Summer 2011 Issue Kaiel Grimes, editor

5577 Whittaker Road 482-4110 x 1340

Bookmobile 482-4110 x 1359

229 W. Michigan Ave 482-3110 x 1390

8975 MacArthur Blvd. 482-4110 x 1391

Summer Reading!! Pick up a Teen Summer Reading bingo card at any YDL youth reference desk. Complete five tasks to earn a bingo and you will be entered into a drawing to win gift certificates from local businesses and other cool prizes!

Entries are due August 20.

Read a book, an author’s blog, manga or poetry. Watch a movie, attend a library event or write a short book review to be published in the next Teen Speak issue. If you haven’t already, you can like the Ypsilanti District Library Teens on Facebook to complete your bingo! Everyone who completes a bingo wins a free book. Finish early for the best picks—graphic novels, paranormal romances, adventures and more!

Get your green on!

Community Records Hip Hop Workshop Saturdays starting June 18, 12:00-1:30, Mich Ave Write music, record a CD, perform at the Crossroads Music Festival!

Crossroads Festival Library Plaza Teen Stage Friday, August 12, 6 pm. Teen poets, artists, musicians welcome! Call 482-4110 x1390 for information about participation!

www.ypsilibrary.org

Create, Learn, Grow:…

more teen summer programs @ YDL

Summer Happenings

June 13

Warhammer painting

Teen Flix Scott Pilgrim

June 20

Gaming: board games, wii and PS2

June 27

Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic card games

Anime and kumihimo

July 11

Yu Gi Oh! and Magic card games

War hammer painting

July 18

Anime Marathon

July 25

Gaming: board games, wii and PS2

August 1

Yu Gi Oh! and Magic card games

Martial Arts Movie (TBA)

August 8

Gaming: board games, wii and PS2

August 15

Warhammer painting

Teen Flix Spiderman III

August 22

End of Summer Yu Gi Oh! And

Magic tournament night with

prizes!

August 29

End of Summer Party with anime

Teen Advisory Groups (TAG)

Mich Ave, first Wednesday of every month, 6 pm

Whit Rd, third Wednesday of every month, 7 pm

Anime

Mich Ave, Anime Typhoon, Saturdays, 3-5 pm, 6/4, 7/2, 8/13

Whit Rd, TYDL Wave, Saturdays 2-5 pm, 6/18, 7/16, 8/20

Mich Ave, Teen HQ Mondays

Writing

Mich Ave, 826 Michigan Writing, Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 pm

Whit Rd, Teen Ink: Getting published, Monday, 8/15, 12:30-1:30

Volunteering--Read with a child!

Whit Rd, Reading Sidekicks, Tuesdays beginning 6/14, 2-3 pm

Gaming

Superior, Wii Wednesdays, 5-6:30 pm

Mich Ave, Teen HQ Mondays

Mich Ave, Settlers of Catan demo and play, Friday, 7/8, 2-4 pm

Crafts

Superior, Paint a Flower Pot, Thursday, 6/16, 5-7 pm

Whit Rd, Decoupage a Pot, Friday, 7/8, 2-4 pm

Mich Ave, Mosaic Stepping Stone, Saturday 7/16, 10:30 am

Superior, Mosaic Stepping Stone, Saturday, 7/16, 2-4 pm

Whit Rd, Decorate Journal Covers, Friday, 8/5, 2-4 pm

Music

Mich Ave, Beginning Guitar, every other Friday, 3-4 pm

Mich Ave, Songwriting, Saturdays beginning 6/18, 12-1:30 pm,

perform 8/12 at Crossroads

Poetry and Fiction Coffeehouse Readings

Mich Ave, Fridays, 6/24, 7/22, 8/19, 3-5 pm

Whit Rd, Friday, 8/5, Afterhours! 6-8 pm

Drawing

Mich Ave, Comic Drawing, second and fourth Thursdays, 6-8

Movies

Whit Rd, Harry Potter Movie Marathon, July 7-14, 1:30-4:30 pm

Mich Ave, Teen HG Mondays

Foreign Language

Mich Ave, Intro to Japanese, Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 pm

Science

Superior, Make a Volcano, Thursday, 8/11, 6-7:30 pm

Outdoor Fun

Mich Ave, EMU Green Tour, Tuesday, 7/26, 1-3 pm

Mich Ave, End of Summer Field Day, Saturday, 8/27, 2-5 pm

Teen Headquarters Mondays@ Mich Ave!! 5-8 pm

TAG Recommendations

Teen Book Clubs @ YDL

Fiction Addiction, Mich Ave

Tuesdays, 6/21, 7/12, 8/23, 2 pm

June: Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

July: Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

August: to be determined by group

Books and Bites, Whit Rd

Wednesdays, 7/13, 8/10, 7 pm

June: Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

August: Fat Cat by Robin Brande

eXtreme Readers, Mich Ave

Wednesday, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17, 6 pm

June: Black and White by Malorie Blackman

July: Push by Sapphire

August: Lips Touch: Three times, Laini Taylor

Midnight and the Meaning of Love This

book by Sister Souljah is about a young man

traveling around the world to

Japan to get his wife back. He

faces many challenges in a new

culture, life, and in the world.

–Dontrell Heard

Yummy: The Last Days of a

Southside Shorty by G. Neri and

Randy Duburke is a graphic novel

about the true story of an eleven

year old boy who was enticed into a

gang because he didn’t have any other

family or community members to turn to. He

goes on the run after shooting a girl in the

neighborhood, but he did it by accident

because he didn’t know how to shoot a gun.

-Walter McAdam

Scars This book by Cheryl Rainfield is

a powerful novel about a young girl's

frightening path to the truth. Her story

tends to relate to people on a personal

level. -Kaiel Grimes

House of Night: The House of

Night series by PC and Kristin

Cast is about a teenage

vampyre with special powers

undergoing a change which will decide

whether she lives or dies. She struggles with

this as she battles to save the world.

–Kai’El Grimes

Attention fans of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series;

there is another series sure to entrance you: Robin

Wasserman's Skinned trilogy. Once you start the first

book, you'll be hooked until you read the last book.

Lia Kahn had a life, a family and friends, until an

accident changed everything. The night Lia died, her body was

lost but not her soul. Waking up in a strange mechanical body

that she refused to call her own, she realized she was a

machine, that's what she was: a mech.

--In the first book, Skinned, Lia begins her new "life" as a mech,

or skinner. Losing her boyfriend, distanced from her family and

avoided by the public, she leaves home. Making an unlikely

friend, she learns more about herself and what she can do with

her new body.

--In the second book, Crashed, Lia and her new friends have to

deal with impending changes in the human world that will affect

them. An old friend of Lia's will get revenge and secrets of the

past may ruin things for everyone.

--In the third book, Wired, after the chaos from the last book,

things seem to calm down. But do they? Is the human threat

gone, or just lingering in the shadows?

Rejected by everyone around her, she struggles to accept reality

as she meets others like herself. Trust me when I say that this

trilogy is worth the read; I almost couldn't put it down. So, get

comfortable and prepare yourself to enter a world you never

thought possible: a world of living machines. -Kimberley Culp :)

No Safe Place by Deborah Ellis is about immigration. Abdul, our teenage protagonist, has gone from Iraq to France, and is trying his best to get to the UK. He manages to board a boat bound

for England along with other immigrants (and main characters) Cheslav, a Russian teen, and Rosalia, a Romani girl. The book is realistic almost in the extreme, and the writing is good. Five stars of five. -Kate Butchart

During Teen HQ we will have different activities on Monday evenings such

as watching anime, playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and the card game Magic, watching

movies, playing videogames, which all teens will enjoy. Also, soon the

TAG group will vote on a new president who will be trained by the former

president, which I will be looking forward to! And the remodeled teen zone

construction will start in late summer or early fall.

A couple of months ago, the Michigan Avenue TAG group went to the

Whittaker Road library where two TAG members, Walter and Kaiel,

introduced visiting author Luis Rodriguez with a small speech. In one of

the TAG meetings we made photo albums. Walter helped out with

children’s programs in March by dressing up as the Cat in the Hat and he

also helped with the Fancy Nancy Celebration, both at Michigan Avenue. In

March, we had an afterhours Anime Club where sword masters came in

and showed us some sword techniques.

Walter McAdam

Mich Ave TAG President 2010-2011

This month’s board meeting was fun and exciting as

we, the Teen Advisory Group at Michigan Avenue, got

ready for summer programming, like having teen time,

Teen HQ, every Monday evening, field day, and a tour of

green buildings on Eastern’s campus. Also in the

summer we are going to have free guitar lessons and

Community Records is going to be here for seven

weeks so we can put together and record a song for

the Crossroads Festival teen Shout it Out concert

which will be held in the YDL Plaza.

TAG news

Whittaker Road TAG Happenings… Teens at Whittaker Road TAG meetings are in the process of

planning a service project, perhaps repairing and painting the

birdhouses. We’ve also done some crafting: painted with melted

crayons, decoupaged flower pots, and talked a lot about books in

general. All teens are invited to share the discussion and help plan

events! Drop in the third Wednesday of any month, 7 pm.