a Teen Reading Log Sheet at the checkout desk to keep track of what you read. Read from a total of 12 different sources. These can include books, magazines, web pages, e-books or videos. You can read any book from the shelf in front of Mary’s desk, or pick your own. If you are planning to participate in the grand prize contest and make your own video, photo, artwork or poem / short story, remember to think about how your book relates to change. For magazines, websites, e-books or videos, choose from the list below. Read 3 of each: 3 books, 3 magazine articles or e-books, 3 websites and watch 3 videos. Or you can just read all books. For everything you read or watch, write a sentence or two about what you liked or didn’t, and why you picked it. Complete the reading list by August 8^th to be eligible to enter a project in the grand prize contest.

 

Grand Prize Project: Create a video, photograph, artwork (can be traditional or digital media) or creative writing and submit it to the library by August 8^th. Submit your work in traditional format (printout, sculpture, painting, etc) or in digital form by saving it to a CD or emailing the file to the librarian: rorlandi@swls.org. If your work is online, email the link. The library can provide you with art supplies, a digital camera (24 hour checkout), or FLIP video camcorder (1 daytime checkout during library hours). Your library account must be in good standing, with no current fines or policy violations. Prizewinners will be selected in August by several local artists from the Art By the Stream Festival committee. Winning entries will be posted to the library website and eligible to participate in Art By the Stream 2009. Please read down for additional information about each kind of project.

E-Books online: You can read up to three books from www.childrenslibrary.org, or http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp that will count as books on your summer reading list. There are books for all ages on this site, and you may read any of them. Ask at the front desk for the e-books worksheet.

 Websites: look through any of these websites until you find something that interests you. Read about it. When you are done, print out one of the pages that you read. Be sure the link to the page is included. On the back, write why you picked it and what you liked it or not. Attach the page to your reading log sheet. You can use up to three websites to count toward your reading log total of 12 sources.

 

http://www.teenreads.com/index.asp An online community for teen readers

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/ Internet Public Library teen space- this site is run by college students at U Michigan for young adults and has loads of interesting links and other information-Explore! You can use this site more than once in your reading list if you find two separate sections you are interested in.

 

http://www.comeeko.com/ Create your own comic strip here! And see what others have done. You can use this site to create artwork for the teen grand prize project!

 

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ For anime and manga fans

 

http://twistori.com or http://www.wefeelfine.org/ experimental site about what people feel. These sites pull what they’re displaying from live messaging sites like twitter.com.

 

http://portalwisconsin.org/ All about arts, music, movies, culture and festivals in Wisconsin

 

http://www.outdoor-photos.com/ Awesome landscape photography- some examples for your project maybe!

 

http://www.bookdivas.com/ Book Divas is the leading online book club for young adult and college readers.

Videos: go to the library YouTube page http://youtube.com/user/BoscoLibrary and open the “Summer Videos” playlist. Any of the videos on this list count as 1 reading source. After you watch you need to write down the title of the video and a brief description of what it was about, if you liked it or not and why. You can view up to three videos to count toward your reading log total of 12 sources. The video “Why I love the Library” was created by students for a library video contest and is included as an example 4 u.